Banned from Gencon!

[mythago]

Kind of reminds me of a cleaner version of the goofy insert in Buttery Wholesomeness called Freebase (Buttery Wholesomeness was for the rpg HOL by Dirt Merchant Games and White Wolf). Anyone else remember that?

Complete with resemblance-to-an-unnamed-LARP-game hand signals!

 

[SweeneyTodd]

It definately draws most of its vocal fans from people who are afictionados of Insane Clown Posse, which makes the self-evident point that your fans are going to be drawn from the people you market to. It also makes the secondary point that those people are going to come to your game with an attitude towards playing it that reflects that marketing.

For instance, most RPGs get judged based on how they measure up to other RPGs (because they're marketed to gamers.) Morton's List fans, at least on the Web, do a lot of talking about how it let them go out and do silly hijinks and made them feel like wild and wacky Juggalos or Juggalettes. And the game facilitates that, so it's popular with them. (Arguably that's all it does, since gameplay involves "get a group of people together, roll a d30, and do what comes up on the list.") Somebody could probably write a Forge post about how it illustrates that games are often successful by reinforcing preconcieved notions.

On the downside, while the options of things to do in Morton's List are often vague enough to interpret in different ways, plenty of them are intended to be illegal. (Or close enough; considering its target audience, I doubt the activity "Enjoy the wonders of the vegetable kingdom" means eating a salad, and several read like the kind of things that LARPs tell you *not* to do lest you risk a night in jail.) I can see why that, combined with the fact that there's no real game rules, would keep them out of the con.

 

[the Jester]

I know the guys who created this game. They are a very cool and fresh bunch; I used to belong to their gaming group and we’d play such classics as Alternity and Star Wars d20.

The game is pretty much as you've read, basically act like a teenager and embarrass yourself in public.

Morton’s List is not really affiliated with ICP, but the creators went to High School with them and of course still hang out together.

Check it out, it isn’t for everybody but it can be really fun when you feel like making a fool of yourself.

Sounds interesting and fun... and like you're the only person here to have actually played it.

I'll have to take a look at it if I can find it somewhere... I think I may know someone who's got it, actually, and I certainly have a d30.

 

[MerakSpielman]

...and I certainly have a d30.

Well, of course, that goes without saying...

 

[Bloodsparrow]

Kind of reminds me of a cleaner version of the goofy insert in Buttery Wholesomeness called Freebase (Buttery Wholesomeness was for the rpg HOL by Dirt Merchant Games and White Wolf). Anyone else remember that?

Remember it? I have a signed copy!

There was an early-80s made-for-TV movie with Tom Hanks called Mazes and Monsters. This game you mentions strikes me as being a little too much like that movie.

I don't know... I just don't see the similarities between Tom Hanks playing an already unstable person going completely off his rocker and fixating on his one escape from his problems with what sounds like a d20 version of "Truth or Dare". (... I'm sorry... d30 version of "Truth or Dare" .)

 

[astralpwka]

Okay... I know that I have times when I look around the D&D table and think to myself... "Which one of these guys is going to go Tom Hanks on us?"

 

[mistergone]

Okay... I know that I have times when I look around the D&D table and think to myself... "Which one of these guys is going to go Tom Hanks on us?"

That's funny. We had a similar thing, but it was called "Who's gonna get Blackleafed?" It didn't last for long though. Pretty much after the first guy got Blackleafed, the comedy wore off...