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1. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   Thank you very much indeed. Touches my heart. But I'd already had second thoughts. The problem is that I'm already feeling a bit toasty (a prelude to being burnt out). I've finally gotten my ladyfaire to play RPG's, and now I have to talk myself into getting enthused to run one (its partially because its someone else's game, but it might be the toastiness too.)

   I expect that six months from now, I'll be taking another sabbatical mostly, and doing the 8/day would just radically speed that up, and probably decrease teh quality at the same time.

   Still wow. Thanks, man, but let's keep stumbling along on the current system.

   Fri Oct 8 2010 1:49 am #
2. 

   Jhiaxus
   Member

   Grins that's fine :P

   Fri Oct 8 2010 2:01 am #
3. 

   kyler
   Member

   I watch tv sometimes. I can pause it and rewind it. =p Ah, the magic of DVR. Of course, I don't think anyone here would like to be run in Iron Chef Multiverse (though I could certainly make a gladiator-esque form that roped you in and didn't let you go; what to do about the character who decides he wants to kill everyone instead of cooking; well, I can give the chairman 3@ stats and high expert martial arts that he only uses if provoked, maybe make it a group of chairmen for the tougher versers; I've derailed my train of thought), and getting someone into House, M. D. or Law and Order would be considerably difficult (though Law and Order, Monk, Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, and other shows of that nature do sometimes have some good fodder for Why Spy). Most children's shows are right out, though it might be fun (for me) to verse someone into Phineas and Ferb. Versing into Dr. Oz or Dr. Phil would be absolutely as ridiculous as the show. Somehow, I could see John 2 running a Beavis and Butthead world, but maybe that's because Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan (I think that was his name) always reminded me "real-life" versions of those two. My fiancee often watches America's Next Top Model, I think I'll send Eli there next. (Just Kidding.)

   Fri Oct 8 2010 2:24 pm #
4. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   Have the verser arrive in a small Maine town, and have Jessica Fletcher get in some trouble as she tracks down the latest murderer, and the gallant verser rescues the old lady detective. She ends up catching the murderer, and then goes to visit the verser.

   "I know what you are. Some type of other dimensional human." She lays out her logic as to why. "I'd like to welcome you to Maine. And btw, a friend of mine is wanting to move to Florida, and would like to sell her crab shack restauraunt...."

   After that, the verser lives a quiet life as an owner of a crab shack, trains in the backyard with his martial arts, and helps on occasion the kindly but nosy Mrs. Fletcher solve her crimes (which are a bit more violent than the show because that allows the verser to chase the revealed bad guy along the cliffs and stuff.)

   It could be quirky and amusing.

   Fri Oct 8 2010 2:48 pm #
5. 

   kyler
   Member

   Could be, yes, but I'd rather do Miss Marple than Jessica Fletcher. I always found her mysteries more engrossing.

   Fri Oct 8 2010 3:01 pm #
6. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   I have read very little of Agatha Christie which I feel sorta ashamed about.

   Fri Oct 8 2010 3:38 pm #
7. 

   kyler
   Member

   Well, maybe you'll find an opportunity on your next sabbatical; they can be a little dry at times, but most excellent works of literature do share that quality in my experience.

   Fri Oct 8 2010 3:45 pm #
8. 

   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   I have read very little of Agatha Christie which I feel sorta ashamed about.

   This is definitely a boost to my otherwise bruised ego. Mr. Ashley is ahead of me hands down on so many genres of literature, but I have read so many Agatha Christie mysteries that it's difficult for me to find ones I have not read (although I do not remember them all entirely). I've also read a few Ellis Peters (I think that's the guy), many Arthur Conan Doyle (I've started the Complete Holmes several times, but never finished it before someone absconded with it), and a few others.

   So my lack of familiarity with sci fi and fantasy seems less burdensome to me now.

   I'm still working on that, though.

   --M. J. Young

   Fri Oct 8 2010 11:23 pm #
9. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   Ah, well that's all right then /smile.

   How about coming up with the rules for a general 'quirky investigator' world? Not just a small Maine town, or a small English village....but the sort of world in which Miss Marple and Jessica Fletcher both live, and so does Nancy Drew and the guys from Pschy.

   It would be a world with a high number of murders, and probably a very by the book police culture that spread across most of the world to keep the police from solving these murders.

   Sat Oct 9 2010 2:23 am #
10. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    That sounds like a new thread or a new article, and since I'm well behind on my articles I think I'll start a thread: Quirky Mystery Adaptations

    --M. J. Young

    Sun Oct 10 2010 10:35 pm #
11. 

    Magnus
    Member

    Hey Kyler, I'm trying to adapt a world from a video game (don't worry, the serial numbers have been filed off. MWHAHAHA!!!)
    I'd like to try GMing you through it.

    WARNING:
    This is my first time GMing.So it is going to be very basic plot wise.(think dungeon crawl with a little more plot)

    I'm only going to post when I have the material ready, so posting is going to be sporadic.

    Wed Oct 13 2010 3:50 am #
12. 

    kyler
    Member

    Hi, my name is Kyler, and I'm an RPG addict. It's gotten to the point that they've taken over my life and there's nothing I can do about it. I've tried twelve step programs, and they haven't helped. Every time I go to Role Player's Anonymous meetings we all always end up breaking down and playing.. maybe it's the fact that we're all sitting at a table and we all have dice in our pockets. (Of course, Eli, start the thread and I won't be able to help myself.)

    Wed Oct 13 2010 1:21 pm #
13. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    O.K., I'm laughing.

    --M. J. Young

    Thu Oct 14 2010 2:34 am #

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