OhMyGod ... The "Weekly World News" roleplaying game!

[BOZ]

heheheh.

 

[Crothian]

Palladium has a great adventure from Beyond the Supernatural called Boxed Nightmares from way back when that is this basic thing. Basically, they have a prop of a tabloid newspaper and all the sotires have adventures written for them. it's very cool.

 

[Wombat]

Pandemonium

A great game

Elvis working in a hamburger joint, Bigfoot in love, and all the PCs work for the ultimate tabloid

Fun, easy game -- with Past Life Experience!

 

[MarauderX]

eh? Story Hour? Where/What is Story Hour?

Weekly World news IS the story hour! Or post how your games went on a new thread here.

 

[Ancalagon]

This is a very clever idea, and can see how fun it could be

Ancalagon

 

[orchid blossom]

I played a few sessions of the Men In Black RPG, and using the tabloids for adventures worked perfectly for that game. After all, they are the "hot sheets."

 

[Greybar]

Look around for "PANDEMONIUM! Adventures in Tabloid World," an RPG that we distributed some years ago...

Played a game, loved it, but we never went back to play again. I'm sure that one game was more than worth the price of the book, and our GM was a great batboy fan (I mean, who isn't?). I think it was just the scenario distributed in the book, probably tweaked around. I can't remember what the premise was for the adventure, but I remember the characters were great.

john

 

[Bloodstone Press]

The Weekly World News is the only tabloid I've ever bought. It really does have some wacked out ideas in it. I've used it for material about the Titanic (in a 2e game).

the best story I've ever seen in it was about the 50-foot Jesus. Although they had an "actual photo" of 50-foot Jesus standing on a street, none of the other people on the street seemed to notice him. They were all walking by like nothing was there..... I remeber standing in line to buy beer before a game session with one of the other players. We saw that and couldn't stop joking about it.


After Sept 11, they also ran a story and a "photo" of the devil's face in the smoke rising out of the Trade Towers. It was a well doctored photo, if memory serves me correct.

I usually check out the cover story when I'm standing in line at the grocery store.

I've also looked into writing for them, but didn't get far. I decided I could do better just writing for myself.

 

[alsih2o]

I have a friend who has written several stories for them.

I so wanna play this,...

 

[edventure]

Watch Transylvania 6-5000 for more inspiration. Awesome tabloid movie with Geena Davis as a nympho vampire.