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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 2, 2015 8:22:00 GMT -8
Here's the situation. I'm running a GURPS Sharknado game in an upcoming online convention and I need some help. First a little bit about the game. The scenario will reprise the events of the first Sharknado movie, the infamous "Sharknado of 2013", but from a different point of view and with new characters. This game will be set in Los Angeles where the original movie was set. The convention organisers asked us to rate the level of seriousness of our game from 1 (TOON with Mel Blanc as the GM) to 10 (Robert De Niro larping). I gave my game a solid 3. The characters are deadly serious in their little world but crazy unrealistic stuff can happen. So you see where this is going. The game will even use a rule that I call the Bad Acting Point System™ (BAPS), where the cheesier a player act the crazier the action, good or bad. They are after all playing bad actors playing characters in a bad movie. I need help for some aspects of the game and if you can help or provide some ideas that would be great. I jsut need bounce ideas a little bit to get the train rolling. I'm in this situation where I think that my own ideas are not crazy enough. I also need some suggestions on how to make it "typical L.A.". #1. Random Hollywood Celebrity Cameo TableYou see I am not from California and I am looking to fill in this random table. It is Hollywood as-been actors and celebrities, or interesting ones, that may pop up in the game. I could definitively use help here. I am looking for outrageous, fairly known celebrity that could be interesting to help the players in a Sharknado situation. Here's the current table. It's a 2d table but I would like to make a 3d table if possible. 2 Jason Priestly, Luke Perry or any other cast member of Beverly Hills 90210 3 4 Christopher Walken 5 6 Charlie Sheen 7 David Hassenhoff 8 Pamela Anderson 9 10 11 12 Gary Busey *Interesting Note for the GURPS Fan: I'm using a Survivability Number for Celebrities/Cameos. It starts at 6 or less. They loose 1 point per real time minute. When they encounter sharks I roll 1d. If I hit that number the celebrity is swiftly dispatched (unless maybe a player spend 1 BAPS to save them). The celebrities all have 10 in their stats and possess weirdly appropriate skills for the situation. #2. The Mission, Sharks, Crazy Stuff and The TwistThe mission will be pretty straightforward. All the PC's will have an important Dependent. A child. I'll ask the players to name of their Dependent and describe them with one adjective. All the dependents will be currently at school nearly the nexus point of a secondaru Sharknado that we didn't saw in the movie. The Sharknado will obviously put all the Dependents in danger and thus the mission to save the children and have an emotional resolution at the end. A simple A to B mission. More on that in a bit. I'm gonna use two types of Sharks; 1) Flying/Falling Sharks (most of them being Cannon Fodder, or 1 Hit Point "Flying Jaws"), 2) Swarms of Sharks (more like Environmental Hazard that you can only destroy with a large explosion). Fun. I need help to put random shit and crazy events on their way to B. I need crazy and weird. What would you put in their way to challenge them a bit and to inject that pure dose of crazy? Now I promised to tell more about the mission and I will keep my promise. So there it is: their children will be revealed, in the final scene, to be their beloved pets. Small chihuahuas, fat cats, small puppies, hamsters, etc. The school is off course Madame Dianne's School of Animal Obedience. I picture a final scene with people with tears in their eyes, finally reunited with their beloved companions, a beautiful sunset behind them. If you can help that'd be appreciated.
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Post by tomes on Sept 2, 2015 15:05:19 GMT -8
Seriously... +193842 points I watched that movie (the recent Rifftrax version, anyways), and thought this would make an EXCELLENT RPG game... but specifically I was thinking how could this type of scenario / movie make a great mechanical system that wasn't player-symmetric. I mean, imagine creating an RPG where the players are in a party, but one (borrowing from D&D) is a 20th level whatever and the rest are 5th level underlings. The underlings can help, but in general whatever the Hero does will succeed, always, and the others have an "assist" type role. Maybe the Hero, when he succeeds, gives a bonus to the underlings (a benny? a level-up? something else?) and when the Hero fails, it always ends up being a failure that affects one of the party. BUT how could you make that fun for everyone? You don't want to kill off the underlings too quickly; that's not fun. Or maybe when they get "killed" it really is equivalent to getting maimed... out of the action for a few minutes, but they get to come out of it bigger and badder (e.g. go back to base and get that missing arm replaced with a big weapon; or having been bitten in half and taken to the hospital, come back in a motorized tank-style wheelchair like mutoid man in Smash TV) In the movie you have a HERO, and that hero just survives, regardless of the obstacles, at least until the end. When she either super-succeeds, or gets super-maimed (to be able to come back modified in a sequel), or dies a heroic, fiery death. Anyways, I'm rambling... You should definitely have some more 90210 cast members, maybe a few internet TV personalities (Wil Wheaton was in Sharknado 2), maybe some musical guests (who can go on to provide tracks for the game... maybe even get some tracks ready for just such a cameo!)
