Newbies

[Shallazar]

So I've got the task of being RPG ambassador for a few of my fellow graduate students. I'm trying to figure out what system to run though.
Some are complete n00bs, some have played back in the AD&D days but all are intelligent creative people, (potty trained and college educated to boot!).

Any suggestions?

[SageNytell]

Old School Hack!

(Then record the game and put it on the RPPR AP site!  )

[Snake-Eyes]

I always thought of D&D as a good game to get new players into rping but I think it would be a questions of what they are into. I would say CoC but they might not be down for their characters dieing off every other game.

[clockworkjoe]

Call of Cthulhu is easy - just run a simple scenario - haunted house or something like that so the players aren't overwhelmed with shoggoths.

old school hack is good if you know the rules well.

Really, the key is knowing the system well enough to explain it to new players. So use whatever system you're most comfortable with.

[Tadanori Oyama]

I second Ross, start with Call of Cthulhu. It opens the world of percentile systems and isn't hard to learn.

[Setherick]

I third COC, but give your players an "easy" scenario to begin with and then bring on the horror.

[Drnathanpanke]

What type of movies, books, stories do they like?

[Addled GM]

WUSHU be crack for Noobs.  It's fast, fun, and light hearted.  So far I have yet to find a game to topple it except perhaps Dread (pun intended, groans accepted).

[Shallazar]

I've begin the sketching of the Cthulhu scenario,

Gaslight setting, with an Ancient Egyptian mythos artifact, and the brewing of coca-cola.

Thanks all!