Is it possible to have a high school setting in a tabletop game?

>>47062128
BESM, M&M Mecha and Manga, MAID, and Mage off the top of my head.

If you're doing a high school game, you need to make it extremely location based.

Look at how games like Persona handle it, for instance.

>>47062128
Vocational classes and off-campus assignments. Attendance is only mandatory on certain days.

>>47062144
>Mage high school

This would be fantastic.

>Is it possible to have a high school setting in a tabletop game?
Why the everloving fuck would you do this?

>>47062128
PCs can skip school, but there are absolutely consequences


ALTERNATELY: the enemies are all vampires.

>>47062128
Nah man. Totally doable. Rita only attacks Angel Grove. Ever.

I've had a couple of games based around schools, not explicitly highschools but using a lot of the same tropes. A couple of Legends of the Wulin games inspired by Nihao Honey, where it's a martial arts highschool where kicking ass is part of the curriculum, and also a few games set at academies in the Nanoha magical girl setting. Normal classwork is mostly offscreen, with sessions focusing on assignments which lead to adventures. At one point we ended up shooting a demigod with an archeotech superweapon, which was fun.

if I weren't on my phone I'd post the pdfs for wandering monster high and the psionic expansion I forget the name of.

>>47062173
Because it's fun?

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>>47062128

>It seems like no matter the genre, it would just turn into "how do I avoid high school to go on my adventures."

That's kind of the point of just about any work of genre fiction set in high school. Balancing the crazy stuff with teenager shit like the big math test, prom, and getting grounded.

Play it like Harry Potter. Classes exist solely for exposition or meeting/interacting with NPCs, as a reason why players can't go chasing every lead, and a source of consequences should they do. Otherwise, gloss over them.

>>47062234
Oh gee, I guess I have to accept that vague answer and be on my way. Excuse me, I'm going to go drive a railspike up my ass because it's "fun".

>>47062128
But most high school media is about those moments when they forget about high school and go adventuring.

>>47062173
Why the everloving fuck would I answer you?

>>47062262
Sure thing, you do you kid.

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I think a better question is would it be possible to have a grade school setting?

>>47062128
Sorry but your picture is way cooler than your question.

>>47062128
>>47062144
Better yet, there are games like Monsterhearts and Teenagers from Outer Space where the school setting is central to the premise.

>>47062165
Magician's Quest: Mysterious Times comes to mind.

>>47062128
>>47062128
>>47062128

Play an RPG where you (mostly) don't "go on adventures.

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>>47062262
Not the anon you referred to, but:
> Why the everloving fuck would you do this?

Your objections to was not in the least bit any more specific. Why don't you think it would be possible to have fun, or why would it be less fun, to play around in a setting like that?

>>47062128
Why does she look so afraid and lacking in confidence?

>>47062755

Shyness and lack of self-confidence are standard waifu-bait traits.

>>47062822
add massive tits and her not realizing she's hot as balls.

>>47062590
Because while I enjoyed some of my classes and hanging out with my friends, I have found literally nothing enjoyable. Not that it was hell full of suffering for me or anything, but it was otherwise devoid of enjoyable things.

>>47062863

The reason high school settings have an appeal is because there's a lot of fiction built around high school students dealing with some kind high concept.

Maybe someone watched one of those Robot/Magic/Fighting Academy animes and want something like that.

Or they read Harry Potter and want something like that.

Or they watched Buffy and want something like that.

Or they want all three or a combination.

>>47062863

Like war for most soldiers? It's a thing that, I dunno, MIGHT have some RPGs related to it.

Adolescence is interesting from a narrative point of view because of the contrast between the adult and child in the same person.

>>47062262
>He doesn't think driving railspikes up his ass is fun
What are you, gay?

>>47063076
>>47062262
>eat aluminum
>polish railway spike
>shit thermite
It's really the only logical thing to do.

>>47062128
Animorphs: the high school is a center of yeerk recruitment and you have to deal with your growing case of PTSD and its effects on your social and academic life.

>>47063071
>Like war for most soldiers?
War at least has intense periods of action and glory associated with it. High school? That's just milquetoast.

>>47063331

If your high school has vampires I think it's a safe bet there's gonna be some action.

Really, high school is just like any other genre. It has its strengths, and it has its weaknesses. Some people like it. Others don't.

>>47063331

War is hell. And narratively fertile.

Adolescene might be boring, but it is narratively fertile and dramatic.

>>47062484
>you will never play a PS238 game in M&M

>>47062128
>missing an opportunity to go with Derrick-seid because of a jock meme

Every time

Tried it once. It was godawful. We tried to play it like we were amateur superheroes going out and following plot hooks. Our GM wanted it to be slice of life, and just for the intended plot hooks to be window dressing. Rather than communicating that to us, though, he just tried to stymie us at every turn, then threw a giant hissy fit when we took his obstacles as challenges rather than signs we should give up, and quit running it.

