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[jesshartley]

Stolen from merb101: Over at Story-Games.com, a person posted the question, "If your mom wrote a role-playing game, what would it be like?" It is a funny, clever and interesting question. My response was:

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I got a lot of my love of reading from my mother, although our interests vary widely. She reads, a lot, but her topic matters tend to the modern historical (especially anything from expansionist america to present day) and mundane (and I mean that to differentiate from supernatural, not to mean boring.) Mine, on the other hand, veer towards the supernatural and either ancient/medieval historical or very modern/futuristic.

Oh, and she loves harlequin romances.

I can see my mom creating a game where you played folks travelling across the country with their families in a covered wagon. Dealing with disease and famine and indian raids. Environmental challenges like raging rivers, staggering mountain ranges and harsh weather.

Preferably while you were finding, fighting with and eventually falling in love with a handsome cowboy/scout or beautiful indian maiden along the way.

It would be called something like "Harlequin Trail..."


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*Grins* - How 'bout it, Mom? Up for some game design? Or am I way off?

Comments

[killians1978.livejournal.com]

My mom's RPG would run something like this:

"Okay, everyone got their character sheets filled out? Potions sorted and categorized? Weapons at the ready? Does everyone have enough to eat?

Okay, your characters step out into a barren field and are smitten by God for playing evil roleplaying games. Go to your rooms and think about how you've offended Him and pray for forgiveness."

Yeah, kind of like that.

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[(Anonymous)]

Sorry but think that ones already been done...called Oregon Trail....
Soooo would have to add forensic investigator trying to solve the mystery of two (male and female) sets of bones from the 1700's near Jamestown with modern buttons find on the site.
Yes really wish I had your ability to write.
Love Mom

[zenten.livejournal.com]

My mom would make it look like a game of Vampire the Requiem, but with more romance between Vampires, and forbidden love and all that. Like, it would be required to play the game.

Except it wouldn't have any character sheets or rules or dice or anything, as she finds those things to be silly.

[habibbibrod.livejournal.com]

My mom's games would require a Guilt stat, and if at any time you don't call your stat goes up. Eventually, all that remains is the Guilt stat, and then your character can do nothing but go home and eat.

[justric.livejournal.com]

Based on her literary choices, my mother's RPG would consist of dragons and elves, an age of swords and spells, where heroes come of age by experiencing great trials and sorrows, through which they grow... What? Where do you think I got it from??


Now my father's RPG... a musket and sailing ship era, bordering on the start of the Industrial Revolution. The book would be filled, FILLED, with every tiny historical detail for authenticity and realism. There would definitely be some sort of religious/morality rating. And just as there would be a stat for intelligence, there would be a stat for being a pig-headed idiot. And then, half-way through creating it, he would decide it would make a better book instead. So he'll write it between researching hymns, working on cars and building a pipe organ in the basement. Yes, I said "pipe organ." Then he'll let someone else finish the RPG, and he'll do a small private release of the book because he doesn't want to bother dealing with the literary agents and publishing houses... I love my father!

[lostsatyr.livejournal.com]

I think my mother might do murder mystery/dective type game, based on what she likes to read.

[torresroman.livejournal.com]

Wow ... your post brought on a flashback. I remember that my mom had a subscription to Harlequin Romance. Every month a box of the things would arrive, and she'd read them all, then pass them around to her 4 other good friends.