Steve Long Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Survivor and The Amazing Race would both make great convention games -- they sound like great one-shots where it might even work better if the players don't know one another that well. Maybe Survivor: Skull Island. Not only do you have to outwit your rivals and find that Immunity Idol, you've got to deal with those pesky natives, that big monkey, and a frikkin' million jillion nasty critters that can kill you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The American President -- Eleanor dies and FDR begins a whirlwind romance with a female in Washington while trying to push his New Deal legislation through Congress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Seven -- the PCs, all gumshoes and feds, have to track down a mysterious killer (the Ripper reborn, perhaps?) through the dark and dismal streets of the Bowery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted February 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Swiss Family Robinson. Family is marooned on a tropical island. Armed only with their knowledge of building fantastical tree-houses with running plumbing, manufacture of boobie traps, and how to repair a pipe organ, they defend themselves against oriental pirates. Funny thing is, I started to mention LOST and wound up on a seque into SFR, so what the heck. This way I Didn't have to change anything. Island of Dr. Moreau. Adventurers find themselves on an island populated by half-man, half-animal freaks... Wasn't there more of a plot than this? I'm having a heck of a time trying to remember what, if so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Magnificent Seven: The PCs are a collection of international adventurers collected/hired/aquired to defend a village/hospital/trading post from a brutal warlord/bandit king/tribe of headhunters in darkest Africa/wind-swept Mongolia/the dusty Middle East/the plains of China. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kharis2000 Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! The Transporter - A highly-skilled soldier, burned out from his experiences in the Great War, makes his living as a discreet courier of people and objects in his modified Duesenberg-J... until the day he makes the mistake of opening the package and finding a beautiful young Chinese girl inside it, who begs his help in saving a shipload of Chinese immigrants being smuggled ashore to work in the insidious Dr. Fang's opium packaging plants and other, less wholesome, criminal operations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathicus Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Well get us the MM book!!! Seriously' date=' though I'm looking forward to it...[/quote'] Okay... how 'bout Total Recall-- Man is a Frenchman who escapes German occupation in Paris and flees to the US pre- American entrance into the European theater. He returns to help the French underground, but it is reviled that he really is German-sympathizer who's had his memory wiped by Nazi Scientist to work for the Germans. He must then come to terms and decide if he keeps his new memories or goes back to the old… Gee, you spelling sucks... R...E...V...E...A...L...E...D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Gee you spelling sucks... R...E...V...E...A...L...E...D. Before complaining about other's spelling, work on your grammar first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverbullet Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Gee you spelling sucks... R...E...V...E...A...L...E...D. LOL I'm sorry you and I are ex-teachers! We're back in the real world, where, you know, spelling doesn't matter, or something... Hehe... alright back on topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathicus Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Before complaining about other's spelling' date=' work on [b']your[/b] grammar first. Relax... we're in the same gaming group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! From another thread: Hard Rain: A mad scientist uses his gadgets (a weather control device, and his new zepplin) and minions to beseige a small town receiving a rather large bank shipment. He hopes to flood the whole area (crippling the local police), loot the town, and wait for the dam to break, destroying the remaining community. The heroes are members of the local community that are caught in God's Fury, the worst storm of the century. Then they see the zepplin drop in over the bank... Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Fight Club -- the Red Sickle organizes illegal underground bare-knuckles boxing clubs and slowly but surely turns them to the Bolshevik cause, then sends them out to commit acts of vandalism, mayhem, and eventually mass murder. He's gotta be stopped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! March of the Penguins -- Army of identical, freeze-proof, torpedo-shaped birds take over the Southern Continent and turn it into their unreachable secret base, from which they begin to take over the rest of Earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Publius Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Pitch Black: Onboard of the Zepplin Von Riddick, the PCs and a few NPCs are caught in a storm and end up crashing on an isolated island which has the eerie quality of being practically devoid of animal life and filled with huge skeletons of strange creatures. There they discover that the heavily sedated "French Patient" who had been brought on board by his "Brother" wasn't a patient at all but a murdering Nazi Spy, and with the "Brother" dead, he is now free to wander among them. Or is he? At the same time, they find a reseach facility on the island that has been abandoned for twenty years, and as night falls they begin to understand why as wave after wave of stygian horrors begin to flock over the surface of the island. Can they discover the hidden (and well-supplied) boat that will allow them to escape? When will they discover that water (sea, or fresh and sea water both) causes the stygian horrors acid-like burns? Will the French Patient turn out to be the Nazi spy or an American Double Agent who knows of another Nazi spy hidden amongst the group? Add Twist: As a one-shot convention type game, the "French Patient" is played by a PC 'ringer' whose goal is to kill all of the rest of the players and escape the island. Add Different Twist: As a one-shot convention game, as the players are killed off, they direct the increasingly threatening stygian horrors and help to speed the adventure towards a thrilling conclusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! HA! This just came to me... Dude, Where's My Car: The player characters wake up after a rather gregarious night (or nights) of carousing, only to find the coupe is missing. As they gather together to find out what happened to their favorite automobile, random events begin to take place. Faceless minions attack outside their favorite coffeehouse, albeit bent on their destruction. People they have never met drop by, thanking them for all their help. A professor at the local university calls upon them, because they are late for the presentation they had promised to give. A strange crate arrives from Persia, with one of the character's name on it, and with strange locks that no one seems to have the keys to. As the players continue on their merry way, they begin to put the pieces to their adventure together. But just what caused them to forget their whole debaucle? And just where is the coupe? Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakSpade Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Eraser: The player characters are members of an elite US Marshal's team that protects and sequesters informants before they are to testify in court. Their latest charge is a woman who works for a New England think tank that develops new weapons for the military. The woman has informed the government that she has discovered that the main entity behind the think tank developing the weapons is none other than , and he's bogarting their latest invention (an Electro-Gun that pierces the toughest armor), and plans on selling it on the Black Market to the highest bidder. In the mean time, the villain has discovered the leak in his organization, and has shifted all his resources into stopping (and probably killing) the young lady spy. The player characters are ordered to protect the snitch, and make sure she makes it to testify before Congress, a week from now. Unfortunately, the player characters don't know that the villain has eyes everywhere, and they don't know who to trust. Is their boss on the take? What about one of the PCs them selves? Jak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! "Supernatural" A pair of brothers wander through fepression era America living off their wits while trying to track down the " thing" that killed their parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted February 3, 2006 Report Share Posted February 3, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! "Carnivale". Doesn't really need to be changed; just find a way to get the P Cs involved as things reach a climax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Battlestar Galactica: Fleeing the Japanese occupation and rape of Nanking, a dying village elder leads her few surviving people towards the legendary city of Shangri-La. They are plagued by Japanese spies, limited resources, and treachery within the village council itself as the village's few martial artists try to hold the refugees together. Hilarity ensues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Their best warrior is Shining-Light-In-Sky-Deer. Anyhow, my favourites- Alien - Discovering a derelict ship of unknown country and design (possibly from the Inner Earth) in the unchartered waters near an unchartered island somewhere far off the regular trading routes, the merchant traders discover crates of large dinosaur eggs. One is taken aboard and hatches. Who knew how intelligent dinosaurs were? One of the crew is a native from the Inner Earth/Lost World plateau on a mission to retrieve the eggs as sacred objects. Bladerunner - Ex-cop now private investigator Decker investigates a series of murders. All were committed by the golem creations of a mad scientist (insert "Nazi" if needed, but Jewish would be more appropriate). These particular golems can imitate humans and were originally designed to fight in the