OddHat Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Realistic Post-Apocalyptic Hero – Your characters are all dead. There is no afterlife. Realistic CHAMPIONS – Sometimes, strange people run around in costumes. Eventually, the police arrest them. Realistic Fantasy Hero – Your characters are serfs. They work the land. They believe in magic, but there isn’t any. Eventually, they die. Realistic Pulp Hero – The Great Depression. Your characters are unemployed laborers. They spend most of their time in bread lines. Finally, they get menial jobs, and build lives for their families. Their children are ungrateful. Realistic Star Hero – See Realistic Post-Apocalyptic Hero. So, think Steve will want to publish the genre books? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Hiemforth Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games So' date=' think Steve will want to publish the genre books? [/quote']I thought you just did... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted December 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games I thought you just did... Damn. Gave it away for free again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevenall Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Realistic Dark Champions: You just got beat up and mugged, and they stole your bike. You don't get it back. The End. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Omega Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Realistic Dark Champions: You just got beat up and mugged, and they stole your bike. You don't get it back. The End. Sounds like Realistic Teen Champions for me. High school was rough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamerz123 Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Realistic Star Hero – See Realistic Post-Apocalyptic Hero. How about: Realistic Star Hero - You and several generations of your descendents spend their entire lives on a reallly long and boring road trip. When you finally find a planetary system capable of supporting human life, everyone's wiped out in two weeks from some sort of native microscopic lifeform. Or maybe Realistic Star Hero - You and your crewmates spend a very long time as frozen meat. When you wake up, it's to the same fate as above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games An alternative Realistic Dark Champions- Someone kills your parents. You are traumatised for life. Alternatively- You seek vengence and are either a) brought to justice by the police, or never find them, or c) find them, kill them, and are then brought to justice by the police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Hiemforth Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Alternatively- You seek vengence and are either a) brought to justice by the police, or never find them, or c) find them, kill them, and are then brought to justice by the police. Or d) find them, then suffer the same fate as your parents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games I'm thinking I gotta collect these and post 'em to my website in the humor section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scion Zane Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games That my friends is why we play rpg. with out that much realisim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Alternate realistic Fantasy Hero: Your characters are serfs. They decide to go out on their own. Your lord sends out soldiers to hunt you down and bring you back. You are all hanged as punishment. Serf's up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Alternate alternate realistic Fantasy Hero: You are men-at-arms on campaign. You lay siege to Harfleur. You all come down with dysentery and die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games 14thc Fantasy Hero- You have a trade in your village. You marry, have kids and teach them the trade. You work many hours every day except for festivals and fairs. Your kids grow up and marry villagers from a days walk away. You live to see your grandchildren. Then your village and every village you've ever visited is wiped out by the plague. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Realistic Star Hero - You and your crewmates spend a very long time as frozen meat. When you wake up' date=' it's to the same fate as above.[/quote'] Realistic Star Hero - Only a handful of people make it out of the atmosphere. Water restrictions mean limited showers and no gravity means doing number 2 is much more difficult. When you return to Earth you spend weeks in a hospital due to muscle atrophy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games I'm thinking I gotta collect these and post 'em to my website in the humor section. Feel free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Hiemforth Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games I guess I should call this one "Realistic D&D," since it involves random character generation... Consult the tables below: [b]1d6 Sex[/b] 1-3 M 4-6 F [b]d% (M) Result[/b] 01-20 You eke out a squalid existence toiling endlessly for a liege lord who doesn't know you exist. You die of old age by 40, having never gained any renown or lasting accomplishment of any kind, and never having traveled more than 10 miles from the place you were born. You're one of the lucky ones. 21-70 As above, except that you die of disease (usually a disease that would be easily treated or prevented today) or malnutrition before reaching the age of 40. 71-90 As above, except that you're dragged off at some point before age 40 to be a foot soldier in some battle of your lord's that you neither know or care anything about. You're left to rot on the battlefield, forgotten and alone, perhaps fried by boiling oil or some such. 91-99 You actually manage to achieve some tiny measure of achievement in life. Perhaps you are a freeman instead of a serf, and have a small trade. Perhaps you are a trusted servent of a noble. Perhaps you are a clergyman. In any case, you still die of old age, disease, malnutrition or battle before age 40. And no record of you or anything you ever did in any way survives to the present time. 100 You're a noble, a wealthy merchant, a powerful clergyman, or some such! Congratulations! There's actually a small chance that someone alive today might have heard of you or something you did. 'Course, you'll probably still be dead by 40... but roll another d%. On a roll of 01-50, you just die by 40 for one of the same reasons noted above. On a 51-75, you still die by 40, but via a more interesting means, like being burned at the stake or executed as a traitor! On a 76-100, you actually live past 40!! Roll 1d20 and add the result to 40. If you rolled a 20, roll again and add the result. If you roll another 20, roll again and add again, then stop. The final result is the age you die at. If you lived past 60, the remaining years of your life were almost certainly spent in nearly unbearable infirmity, illness, and insanity. [b]d% (F) Result[/b] 01-99 You are irrelevant chattel. You die by 40, most often in childbirth, but also commonly due to disease, malnutrition, abuse, or neglect. 100 You're a noble, the wife of a wealthy merchant, or some such! Congratulations! There's actually a small chance that someone alive today might have heard of you or something you did. 'Course, you'll probably still be dead by 40... but roll another d%. On a roll of 01-50, you just die by 40 for one of the same reasons noted above. On a 51-75, you still die by 40, but via a more interesting means, like being burned at the stake or executed as a traitor! On a 76-100, you actually live past 40!! Roll 1d20 and add the result to 40. If you rolled a 20, roll again and add the result. If you roll another 20, roll again and add again, then stop. The final result is the age you die at. If you lived past 60, the remaining years of your life were almost certainly spent in nearly unbearable infirmity, illness, and insanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Realistic Teen Champions: Batman t-shirts and cheerleaders don't mix. You go to the prom stag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Batman t-shirts and cheerleaders don't mix. Alas, too true. For that matter, you never see Bruce Wayne himself out with a cheerleader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted December 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Alas, too true. For that matter, you never see Bruce Wayne himself out with a cheerleader. Realistic Teen Sidekick Champions: Eventually people start to wonder why a rich single man is adopting a series of teen wards. Court proceedings follow. You buy your way clear, but your reputation is ruined. Bonus Realism: You get to be the teen ward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Obvious Posted December 8, 2005 Report Share Posted December 8, 2005 Re: Realistic Hero Games Is the teen ward named Burt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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