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- RPG.net Game Index entry
- "Why It's Fun to Get Shot Six Times" (Gamegrene.com)
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- Animalcast interview with Allen Varney
- "Troubleshooter" (PARANOIA fanfic by ReverendSpencer)
Actual PARANOIA play
- Carrying water across the hall
- Mister Bubbles
- Mister Bubbles (another run)
- Trouble With Cockroaches
- Origins 2006
- Kublacon 2009 (Straight style)
- Story Games for Everybody
- Me and My Shadow Mark 4
- Inhuman Treason
- "Exhausting!"
"Sell me on PARANOIA"
- RPG.net forum 01/2006
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Advice on running PARANOIA
- How to Run (RPG.net Wiki)
- New at GMing...any tips?
- Advice needed
- New to PARANOIA
- I want to GM, but I need some info
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- First-time PARANOIA GM
- GMing PARANOIA for the first time!
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- Running on a moment's notice
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- Another character generator (.PDF)
- Mission blender
- "Mr. Bubbles" briefing
- Standard equipment list
- Handy links for new GMs
- "New player" tournament handout
- Building real laser pistols
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Evan Waters, Cedric Chin, JamPaladin, Neil Lennon, Rory Hughes - Crash Priority:
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Friday, May 23, 2008
Architecture of Authority
Via Boing Boing, here's photographer Richard Ross's exhibition of Architecture of Authority (Aperture Press, 2007). John R. MacArthur's accompanying essay discusses these "unsettling and thought-provoking pictures of architectural spaces that exert power over the individuals within them":
Next time you need to describe an Alpha Complex briefing room or Happy View Therapeutic Realignment Center, check it out.
From a Montessori preschool to churches, mosques and diverse civic spaces including a Swedish courtroom, the Iraqi National Assembly hall and the United Nations, the images in Architecture of Authority build to ever harsher manifestations of power: an interrogation room at Guantanamo, segregation cells at Abu Ghraib, and finally, a capital punishment death chamber.
Next time you need to describe an Alpha Complex briefing room or Happy View Therapeutic Realignment Center, check it out.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Japanese highways = Alpha Complex
All transbot passengers, autocar drivers, and other future victims should check out Ken Ohyama's breathtaking photos of Japanese highway interchanges. They remind me of Joe Nishizawa's photos of underground Tokyo that I linked in "Alpha Complex made real" (April 16, 2008).
I'm not sure where you'd fit these overpasses and cloverleafs in an underground city -- but Alpha Complex, like any state of mind, can be a big place.
I'm not sure where you'd fit these overpasses and cloverleafs in an underground city -- but Alpha Complex, like any state of mind, can be a big place.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Running PARANOIA for the first time: How-to
Another fine resource on the leading PARANOIA fan site, Paranoia-Live.net: Citizen No. 5127 has collected many helpful links from the P-L.net forums about gamemastering PARANOIA for the first time. These posts are publicly available (RED Clearance):
5127 also lists four posts in the Gamemaster-only forum. To see these, register at P-L.net (it's free), then ask for admission to these forums by sending a private message (PM) to -- uhh -- I'm looking around, hold on -- well, you know, some likely-looking administrator or moderator -- their numbers have been dwindling lately -- or, here's an idea, post a polite whine on a RED-Clearance forum asking to sit at the big GM-only dining table.
- New at GMing...any tips?
- Advice needed
- New to PARANOIA
- I want to GM, but I need some info
- Curious about GMing a game
- First-time PARANOIA GM
- GMing PARANOIA for the first time!
5127 also lists four posts in the Gamemaster-only forum. To see these, register at P-L.net (it's free), then ask for admission to these forums by sending a private message (PM) to -- uhh -- I'm looking around, hold on -- well, you know, some likely-looking administrator or moderator -- their numbers have been dwindling lately -- or, here's an idea, post a polite whine on a RED-Clearance forum asking to sit at the big GM-only dining table.
Labels: firsttime, gamemasters, GMs, newbies
Monday, May 19, 2008
PARANOIA articles in Signs & Portents magazine
On Paranoia-Live.net, loyal citizen CPUreaucrat has compiled a reference list of PARANOIA-related articles in Mongoose Publishing's in-house magazine, Signs & Portents. These articles are various and uneven; that said, the recent entries by Gareth (The Traitor's Manual) Hanrahan are uniformly worthwhile. Gareth is even now finishing up the first new PARANOIA supplement in many months, The Big Book of Bots, to be published later this summer.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
eBay auctions nonexistent PARANOIA product
An inexplicable eBay auction for the never-published and nonexistent PARANOIA mission Spin Control prompted a Mongoose Publishing forum thread detailing the "Spin Control" publishing history. In brief: "Spin Control" has been published in Alpha Complex Nights but, to date, nowhere else. The product in the eBay auction doesn't exist and has never existed. So what does this seller think he has 990 copies of? No idea.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
RPG.net Gaming Index reaches 10,000
On an industry mailing list, RPG.net's Shannon Appelcline wrote, "We hit a great milestone on the RPG.net Gaming Index last week: 10,000 unique books and magazines. When I consider that my old standby reference, Heroic Worlds, had about 3,600 entries, I'm amazed by both how much the industry has grown since then and how much data we've managed to collect in just a couple of years. At this point I'm pretty sure we have 90+% of printed RPGs, though a lesser percentage of magazines and PDFs." Here's the Skotos press release.
