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12-30-2010, 08:12 AM | #1 |
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Yorkshire
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English Boarding schools
There is a huge ammount of media on adventures set in British Boarding schools. from Tom Browns school days to ST Trinians. It is actually a great genre base with so many different seeds that could be used I am amazed GURPS haven't latched on to it.
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12-30-2010, 08:19 AM | #2 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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Re: English Boarding schools
I whole heartedly support GURPS St.Trinians, and so does Mark Skarr.
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01-27-2011, 07:43 AM | #3 |
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: West Virginia
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Re: English Boarding schools
At last, a book about schoolgirls who could take on the Red Army and win!
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12-30-2010, 08:31 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: English Boarding schools
I'd quite like a GURPS Education book, giving enough of a primer of various school systems from throughout the world to run games in them, and example genres that typically use those school systems (at various age levels) as settings, myself...
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12-30-2010, 12:54 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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Re: English Boarding schools
Don't forget Gunnerkrigg court!
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12-30-2010, 02:48 PM | #6 |
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chatham, Kent, England
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Re: English Boarding schools
Once found a 'Girl's Own Annual' from 1935 in a charity shop.
I started to work it up as a game, but I feel the problem would be players... For a UK audience, this type of adventure (except reades/watchers of Harry Potter) is dominated by the comedy spoofs of the Enid Blyton books: 'Five go Mad in-' (there are three I recall, with the people who went on to 'Bottom', and 'French and Saunders', etc.); so finding someone who wanted to play a funny game would be easy by comparison... ;) Last edited by sgtcallistan; 12-30-2010 at 02:52 PM. Reason: additional |
12-30-2010, 03:11 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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Re: English Boarding schools
Exhibit B: Bully by Rockstar Games.
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12-30-2010, 04:13 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: English Boarding schools
There is a psycho English girls school RPG actually called Hellcats and Hockeysticks. I have no idea if this would be useful with GURPS though.
Its basically a parody of St. Trinian's a UK show I know little about or so I am told .. |
12-30-2010, 04:28 PM | #9 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
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Re: English Boarding schools
Such a rule book could be useful for anything From Little Fears to Harry Potter. and yes the Famous Five and Scooby Doo would benefit form it. So would Sabrina the Teenage Witch or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Tips and how to handle grades with out having to out right RP the lessons. |
01-02-2011, 06:43 AM | #10 |
Join Date: Aug 2005
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Re: English Boarding schools
Doubtful. It is not about well-behaved girls engaged in respectable studies
and school activities. It's basically St. Trinian's updated and played straight. And the games loses a lot with that cover. If it had been more Ronald Searle-y, I'd have bought it in a second. |
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