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Capfalcon posted:I still refuse to believe that anyone actually plays straight. The last time I played in a campaign for longer than a one-shot was a played-straight Paranoia. It sort of fell apart as one of us reached Yellow and the other players were Orange and running out of clones, to the point it was beginning to be all anyone spent their meager (ill-gotten) reward credits on was rewriting their records for bonus lives. It was fun but definitely showed the rules (at the time) weren't meant to supplement that playstyle, because so many things were met with the GM flipping around frantically and then going "uhhhhhhh" and having to wing it, killing a lot of momentum. Still, if anything is ever gonna lure me back to trying to run a game, it's probably Paranoia...
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Capfalcon posted:I still refuse to believe that anyone actually plays straight. that bums me out because straight is the way i'm most interested in playing/running straight is the most Brazil type of simulation from what i read and that's what i wanna do
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Ominous Jazz posted:that bums me out because straight is the way i'm most interested in playing/running It works fine for that but the entire table has to be 100% on board with that style.
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1secondpersecond posted:My most recent game, I had four players. With one of the blank character sheets, I included a note that the character is a humanlike android with a 300 kg steel frame and skin that passes for human unless you look real close. I gave the other 3 players Frankenstein Destroyer secret society and had the settings contain a bunch of elevators and pressure panels, and I made a lot of effort to describe the effects of the much heavier character stepping on things. Took them until 3/4 through Stealth Train, when they were all already shooting at each other, but it paid off well in ongoing carnage. Even better: give the 3 Frankenstein Destroyers the secret mission "There's a bot on your team but we need it undamaged for now. The real danger is that there's a human on your team who will try and befriend the bot and recruit it to Corpore Metal, they're your true target."
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Dec 30, 2023 17:03
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I don't know you guys but has anyone used Paranoia to run a Lethal Company style campaign? Like the two games are quite similar if you think about it, from the fact that both games centered people in brightly coloured jumpsuits getting sent into increasingly dangerous missions, to most of the equipment you find in mission being useless/nonfunctional junk and of course high chance a player dying during debriefing by screwing up.
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Jan 17, 2024 11:57
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Just from what I've seen of Lethal Company, I'd use Mothership maybe. What is really left of Paranoia once you take out the setting that can't be done by a different system? I suppose a mash-up would work, maybe? The Complex is actually a colony spaceship and it survives flying around stripping resources from horrible abandoned outposts in the system. And then back on the ship, it's classic Paranoia.
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Jan 17, 2024 12:25
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Yeah, having run it a couple times I'd second Mothership as a better fit for the system side.
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Jan 17, 2024 16:28
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Megazver posted:I suppose a mash-up would work, maybe? The Complex is actually a colony spaceship and it survives flying around stripping resources from horrible abandoned outposts in the system. And then back on the ship, it's classic Paranoia. So, the ship from Wall-e?
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Jan 17, 2024 16:30
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Humble Bundle has a big Paranoia 25th Anniversary offer right now. Looks like it's all Paranoia XP stuff.
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Mar 4, 2024 20:18
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Bucnasti posted:Humble Bundle has a big Paranoia 25th Anniversary offer right now. Looks like it's all Paranoia XP stuff. I will probably do this, been many years since I played Paranoia and I'd love to
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If you're wondering, the bundle has every early 1980s Paranoia adventure of note in the included Flashbacks books, updated to run in the XP system. Also I believe the 25 anniversary refers to when Mongoose acquired Paranoia, because I've got books from 1986 in my collection so the math really isn't working there....
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