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How Much Gonzo Can You Take?

Started by RPGPundit, September 09, 2017, 04:15:54 AM

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crkrueger

#15
September 09, 2017, 04:19:18 PM
I put Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas level.

What I mean by that is a surrealistic or weird experience that is limited in time, ie. a weekend.  Going to other planes, spirit quests, HeroQuest, Astral Travel, all that kind of stuff I expect to be weird, if not gonzo.  Stuff like White Plume Mountain or Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, weird stuff up to altered states of consciousness and perception, not saturday morning cartoon comedy played at 11 24/7/365 during a campaign.
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rgrove0172

#16
September 09, 2017, 04:38:32 PM
None, dear God please.

Barghest

#17
September 09, 2017, 04:58:15 PM
It really, really depends on what game I am playing...and what the game was pitched as.

If we're doing steampunk? Yeah, I expect airship pirates to show up at some point. Clockwork robots, too. Spring-heeled Jack. Bring it on.

If we're doing Cyberpunk 2020, then it had better not turn out that magic and psychic powers are real.

If we're doing a gritty "you'd better buy rope and a tinderbox and keep track of your iron rations" D&D game...well, it's going to turn into Planescape when we get high-enough level, right?

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#18
September 09, 2017, 05:43:54 PM
Quote from: K Peterson;990865Zero Gonzo. Make my Rpging Gonzo-free.

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Didn't take long for that to come out.

Personally, the more the better.  As long as it's CONSISTENT. s'all I ask.
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TrippyHippy

#19
September 09, 2017, 06:49:07 PM
I love Gonzo in my games, but it's at the Fear and Loathing level.

Or more specifically, things like Trainspotting or The Young Ones, as I have mentioned in other threads.

I'd probably work on it through the Over The Edge game system, as someone else suggested.
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#20
September 09, 2017, 07:39:27 PM
Quote from: Voros;990922I prefer the weird and bizarre to the goofy. But when it comes to weird, turn it up to 11.

That'd be me as well... If it's a bizarre but cool setting then I'll probably like it a lot. But I'm not into 'zany' stuff.

Something like Conenberg's movies would be cool for me.
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arminius

#21
September 09, 2017, 08:01:32 PM
In a one-shot--sure.

In an ongoing campaign--hard to imagine an acceptable level. Maybe if it's well-contained. Like the details of some of the set-piece elements in Vornheim--are they gonzo? However, when a game takes on an "anything goes" attitude, I don't see how you don't end up with "rule of cool", which is probably going to kill my long-term interest.

Tetsubo

#22
September 09, 2017, 09:29:31 PM
Talking grizzly bears with laser eyes. Mobile trees that shoot Mark V blasters. Gamma World was the perfect level of 'gonzo' in my opinion.

Malleustein

#23
September 09, 2017, 11:36:54 PM
I have to admit I don't know exactly what counts as gonzo and what doesn't.

I enjoy RIFTS, which some people call gonzo.  But everything more-or-less of belongs in the strange genre mash-up on a post-post-apocalyptic Earth.  Certainly, some material presented in the books is quite over the top/quirky/strange, but is it gonzo?  I don't know.

I'd say the more outlandish stuff in RIFTS comes close to Transmetropolitan, a comic I thoroughly enjoyed to begin with but soured on by the end.
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Thornhammer

#24
September 09, 2017, 11:42:52 PM
Frankly it depends on the day.

Sometimes I'm really in the mood for it, other days I'm not.

But if I'm in the mood - go ahead and go apeshit with it.

Edgewise

#25
September 10, 2017, 03:50:18 AM
I just like how the highest level is reserved for Venture Bros.  As it should be.
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Spinachcat

#26
September 10, 2017, 04:04:46 AM
I greatly enjoy gonzo RPGs and weird fantasy, but I don't like silly RPGs except as one-shots. I doubt I could do a Paranoia campaign as much as I love doing one-shots with the Computer and its laser-happy friends.

FaerieGodfather

#27
September 10, 2017, 04:26:01 PM
More than Fear & Loathing, less than Transmet-- Transmet without the bowel disruptors and talking dogs, essentially.
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Tod13

#28
September 10, 2017, 08:03:43 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;990792So, what's the most Gonzo you'd be willing to have in a campaign and still play?

I haven't seen those movies so I can't say.

What level of gonzo is it where one character calls out "Yoohoo, anyone here?" accidentally right in front of the secret guard post. And the guards end up thinking the characters are their relief, and Cave Catering is born when the players decide to cook for the guards and put a sleeping drought in the food?

Tod13

#29
September 10, 2017, 08:07:26 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;990877None of the levels in the poll mean anything to me.

Me too. No wonder we get along, even when we disagree. :p
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