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Black Coat and Venture Bros.

Started by The Evil DM, July 04, 2008, 10:17:52 PM

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The Evil DM

Last night while writing I got to thinking about a couple of gaming combos that would be real cool.

A while back on my blog I mentioned mixing Savage Worlds with the TV series Jack of all Trades. Last night I was thinking about using Savage Worlds for spy/pulp/low powered supers campaign using the world of the Black Coat.
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The Black Coat is a comic title from Ape Entertainment. The Black Coat is a colonial version of the Shadow / Zorro/ and the Phantom. Very cool premise.
I'm thinking this might also work with Precise Intermedia's Colonial Record or Colonial Gothic from Rogue games.

Another thought that occured to me is taking the Venture Bros. Cartoon and adapting it with Toon from Steve Jackson games. I haven't played Toon in years. Venture Bros. is damn funny and with the right GM a Toon version of the Venture Bros. would be hilarious!
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Zachary The First

I would say Two-Fisted Tales would be the right game for the Venture Brothers; I believe Pundit would concur, as he's said his TFT incorporates elements from it or is stylistically close.
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Its not that its "stylistically close"; its that Venture Bros. is basically a parody of the entire pulp genre. It takes the stereotypes of Johnny-Quest-style adventure and ramps them up to the absurd.  
2FT has all the stereotypes of Pulp action, so its ridiculously easy to likewise use that game to ramp up to the absurd and make the game comedic. There's nothing about the game inherently that means it has to be played for laughs, though, that's just how I've done it.

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