PARANOIA has always rated quite well on the RPG.net Index. At this writing, the current Mongoose edition stands at #34 out of 1,083 games in the Core Rules category, tied with the 2004 religious-apocalypse RPG Heaven & Earth (Event Horizons/Guardians of Order/Abstract Nova) and a hundredth-point behind indie masterworks Burning Wheel and Dogs in the Vineyard. PARANOIA is also #61 overall among 10,000 products -- actually 10,027 as I write, which shows how the Index continues to grow.
Thanks to all the registered RPG.net users who have voted for PARANOIA. Though I could exhort newcomers to visit the RPG.net Gaming Index page for PARANOIA and start industriously stuffing the ballot box, in fact the Index guards against such chicanery. Appelcline and RPG.net's Christopher Allen have posted many deep-thinking articles about systems for collective choice on Allen's fascinating but now-dormant blog, Life With Alacrity. These articles discuss specific measures to dilute the impact of "drive-by voting." So if you want to support PARANOIA, just grit your teeth and become an honest, upright member of the RPG.net community. Hey, you could do worse.
PARANOIA has always rated quite well on the RPG.net Index. At this writing, the current Mongoose edition stands at #34 out of 1,083 games in the Core Rules category, tied with the 2004 religious-apocalypse RPG Heaven & Earth (Event Horizons/Guardians of Order/Abstract Nova) and a hundredth-point behind indie masterworks Burning Wheel and Dogs in the Vineyard. PARANOIA is also #61 overall among 10,000 products -- actually 10,027 as I write, which shows how the Index continues to grow.
Thanks to all the registered RPG.net users who have voted for PARANOIA. Though I could exhort newcomers to visit the RPG.net Gaming Index page for PARANOIA and start industriously stuffing the ballot box, in fact the Index guards against such chicanery. Appelcline and RPG.net's Christopher Allen have posted many deep-thinking articles about systems for collective choice on Allen's fascinating but now-dormant blog, Life With Alacrity. These articles discuss specific measures to dilute the impact of "drive-by voting." So if you want to support PARANOIA, just grit your teeth and become an honest, upright member of the RPG.net community. Hey, you could do worse.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
The Battlespork
Gareth Hanrahan's PARANOIA mission "Spin Control," collected in Alpha Complex Nights, begins with a highly important Troubleshooter assignment to maintain and/or destroy spork supplies in an INFRARED cafeteria. The mission naturally progresses from there to -- yes, you're way ahead of me -- to a public-relations campaign for brain-eating zombies. But the idea that pertains here is the spork.
Now, spork fans, witness the revolutionary Battlespork -- spoon, fork, toothbrush, and self-cleaning razor all in one! First proposed in 1992, trapped in bureaucratic limbo to this day, the Battlespork Spork-Toothbrush-Shaver would help defend our overburdened troops from the omnipresent menace of oral bacteria.
(Via the Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator.)
Now, spork fans, witness the revolutionary Battlespork -- spoon, fork, toothbrush, and self-cleaning razor all in one! First proposed in 1992, trapped in bureaucratic limbo to this day, the Battlespork Spork-Toothbrush-Shaver would help defend our overburdened troops from the omnipresent menace of oral bacteria.
(Via the Steve Jackson Games Daily Illuminator.)
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Alphaslang article in Signs & Portents
Signs & Portents issue #56 (.PDF link), the latest issue of the Mongoose Publishing in-house magazine, is available for free download. This issue includes "Keep Your Dictionary Handy," a long, fun article by Zild (of Paranoia-Live.net) about slang terms used in Alpha Complex. Zild compiled the common slang seen in published PARANOIA books (vatslime, goosack), drew more from the active "Alphaslang" topic on the P-L.net forums (bootsmoke -- a dead citizen, plus seven other usages; still dripping -- recently decanted), and added many all his own, including a section of Commie Rhyming Slang, brand names, and a disquietingly long list of euphemisms for dying:
Zild remarks in the Alphaslang topic, "Further contributions are very much welcome, as I already have my eyes set on a sequel!" Commendation point to citizen Zild -- and a treason point for not alphabetizing the list.
- has gone to that big briefing office above the dome.
- is shooting trouble with UVs.
- donated his body to R&D.
- joined the scrubot's list of things to do.
- is on tomorrow's menu.
- et cetera....
Zild remarks in the Alphaslang topic, "Further contributions are very much welcome, as I already have my eyes set on a sequel!" Commendation point to citizen Zild -- and a treason point for not alphabetizing the list.
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