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Misery Tourism Games

Started by Fetus Commander, April 01, 2012, 01:53:26 AM

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Rincewind1

#15
April 02, 2012, 07:58:40 AM
Quote from: James Gillen;525477Would you guys be willing to edit my concept for an RPG where players are struggling working-class Americans seeing their prosperity and freedoms eroding more steadily by the day and forced to choose between an increasingly cretinous and shameless group of career politicians to vote for, with the ultimate horror being the knowledge that one of them has to WIN?

JG

I'd call it The Call of Congress.
Furthermore, I consider that  This is Why We Don\'t Like You thread should be closed

Ladybird

#16
April 02, 2012, 08:29:16 AM
Quote from: whduryea;525475I can't comment about whether or not this is a prank, but I can say that the site is real, the games are real and every one of them has been playtested, multiple times.

Wow. Actually, honest to goddess, storygamers.
one two FUCK YOU

One Horse Town

#17
April 02, 2012, 08:52:02 PM
Quote from: Ladybird;525517Wow. Actually, honest to goddess, storygamers.

Indeed.

I think this is going to Other Games.

Spinachcat

#18
April 03, 2012, 03:54:37 AM
Quote from: James Gillen;525477Would you guys be willing to edit my concept for an RPG where players are struggling working-class Americans seeing their prosperity and freedoms eroding more steadily by the day and forced to choose between an increasingly cretinous and shameless group of career politicians to vote for, with the ultimate horror being the knowledge that one of them has to WIN?

It would make an interesting boardgame. A satirical, vicious non-partisan look at the state of modern US elections would be a good product in 2012.

Years ago, I playtested a boardgame called Dirty Rotten Scum where you played a CEO of a thoroughly corrupt company and you used all sorts of underhanded options to promote your company. BUT the key to winning was the CEO with the most money so it was a totally legit strategy to screw your own company over and loot it on your way out.

Unfortunately, the game took too long (4-6 hours) and the designer lost interest while trying to get it into a 2-3 hour format.

jibbajibba

#19
April 03, 2012, 09:26:44 AM
Quote from: Spinachcat;526193It would make an interesting boardgame. A satirical, vicious non-partisan look at the state of modern US elections would be a good product in 2012.

Years ago, I playtested a boardgame called Dirty Rotten Scum where you played a CEO of a thoroughly corrupt company and you used all sorts of underhanded options to promote your company. BUT the key to winning was the CEO with the most money so it was a totally legit strategy to screw your own company over and loot it on your way out.

Unfortunately, the game took too long (4-6 hours) and the designer lost interest while trying to get it into a 2-3 hour format.

Kremlin was a good boardgame.
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#20
April 03, 2012, 01:13:34 PM
Quote from: whduryea;525480Maybe if Barrack Obama was a lycanthrope and Mitt Romney was a Martian pedophile.

They're not?
"Meh."

whduryea

#21
April 03, 2012, 05:14:16 PM
As far as I know, there are no Mormons on Mars. Could be wrong about the rest though.

James Gillen

#22
April 04, 2012, 02:14:19 AM
Quote from: jibbajibba;526261Kremlin was a good boardgame.

It does seem amazingly similar.

JG
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B.T.

#24
June 06, 2012, 06:32:04 PM
QuoteIt's 2084, and wealth has finished trickling down. One hundred years of supply side economics has eradicated poverty and want throughout the United States. The American Dream isn't just a possibility for everyone; it's a reality. Every man and woman goes to work wearing a white collar and comes home to a spacious penthouse. They only go hungry when they're counting calories, and the only oppression they know is a tight deadline.

But still, some are dissatisfied. For them, the paperwork is too demanding, or life in a cubicle is too boring. They need to find an outlet for their stress, or a safe, discrete thrill. They need to get away from themselves, and get off.

They find what they're looking for in black market virtual reality parlors called empathy dens. Hidden in basements and the backrooms of hobby shops, empathy dens let their clients experience the exotic past and find the freedom and adventure they crave—by living the lives of poor people in the twentieth century on public assistance. By day, they're the titans of Wall Street, but at night they become Welfare Queens.

Welfare Queens is a role-playing game about a not-so-distant future America where white collar professionals spend their nights in back alley arcades, living virtual lives of poverty and desperation. Bored and overwhelmed by their day jobs, the stock brokers, accountants mid level executives of the late 21st century find adventure and catharsis through their experiences as hookers, drug pushers, trailer trash and panhandlers.
This is grade-A troll material.
Quote from: Black Vulmea;530561Y\'know, I\'ve learned something from this thread. Both B.T. and Koltar are idiots, but whereas B.T. possesses a malign intelligence, Koltar is just a drooling fuckwit.

So, that\'s something, I guess.

The Butcher

#25
June 06, 2012, 08:47:55 PM
Quote from: B.T.;546678This is grade-A troll material.

You of all people would know. :D

I pray to God these people are trolls, but nothing surprises me anymore.

Opaopajr

#26
June 13, 2012, 04:57:12 AM
It's so wrong it's right... like a moth to a flame, I wanna play Welfare Queens! It sounds sorta like "Strange Days" the RPG. I just don't want to deal with bookkeeping a Fate pool or people telling me how to trigger off my Aspects.
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whduryea

#27
June 14, 2012, 03:08:43 AM
Quote from: Opaopajr;548432I just don't want to deal with bookkeeping a Fate pool or people telling me how to trigger off my Aspects.

There's none of that in the game.

The empathy den parts are straight up freeform, and the workplace parts have a fairly straightforward dice mechanic.

There are a couple basic things that trigger after you leave the empathy den that give you bonus dice in the workplace parts based on how badly you humiliated yourself, but that happens between scenes so that the game doesn't come to a halt while the players fumble with the mechanics.

Fetus Commander

#28
July 01, 2012, 01:11:44 AM
Hey again guys.  It's the first of the month!

http://www.miserytourism.com/the-needs-of-the-few/

Ghost Whistler

#29
July 01, 2012, 04:34:58 AM
This is all some weird practical joke, yes?
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