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- "Why It's Fun to Get Shot Six Times" (Gamegrene.com)
- Actual Play: Mister Bubbles
- Actual Play: Mister Bubbles (another run)
- Actual Play: Trouble With Cockroaches
- Actual Play: Origins 2006
- Actual Play: Story Games for Everybody
- "Troubleshooter" (PARANOIA fanfic by ReverendSpencer)
"Sell me on PARANOIA"
- RPG.net forum 01/2006
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- Omega Complex
- FriendComputer.net
- Traitor Recycling Studio
- CPU Central
- ""Mutant Maker" character generator (screen)
- Another character generator (.PDF)
- Mission blender
- "Mr. Bubbles" briefing
- Standard equipment list
- "New player" tournament handout
Reviews of the Mongoose Publishing PARANOIA rulebook:
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- Traitor's Manual:
Evan Waters, Cedric Chin, JamPaladin, Neil Lennon - Crash Priority:
Evan Waters, Cedric Chin, JamPaladin - The Mutant Experience:
Matthew - PARANOIA Flashbacks:
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Seafloorian - Extreme PARANOIA:
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Actual PARANOIA play: Story-Games.com
Can't believe I missed -- for over two months! -- this great retelling on the RPG theory site "Story Games for Everybody," dated August 18, of an actual PARANOIA roleplaying session. If you've stumbled on other actual-play accounts, let us know!
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Signs and Paranoias
Mongoose Publishing's free Signs and Portents magazine has no less than two PARANOIA-related articles. The Roleplayer section of the magazine (be warned - it's a five-megabyte .PDF document), available here, has an article entitled Paranoia Paperwork by Daniel R. Robichaud, aka Hip-Y-TTS. The article includes such delights as the Revised Security Clearance Form, Draft 9871, for when you need to reclassify a duct as GREEN in a hurry.
Meanwhile, over in the Wargamer section (also a .PDF, this one a chunky nine megs, downloadable here, there's an article on crossing over PARANOIA with the Gangs of Mega-City One skirmish wargame. The article is by Matt Thomason. If you've ever wanted to see how Troubleshooters would do against Judges in a skirmish-level firefight, you're in the right place.
Commendation points to both citizens!
Now that I think about it, the whole Judge Dredd series has some interesting parallels to PARANOIA. Both have millions of people crammed into a post-apocayptic urban dystopia, ruled by fear and dredd - er, dread, as well as bizarre corporate products, satirical elements, and lots and lots of guns. IntSec Officers modelled on the Judges, anyone?
Meanwhile, over in the Wargamer section (also a .PDF, this one a chunky nine megs, downloadable here, there's an article on crossing over PARANOIA with the Gangs of Mega-City One skirmish wargame. The article is by Matt Thomason. If you've ever wanted to see how Troubleshooters would do against Judges in a skirmish-level firefight, you're in the right place.
Commendation points to both citizens!
Now that I think about it, the whole Judge Dredd series has some interesting parallels to PARANOIA. Both have millions of people crammed into a post-apocayptic urban dystopia, ruled by fear and dredd - er, dread, as well as bizarre corporate products, satirical elements, and lots and lots of guns. IntSec Officers modelled on the Judges, anyone?
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Russian IT calendar
This Russian infotech calendar is apparently styled after old Soviet Union posters. The blogger helpfully provides translations of the pseudo-funny captions: "“I don’t visit any more rally! Now the webcam is my ally!” Just picture Alpha Complex equivalents of these images as wallpaper on the monitors in CPU's Administrative Oversight Nexus.
The images come from the fascinating new blog EnglishRussia, which already offers at least half a dozen entries that inspire PARANOIA ideas.
The images come from the fascinating new blog EnglishRussia, which already offers at least half a dozen entries that inspire PARANOIA ideas.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Baur's Open Design project #2
(Sounds like a work of modern music...)
I'm late in congratulating game designer Wolfgang Baur for successfully completing his first Open Design game project. In this undertaking, you may recall (I blogged about the first Open Design project last March), Wolf solicited patrons to pay for ($5-50), suggest ideas for, and vote on plot elements of an exclusive, custom-written D&D adventure. Wolf eventually surpassed his goal of 50 patrons. Late last month he sent them the completed 115-page .PDF of Steam & Brass, including five color maps and seven player handouts. Wolf assumes those fortunate patrons are to be the only ones who ever see this work; he won't publish it elsewhere. He reports highly favorable patron reaction.
