tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833068321597231910.post6460803219425396287..comments2024-01-16T19:15:41.816-08:00Comments on There's more to Oz than the Yellow Brick Road: Comedy Gaming vs. Joke GamingF. Douglas Wallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06497140550892192807noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833068321597231910.post-65181505327301076152009-04-28T08:27:00.000-07:002009-04-28T08:27:00.000-07:00JCW: Is it a joke game or a comedy game? Designed ...JCW: Is it a joke game or a comedy game? Designed by Douglas Adams (of Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame), so it's definitely funny. I'd call it a serious plot, funny setting but that's just me.<br /><br />BarkingAlien: Good example of character-based comedy in an RPG. You do have to get the players on board for that sort of thing if you want it to work well.F. Douglas Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06497140550892192807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833068321597231910.post-86956649823857295262009-04-26T05:46:00.000-07:002009-04-26T05:46:00.000-07:00Fantastic post my good man.
A fan of RPGs and co...Fantastic post my good man. <br /><br />A fan of RPGs and comedy I have often been sited by those not in my games as running joke games when participants clearly know the difference. I run a lot of situation comedies and dramedies.<br /><br />One of the best games I've ever run (and one for which I have developed my own homebrew system) is based on the film Galaxy Quest. While the plots were largely serious and involved alien invaders and a first contact situation gone horribly wrong, the PCs were a mix of serious and just a tad cliche' and/or over-the-top. Exaggerated genre staples and the like made for springboards to a rip-roaring, action packed comedy.<br /><br />AD<br />Barking AlienAdam Dicksteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04840144928096089178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833068321597231910.post-38404843575140685772009-04-23T18:46:00.000-07:002009-04-23T18:46:00.000-07:00The gaming gods have shined down on me. While look...The gaming gods have shined down on me. While looking for another odd game called The Neverhood, which I just found (now that was another strange game), I looked over in the corner. "What's that package?" I asked the little woman. Turns out it's my ebay purchase, Titanic; Adventure Out Of Time. <br />Life is good...James C. Wallace IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09373678955007426557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1833068321597231910.post-82504386550501637122009-04-23T13:42:00.000-07:002009-04-23T13:42:00.000-07:00I would include Starship Titanic in the joke gamin...I would include Starship Titanic in the joke gaming genre. It was stranger than anything else I've played and it's definitely British in humor.James C. Wallace IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09373678955007426557noreply@blogger.com