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Old 03-19-2019, 07:42 AM   #14
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: How to Roleplay HighSchool in a tabletop rpg

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Originally Posted by The Colonel View Post
Plus, make sure everyone is on the same page - an American state high school is a very different beast from a Japanese one, let alone a British public school (to pick three random trope friendly high schools) and tropes are rarely transferrable between them...
The last time I ran a game set in secondary school, it was a oneshot using Hellcats and Hockeysticks, a game based on the St Trinians cartoons and movies. My players had a lot of fun, but I don't think I'd even try to run it in an American high school; the cultural milieu wouldn't work.
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