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They're not mono-pose so much as the parts are just limited in what they can really do.They all feel very static to me. For converting they should be fine since you will be clipping, pinning, sanding, greenstuffing etc anyway.

>>54887837
They're more monopose than Marinelets on account of torso and legs being essentially one piece, but legs and head can still be positioned.

I hope they make an audiobook version of it.

>>54887343
I don't think so, I hate audiobooks, so I'd rather just read a script.

>>54886917

>not before it tries to eat me

it's a rust monster. it only eats iron. Is your DM that dumb?

>>54886460
Apocalypse World is easy enough to run as a one-shot and is really quick to learn, it's a little fantasy and a little sci-fi but mostly it's modern in terms of equipment and stuff

FATE accelerated is ridiculously simple to learn, so if you really want to not have to learn many rules it's a pretty good option

those are the first two that come to mind when I want to run a one-shot without wanting to spend time teaching a system

>>54886460
What >>54887027 said, plus Shinobigami and Ryuutama.

>>54886460
WaRP

>>54885872
While set in a high school and linked to the wider DCU, Gotham Academy would be a decent source of inspiration. The building was built by the same crazies who constructed Arkham and Wayne Manor, so its laced with secret passages and occult symbols. Said symbols drive you mad, theres a mutant crocodile man living in the walls and the entire campas is built atop a buried army of super soldiers/golems designed to destroy the city if the Secret Society loses control of it.

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We did something similar with highschool settings many, many years ago. Inspired by a series of short micro-stories that one of my friends wrote, presenting somewhat surreal, magical image of our highschool, we ran short rules-light campaign about bunch of kids stuck in our school over holidays, discovering that when abandoned, the school comes alive with bunch of strange, magical creatures and elements.

It has been well over a decade, so I only remember bits and pieces (we were also kinda drunk when we were playing it), but few things that stuck in my memory were:
>Coffee fairies (fairy-like creatures that inhabited the vending machines in the coffee corner and that liked to play tricks and mess with the minds of our PC's.
>Cannibalistic lunch ladies/monsterous witches preforming pagan rituals in the lunch room and worshiping sacred image of The Butcher.
>The school janitor being an ageless, incredibly wise Tom Bombadil like character.
>War between tiny races of Fish and the Bread People in the locker areas (based on old jokes and pranks our friends used to pull there, including one where one asshole stuffed a fresh fish in one of the un-used lockers and broke the lock)
>Magical observatory and alchemy labs in the art classroom on the roof.
>Giant worm living in the basement.
>Massive arsenal of WW2 weapons in the history teachers cabinet.
>Fuckton of monsters and mutants in the Biology Props cabinet.
>A human skeleton prop coming alive and being the mentor of our group.
>Bunch of our classmates turned into ghosts roaming the empty hallways.
>Literal gates of Hell in the Social Sciences Teachers room.

Shit was fun, if completely disjointed and lacking any structure or narrative. I could support exactly three mildly drunken winter afternoons.

>Ever since the late 80s, the campus has suffered from strange brownouts and fluctuations with its power grid, during which time the student body has reported anomalous activity on the campus' computer network: sites breaking and rearranging, instant messages and emails full of code or garbled image and audio files, and even crude attempts to gain control of their PCs. If one of the PCs is a computer science major, they might recognize a kind of distress call in this anomalous activity that would lead them into an abandoned lab in the sub-basement of the technology building in which they find an A.I. hosted on an old supercomputer that is just barely functional. The A.I. has been desperately seeking its creator, requesting repairs before it shuts down. It is afraid. Can the PCs help?

i don have wife

>>54885461
>>>/rs/
oh wait

>>54885461
lrn24chan biach ... motherfucking green bich die die die !

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Until they bring back the old style Gretchin sculpts with the reasonable sized heads I am not thrilled by the idea.

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>>54884371
What's your opinion on the use of fantastical races - besides populating a world, what makes using races as a whole more attractive for relaying a message than ascribing their traits to individual characters in a story?

>>54887328
(OP here)
Their intractability and or diversity can add depth or substance beyond just existing within the same space. The interplay both positive and negative adds social narrative to plots and story arcs as well as an exponentially divergent depth of interactivity. Think of it as sheer potential.

>>54882115

>>54884012
a thread died because you couldn't hit ctrl+f

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>>54882347
>no fucking clue what i'm looking at
>cool MMO fantasy survival game?
>2d survival with crafting and building your own base?
>look it up

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Sorry friendo

>>54882347
This game looks like shit. Also seems more /v/?

>>54881586
practise beforehand: read what you're gonna say to yourself a few times, give the book(s) a quick once over, and make sure you know your notes well.

First time GMs sometimes have a problem relinquishing control if either the players try something unconventional or make decisions the GM didn't anticipate. The "yes, and" rule works well for improv, but the "yes, but" rule really helps for GMs.

>>54881939
Addendum:

Assume the players give 0% shits about what you consider to be a plot hook. Assume anything can be a point of interest. Be ready to improvise a lot.

However, feel free to interchange names and places if a "module" you made is too good to pass up.