Does this game exist?: Rockstar RPG

[Aberzanzorax]

It'd be even more fun to have players make their own mixed CDs, and to have action resolution be tied to the song going on. Imagine each player making a list of 20 songs, and having the group put their combined playlist on shuffle, and to have skill checks be based on whether there's a bass solo going on, or a drum solo, or how many times in the next twenty seconds the singer screams (or whatever).

AWESOME idea.

In fact, it might help fit to the "genre" category. Perhaps, in genre, there is a list of 5 song "types" that typify it. e.g. for Metal: the ballad, the super-fast-slash, the guitar solo, etc. Each player picks one song for each and the rules are tied to type (allowing for players to customize which song they like, but have rules for "ballad").




EDIT: I just read up on Umlaut: Game of Metal, and discovered, from a poster at Cvircus Maximus:

In Umlaut: Game of Metal you don't play as a specific band member. Rather, each player creates an entire band and you're competing against each other. At the end of the game, the winner is decided based on the fanbase stat (which represents how popular and successful the band is) and the hope stat (which represents how confident and optimistic a band is).

While I think that could be a fun game to play (and I might buy it because it does seem fun), what I'm looking for is not an RPG that focuses on the "success of the band". In fact, I kind of don't care about band success or not (except perhaps as one of many motivating factors). I'd much rather see the goal being adventure resolution with players really getting into the individual roles of each rockstar.

 

[Piratecat]

I've played Hijinx -- it's hilarious, but dfefinitely more "Josie and the Pussycats."

There's also a "rock star" playset for Fiasco. Only for one shots, but absurd amounts of fun. I played Fiasco this last weekend, and one person laughed so hard she threw up. Never had that happen before!

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Be honest. You really just want to run an adventure adaptation of Kiss Saves Santa.

 

[Macbeth]

I'd have to second the Fiasco playset. I've played it twice, once as a has-been band playing high school gyms (think Spinal Tap) and once as a Justin Bieber-alike young star and his entourage. Both times completely nailed the rockstar feel.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

I do have the Fiasco game, but haven't had a chance yet to play it.

I read it while camping with my family last summer.



It is wonderful...I'll look into this.



Other ideas and suggestions?

 

[Minicol]

Sex, Dice and ROCK N' ROLL !!!! Woo-hoo !

I like this.

 

[Piratecat]

I'd have to second the Fiasco playset. I've played it twice, once as a has-been band playing high school gyms (think Spinal Tap) and once as a Justin Bieber-alike young star and his entourage. Both times completely nailed the rockstar feel.

When we played it I was the Rod Stewart-esque superstar rocker, the guy in the gold spandex bikini pants who tried to have a solo career before my manager sued to bring me back to the band for more contractual concerts. My jealous bass player owned an irate trained grizzly bear (the band's mascot and symbol) who was used as a drug mule to smuggle heroin. And our tambourine player was an undercover cop trying to bust us for drug smuggling, all while the manager and I tried to create a fake benefit concert and run away with the proceeds.

The final concert ended with the concert arena in flames, the grizzly bear trying to eat me, a massive police bust, and Colombian drug suppliers running through backstage trying to shoot anyone who didn't bring them their stolen funds.

It totally captured the rock star lifestyle!

 

[Ed_Laprade]

Decades: Most 'decades' in rock start in the middle of the decade. (Probably because rock started in the mid-50s.) Of course, the first decade of rock music went from R&B to 'black' rock, to whites trying to do rock (soft rock), to surf music and then the Beatles came along to start the second decade. (Its been suggested that without the Beatles/British invasion rock would have atropied and gone the way of the dinosaurs. And that certainly seemed to be what was happening.) And somewhere along the way the folk groups got big as well.

The 70s was another weird 'decade'. There was the 50s nostalgia of Grease, ABBA, and the hard rock 'girl groups' (Pat Benatar, Heart, the Pretenders, etc.), plus a lot of other stuff going on.

And I miss it all!