>>47063790
Darkchaid would also have been acceptable.

>>47063866

Your GM sounds pretty bad. If you're gonna run a genre high school game, you should focus on the "genre" part first the "high school" part second. No one wants to play a fucking Degrassi game.

People didn't watch Buffy because it was a high school dramedy. They watched Buffy because it was a high school dramedy where the characters fought monsters.

>>47063331

Yes, but they're not talking about 'just HS' they're talking 'HS and wacky hijinks'.

>>47063930
Yeah, hence the "it was godawful." Don't do what OP wants to do; that way lies madness.

A long time ago I had the concept of regular high schools but where spellcasters would be a thing, and this would mean different groups of casters coming from different schools would get into feuds and battle. So maybe something like that.

>>47062851
Puberty hit PG like a truck and she wasn't prepared for it.

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>>47064034

>All those weird gothy kids are actually wizards
>They get into turf wars with other goth kids

I think that works better as a plot device in a larger urban fantasy setting, but you're really limiting yourself if that's the extent of the game.

>>47064067
I was just giving out an idea I had as a teen. Thought it could work decently well in a tabletop RPG.

>>47064067
>the nerds who play D&D are actually practicing old fashioned hexes and wards
>they're warlocks
>the swim team is actually learning elemetal magic, obviously based around water. They get in fights with the geology club.
>The science freaks are actually alchemists

>>47062128
Hah, that reminds me of the time I was doing worldbuilding and decided that the local elven wizard's academy had an intramural soccer/whatever league because the heads decided that they were tired of having their student's legs snap like chicken bones whenever they met up with physical resistance, or get tired running the spires of the buildings and start relying on teleportation, wasting precious spell slots.
One of the coaches was a world-famous mercenary who got called in because one of the university's professors was his friend and called in a favor.

>>47064176

>All of this is actually a poorly-kept secret. The staff largely ignore it, except for a few helpful teachers.
>New teachers and substitutes are not told about it because the others think it's funny
>The principal is a hard-assed but fair vampire.
>The PE coach is a Werewolf.
>Set in the 90s, because latchkey kid dynamics are more interesting than smartphones and helicopter parents.
>GM has a long playlist of alt rock music including Green Day, Offspring, and Red Hot Chili Peppers

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>>47062128
It would be interesting if it didn't take place exclusively in the high school but involved the lives of the protagonists in general.

>>47064271
What a sick sad world would that be?

>>47064311
LA LA LA LA LA

>>47064260
>the shop teacher is an orc who hides his green skin with grime and coveralls
>the history teacher is a mummy, whose assistant ends up teaching everything that's not Egyptian history
>the swim coach is a selkie
>there's a bunch of slime monsters that keep gunking up the toliets

>>47064271

Monsterhearts.

A slighty angrier Daria could be a pretty good Witch.

>>47064370

So basically MonMusu with christmas cakes?

>>47062234
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCqpN1TkXo4

>>47064445
Not a focus on monstergirls. I thinking legitimate, old fashioned orcs and mummies and werewolves. Not much that wasn't already monstergirl-y about a selkie, but not everything has to be monstergirls to have a fun setting.

>>47062145
Ran a Persona game, players loved it. School life eventually became more rewarding than fighting baddies for them.

>>47064480

I guess that would work way better.

Still could be a funny idea for an haremshit.

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>>47064503
What system did you use?
Honestly, I've been meaning to run one, but I can't gather up the nads to do it because I'm pretty sure it would kill my players' trust in me as a DM.
Pic also relevant.

>>47064480

Personally I'd prefer it if the school is superficially normal. It's only when you start looking deeper that things get weird.

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>>47062128
This is topical! I'm going to be playing in a game of young superheroes in training, attending a university to get the certification they need to become a full-fledged superhero: because only the most badass of badasses can be superheroes. Everyone else who has superpowers -but is not as badass as the superheroes- can only use them for self defense.

Whereas the ones that have the certification can use their powers to be a superhero. And as superheroes, they have to do their absolute best and be the best examples humanity has to offer, or else the media will tear them a new one and they'll be shunned, perhaps even hunted by the other supers!

Of course, if anyone on campus finds out about your secret -because you have to keep your powers a secret- then you will be booted from the program so.. no one can use their powers willy-nilly like that!

It's going to be awesome.

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>>47064548
Future prom queen coming through

>>47064548
We heavily modified Mage the Awakening and gave people access to a few powers based on the theme of their Persona, but to recharge Mana; you'd have to actually spend time with your Social Links. 30 Minutes and a successful Resolve+Composure roll would net you mana equal to your successes. Your Social Links can only give out a number of Mana as they have permanent Willpower in any given week (4 on average.)
Since several players would adopt NPCNAMEHERE because it was the easiest Justice social link or whatever, they'd end up having to schedule time with NPCNAMEHERE first during the week.

http://buriedwithoutceremony.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Monsterhearts-Skins.pdf

So anon, what were you? Witch or Ghost?

