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Sharknado needs a setting!

Started by Opaopajr, July 12, 2013, 05:45:42 AM

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Opaopajr

July 12, 2013, 05:45:42 AM
So, I am watching the B-movie genius that is Sharknado, by SyFy channel, and need help fleshing out an OSR class system tied into gonzo B-movie setting.

Sure Gamma World screams monster generator, but I need a tight spread for character concept and time periods.

There has to be mud-on-your-face medieval Sword 'n Sorcery, ditzy modern decay, and wilderness that holds big mutants settings.

(OMG, her adult son wants to ride a helicopter and throw bombs into the tornado to blow up the sharks! This needs to come out on DVD! Anyhoo, back to task.)

Ditzy Modern Decay needs these classes:
Meth Tweeker, Hillbilly, Meathead Leader, Blonde Bombshell, Brooding Brunette, Smart Girl, The Scientist Who's Right!, Heroic Sidekick, Unexpected Grizzled Veteran, ...

can't, cqn't breathe... flopping sharks in the sky... tornado... headshotting shark out of sky with pistol... dying, brain needs oxygen... laughin cannot stop... ... ... ...
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Opaopajr

#1
July 12, 2013, 06:19:01 AM
GASP!

Ok, I think I may have lost more brain cells than good ol' fashioned elevator hits of nitrous, but it felt worth it at the time.

So, Meth Tweeker:
a modern barbarian class which uses a d12 for hit dice, goes into rages, and can survive 0 HP for a round or two when raging.
WP tends to only be dangerously unstable weapons.
can't wear armor because needs to pick at skin, scratch off the crawling bugs.
built in NWP of Endurance, Run, and Brewing.
Lvl 1 can defy death once a day for each Fort, Reflex, Will saves, as long as the meth fix is maintained. Gets to take best of 2 save rolls.
Lvl 3 ... they reach level three? Anyone got ideas?
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

JeremyR

#2
July 12, 2013, 06:26:01 AM
As that Zenopus blog just pointed out, Arduin did it 35 years ago.

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-original-sharknado.html

That "Liar%" never ceases to amuse me.

Nexus

#3
July 12, 2013, 07:52:28 AM
Oh good, i wasn't the only one working on how to game that movie. So at least when they lock me up I won't be alone on the ward...
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Opaopajr

#4
July 12, 2013, 08:21:20 AM
Quote from: JeremyR;670233As that Zenopus blog just pointed out, Arduin did it 35 years ago.

http://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-original-sharknado.html

That "Liar%" never ceases to amuse me.

It's beautiful...

But now I need a table to represent a flailing sea shark tumbling about in the air biting randomly. It might end up doing its HD in damage from being bodily hurled into the opposing party by "its tornado" (symbiont?).
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

Opaopajr

#5
July 12, 2013, 08:26:42 AM
Quote from: Nexus;670251Oh good, i wasn't the only one working on how to game that movie. So at least when they lock me up I won't be alone on the ward...

We'll never be alone in the ward, even in solitary. Never as long as TV brilliance shoots forth upon the unsuspecting somewhere in this world. For it is then we are affirmed our connection to the voices is real, like a zeitgeist of gonzo.
:cool:
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

Bill

#6
July 12, 2013, 09:16:27 AM
Quote from: Opaopajr;670226So, I am watching the B-movie genius that is Sharknado, by SyFy channel, and need help fleshing out an OSR class system tied into gonzo B-movie setting.

Sure Gamma World screams monster generator, but I need a tight spread for character concept and time periods.

There has to be mud-on-your-face medieval Sword 'n Sorcery, ditzy modern decay, and wilderness that holds big mutants settings.

(OMG, her adult son wants to ride a helicopter and throw bombs into the tornado to blow up the sharks! This needs to come out on DVD! Anyhoo, back to task.)

Ditzy Modern Decay needs these classes:
Meth Tweeker, Hillbilly, Meathead Leader, Blonde Bombshell, Brooding Brunette, Smart Girl, The Scientist Who's Right!, Heroic Sidekick, Unexpected Grizzled Veteran, ...

can't, cqn't breathe... flopping sharks in the sky... tornado... headshotting shark out of sky with pistol... dying, brain needs oxygen... laughin cannot stop... ... ... ...

Just when I thought "Mansquito" was the Syfy channels magnum opus.....along comes "Sharknado"

RPGPundit

#7
July 13, 2013, 04:10:45 AM
No, I really don't think sharknado does need a setting.
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#8
July 13, 2013, 04:11:17 AM
To me it sounds like it'd be perfect for D20 Modern.

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jeff37923

#9
July 13, 2013, 11:03:26 PM
I'm with Pundit.

Sharknado needs a burial, not a setting.
"Meh."

Opaopajr

#10
July 13, 2013, 11:14:35 PM
If you bury it, it will only come back, like the undead. It's part of the rules of the truly heinous.

I want an OSR game lashed to the waist upon the glory of B-movies! That means  I need a modern setting TSR clone.

I need to know the stats of a gas-powered chainsaw and its capacity to cleave a falling shark in twain, versus the lengthy delay to cut your way out from inside a great white shark!

I wonder if I can get away with "ditzy nympho" as a B-movie class...
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

jeff37923

#11
July 13, 2013, 11:16:10 PM
Quote from: Opaopajr;670717I want an OSR game lashed to the waist upon the glory of B-movies!

May I recommend Hulks and Horrors or Stars Without Number?
"Meh."

Black Vulmea

#12
July 13, 2013, 11:24:36 PM
You want a setting? You need Planet Motherfucker.

The author blogs about it some.
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Opaopajr

#13
July 14, 2013, 04:26:06 PM
HeroPress' blog review makes it sound promising:
HeroPress blog review

Planet Motherf*cker is Jack Shear's truly inspired setting booklet for a post-apocalyptic world where the Cold War escalated into a reality-shredding Armageddon in the mid-60s, leaving America a warped and twisted wasteland fuelled by B-movies, rock music, hard drink, illegal drugs, guns, fast cars and hot women.

This is Hershell Gordon Lewis meets Russ Meyer in 3D drive-in glory with Dennis Hopper and Hunter S Thompson as your co-pilots; highways stretching off to the horizon; mutants freaks and rednecks in your peripheral vision; an unapologetic celebration of trash cinema in a world gone to hell in a technicoloured handbasket.

as for content:

For the most part this 40+ page, digest booklet is system-free setting material - primarily in the form of random tables overflowing with gonzo goodness (such as what does this fast food joint serve? Who are these dirtbags? I touched this glowing thing - what happens next?)...

...The monster section, for instance, doesn't even include stats but is simply (and a brilliantly) a guide to what 'traditional' RPG monsters can be reskinned as Planet MF monsters.

Interesting. Might be more post-apocalyptic than I was looking for, however. But I can just tone down the nuclear mutants while keep the go-go dancers and fifth of jack. Now to add a shark and water/air elemental symbiont to get my Sharknado!

PS: Isn't Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque blog our very own MisterGuignol?
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

jeff37923

#14
July 14, 2013, 04:37:44 PM
Don't do it, Opaopajr, its madness! Pure madness!

:)

(God, I knew I shouldn't have watched Flash Gordon this afternoon.)
"Meh."
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