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Baseball RPG would be needlessly complex with stats for each character and dice rolls to somehow play the game.
And it fucking wouldn't be boring. It would be awesome because it would be needlessly complex and much easier to just play a game of baseball, but we can't do that because we're nerds and we have to make everything too complex.
And, who thinks the next episode of BearSwarm is going to cover social skills affecting players? Hands?
I think we should play a Baseball RPG with Bearswarm.
You know, like the DC vs. Marvel softball game they play every year.
How has this not been mentioned sooner? He threw the get away vehicle at the building. That's simply sublime. And again, something I would expect to see in the Venture Brothers.That was kinda the theme of the game, a lot of things that in retrospect feel pretty Venture but at the table feel like a crapton of bullshit.
The players hijacked the bus earlier I think and drove it there.
Yeah, in hindsight a VB game is just asking for trouble. Very complex themes that are hard to handle in tabletop games.
I forgot if you guys are going to Fear the Con or not. I think not, but I'm not sure.
Either way, would you like to try gaming again with a more simple/standard game? I could run a CoC one shot or Monsters and Other Childish Things or whatever.
Alot of this sounds very Venture Brothers. The minor thefts, the sneaking around, the massive miscommunications, lack of planning ahead.And thats the big hurdle for a Venture game. A lot of the Venture themes are great on paper but get really shitty at the table.
Where did Tom even get a bus, by the way, Ross? Dr. McNinja's office is practically in the middle of the woods.
But yeah, no hard feelings. The first session was quite fun.
In hindsight I should have run a more traditional game with you guys so I could get a feel for your play style. This was a sandbox game and I wasn't prepared for every option.
That actually sounds like fairly normal Venture Brothers bumbling. Except for the throwing a bus thing. Did Tom's character happen to be reptilian in nature?Yeah, he was a giant snake man. Mike was playing a Doctor Horrible style character based off the Skullcrusher Mountain JoCo song. I was playing Detective LeFrog, an "evil" detective noir style man with a frog head.
Well Dr. McNinja let you go or you escaped pretty easily. I don't even remember what he actually did to you other than chase you off. I remember after that you had to fight some other villains to defend your base and you beat them pretty soundly but you got on a bus and left the city. I don't remember the specifics though.We pretty much beat feet from Dr. McNinja as soon as Tom threw the bus. We were trying to scout and then BLAMO, all out attack. Then it was retreat time. Tom ripped open a manhole and fled into the sewers. Which ended up with Tom being chased by police through the city and us heading home. Then Dr. McNinja attacked us because of the whole bus thing and Mike and I tried to turn Tom over to him, double-crossing Tom. Then Baron Underbite, who was crashing on our sofa and "mentoring" us got mad and stormed out for double crossing Tom. So, Mike and I, having a pissed off Dr. McNinja, giant snake man, and Baron decided to beat feet, regroup, and eventually strike back. That was roughly where everything ended.
well basically they went straight up against a competent hero without a plan or any preparations even after their NPC mentor (Baron von Under bite) told them that was a bad idea. So I just ran the encounter straight.I think that was the big misscommunication. Mike and I were trying to scout him out, see who he is, what he's about, not engage in conflict. I mean, we went into his office and faked illness to get a look at him before he knew who we were. Then once he figured it out, I stole tounge depressors and jumped out a window to flee.
btw I think a bumbling villain losing is a very important Venture Brothters theme - after all the Monarch loses to Brock pretty much every time and so on and so on. Hell, pretty much every Venture Brothers is defined by how badly they lose and how they respond - even Brock gets his ass kicked several times.
It can be a little tricky to mimic with M&M though. The Monarch, for example, tends to lose a dozen or so henchmen to Brock during their encounters. Same holds true even for more physically capable villains like Baron Underbheit. Most of the villains retreat as soon as it looks like there's going to be a clear path between themselves and Brock.100% agreed. Failure is a HUGE theme for Venture. Everyone fails at something, Dr Venture's entire life is a failure, Brock can't get with the one women he loves, The Monarch can't take down Dr. Venture... its everywhere. It makes it a hard theme to pull off in most gaming groups. We've been conditioned to want to win and even when taking the loosing is funny it still kinda sucks.
Most of the 'operations' I can recall having any degree of success where undertaken when the henchmen are drunk.
The Bear Swarm guys all tried to fight Dr. McNinja, remember? Unless your thinking of another Venture Brothers campaign.
