Mark Twain's Birthday and your RPG

[Tonguez]

Anyway Google reckons it's Mark Twains 176th Birthday and as my 11yr old son is currently reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (he even commented on how the chracters speak in Txt language lol) I started to thinking about Huckleberry, Twain and RPGs

1Are there any extant RPGs influenced by Mark Twain?
2 Have you every used Twain as an influence in your game?
3 How would you go about modelling Huckleberry Finn in an RPG?

4 BONUS CHALLENGE: Translate a suitable Twain scenario to DnD


(as to question 2 the closest I've come is having a major river plyed by river boatman running down the center of one of my setting maps)

 

[Dice4Hire]

Closest I have ever come is having monsters chopped in twain.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

BONUS CHALLENGE: Translate a suitable Twain scenario to DnD

Well, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court springs to mind. Have the players stat themselves out in D20 Modern- at least as far as skills & characteristics go- and then use that as a launch point for your fantasy campaign.

For those who become "racially transfigured" between RW & Fantasy selves, use the new races' stat mods, and, of course, racial abilities.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Double post.

 

[Stormonu]

1) Deadlands features some of his antics into the game world (I believe he's supposed to have even wrote for the Epitaph's "weird but true" stories)

2) Not directly, that I can remember

3) As a PC, I'd do him up as a Rogue, same as an NPC, 3rd-5th level tops.

4)

A) The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County - Locals gnomes hold a yearly mounted giant frog/rabbit/any other creature that hops, runs or crawls race (no fliers, that's cheating). The prize is a hefty sum of gold, and there are lots of side bets running on the race. Someone though, is trying to take out the competition one by one. The characters are asked to field their own mount (one rider + "pit crew") in an attempt to draw out the perpetrator.

B) River Trip via "steamboat" - Characters need to take a vessel from one point to another. The vessel is a powered vessel - whether by magic, alchemy or some other means. While aboard, a dignitary traveling incognito is murdered and the boat is diverted to the closest port. However, it is intecepted by an overwhelming pirate force. Characters need to covertly free the vessel from pirate hands and reveal/capture the assassin on board.

C) A local scalawag of a youth has gotten himself in trouble, and rather than face the consequences, has retreated to an abandoned mine just out of time. The youth's parents (with the local official's urgings) ask the character to retrieve the youth. However, it turns out the mine has, in truth, been turned into an outpost for evil humanoids planning to raid the local settlement, led by a vicious half-breed called Injin Joe...

And who can forget the Prince and the Pauper?

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My favorite Twain quote (for it's irony and subject)

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

 

[Umbran]

1Are there any extant RPGs influenced by Mark Twain?
2 Have you every used Twain as an influence in your game?

I'm running a Deadlands game, set in 1877. Twain is alive and well in-game, and has just published The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He's mostly writing back East, though, and the PCs are in Dodge City, Kansas. It is possible for them to cross paths, though, especially as I have an Edgar Allen Poe plotline running, and the literary connection would be too awesome for me to pass up.

3 How would you go about modelling Huckleberry Finn in an RPG?

One of the standard template characters in the Deadlands rulebook is "Kid", and there's a flaw to represent young characters. Easy to do him pretty exactly in Deadlands. Though, in my game-time, he doesn't get his own book for several years...