Have to say, hands down, my favorite Science Fantasy Roleplaying Game is the original edition Gamma World.
Had a splendid Gamma World game with a nearly complete TPK JIm Ward style, last weekend while running an online game at Virtual GaryCon XII. Look for some additional reports by me here in the next few days on the finally released Secrets of Blackmoor DvDs, The last convention I did attend on the first weekend of March, CincyCon, and of course Virtual GaryCon XII, where we spun up an amazing number, 668 online rpg gaming sessions and events with just ten days notice after the live convention in Lake Geneva was cancelled due to various State lock downs, and shelter-in-place orders, that went into effect from the 13th to 20th of March.
From my report over on the GaryCon FB page:
Gamma World AAR 3/28/2020
For those of you that enjoy Gamma World, just remember what Jim says "Jim Ward doesn't kill players, Players kill players!"
..and the players upheld the finest traditions of Gamma World yesterday managing a near complete TPK about an hour into the game...
The Players got in a fight in the desert with another biker gang, They launched a nuclear tipped neutron missile at the other gang and missed. That wasn't the bad part, but it was flashy and spectacular, and they managed to create a horrific radioactive sandstorm, and irradiated some more of the post-apocalyptic Northern California desert for another hundred thousand years or so. No the real problem was they were busy hosing down the other biker gang in the very best traditions of murder-hoboes of the post apocalypse.
They completely obliterated another small biker band with a photon grenade, had run another part of the largest band back into the radioactive sandstorm that they had created.
All that remained was this biker chick with an Uzi, and her side-kick, some floppy looking dude with a rocket launcher, who was taking pot-shots at the players. Well the mutant biker players closed range to use their death stench and other mutant abilities on the chick, and for three rounds she stands at very close to point blank range exchanging gunfire giving as good as she got, wounding two of the players. Now when she and her sidekick are standing alone at last, the player all rush her, to try to finish her and her companion off...
AxiomToday at 9:51 AM
... this cant end well.
GameDaddyToday at 10:00 AM
at point blank range. ...and get this. She literally gets down to 1 Hp and surrenders. She and her sidekick drop their weapons and hold their hands up high. The players like sharks in the water close in for the kill, and refuse to accept her surrender. They all open up at point blank range and every one of them misses. She holds up her hands attempting to surrender a second time and the players completely ignore this.
One the players a mutant biker by the name of Psycho Suzie (on account of the way she treats her boyfriends) rolls right up to them and announces, I'm going to use my pyrokinetics on them. Like the little girl in firestarter, with her mind she can literally light stuff up and bring the burning fires of hell. I'm like "are you sure?" and Psycho Suzie is like "yah, no way I'm going to let her live" and proceeds to turn the two into living human torches.
The only problem? The sidekick had been launching rockets at the players, and he was still carrying four rockets in a pouch which all simultaneously detonated delivering 20d6 of damage. Somehow every single one of the players had moved in so close they were all caught in the blast radius. Only one biker survived with like 7 HP. everything else ...gone.
AxiomToday at 10:02 AM
errr... again I state, I will have to thank work for making me skip the game. I would have been livid at Psycho Suzie.
GameDaddyToday at 10:04 AM
...she didn't make it. Hahahahaa.... I don't think I could have done better as a GM, giving them the chance to accept her humble surrender. Biker chick fought brave and well until the very end. I couldn't help laughing at the players though.
Do you think that makes me a bad GM?
I'm sorry I'm laughing again....