My possible game idea: Dungeon bashing with the stars

[ennobee]

I hope you don't take me for a cheat, but actually, I have been spending my last couple of lunchbreaks thinking up a way to use the elements from my last couple of failed 24 hr. game atempts for a new game. Now just happens that with some tinkering, I could make the ideas (they're nothing much more then ideas at this stage) into a game that fits the Iron chef guidelines.

So here I go...

Time: 1 session of 2 hours

Elements: from list 2: actor, steel, team


Dungeon Bashing with the Stars

Welcome to the newest TV sensation: We take a couple of lesser actors, former actors, controversial actors and wanna-be actors, give them a task and plunge them into a giant movie set full of hidden cameras. Think of it as a mixture between 'Survivor', 'The Amazing Race' and 'The Apprentice' with a few'. Only that instead of competing in silly tasks such as fishing letters out of a swimming pool, they now have to brand fake movie swords and paintball guns against badly dressed monsters and 'undead' movie extras.

The group must act together as a team and has exactly two hours air time to complete their task. If they succeed, they may go to the next round. If they fail, the show will be taken over by another team next week.

Okay, that's the backstory. Now comes you. You and your friends choose an actor each and guide them through the 'assignment'. May be rescue a princess, may be fight off a herd of velocirapotors, may be just make it across downtown Megatokio with the former wizard mobster now under witness protection program. Anyway... you don't know WHAT you're into untill you're well into it, and you have just two hours to succeed. Otherwise you have to face the judges in the elimination room, whatever that is.

Game rules will be easy and fast with a lot of combat and some magic thrown in for good measure. Character creation will be... No wait, we have no time for such things, just choose one of the ready-made actors and keep him from getting killed off.

(Killed off... Yes, that's another apect of the game. Remember the rule is that THE PARTY must accomplish the adventure, regardless how many members left. So suicide attacks or self-sacrifice are not only possible, they even are DEFINITELY ENCOURAGED)



Okay, so here's the idea so far. Now let's see if one week is enough to rewrite me a 24.hr game.

Niklas

[Joshua BishopRoby]

MAKE THIS GAME.

[darwin]

Sounds like it would be funny. Might be worth taking a second at the start to let the players decide a famous actor they'd like to take through and what stats they'd have.

[darwin]

Sounds like it would be funny. Might be worth taking a second at the start to let the players decide a famous actor they'd like to take through and what stats they'd have.

[kleenestar]

This sounds like a great game! My only concern is that you might want to take a look at X-Crawl first, which has basically the same premise. If you can make it meaningfully distinct from them (they're d20, so that shouldn't be hard) I think there's plenty of room in the D&D-reality TV-satire space for a clever new take.

[rpoppe]

Would you pick real-world has-beens?

BECAUSE I TOTALLY WANT TO PLAY FLAVA-FLAV.

[Antti-san]

[Mark Bravura]

GO FORTH BOLDLY AND WITOUT FEAR!

M.B.

[Doug Ruff]

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