Challenge for settings:GURPS TOON

[dcarson]

Bookfinder.com, to be exact http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?au...en&st=xl&ac=qr

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by gruundehn

Sir Pudding, do you know where I could buy a copy of Who Censored Roger Rabbit? I've done web searches and come up only with the movie and I want the book - I have the movie and like it, but I want the book as well.

Amazon has the ebook for $1.99. Fair warning: except for the basic character concepts the film and the book are radically different. The novel is much more noir, and the toons are a different sort of entity than they are in the film. This is actually why I think the mileu of the novel is more suited to gaming, it has a much more nuanced relationship between toons and mankind, that goes back to prehistory.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by dcarson

Bookfinder.com, to be exact http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?au...en&st=xl&ac=qr

Or just Google shopping. Dead-tree versions are kinda pricey, though.

[gruundehn]

KINDA pricey!? I couldn't see a dead tree version for under $100! I was planning on getting an e-book reader and if Amazon has a digital version for about $2 then I'll wait until then.
I found my old copy of TOON and enjoyed reading it. I can see where cartoons can bend the GURPS system. GURPS is very skill oriented (which I like) and the TOON system is very wildcard. And, as I mentioned, I am renting the Looney Toons Golden Collection and I can see where wildcard skills would be needed to replicate the cartoons. I have a few Woody Woodpecker and other cartoons and they are similar.
I wonder if it would be fun to play a cartoon character who knows that he is a cartoon character and ignores the 4th wall?

[dataweaver]

[Elmer has been badly injured, and Bugs is panicking]
Bugs: [looks out at audience] Is there a doctor in the house?!?
[MST3K-style silhouette of a doctor stands up]
Doctor: I'm a doctor!
Bugs: [relaxes] Eh, what's up, Doc?
[curtains close, and cartoon ends]

There's definitely precedent for fourth-wall mischief. Personally, I'd handle it by having the players come up with distinct voices for their toons (the operative word being "distinct", as opposed to "amusing"; though the latter is certainly worth doing too) so that everyone can tell instantly whether the player is talking or if he's channeling his toon. Then let the toons be every bit as aware of what's going on around the gaming table as the players are of what's happening in the toon world: the toons are first and foremost concerned with what's happening in their world; but if they overhear a comment by another player, they can respond to it.

I wouldn't do this in every toon game, or even for every toon in a given game; but if done in moderation, it could work.

[gruundehn]

It might be fun to run a session where the characters can talk to the other players and give suggestions. Of course, the group would have to be able to withstand the character insults and wisecracks without getting hurt feelings and breaking up.

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by gruundehn

KINDA pricey!? I couldn't see a dead tree version for under $100!

If you want the softcover, and you can settle for used, I see a bunch of 'em on Amazon's site for less than $30... to me, that's still terribly pricey, though.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by gruundehn

I was planning on getting an e-book reader and if Amazon has a digital version for about $2 then I'll wait until then.

Kindle e-book reader software for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android is free for the downloading.

[gruundehn]

Thanks Johndallman, I had never noticed that before.

[Refplace]

Getting back to this and partly reinspired by a few more threads.
Aside form various advantages and such what I am curious abotu are what option rules or dials would people add ot various Toon type games and how would we organize them?
In other words what label and how do you identify Snow White vs. Bugs Bunny vs. Tom and Jerry?
Would you even call Snow White a Toon? I doubt it though The little mermaid maybe more so.