How Much Gonzo Can You Take?

Tod13 · September 22, 2017, 09:15:35 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;994748I don't think he goes for subtle gonzo...seems to like boldface gonzo like talking trashcans fighting spacemen transporting pizzerias to Mars and whatever.

Makes sense. I never thought of it as subtle gonzo, but I think you're probably right. I even thought Logan's Run would quality at a very low level of gonzo, which I thought of because I keep thinking you used to have Michael York from his Musketeer movies (my favorites) as your avatar.

More on point, the gonzo at my table seems to be less in the setting or module and more in how my characters interact with it. (Greeting the orc guards with, "Hello, we're from Cave Catering, we got an order for mushroom fungi vindaloo.")

Dumarest · September 22, 2017, 12:08:13 PM

Quote from: Tod13;994846Makes sense. I never thought of it as subtle gonzo, but I think you're probably right. I even thought Logan's Run would quality at a very low level of gonzo, which I thought of because I keep thinking you used to have Michael York from his Musketeer movies (my favorites) as your avatar.

More on point, the gonzo at my table seems to be less in the setting or module and more in how my characters interact with it. (Greeting the orc guards with, "Hello, we're from Cave Catering, we got an order for mushroom fungi vindaloo.")

I did used to have Michael York as D'Artagnan as my avatar.

Tod13 · September 22, 2017, 01:17:23 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;994897I did used to have Michael York as D'Artagnan as my avatar.

Good to know this once my memory was correct. :-)

Dumarest · September 22, 2017, 01:40:01 PM

Quote from: Tod13;994911Good to know this once my memory was correct. :-)

For a while I also had Gerard Depardieu as Cyrano de Bergerac.

Dirk Remmecke · September 23, 2017, 02:25:55 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;994748I don't think he goes for subtle gonzo...seems to like boldface gonzo like talking trashcans (...).

You mean like Daleks?

Quote from: RPGPundit;992824Hell, just about anything with Bill Murray in it tends to be at least a little bit gonzo.

Well, there's not the least bit of gonzo in Lost in Translation.

Quote from: Barghest;994110Like...how Gonzo is bog-standard D&D

Bog-standard D&D with beholders, modrons, gelatinous cubes, and mass-manufactured wands of magic missile is already way too gonzo for me.

QuoteWhat the hell would not-Gonzo D&D look like?

Adventures in Middle-earth?

RPGPundit · September 25, 2017, 03:47:02 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;994748I don't think he goes for subtle gonzo...seems to like boldface gonzo like talking trashcans fighting spacemen transporting pizzerias to Mars and whatever.

Most of those on his list were much less subtle gonzo than the ones on my list. The difference is that his had much more obscure pop-culture classics, while mine had more literary stuff.

Tod13 · September 25, 2017, 09:41:45 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;995623Most of those on his list were much less subtle gonzo than the ones on my list. The difference is that his had much more obscure pop-culture classics, while mine had more literary stuff.

Interesting. Amongst the poeple I know, your list would be "more obscure" than most of my list. LOL Oh well.

Dumarest · September 25, 2017, 10:23:48 PM

Obscurity is in the eye of the nonbeholder.

Tod13 · September 26, 2017, 10:14:18 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;995853Obscurity is in the eye of the nonbeholder.

Evidently, for me yesterday, spelling "people" was also "in the eye..."

RPGPundit · September 28, 2017, 01:11:04 PM

Quote from: Tod13;995660Interesting. Amongst the poeple I know, your list would be "more obscure" than most of my list. LOL Oh well.

Well, yes, I can understand that. His were more directly nerd-based gonzo. Mine weren't, with the exception of Venture Bros and maybe Transmetropolitan (but even the latter is more niche-intellectual).

Dumarest · September 28, 2017, 10:57:58 PM

I thought intellectual gonzo would be Ulysses or Through the Looking-Glass.

RPGPundit · October 01, 2017, 07:20:31 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;996732I thought intellectual gonzo would be Ulysses or Through the Looking-Glass.

Well, you could say those are "pre-Gonzo".