"jeffbert" wrote:When I was in High School, we played Avalon-Hill role-playing games, but they required a "Dungeon Master" whose only role was ****ing with the poor guys who were warriors, mages, etc. He had more than a few different types of dice, & took pleasure annoucing our deaths when the roll went against us.
Hence, I must ask how do we 'play' this game? Is it a matter of killing time or actually winning? If we restrict our guys to their 'powers' as seen on TV, can we allow somebody to invent a character that has all strengths & no weaknesses?
For instance, my choices of humans:
Dr Fooler
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Strength: scientific genuis
Weakness (besides that he always loses to Atom): he is 3-4 feet tall
goal: Acquire Atom
Kin Sankaku
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Strength: He is the equivelent of The Kingpin, the criminal world's bad***
Weakness (besides that he always loses to Atom): enjoys reading Astroboy manga
Goal: crime
Others:
Hamegg
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Occupation: Showman/ French Aristocrat (Blue Knight manga)
Strength: none
Weakness (besides that he always loses to Atom): tragedy strikes his shows
Pipi (Pepe)
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Occupation: Robotic merboy
Strengths: Just as cute as they come
Weakness: ill-suited for life on land
Uran
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Occupation: Comic-relief/damsel in distress
Strentgh: 50,000 HP
Weakness: finds trouble wherever she goes
Atlas (80s chibi)
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Strengths: same as Atom
Weakness: same as Atom
Lamp
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Japanese version of H. Bogart in role of criminal
etc.
But which roles do we require of those who had many? For instance, Hamegg as mentionaed above? Characters such as Tick & Tock are comic-relief whatever their roles.
I presume there is some sort of organization to these role-playing games, but am clueless as to what.
Excellent question, and I'll try to the best of my ability to explain the concept.
Have you ever read fanfiction? Fan based stories regarding popular shows, books and movies? It's generally that, although the only difference is no one knows what's going to happen next, because after one person goes, someone else must.
Basically, you post a response that revolves around something your character does. Example...
"Daddy Walrus went to the supermarket. He was going to buy some milk."
The only rule, or one of them, is that you only post things YOUR character does. So, the person playing Daddy Walrus can't go and describe a scene with Atom. But, it could go like...
"Daddy Walrus saw Atom flying through the air..."
That's fine, but it can't go into what Astroboy is thinking and/or saying.
Also, if somebody says something like...
"What do you think, Daddy Walrus?" said Uran, turning toward Daddy Walrus for an answer.
It's almost implied that the next person to go would be Daddy Walrus.
Also, the story can change to different locations as well. An example would be Skunk sneaking around a jewlery store late at night, and the next person who posts could be Inspector Tawashi back at the police station, and so forth. However, usually the two, three, or even four different settings, whose ever characters are in those settings, it would most likely be best if they have some connection with each other. Or will connect later in the story.
So in RPGs, there really isn't any winning or losing, just coming up with a good story and trying to stay true to your character. And having fun!
I hope I explained it okay... 
If anyone thinks they can make it more clearer, please be my guest.
And Strange Wings, if you want to be Daddy Walrus, that's fine, just say so. You don't need to wait, claim him now! Or be Inspector Tawashi if you like.
If it's alright with everyone, once we have a few more characters, I would like to post the first part to the RPG, just to get everyone started, and to give an example to what it's like.
