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What RPGs have you done set in high school?

Started by TonyLB, September 02, 2008, 02:24:47 PM

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TonyLB

September 02, 2008, 02:24:47 PM
Buffy is an obvious one, as is Teenagers from Outer Space ... and I'd love to hear about recent campaigns of either of those.  

I'm also interested to hear what people have done in a not-so-obvious vein.  High School Unknown Armies?  High School D&D4e?  High School Twilight 2000?  What'cha got?
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flyingmice

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September 02, 2008, 02:32:26 PM
Quote from: TonyLB;243163Buffy is an obvious one, as is Teenagers from Outer Space ... and I'd love to hear about recent campaigns of either of those.  

I'm also interested to hear what people have done in a not-so-obvious vein.  High School Unknown Armies?  High School D&D4e?  High School Twilight 2000?  What'cha got?

I ran a Blood Games campaign initially set in High School - the High School I graduated from, in fact - and a Sweet Chariot game initially set in a HS level military academy. Both soon left their initial locales as the PCs aged, though.

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ConanMK

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September 02, 2008, 02:38:22 PM
I've never used the setting, but Mutants and Masterminds has a "Hero High" supplement that was nominated for "best supplement" in the 2008 ENnies.

I think it is a highschool in the vein of Professor X's "school for gifted youngsters" that trains superpowered mutants and serves as headquarters for the X-men.

TonyLB

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September 02, 2008, 02:39:56 PM
Quote from: flyingmice;243165I ran a Blood Games campaign initially set in High School - the High School I graduated from, in fact - and a Sweet Chariot game initially set in a HS level military academy. Both soon left their initial locales as the PCs aged, though.
Oh, that's cool ... setting up the shared memories, as a bond amongst the PCs.

Any of their enemies also attend the high school?
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Serious Paul

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September 02, 2008, 02:51:46 PM
shadowrun. I've done several games in this age group-which can be fun if done right. The two most notable of the group were "The Four Elemental Fists of Fury" (Which detailed the adventures of four kids who had Elemental Adept powers, long before the rules got around to dealing with this stuff) and Streets of Rage: Baptism of Fire, a PB3 I ran at Bulldrek.

I'd like to run some more set in TMNT, D20 Modern, and D&D.

gleichman

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September 02, 2008, 03:01:01 PM
A baby X-men campaign.
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September 02, 2008, 03:02:31 PM
My wife ran a house-variant of 1st/2nd Edition Changeling for nearly three years where the characters were in high school down in Florida. Our favorite character was Ro, a Sluagh girl with one of those big fabric purses that were so popular back when; it was effectively like a bag of holding for the silliest stuff. The game finally ended not too long after the characters finally reached graduation.
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September 02, 2008, 03:07:34 PM
Quote from: gleichman;243179A baby X-men campaign.
Ooh!  Was there a mature team of grown-up X-Men to be rivals/authority-figures/mentors/whatever?  Or was it Original X, with the kids-in-training being all there was to the burgeoning legacy?
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KenHR

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September 02, 2008, 03:16:18 PM
We did a Red Dawn wanna-be game back when I was 13 or so...the system we used was GM Fiat with Dice (our GM at the time never ran a published game system; he just made up stuff after we rolled D&D-style stats and we ran with it).

Not sure if that's exactly what you meant, though, as we started out in high school, but helped the Commies blow it up in the first session.
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September 02, 2008, 03:17:17 PM
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TonyLB

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September 02, 2008, 03:18:21 PM
Ken:  Oh God ... I initially misread that as a "Red Dwarf wanna be game" ... though I'll admit that helping the communists blow up your high school in the first session seemed equally fitting to the genre.
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flyingmice

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September 02, 2008, 03:21:06 PM
Quote from: TonyLB;243167Oh, that's cool ... setting up the shared memories, as a bond amongst the PCs.

Any of their enemies also attend the high school?

Well, yes... kind of... It started out as a ghost story set on the night of the Senior Prom. They knew the ghost, who'd died on the night of the last senior prom a year before in a traffic accident that was no accident. She was out for revenge, and the PCs got swept up in it. They were just normal kids, though they began manifesting strange traits as they worked through the aftermath. It carried through their college years before it stopped.

The other one - the Sweet Chariot game - was planned to be an arc, with one adventure for the PCs as teens, one in their twenties, and one in their forties.

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The Yann Waters

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September 02, 2008, 03:22:59 PM
Only that Ravenloftish campaign of Sailor Moon RPG comes to mind, and even then the PCs didn't actually spend all that much time at school. I did once toy with the notion of running a Nobilis game set in an outlandish academy in the style of Hogwarts/Gunnerkrigg Court/Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, only this time for the likes of young Powers and children of gods, but since that never got off the ground I ended up folding most of the ideas into background material for Locus Adamastar instead.
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September 02, 2008, 03:30:25 PM
V&V in the early eighties. I remember nothing about it, though.
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September 02, 2008, 03:31:58 PM
Quote from: TonyLB;243186Ooh!  Was there a mature team of grown-up X-Men to be rivals/authority-figures/mentors/whatever?  Or was it Original X, with the kids-in-training being all there was to the burgeoning legacy?

The original team were the instructors and the kids were home-grown new students.

Great fun all in all.
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