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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 4826448" data-attributes="member: 3448">My view of the essential nature of Paranoia can be summed up by:You are a Troubleshooter.  Your job is to identify Commie mutant traitors and shoot them.  You work with other heavily-armed Troubleshooters.  You are a Commie mutant traitor.  Aren't you glad you're heavily armed, too?So, switching that over to D&D sort of fantasy setting:You are an Inquisitor.  (This could be a secular or magical enforcement group, but the Inquisition has the right feel to me.)  Your job is to kill heretical monsters-- people can be heretics (members of weird cults or secret societies with condemned beliefs) or monsters (creatures like werewolves, vampires, tieflings, doppelgangers, and other monsters that can infiltrate human society-- depending on feel, you might add elves or half-orcs to the list).  The conceit of the game is that every PC is both a heretic (member of a cult/conspiracy) and a monster (instead of a mutation, characters all have a monster-type-- one might be a werewolf, another a doppelganger, etc.)When characters die, raise dead magic is used to restore them-- the institutional church (or whatever) firmly believes that the raise dead ritual/spell/whatever restores people free of heresy and without any monster corruption.  This is of course false.The PCs then get sent by a senior Inquisitor on quests (read missions) and hilarity ensues.  Magic items are of course highly valued and powerful, but unreliable and dangerous.I have to admit that I'm tempted to throw something like this together for a con game.  I'm not sure what game system to use though-- I think you'd want something lighter and faster (and more lethal) than most versions of D&D.  Perhaps a very low-level group could work.</blockquote>

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