Tales from the Floating Vagabond?

[Cthulhudrew]

Was just thinking about this game the other day, and toying with the idea of making a d20 version of it. Anyone know if there are any good d20 humor games out there to look at for some ideas, or have any ideas/interest in seeing something like this?

 

[Chaldfont]

Why convert it? Its a great one-shot game, but that sounds like a lot of work for a game you rarely play more than a few sessions of.

I say play it as written. Why throw out rules where one of the weapon sizes is "Don't Point That at My Planet" and one of the skills is "Hurt People Really Badly"?

 

[Henry]

Never played it, and in truth it was extremely fun just reading it! You could easily convert any cartoony game to it no problem, as it can handle it all with some pretty light and easy to use rules. It may not be as streamlined for its purpose as TOON, but it comes close. The Lucasarts games starring Guybrush Threepwood, and Sam and Max would have been perfect for TOTFV.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Wow, I haven't head that name for a long time! Didn't it have abilities like the Stallone Effect and the Schwarzenegger Effect?

 

[Henry]

...and the Roy Rogers Effect, and the "It'd take a miracle" effect. Schticks. The number of in-jokes in the rules alone was worth the price of admission! My personal favorite was the Schtick (forgot its name) that allows you a trenchcoat, bag, etc. able to hold a ton of stuff, as well as a roll to pull out JUST what you need for a situation. If you ever saw some of the eariest Monkey Island Adventures, GUybrush threepwood had a pirate coat that did this for his inventory items.

In Monkey Island2: LeChuck's Revenge,
[sblock]he kept stuffing inventory items in his pockets. When in one scene he has to pick up a HUGE stone idol head from the sea floor, you wonder how he's going to carry it, but he stuffs the thing in his coat, and grins at the "camera"! I laughed for ten minutes watching that the first time![/sblock]

 

[Savage Wombat]

The Trenchcoat Effect.

I always loved that the Bikini Girls with Guns had this ability, with only a tiny bikini to store things in...

 

[Castellan]

I always loved the special skills (though we might call the feats for D&D)... Things like:

* Swing Nasty Pointy Thing
* Swing Nasty Pointy Thing with Panache (clearly a feat-chain)

* Belching for Effect

* Target Vomitting (I'd love to add Point Blank Shot to this )

And the expanded weapon sizes, like "Don't Point That At My Planet" were awesome.

yeah, it was a great game, though I could never find anyone to play it with me.... *sigh*

 

[Henry]

WIth all these answers, I'm ALLLLLLmost tempted to dredge up my copy and solicit a play-by-post game of this thing. I'll (A) check to make sure I still have my copy, and (2) decide if I have time to devote to a game of it, and (c) come back to this thread tomorrow to see who has a copy and is interested.

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[Wystan]

I have the game and would be interested....

 

[jcfiala]

I've got a copy of this, and used to read it from time to time. I love a lot of the art in it.

That said, I recently re-read it (or re-flipped-through-it), and was rather disappointed with how many rules there were in it. For a light humorous game, there were a lot of numbers involved.