Game Hybrids That Should Not Be

[Kae'Yoss]

Call of Cluethulu: "I think it was Dagon...in the study...with...wh...huh...OMIGODOMIGODOMIGGggggggjhhhhhhh........."

Well, we do have D&D Clue, though I haven't played it yet. Does it involve guesses like "I think it was the Nymph, in the Forest, with Her Looks"?

Magic: Texas Hold 'Em: Announcer "Ok...Karlie has a Counterspell and a Mountain. She folds. Stevens has a Swamp and a Dark Ritual. He bids $2000. Dunstan has a pair of Elvish Rangers. He calls. Here's the flop- Its a pair of Llanowar Elves and a Gaia's Cradle! Stevens raises $20,000- that's a hell of a bluff...and Dunstan is ALL IN! No hesitation!

That reminds me of the X-Files episode where the Lone Gunemen played D&D for money.

Dungeonopoly: "Your elf just landed on Smaug Place- slay him with your +1 longsword or you owe me 4000GP!"

Something like that might actually be fun.

Anything that encourages 100% adoption of cleanly templated cards rather than rulebooks at the table gets my vote. Talk about speeding up play!

I love cards, too, but they should only complement the books, not replace them. TOGC has pdfs with cards for spells, psionic powers, and other stuff as well, and they're quite useful. Unfortunately, they can't do cards for other Wizards books like the Spell Compendium.


I'm convinced that Wizards could make quite a big of money by offering Spell Cards for their magic, even if they only do PHB and Spell Compendium.

In fact, if they added some functionality to make spell cards for all their stuff to the online initiative, they might even get my money for that!

 

[Infernal Teddy]

World of HoLness - Nuff said

And one from my Girlfiend:

All Victoriana must be eaten. - Zombielord: "I'll have the yankee on toast in the southern dining room, thank you James"

 

[Silver Moon]

Beanie Baby: the Gathering

That game system is named "Fuzzy Heroes"

 

[Ipissimus]

You mean Vampire: the Masquerade Larps?

Well, yeah, but without the Discipline swapping.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

All Victoriana must be eaten. - Zombielord: "I'll have the yankee on toast in the southern dining room, thank you James"

Heh- that would put a different spin on this line from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil:

Oh, that Jim Williams went and shot someone. Canape?

 

[scourger]

Bar Wars
Sadly, this game is inspired by an actual Star Wars game in which we had an inordinate number of bar fights. I really like the "lightsaber in a cantina" scenes from the movies, but I didn't sign up to play it every week (and it never plays like the movies, either). It wasn't helped that it devolved into: kill an alien and take its treasure--very D&D in Space.

NPC's Relams
Also inspired by actual games in which the PC's NPC allies were grossly more powerful than the PCs themsleves.

 

[scourger]

DECON (The game of ex-Vietnam soldiers who've come home to the worst cockroach problem ever!)

That actually sounds like a great concept.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Trivial Pursuit: F.A.T.A.L. Edition.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Strip Munchkin

 

[ssampier]

Castle Falkenstein + Darksun = Darkenstein
Trojan War + d20 future = Bronze age weapons used in a high-tech world
Bunnies & Burrows + CoC = Cthulhu Bunny
Bunnies & Burrows + Ravenloft = Bunnicula