Post by kwakado on Jul 24, 2014 20:48:21 GMT -5
Hi, I'm Kwak. And about 5 years ago I found out about deadEarth. It's set in a radiation-filled, post-apocalyptic future, full of anarchy and mutation and gritty realism.
Here's the thing, though: The game is such an absolute piece of shit that when I first read the book, witnesses say I laughed harder than they'd ever seen. When I first ran it, my group was laughing about it for the next week.
Reasons include
Seriously, the mutations are beautifully insane. Last time I GM'd this monstrosity, the party included:
So, with all these very serious and excellent games up here on the forum, I was thinking it would be a lot fun to run a terrible game. You'd basically be a band of psychedelic X-men rejects wandering the post-apocalyptic wilderness, trying to survive and make a name for yourselves.
So, anybody interested in trying what some have called the World's Worst Roleplaying Game?
Here's the thing, though: The game is such an absolute piece of shit that when I first read the book, witnesses say I laughed harder than they'd ever seen. When I first ran it, my group was laughing about it for the next week.
Reasons include
- A lot of your character is randomly rolled, to the point that you might end up being 12 feet tall or talented in Animal Riding but not Animal Handling.
- You can die during character creation. It took me three tries before I got a character that wasn't a pile of goo or a headless invalid.
- Characters frequently roll on a table of 1,000 mutations, including napalm piss, butler powers, diarrhea and becoming a "mad wack voodoo ninja".
Seriously, the mutations are beautifully insane. Last time I GM'd this monstrosity, the party included:
- A transparent-skinned cactus man with nine lives, who dies every time he swears
- A Native American boxer who turns into every animal he touches
- An omniscient amnesiac who randomly rolled his skill level every time he attempted something
- A six-winged terminally ill old man who could phase through dirt and blow up his own hands with force lightning
- A gunslinger who avoided fall damage by dodging the ground.
So, with all these very serious and excellent games up here on the forum, I was thinking it would be a lot fun to run a terrible game. You'd basically be a band of psychedelic X-men rejects wandering the post-apocalyptic wilderness, trying to survive and make a name for yourselves.
So, anybody interested in trying what some have called the World's Worst Roleplaying Game?
- I'll provide all the books as PDFs, which is totally legal since the company went out of business for some reason
