(OT) what system?

[Drawmack]

Toon is OOP but can be gotten second hand from many web-stores.

Toon was put out by Steve Jackson Games. There is enough information on the toon section of their website.

Fudge is basically a system to design a system. It allows the GM to design their own role-playing game by making the system less generic. As such it is almost always a best fit but also most work system. Personally I think that QLM could be used to play comedy very well since comedy is mostly role-playing and qlm is a rules light system.

 

[haiiro]

GURPS might suit for comedy too. Take a look at GURPS: Discworld for ideas.

GURPS Goblins is also a pretty good example of how to adapt GURPS to a humorous topic. I don't think GURPS is ideal for comedy, but it's the only generic system I've got much experience with.

If you're looking for good comedic games that are tied to a setting, my overall favorites are Paranoia, Toon, Bunnies & Burrows (the FGU version, not the GURPS version) and Og: The Caveman RPG.

 

[Drawmack]

I forgot Orks from Green Ronin

 

[ejja_1]

Comedic games

Deffinatley toon, and paranoia.
There was also a bunch of boards games put out several years ago that were alot of fun and humorous, I wanna say that one of them was Wabbit Wampage.
Also cheap ass games has alot of humorous stuff, and reindeer games had a lot of funny but cheap games.

 

[ced1106]

Do a search on "Paranoia Online" for a Paranoia website.

Also, if you like a "narrativist" game (where players can create the story), see if Donjon or Soap might work for you. Reviews are on RPGnet.

Finally, for d20, there's the SnarfQuest Worldbook.


Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^

 

[diaglo]

Kobolds Ate my Baby

All Hail....you know the drill.

 

[Golem Joe]

For comedy?

HERO!





(j/k)

I'm a fan of Tales of the Floating Vagabond.

 

[Henry]

Tales from the FLoating Vagabond, (of TFV as I call it) was a fantastic beer and pretzels comedy game. Back in 1992 I declared it the only game that could easily duplicate the "Monkey Island series" of computer games. (Guybrush Threepwood had an awesome coat in return to Monkey Island: LeChuck's Revenge, that looks like it came STRAIGHT from a TFV Shtick.)

 

[haiiro]

I forgot all about HOL (Human Occupied Landfill) until just now.

HOL is sublime.

 

[s0rn]

Here are some links to various Paranoia websites:

http://www.paranoia-rpg.com/ (Paranoia Online)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mikelem/paranoia0/index.html (Good intro site to Paranoia)
http://www.crd-sector.com/ (Another intro site to Paranoia)
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6333/paranoia/r_and_d.html (Great Paranoia R&D site)


Hope that helps in explaining Paranoia (obviously I think it is a great game).