Welcome readers, running a little early this week so as to have a bit more weekend fun tomorrow.
So early on in my game playing days I started experimenting with the concept of playing a live table. For those who dont know what that means it is when everything that is said at the game table is said or done by the characters in the game. Players talking to each other is assumed to be in character. Statements of action are what a character is doing. It is not an easy thing to get used to, and usually it is easier to get it going in a serious game than a comedic one.
So in one of my very first attempts to play a live table, young me and young other players… and well… we happened to be playing a little game called Paranoia.
Things had been going ok… not great but ok… for the players…
But then that is the nature of Paranoia.
I had been using live table off and on in the game, trying to get the players to act things out a bit more, role play a bit more. And we had some really good moments. Then we get to a point where the players had lost most of their gear, but caught the enemy and were about to bring them in for questioning, when they suddenly realized they had no rope… and we had a moment that went like…
“Ok so how are you going to secure your prisoners?”
“I don’t know… we don’t have any rope…”
“Could we tear up our clothes?”
“Roll against your Moxie.”
****rolling sound of 2d10****
“Ok with a roll like that you realize that ripping up your uniforms would be very creative but it is also willfully destroying property of the Computer, and that is treason.”
“Shit… ok… ummm… ok…so… so I…”
****sounds of dice rolling****
“Looks like they are about to wake up… what do you do?”
“Ok… so I take of my belt and… awww #@%&-it.”
“You have no lotion so it hurts, make an endurance roll…”
Young male jokes about sex ensue.
I quietly rolled a couple of dice and realized that the prisoners had been so sheltered that what they saw as they were waking up scared them… I mean if he was willing to do that to a belt there was no telling what he might do to them…
We didn’t get much further that session. But in the end everyone was either having fun or young enough to be totally confused about the whole thing but too nervous to say anything. Young male players in the early 80’s.
So yeah… that happened… and things like it happened again and again…Not the worst thing really 🙂
heh
Ok so that’s a short post this week. I hope that everyone is having a great weekend.
Now gimme the dice. I need to see just how many troubleshooters could shoot trouble if trouble didn’t shoot back.
Gimme The Dice 