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Ross Vernal

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FLYING BEARS WITH EYE LASERS - Interest check
« on: September 22, 2012, 12:53:56 pm »



See above image. If that doesn't explain everything about Synnibar, then:

Anyone interested in playing one of the most over-the-top and overpowered dice-based RPG's of all time for the lulz? And I do very much mean over the top and overpowered - if you don't hit the mortal cap of 50,000 HP at Level 1, you're not playing it right. You know why? It's totally possible for a starting character to one-shot another character with 50,000 LP.

In fact, if your starting character can't do that, you're doing it wrong.

Synnibarr Backstory:

Some dude named Aridius was so powerful of a mage that he became a God. He went to Earth and set up a cult, then got told by the God-king that the gods were at war, because Evil God and Time God were like "YEAH, LET'S MAKE WAR ON THE UNIVERSE, BRO." The good gods temporally froze the god-dimension, which left the demigods in control of everything. Since they were generally incompetent dicks, as most deities are, this created a giant storm of "blow up the whole fucking universe."

Aridius decided that this was a bad thing for some reason, and pulled Mars out of orbit, hollowed it, and then made it twice the volume of earth. Because magic lol. After teleporting everything onto new!Mars, he made 400 adventures and put the Mars!ship in a "werestorm". Which is basically a giant magical storm of plot armor, not a person who transforms into a storm under a full moon.

Two months before it took off, some girl-mutant-child-thing made of EEEEEVIL was born, aged to adulthood in 15 minutes (hereby referred to as "Renesme") then for some unknown reason blew up a giant fusion reactor powering the Mars!ship, which killed a lot of people.  1,500 people escaped, and then, out of nowhere, some mutant named Steelbreeze ZOOM'd to the nuclear reactor and halfass fixed it, then started the Mars!ship to go to Shalom. Since this took 45,000 years, radiation and gods and such invented all the races, various aliens invaded, drama ensued, and 18,000 years ago, a retardation-inducing plague ravaged everything. But, it got fixed, and then Synnibarr/Mars entered orbit around Shalom. Except, everyone has the stupid and doesn't get off Synnibarr/Mars.

Also, flying bears with eye lasers. Also, the last party I had faithfully followed the rules (read: rules-lawyered) to have a wooden galleon plated in 3mm of Indestructium, and to have a variety of armor-piercing autocannons and cruise missiles aboard.

Keep in mind character gen will take an absurdly long time. Sample character sheet, ahoy!

Spoiler: "Thor the Battletoad" (click to show/hide)

Sample rules?

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Dariush

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Re: FLYING BEARS WITH EYE LASERS - Interest check
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2012, 01:03:45 pm »

Being random and over-the-top does not make a thing good.
« Last Edit: September 22, 2012, 01:06:09 pm by Dariush »
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Re: FLYING BEARS WITH EYE LASERS - Interest check
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2012, 01:13:17 pm »

You clicked on a thread titled "FLYING BEARS WITH EYE LASERS" and expected the actual literal RPG game within to be good?

 :o

It's bad if you take it as a serious attempt to have a coherent, making-sensical RP game. However, with a grain of salt (possibly a shot of tequila, too) and the knowledge that this game is ludicrously, amazingly, incredibly terrible makes it so bad it's good. 

I've been both the DM for this and a player, for several sessions, on and offline. And it's usually been hilarious. You know you have an inner munchkin just begging to have instant death freeze beams and/or molecular body control.
« Last Edit: September 22, 2012, 01:15:47 pm by Ross Vernal »
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Re: FLYING BEARS WITH EYE LASERS - Interest check
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2012, 01:30:44 pm »

...Actually, for some reason I thought it was titled '...WITH BEE LASERS'.

I'm as much a fan of some chaos as the next being, but if the game goes out of its way to make sure it's so over-the-top that people will only play it for it's over-the-topness, it will guaranteedly be far too over-the-top to be availible for enjoyment even in an ironic fashion for more than a few minutes.

Have you played (or at least know of) FATAL?

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Re: FLYING BEARS WITH EYE LASERS - Interest check
« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2012, 01:44:37 pm »

It was intended to be a "complete science fantasy/fiction RPG in one book where every possible situation is covered."

It... didn't exactly turn out that way.

And I have heard of FATAL, yes. I agree with the "to say it should be burned is an insult to fire" statement.
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