Indie RPGs

[avram]

I’m poking around on the discussion boards of The Forge, an indie RPG site. I just found A Role-Playing Game of Clinical Depression. Ooof! Not something I’d want to play, though the mechanics are darkly clever.

Tabloid: The Gutter Press Roleplaying Game has a promising premise, but it’s just a rough idea.

Bullpen is a superhero game, where the players can make rolls based on their characters’ fan appeal to take control of the storyline.

I was hoping for more than vague ideas from the thread about The Xerox Missive, an RPG based on the works of Philip K Dick.

Comments

[gentlyepigrams]

I find the Forge an interesting place to read, although I poke around there a lot less now that none of my GMs post there. I'm not sure I'm ready to post there, though.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

TSR released an Amazing Engine-based game called Tabloid. Bullpen sounds a lot like "Good Guys Finish Last," a superhero game in the early 1990s (published in Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer). The depression RPG is a new one, though.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I saw a Tabloid card game in a store recently -- everyone got five cards (I think it was five). Each card had a word with a point value; you put together the silliest/highest scoring tabloid headline possible from your hand. I didn't buy it, though.