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Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« on: February 14, 2009, 10:49:29 pm »
One day, I made a game where you play as part of a Board of Directors running a intergalactic corporation. And I have thought of playtesting it. Then I realize that, er, it's not exactly good. It seems more suited to a computer game, and I never really was able to playtest it.

This is the result:
http://gmftp.paranoia-live.net/Silent/Tycoon.pdf

Read it and weep.

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In this game set in the far future, the entire galaxy is run by tycoons, business magnates and moguls that have managed to gain themselves political power by using economic power. These people has gained monopolies in certain areas, such as trading, fighting, manufacturing, drug smuggling, etc. They now run businesses with much wealth.

And if you have money, you can buy whatever you want. You can buy yourself fame. You can buy yourself a planet, complete with a puppet government. You can even buy yourself a philosophy, and promote it, trying to affect the galaxy by using ideology.

Of course, this is all known in secret. Influence peddling can be rumored, but there is no actual proof that it ever happens, and besides, the journalists who makes these accusations always “disappear” rather quickly. Foolish humans believe that the companies have no stake in their government. Smart humans realize that many governments are either subverted or controlled by these companies, maybe even founded by them. These smart humans end up either running these companies…or end up dead.

You have a web of lies and intrigue, where planets get contested by rivaling companies, vying for the support of the planetary governments. Usually, the competition is merely covert, as the companies seek to muscle in and try to force the leaders to do what they say. However, there are instances where a company was able to maintain full control over a planet, but the other companies would be unwilling to let the company go. Therefore, the private confrontation ends up becoming public. Entire wars may be traced to a feud between two companies wanting to grab the same planet, to expand their sphere of influence. Feuds die hard with these companies.

This sounds like a dystopian future game. It is. For the most part. But unlike other games, you are running the show, and your decisions decide the fate of those who are living under your sphere of influence…

Players work as the Board of Directors of a small and growing company (meaning, large company in our standards). Their goal is to become a mega-corporation and crush their adversaries, by virtue of being a great power-broker…or by virtue of smashing them into itty-bitty bits. Your players must work together, fighting enemy companies and taking over planetary governments, with that one goal in mind. During the game, they will be tempted with the decisions that several mega-corporations face before…should they exploit the population? If they do, the people’s opinion of you drops…but their profit margins will go up.
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2009, 12:07:42 am »
Do want.
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2009, 04:38:03 pm »
Sound like a fun game to play or to create :D. Make me want create game from it
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2009, 05:27:09 pm »
If you guys like it, you can take it. Just, um, don't exactly sell it. Some of the stuff in that PDF file might get you in trouble with copyright law if they are being sold.
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2009, 12:45:56 am »
Um, bump? Anyone else looked at it. And, Pandarsenic, is there a reason why you said "Do want"?
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2009, 12:54:53 am »
I'm in.
Also, I stopped crying like... weeks ago, so I will read it... but... I'm... not going to weep.... I won't... I WON'T I WON'T I WON'T!  :'(
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2009, 03:11:39 am »
Quote from: Servant Corps on August 01, 2009, 12:45:56 am
Um, bump? Anyone else looked at it. And, Pandarsenic, is there a reason why you said "Do want"?

Well, it's the opposite of Do Not Want. :I
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2009, 03:13:48 am »
Someone actually made a forum game like this. It never took off due to that person's inability to commit to anything for very long.
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2009, 06:07:56 am »
Quote from: TheNewerMartianEmperor on August 01, 2009, 03:13:48 am
Someone actually made a forum game like this. It never took off due to that person's inability to commit to anything for very long.

Who?

Was it Squeegy? He's like the touch of death to games he GMs. *Sighs and stares at dead RTD Squeegy had been running*

Kind of like how every RTD I join is doomed to premature death.

Every.

Single.

One.

Ever.
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2009, 03:03:37 pm »
I'm always amazed by the extent of the cross-polonization between this site and Paranoia-Live.net
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2009, 03:30:29 pm »
Quote from: EuchreJack on August 03, 2009, 03:03:37 pm
I'm always amazed by the extent of the cross-polonization between this site and Paranoia-Live.net

There is? Any other examples?
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2009, 09:07:30 pm »
Just saying in at first...
Always miss out on spots cause I read everything first...

Edit: Yep In definitively in...
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2009, 07:47:28 pm »
Um, I'm not playtesting this (at least not right now anyway).
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2009, 01:41:22 am »
This sounds sweeet.

Reminds me of those old intergalactic trading games I have...

Like Smuggler. Good times.
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Re: Tycoon (Pen and Paper Space RPG)
« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2009, 01:46:48 am »
Somebody was going to do an EPIC forum game like this, but when it came to the first turn they never pulled it off.
 :'(
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