Great War instead of human soldiers, but have since developed free will. They can be detected with an interrogation regarding rabbinical texts, with carefully placed errors in the Torah an aggressive response can be provoked. Now that I think about it, the other Alien movies are simple too- Aliens - Replace Aliens with Dinosaurs, set it on a colonial outpost in a tropical country. The marines are colonial infantry. Or if not the Victorian Age - A mining encampment far from civilisation. The marines are mercenaries sent in. Alien3 - Replace the Alien with a Dinosaur, set it on an island prison. The derelict ship from the first adventure has broken up, and parts of it come ashore. Alien 4 - Mad scientists have made a Dinosaur/Human hybrid and hire mercenaries to retrieve material for their experiments in making a Super Race (obviously these would be Nazis). The Dinosaurs escape (of course). Location is a secret underground installation, or possibly a large zepplin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GestaltBennie Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Frazier Failed Boston radio personality and boozehound Frazier Crane is forced to move to Seattle to look after his dad, top cop Martin Crane, who was critically injured by a mysterious shooter. With the assistance of his ballsy secretary Roz, his father's psychic nurse Daphne, his brother (socialite and fencing champion Niles Crane), and Eddie the Wonder Dog, Frazier looks to use his mastery of human psychology to track down and arrest the man responsible for his dad's shooting, only to be drawn into a web of criminal deceit that spans three continents! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Frazier Failed Boston radio personality and boozehound Frazier Crane is forced to move to Seattle to look after his dad, top cop Martin Crane, who was critically injured by a mysterious shooter. With the assistance of his ballsy secretary Roz, his father's psychic nurse Daphne, his brother (socialite and fencing champion Niles Crane), and Eddie the Wonder Dog, Frazier looks to use his mastery of human psychology to track down and arrest the man responsible for his dad's shooting, only to be drawn into a web of criminal deceit that spans three continents! And like the Shadow and Billy Batson, he could narate his adventures on his own radio show! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Oooo ... fun fun Cowboy Bebop: All's fun aboard the sea-faring vessel Bebop as bounty hunters Spike Spiegal and Jake "Jet" Black team with former heiress Faye Valentine (who has awoken from a coma), weird scientist protege Ed and Ein, a german experiment that placed a human brain in the body of a welsh corg, to chase after bounties and adventures! Let's Jam! The Last Starfighter: Stunt-show pilot Alex Rogan had no idea what he'd gotten himself into when he accept a job with Mr. Century. Whisked into the stars, Rogan now battles the evil warlord Xur in his rocketship and along with the rest of the Star Legionaires! Substitution: Replace rockets with a foriegn air force and you have a fun alternate. Firefly/Serenity: Under the guidance WWI vet Malcolm Reynolds, the crew of the pontoon plane Serenity try and undermine the Nazi regeme in the skies and the air. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! Oooo ... fun fun Cowboy Bebop: All's fun aboard the sea-faring vessel Bebop as bounty hunters Spike Spiegal and Jake "Jet" Black team with former heiress Faye Valentine (who has awoken from a coma), weird scientist protege Ed and Ein, a german experiment that placed a human brain in the body of a welsh corg, to chase after bounties and adventures! Let's Jam! Possible Add-ons: Spike is a former Chicago gangster on the lam trying to make good. Jet is an ex-New York cop who lost an arm in the line of duty. Ed is a science genius who has a built an electrical calculating engine (and other weird science toys), Ein is her "dog of the future," who's nearly as smart (or smarter) than any one of the rest of the crew. Faye is a Frenchwoman from the colonies in Vietnam/Singapore and is quite handy with a gun or behind the stick of an airplane. Somewhere along the line they've run afoul of a Japanese/(pick... American? Russian?) Yakuza boss who goes by the nickname of Vicious. He's been seeking them here and there across the Pacific, and has been known to send Yakuza hoods and ninja to try and do our heroes in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted February 4, 2006 Report Share Posted February 4, 2006 Re: Pulparize It! And in the same line as Cowboy Bebop -- Outlaw Star -- the rag-tag crew of the Pacific Star -- a large flying boat, island hops around the Pacific, working as a plane-for-hire. They haul goods, people, repair engines, pursue bounties, and have non-stop adventures. Gene is the plane's captain and pilot, Jim is the chief mechanic and master of weird science, Melfina is the cute French girl who acts a navigator, while Suzuka (who claims to be descended from samurai) is security. Russian strongwoman Aisha does all the heavy lifting and pulls in extra cash fighting in underground boxing matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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