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chuckroNominally a way of simulating a Three Stooges-style farce, this is a fairly free-form rpg where the only roll is whether you manage to fuck up whatever you’re doing.
I was skeptical at first, but this ended up being involved and hilarious. The main mechanic is rolling 2d10, and if it’s higher than the last roll, you fuck up. Which means that a failure means the next roll is more likely to succeed and vice-versa. We had two people and GM which got a “ping-pong” with the scores going, which was good for humor but not always for everyone’s enjoyment. I think the ideal would be three people and a GM.
It also took us a little time to find the groove with turn-taking, but the key is that each action is a plan that can succeed or fail, rather than the standard “everyone acts in a round”. Sometimes it was funnier if we did smash cuts on the plans to the hilarious results of them going badly.
In the game we played, L’il Johnny Fuckup and his brother Dave from Joisey had to hide the evidence of an event: The massive party they threw at their momma’s house. We open with them having just arrived at the wrong location. They are at dry cleaners in Ho-Ho-Kus. The car, full of cleaning supplies, is parked upside-down. Johnny flips it. The ladies walking by are impressed and agree to come with them. They drive into the trailer of a moving truck on I-95 and park, but then back out and end up driving backwards. The girls wanted sandwiches, they end up at Vito’s…barbershop. The smash cut to Vito’s Flipping Pies. They eat too much. When the farting begins, they skip rolling down the windows and light a match. Next thing they know, the car is a wreck and their ears are ringing as cleaning supplies gently rain down. A coincidental trucker takes them to Stop n Shop. They steal a shopping cart and set off alarms, so they juggle the supplies home. Momma left a voicemail; they have 55 minutes. They clean, but need three more hours. Momma is coming back from an animal preserve in Kenya with lots of liberated ivory. Dave convinces her to take it to the storage locker. Johnny calls Bob, Doug, Tall Vinnie, and Joe, but Tall Vinnie brought beer. Dave and Momma find some roadwork, run into Big Paulie. Dave successfully delays Momma long enough for Johnny to clean the house and get the boys out. Johnny goes to get flowers, but massively fucks up and ends up on the roof with a cactus up his ass. Dave gets him down, but attempts to remove the cactus end up with a story the emergency room doctor will tell for years to come.
Overall: Fast, easy, hilarious, doesn’t require much planning or brainpower, because it’s a goofy improv game with a mechanic to keep it moving. Likely will get played again.
I was skeptical at first, but this ended up being involved and hilarious. The main mechanic is rolling 2d10, and if it’s higher than the last roll, you fuck up. Which means that a failure means the next roll is more likely to succeed and vice-versa. We had two people and GM which got a “ping-pong” with the scores going, which was good for humor but not always for everyone’s enjoyment. I think the ideal would be three people and a GM.
It also took us a little time to find the groove with turn-taking, but the key is that each action is a plan that can succeed or fail, rather than the standard “everyone acts in a round”. Sometimes it was funnier if we did smash cuts on the plans to the hilarious results of them going badly.
In the game we played, L’il Johnny Fuckup and his brother Dave from Joisey had to hide the evidence of an event: The massive party they threw at their momma’s house. We open with them having just arrived at the wrong location. They are at dry cleaners in Ho-Ho-Kus. The car, full of cleaning supplies, is parked upside-down. Johnny flips it. The ladies walking by are impressed and agree to come with them. They drive into the trailer of a moving truck on I-95 and park, but then back out and end up driving backwards. The girls wanted sandwiches, they end up at Vito’s…barbershop. The smash cut to Vito’s Flipping Pies. They eat too much. When the farting begins, they skip rolling down the windows and light a match. Next thing they know, the car is a wreck and their ears are ringing as cleaning supplies gently rain down. A coincidental trucker takes them to Stop n Shop. They steal a shopping cart and set off alarms, so they juggle the supplies home. Momma left a voicemail; they have 55 minutes. They clean, but need three more hours. Momma is coming back from an animal preserve in Kenya with lots of liberated ivory. Dave convinces her to take it to the storage locker. Johnny calls Bob, Doug, Tall Vinnie, and Joe, but Tall Vinnie brought beer. Dave and Momma find some roadwork, run into Big Paulie. Dave successfully delays Momma long enough for Johnny to clean the house and get the boys out. Johnny goes to get flowers, but massively fucks up and ends up on the roof with a cactus up his ass. Dave gets him down, but attempts to remove the cactus end up with a story the emergency room doctor will tell for years to come.
Overall: Fast, easy, hilarious, doesn’t require much planning or brainpower, because it’s a goofy improv game with a mechanic to keep it moving. Likely will get played again.