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Nolinquisitor
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 3, 2015 8:28:07 GMT -8
To make it fun my plan is to treat it like your typical mission-based rpg scenario, with all my players as heroes. They will have puzzles to solve, social and combat encounters and sharks. Once per encounter the Sharknado will send some sharks their way.
Now, I'm gonna start introducing new npc's at the beginning of each encounter. I will try to kill as many of them to leave room for the next encounter. As the game go I will introduce less NPC's and slowly I'm gonna aim for the players. By this time each players should have collected enough BAPS to save their bacon in outrageous ways.
Maybe I should describe my BAPS rule a little bit more, since a lot of the flavor will come from it.
Bad Acting Points System™
Players can earn BAPS if they roleplay their respective character in the manners of a bad B-movie actor, over-acting, saying what they are doing while doing it, asking obvious questions, forgetting lines, messing up a quote, etc. Each time the GM deems it appropriate the player receive 1 point (1 BAPS). Players can then spend their points to do one of the following:
Raise the Stakes (Cost 1 BAPS) If you succeed, it will be a Critical Success. If you fail, that will be a Critical Failure. This cost 1 BAPS.
Cameo (Cost 1 BAPS) Roll 2d on the following table. A random Hollywood celebrity appears and try to help you. Their Survivability Number starts at 6 and goes down by 1 each five minutes. This cost 1 BAPS. Escape Death (Cost 1 BAPS) You don't die but loose something. Roll 1d.
1. your dignity (-1 on one roll, one time) 2. 1d-1 fingers (Manual Dexterity -1) 3. a hand (One Hand) 4. an arm (One Arm) 5. a leg (Lame) 6. both legs (Paraplegic)
Cheat Death (Cost 2 BAPS) For 2 BAPS you can escape the jaws of death completely. For dramatic effect you may appear to be dead for 1d turns. Typically you are swallowed whole by a shark but are still alive in his stomach.
I'll be also using two other Optional/House Rules.
Cannon Fodder If the PC's attack gets through a shark or an extra's DR, they just explode in a shower of blood and gore.
Perception-Based Dodge In the world of Sharknado, people seems to die because they are unaware of the danger more than their ability to evade a threat. Thus Dodge will be based on Perception instead of Basic Move.
• (Perception / 2) + 3
Note: Combat Reflexes add +1 to defenses as usual, but so is Danger Sense, Intuition, Enhanced Dodge.
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Post by tomes on Sept 3, 2015 8:41:13 GMT -8
That's awesome. I like how you can just add new BAPS tables as you feel!
Story inconsistencies (Cost 1-4 BAPS) Need to work around a loose end? Fix a plot hole? No worries! Examples by point cost: 0: Wasn't his cigarette blue in the last shot? 1: Shift a minor aspect of the scenario to your advantage 2: Find an object that was lost earlier / an enemy becomes an ally 3: Get someplace important faster than physically possible (appear in two places... at once!) 4: Missing limb? No longer!
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Nolinquisitor
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 3, 2015 9:09:02 GMT -8
I will totally add that to Bad Acting Point System™.
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Post by maxinstuff on Sept 3, 2015 14:48:16 GMT -8
This sounds AMAZING.
Get Stallone in the cameo list. He's highly impersonatable (is that a word?).
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 6, 2015 17:11:40 GMT -8
He was in the first version of my table. You think?
A'ight. Time to practice my Sly impersonation. Might add Arnie as well.
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Post by maxinstuff on Sept 6, 2015 17:55:44 GMT -8
Have you also considered having a cameo from Kevin Spacey pretending to be another celebrity?
Like Walken is Walken for the whole session until the reveal where he's actually Kevin Spacey impersonating Walken.
