Well, the joke of the Buffy game is that they really aren't cannon fodder, they just think they are. As for leftfield concepts, I'm reminded of an old freeform con-game I was in where the game ad was pretty clear that the concept was really weird (we all played kitchen appliances in the house of an alcoholic who had only just died of alcohol poisoning, the setting was a whodunnit trial...I played the dishrag).
I did run an Aberrant con-game once where the PC's were pre-gens of somewhat effed-up Novas dragged together for a photo-op for a new T2M section meant to be focused on Northern Europe. Ended with the local Church of Archangel Michael head falling in love with the Mega-Charismatic one, and general chaos and pandemonium due to the PC's not having perfect use of their powers (the supergenius was easily distracted, and decided to restructure local hospitals on a whim, the air elemental guy had about as much fine control as the lead in Greatest American Hero and the super-charisma guy hit on everything that moved, male, female or other). And that was just a quick 2-hour game.
Hmmm.
Other ideas.
A Buffy game in which the PC's are all minor demons trying to get out of town. One of them is a psychopath and just killed a friend of the local Slayer, but nobody knows who. The others are more or less harmless. Game ends with the Slayer getting one of them. Trick is, will it be the right one? Paranoia meets Buffy, basically.
An Adventure! game in which the PC's are former henchmen of a major hero (think the crew of Doc Savage, all heroes in their own right). The hero was killed, they have to a) figure out whodunnit, b) finish the case. It's entirely possible their mentor isn't dead.
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Re: Shoulder devil
Date: 2011-01-26 03:38 pm (UTC)I did run an Aberrant con-game once where the PC's were pre-gens of somewhat effed-up Novas dragged together for a photo-op for a new T2M section meant to be focused on Northern Europe. Ended with the local Church of Archangel Michael head falling in love with the Mega-Charismatic one, and general chaos and pandemonium due to the PC's not having perfect use of their powers (the supergenius was easily distracted, and decided to restructure local hospitals on a whim, the air elemental guy had about as much fine control as the lead in Greatest American Hero and the super-charisma guy hit on everything that moved, male, female or other). And that was just a quick 2-hour game.
Hmmm.
Other ideas.
A Buffy game in which the PC's are all minor demons trying to get out of town. One of them is a psychopath and just killed a friend of the local Slayer, but nobody knows who. The others are more or less harmless. Game ends with the Slayer getting one of them. Trick is, will it be the right one? Paranoia meets Buffy, basically.
An Adventure! game in which the PC's are former henchmen of a major hero (think the crew of Doc Savage, all heroes in their own right). The hero was killed, they have to a) figure out whodunnit, b) finish the case. It's entirely possible their mentor isn't dead.