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1 session Quick Rpgs needed
Hey everyone, I am in a group that runs quick sessions of RPG's once a week. The games aren't long or campaign oriented and the players don't enjoy dungeon crawling much. (Thank God)
We have played; Inspectors, Dread, Zombie Cinema, Mouse Guard, Dnd, and Prime Time Adventures. I was thinking of running a more fun enjoyable game like Inspectors is where people all just have fun and play around. Yet the games I am finding, like Pokethulu and Violence aren't really games that can be played, they are more just fun to read.
I'm on the hunt for a copy of Kobolds Ate My Babies, but I can't find it anywhere.
Are there any games you guys have played that are a little obscure and fun for a 1 shot game?
We have played; Inspectors, Dread, Zombie Cinema, Mouse Guard, Dnd, and Prime Time Adventures. I was thinking of running a more fun enjoyable game like Inspectors is where people all just have fun and play around. Yet the games I am finding, like Pokethulu and Violence aren't really games that can be played, they are more just fun to read.
I'm on the hunt for a copy of Kobolds Ate My Babies, but I can't find it anywhere.
Are there any games you guys have played that are a little obscure and fun for a 1 shot game?
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Fiasco
[torch hands]
ACTION CASTLE
[/torch hands]
While not your pen, paper, and character sheeet type game, it does fit the description of being both quick and fun.
Edit: to the above post, while I've never played it, Rym's description of A Thousand and One Nights on the podcast a few months ago was awesome. That game sounds like the shit.
You could try Danger Patroll. Haven't played it myself, but it seems interesting and fun.
I might try action Castle, during a different event as it was very funny and enjoyable, but it's more of a video game theme then a real role play.
Fiasco was actually run a week before I started, but great idea. They still talk very highly of that game.
I'll spend tonight researching Lacuna, Danger Patroll, and A Thousand and One Nights. Thank you everyone.
Spirit of the Century.
Trust me.
Also have a look at Contenders. It's an interesting boxing RPG. I haven't run it yet, but I'm very excited to do so.
Feng Shui
Hong Kong action movie roleplaying. Aww yeah. It's very good for one shots since all characters are based on templates in the source book/s. You don't even have to use the stock campaign setting (I never did) -- just anything that's all crazy kung fu action would suffice.
There are a handful of one-shot RPG's whose entire rulebooks are a handful of pages long. Clown Cops, shown here:
http://www.memento-mori.com/other/games/cops.html
always makes me laugh. It's Law and Order in a city turned into a circus where they send in the clowns for every circumstance.
This is a game that has a mechanic where your shotgun automatically gets a +2 if you remember to go "CHK-CHK" before you roll to fire.
Danger Patrol lacks lasting power as well, but it carries through its setup very well.
But we'll see.
EDIT: I think I'm really in a narrative game mode as of late. Possibly, it's related to running a Burning Wheel game every fucking week, and also memorizing 79 lines of Beowulf in order to perform in a bardic storytelling event.
God I'm such a nerd.