Maybe as the villain?
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 7, 2015 5:53:27 GMT -8
LOL
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2015 7:59:50 GMT -8
I know its not a marvel setting but I feel like a Stan Lee cameo would fit well, especially if it was clear that's who it was but he thought he was playing a cameo in a new marvel movie.
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Post by jeffrywith1e on Sept 7, 2015 15:46:31 GMT -8
Tony Danza, John Ritter, Ted Danson.
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 9, 2015 4:39:54 GMT -8
All great suggestions I'm adding them all to the table. Thanks for all the great suggestions.
Had an ephinany last night. I'm also adding Tommy Wiseau.
Random Hollywood Celebrity Cameo Table [1d20]
1. Stan Lee ("Flying sharks? Gimme a break.") 2. Christopher Walken ("Now... maybe... is the time... to run.") 3. Tony Danza 4. Vince Offer (the Shamwow guy) 5. Tommy Wiseau ("Sharks, you're tearing apart!") 6. Pamela Anderson 7. Gary Busey ("Grrwalablah!?") 8. David Hasselhoff (in KITT, sexy attitude, "Need a ... ride?") 9. Charlie Sheen (in Hot Shots! and Tiger Blood mode, motioning into a club, "Follow me.") 10. Flo (the girl from Progressive Insurance, "This is a good time to check if your covered.") 11. Silverster Stallone 12. Arnold Schwarzenegger (<big explosion, sharks parts everwhere>, "Sushi are served.") 13. Tom Hanks (all around nice guy, you might die in the most compelling and engaging way) 14. Jason Priestly, Luke Perry or any other cast member of Beverly Hills 90210 15. Ted Danson 16. John Ritter (in ghost form, Obiwan style) 17. Jeff Goldblum (incomprehensibly and impossibly calm, "Hum, that's a sharknado. Wow.") 18. Kevin Sorbo 19. Lucy Lawless (with her Xena gear in a bag, for a convention appearing, for charity, high kicking skills)
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Post by yojimbohawkins on Sept 11, 2015 5:23:04 GMT -8
All great suggestions I'm adding them all to the table. Thanks for all the great suggestions. Had an ephinany last night. I'm also adding Tommy Wiseau. Random Hollywood Celebrity Cameo Table [1d20]1. Stan Lee ("Flying sharks? Gimme a break.") 2. Christopher Walken ("Now... maybe... is the time... to run.") 3. Tony Danza 4. Vince Offer (the Shamwow guy) 5. Tommy Wiseau ("Sharks, you're tearing apart!") 6. Pamela Anderson 7. Gary Busey ("Grrwalablah!?") 8. David Hasselhoff (in KITT, sexy attitude, "Need a ... ride?") 9. Charlie Sheen (in Hot Shots! and Tiger Blood mode, motioning into a club, "Follow me.") 10. Flo (the girl from Progressive Insurance, "This is a good time to check if your covered.") 11. Silverster Stallone 12. Arnold Schwarzenegger (<big explosion, sharks parts everwhere>, "Sushi are served.") 13. Tom Hanks (all around nice guy, you might die in the most compelling and engaging way) 14. Jason Priestly, Luke Perry or any other cast member of Beverly Hills 90210 15. Ted Danson 16. John Ritter (in ghost form, Obiwan style) 17. Jeff Goldblum (incomprehensibly and impossibly calm, "Hum, that's a sharknado. Wow.") 18. Kevin Sorbo 19. Lucy Lawless (with her Xena gear in a bag, for a convention appearing, for charity, high kicking skills) Jean Claude Van Damme (maybe clutching his ice-cold Coors bottle) Quentin Tarantino (Sharknado? Let me tell you about Sharknado, ok?) Samuel L Muthafuckin' Jackson (because he's in everything, and he's had it with these muthafuckin' sharks in a muthafuckin' tornado)
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Sept 16, 2015 6:37:18 GMT -8
Great suggestions.
My current table is on a d20... could stretch that to a d30.
Thanks Jimbo.
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Post by jazzisblues on Sept 16, 2015 9:30:03 GMT -8
Ok, first off, you HAVE to have a golden retriever named, Danny, because the golden retriever in Sharkando is actually named Danny. This is required, there is no further discussion on the matter.
JiB
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