So the new RPG idea...

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...is "Fanfic: The Role Playing Game"

Basic idea is to use the Diana: Warrior Princess rules (e.g. extremely cinematic and silly) but the setting of the TV show, book, whatever of your choice. Characters are designed by players, who must base the character stats on the description of the character in a story of their choice - so it can be anything from completely canon compliant to a total Mary-Sue. The other players have to agree that the character stats match the character as described. The rule, I think, will be that players can't base their characters on their own fanfic...

Characters who are close to canon will get bonuses that can be used to influence dice rolls etc. Mary-Sues will get fewer bonuses and possibly an occasional bit of bad luck. I'm not 100% sure what I'll do about characters who are pretty much Mary-Sues in canon such as H*n*r H*rr*ngt*n or W*ll*w R*s*nb*rg, but I'm sure I'll think of something. There will also, I think, be lots of cards that players can use to influence the plot such as "Woke Up In Vegas", "Real Father", and of course "Slash" and "Femme-Slash".

Now for obvious legal reasons this can't be based on any real fandom - apart from anthing else, I want to sell this, which means I can't mess around with characters owned by grasping megacorporations. I'm probably going to have to invent some sort of low common denominator TV show and use it for my examples. My tentative title is "Ninja Monster Slayers in Spaaaace". Any suggestions on this? And what do people think of the idea as a whole?

Comments

[owen-stephens.livejournal.com]

I think we need some Ninja Monster Slayers in Spaaaace fanfic.

I always thought the Star Ghoul had the hots for Brianna the Psi-Witch anyway.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Naah, the Star Ghoul was gay.

[armb.livejournal.com]

I too wish to read Ninja Monster Slayers in Spaaaace fanfic.

[daniidebrabant.livejournal.com]

1. your icon makes me happy

2. DOOO EEEET.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's nicked from an ad:

http://www.jinx.com/women/shirts/geek/buffy_staked_edward_womens.html?cs=6&csd=1494

[autopope.livejournal.com]

* Screams *

* Faints *

The horror! The horror!

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Thanks!

[ladylakira.livejournal.com]

Heh. Once upon a time, I mused about putting together Badfic the RPG. Players would pick thematic characters (ie: the smart one, the pretty one, etc) and decide on descriptor traits. There was always a Mary Sue who never made up their own traits but instead had one trait for every other character, and that one trait was identical to the trait of some other character, but they were better at it.

Also, the monsters should be ninjas, not the slayers. :D The slayers should be something totally bizarre. Like vacuum salespeople. (Vacuum... space... get it? :P)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's one of those ideas that people have to have thought of, but I spent a fair amount of time searching and nobody has published such a game.

[armb.livejournal.com]

The protagonist monster slayers should be pirates (the fictional jolly not murdering scum sort of pirate), and their rivals should be ninjas.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! I think it is an excellent idea - if I can get the resident GM away from LJ for a while...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping to get a lot of feedback from the large subset of fanficcers who are gamers, and vice versa, as I develop it.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

You should totally do this. Like. For real.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I intend to. Diana Warrior Princess is now my cash cow as far as RPGs are concerned, I need to get another supplement written.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Cool.

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I hope so.

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

I'm not a gamer, but that sounds fun!

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I'm pretty sure I'll be wanting input from fanfic people as well as gamers.

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

Interestingly enough, I've played this game already. Now don't have a heart attack, it was informal and using various different rules out there. My Thursday night group is dedicated to one-shots and episodic campaigns. We just did "Sky Gilligans of Mars" last Thursday, Savage Dr. Suess, with mostly canon characters, and others.

All of it improv and using a half a dozen different rule systems. I think my group would just eat up an official game system for this kind of thing.

As for "Ninja Monster Slayers in Spaaaace", Star Ghoul was definitely gay, when compared to Hank Duo, Ace Starcycle pilot and two fisted he-man of a character. There's more slash fanfic about him and every other male character than you can shake a stick at. Besides, Brianna had the hots for him, in that unrequited way. (By the way, feel free to use this.)

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Thanks!

[chronivore.livejournal.com]

I know this is off topic but I'm trying to remember the name of a Victoriant novel about a madman with and airship it's "H____________ The Anarchist", at least I think it's starts with H.

If you know what I'm referrring to please help.

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Easy!

Hartmann, the Anarchist By Edward Douglas Fawcett

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ezwFAXq-ArcC

Honesty compels me to admit I only remembered the title, had to look up the author.

[chronivore.livejournal.com]

Cheers! I knew you'd know.

Have you read this one?

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Thinks so, but a LONG time ago.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

Now that is ... interesting.
Though I see much discussion and disagreement when deciding how close to canon a character is. Interpretations of what you see on screen differ.

Just think of Bob Villago - first season he's just a two-bit thug in three (or was that four episodes), totally OOC in that one second season ep he was in, and then he gets a complete makeover and a development arc for himself in third. Got to be one of the best (and most sympathetic) villains in that whole show. You got to really understand why he had to go down that path.
But then you look at that cancelled half-season spin-off and he's so damn inconsistent. Canon writers had no idea what to do with him.

Thing is, write him up as a character based on the spin-off (what was the name? I can never remember) and you can make him absolutely anything without being OOC.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're getting the hang of it...

[johnreiher.livejournal.com]

I think the spin off was "Ninja Space Monkeys of Maaaars", never caught an episode, it was scheduled opposite "Villains". I did catch the webcasts later and I think the main problem is that after season 1, they did a "

I think the spin off was "Ninja Space Monkeys of Maaaars", never caught an episode, it was scheduled opposite "Villains". I did catch the webcasts later and I think the main problem is that after season 1, they did a "Darrin" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheOtherDarrin) and hired a new actor who looked and sounded similar to the original actor. (He was hired to do the spinoff and probably was the reason why it was cancelled and the missing last two episodes "lost" for whatever reason.)

But you're right, the writers have used Villago as a exposition device and a mobile plot complication, so it's no wonder he's a bit hard to characterize. What about the current season where he's decided to join Hank Duo and fight the Clockwork Boll Weevil Invasion? I'm just waiting for the back stabbing scene for the season finale and he tosses Hank into the clutches of the monsters. I'm betting even money on that!

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit on the fence about the current seasons. Mainly due to the utter bull about Jackson Whatshisname.
The backstabbing is a given. If they foreshadowed it any more it would be midnight permanently. Though there are some nice hints about some others planning their own stabby delights. Villago will not come out of this unscathed.

Instead, wanna bet there will be yet another doomed lesbian love triangle next week?

[suaveswede.livejournal.com]

Wow, just WOW. Your icon gets big gold star !