Wolf is now soliciting new patrons for a second Open Design project, to commence January 2007. Again, he's blogging about the experience on the Open Design blog. Good luck again, Wolf!
I'm late in congratulating game designer Wolfgang Baur for successfully completing his first Open Design game project. In this undertaking, you may recall (I blogged about the first Open Design project last March), Wolf solicited patrons to pay for ($5-50), suggest ideas for, and vote on plot elements of an exclusive, custom-written D&D adventure. Wolf eventually surpassed his goal of 50 patrons. Late last month he sent them the completed 115-page .PDF of Steam & Brass, including five color maps and seven player handouts. Wolf assumes those fortunate patrons are to be the only ones who ever see this work; he won't publish it elsewhere. He reports highly favorable patron reaction.
Wolf is now soliciting new patrons for a second Open Design project, to commence January 2007. Again, he's blogging about the experience on the Open Design blog. Good luck again, Wolf!
Smile helmet
Sunday, October 08, 2006
"Looks like you're a traitor!"
I'm unclear on the origin and circumstances of this Clippy parody graphic hosted on Paranoia-Live.net. A friend of mine, a gamer but not a PARANOIA gamer, found it via the web-browser extension StumbleUpon, which only shows how far out of the loop even we High Programmers can get. Evidently we have citizen Ron Harwood to thank for the image but I speak under correction.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
PARANOIA in the real world: Smiling flashmob
Via Boing Boing, a blog post titled "Smile flashmob leads to criminal charges" recounts a recent incident in the former Soviet (and still totalitarian) police state of Belarus:
It's surprisingly hard to imagine incidents that would draw equal condemnation in both our world and in Alpha Complex, the setting of PARANOIA. Today we despise this crackdown for obvious reasons; in Alpha Complex, The Computer would chastize IntSec for dispersing a gathering of citizens who were clearly happy!
As you know, there were some tries to do some strictly non-political flash mobs in Minsk few months ago... but mobbers were attacked by the police like if they were on some political event.
Blogger anei_aka_kirian writes (in Russian) about Sunday’s “Smile” flash mob. It was very simple -- people were to come to central square and wander around smiling. Information was spread in usual way. There were nearly one hundred riot policemen near the square waiting for the mobbers. And… anei_aka_kirian visited the square with his girlfriend, both smiling. Policemen advanced to them, checked the passports, and then brutally took him to the bus, leaving his girlfriend behind. In the bus he was searched and his small knife was found. He had the official note of Ministry of Internal Affairs confirming that this knife couldn’t be considered as a weapon, and it was wrapped. Nonetheless, policemen considered the guy to be one of the organizers of this flash mob and brought him to local police department. There criminal case was opened, and anei_aka_kirian could be punished with three months in prison or more for illegal storing of cold steel, despite that official certificate.
It's surprisingly hard to imagine incidents that would draw equal condemnation in both our world and in Alpha Complex, the setting of PARANOIA. Today we despise this crackdown for obvious reasons; in Alpha Complex, The Computer would chastize IntSec for dispersing a gathering of citizens who were clearly happy!
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
WMD review on RPG.net
A thorough and thoughtful review of the PARANOIA mission collection WMD on RPG.net (Style 4, Substance 4) by loyal citizen Seafloorian, known on the forums of Paranoia-Live.net as CPUreaucrat. A commendation point is hereby awarded to each alias, and a treason point as well for the use of differing identities.
The Little RED Book
I recently received a copy of the Little RED Book, the latest PARANOIA supplement from Mongoose Publishing. As the relationship between author's copies and the distribution chain is a complex, perhaps even ineffable one, I can say with confidence only that the book exists, and no more. It might be in your Friendly Local Game Shop right now. It might be on a boat. It might still be at the printers. Indeed, the relationship is such an odd one, I might still be working on it, despite having a finished copy in my hands. Strange and disturbing are the ways of the gaming industry.
What's in the Little RED Book you ask? Why, it's got everything you, as a PARANOIA player, are cleared to know. It reprints all of the relevant information from the player's section of the main rulebook, thus eliminating any temptation for a player to turn the page and read any sections that he or she is not cleared for.
What's in the Little RED Book you ask? Why, it's got everything you, as a PARANOIA player, are cleared to know. It reprints all of the relevant information from the player's section of the main rulebook, thus eliminating any temptation for a player to turn the page and read any sections that he or she is not cleared for.
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