03-04-2008, 10:00 AM | #1 |
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Tell us about your IOU Setting or Experience
I bought IOU when it dropped to $9.95 and it's pretty neat.
Tell us about your experiences with gaming it from either the GM or player perspective. Anyone tried to make it a bit more gritty ? (less wacky) God I hope Kromm sees this, I'd like to know his take on IOU.
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03-04-2008, 11:02 AM | #2 |
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Re: Tell us about your IOU Setting or Experience
Hmm. My IN-IOU crossover was a little less over the top, overtly. The con game I ran was highly over the top. (War and Peas or something -- a food fight (veggies vs. meats) in the cafeteria provided the opportunity for the tunnel rats to kidnap the PC's familiar cat, who was then placed in the middle of what looked like a ritual sacrifice situation. It was an attempt to summon the ArchDean, so she would fix the Elder God Incursion problem that Madam Curry had tried to seal (and failed, getting herself trapped instead) -- which is probably what animated the veggies and meats in the first place.
The witch kept getting her clothing torn, as a running joke because the player was giggling about her black lace undies. At the end, they were shown an exit from the tunnels that was, of course, right near the frat houses... And the witch was in essentially nothing but black, lace undies. We ended with that situation, because we were out of time, and the implicit humor there was more than any explicit humor woulda done.
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03-04-2008, 12:33 PM | #3 | ||
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Sheffield, UK
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Re: Tell us about your IOU Setting or Experience
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The plot was based on "One Card to Rule the Mall", but that was little more than an excuse to nudge things along every now and then. The only player who'd read the book (Thingy) acted as the student assigned to show the freshthings around. Some of the more fun moments included:
There were more, but I can't think of them now... Quote:
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03-04-2008, 01:11 PM | #4 | ||
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Location: As far from civilisation as one can be: A city.
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Mine starts with a Forgotten Realms dryad landing in a WUSE basement, meeting Swami Tift, having a conversation with the Botany building and a Tolkienian elf in the College of Metaphysics where she discovers coffee. From there she decides to enroll as a Housemaking major and has a scholarship because she seduced one of the guys in the administrations building. Various intersting things happened and the last time we played I was at a party that also contained the Archdean and when asked what I was doing by the GM I replied that I was going to seduce the Archdean -- I was 1 away from the critical success the GM ruled I needed to get. Good times. Good times. Quote:
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03-04-2008, 01:32 PM | #5 | ||
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Augusta, GA
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Highlights included the PCs finding a ghost in the steam tunnels and the "slightly off kilter" scientist (He wasn't mad. He said so.) deciding to grow her a new body, Dravenloft's character attempting to seduce the Archdean at a party, and the PCs meeting a cult worshipping Nikola Tesla in the steam tunnels. I have some quotes and a write-up of at least one session here.. I can't guarantee all of the quotes are suitable for minors, but I'm pretty sure none are worse than PG-13. Quote:
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03-04-2008, 02:38 PM | #6 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ft Collins, CO
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We spent the first two hours of the game moving in, getting the roommate situation ironed out, figuring out where John could put his lab, etc. Around that time, the GM finally showed up (he'd been unavoidably delayed, and we hadn't felt like waiting for him.) Then things really got hopping... Arne PS No, really, they got hopping. Campus was overrun by evil bunny rabbits... |
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03-04-2008, 03:08 PM | #7 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: traveller
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Re: Tell us about your IOU Setting or Experience
More of a LARP version:
On the day I started working at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, I noticed that the faces on the campus clock tower all read different times. I had the opportunity to venture inside when the electricians went to re-set them, but unfortunately the ArchDean was not in her office. |
03-04-2008, 04:12 PM | #8 |
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Rossville, GA
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Re: Tell us about your IOU Setting or Experience
My game didn't last that long. However, it was fun. I made everyone list their classes. It was an actual college setting, where they were having to deal with things on campus based off what they were taking.
They had to deal with "it" getting out of the fountain (and if you read the book, you know what it is). They had a major mundane come to campus, etc. It was mostly just a bunch of goofs and fun scenarios.
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03-04-2008, 06:20 PM | #9 | |
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Not to mention various other buildings with quirks...
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03-04-2008, 06:37 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Minnesota
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Re: Tell us about your IOU Setting or Experience
Here's my IOU adventure. Not as over the top as others, but I think that's more a result of my personality than any actual attempt at "grittiness".
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