>>47064621
>Cute girls with giant robot arms

Love it

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>>47064176
>The jocks are actually musclewizards and musclemages

>>47064515
I'm just tired of haremshit, and I don't think it ever works out as a game.

I've tried freeforming stuff where we dance along the edge of silliness and stupidness with monstergirls, and let me just say: it's not as fun as you think it would be.

>>47064685
(cont'd)
Didn't use any time during the week to study for the test? Well you are at -2 to your Roll to pass it.
Didn't pass the Biology Test? Suddenly Kim doesn't think your as smart and cool as she thought you were and is gonna hang out with Alex this weekend. Oh no, she's your Empress Social Link...sucks for you.

Ditching class is easy if attendance is computerized. Get a couple teachers to vouch for you and/or hack the database...every HS game will have at least one computer nerd, and school security sucks.

>>47064745

Not as a game, as an anime.

(though honestly I don't know about Maid. I guess in all-weeb group it could work)

>>47062128
My god his hair looks like crap.

>>47064480
>>47064745

I could see a Huldra tossed in there as either the teacher for Home Ec, or one of the "popular" girls that nonetheless have something about them (in this case, the tail and hollow back) that the students learn very quickly not to bring up.

Reminds me of the time we had students or teachers with odd physical attributes that nobody could bring up, OR ELSE.

>>47064753
Obligatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh_vLKlz2Mc

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>>47064841
Oh yeah?

>>47062128
"I'd (omega)tap that.png"

As for the topic: Yes, quite easily.

>>47064961
I was expecting this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJE3d6GrgM

>>47064774

>not as a game, as an anime

I just don't understand people who think replicating some harem/slice of life anime could possibly work. Players are real people, so even if they play characters they're still going to act and react like real people.

Anime characters, especially ones in haremshit, never act like normal people.

>>47062128
>legitimately nerdy girl with giant tits
I wish they were real

>>47062128
A high school game helps add time management as something the players have to deal with. Not only that, but actually exploring the personal lives of the PCs becomes something much more in reach, because you have this huge part of their every day that's stuck dealing with this obligation.

Groups that really take a shine to something like this will find themselves doing interpersonal stuff even when not in school. Fighting the monsters happens, but we really need to know how Jimmy the fire elementalist's date goes too, especially since the rest of the group is stalking them, making sure it goes super smooth. Not even to protect from a surprise monster-of-the-week attack, just to shoo off unsightly hobos while they walk in the park.

Meanwhile a group that isn't taking to it will be glossing over the actual high school part. Only are figuring out how to get out of class so you can get back to fighting monsters. The classic murderhobos who just can't shake the habit.

>>47064753
Considering the high-school hacker is pretty much already PC material, you're on to something there.

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>>47065009
Come on man I can pull out cooler things than that. What's cooler than real pictures of things?

>>47065258
Post more man. Do you have them Africans Black Metal Fans?

>>47065135
>wanting saggy tits
Moderation in all things.

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>>47065438
You mean like this?

>>47065258
I really want more context on this picture.

>>47065752
clearly a proper british mother and her patriotic son took a family photo.

>>47065752
It's a young Hideki Kamiya from platnium games and his mom.

>>47065774
you delivered

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>>47062128


I seriously love high school settings. I'm currently running a teen superheroes in high-school (pic related, kinda?) game and a Monsterhearts one.

In my opinion, it's all about measure and the way you handle things, just as >>47063930 said, don't make it all about the teen drama aspect, but make sure it features as a bit of a background, lingering aspect. Like in Buffy, for example, the monsters of the week were always related to whatever issue was happening at the time with her personal life.

When she was insecure about being the Slayer and really being a hero to her friends, she had to save a whole dimension from monsters.

When Xander was feeling invalidated and useless to his friends, he had an episode centered around him where he literally saved the world.

>>47064700

I was a Werewolf.
I love Monsterhearts and I love atypical adaptations and ways of playing each skin. In the group I DM for, I have a Queen who's the dumb jock team Captain. And a nerdy female Werewolf who's the sweetest thing around and allergic to fur.

>>47062128
>It seems like no matter the genre, it would just turn into "how do I avoid high school to go on my adventures."
If your players actually want to play a goofy high school game you won't have to worry about this.

>>47065881

I'm not sure. I think I was a Ghost or some really fucked up Mortal.

Nerd werewolf is always a good idea to me.

In the last game I was an Infernal. I'm not sure if it was the best game of my life or I still have PTSD, probably a little of both.

>>47066228
Considering Infernals are a bit of a stand-in for abusive relationships and addiction, I can't think of any way it could be played in a way that doesn't leave you with PTSD.

I've never been on the player end of things, but I'd love to play a Vampire, Queen or Ghoul.

>>47063790
Dirkseid or Dougseid are more "accurate", but Chad is a shorthand name for "douchebag jock".

>>47066442
But why would she care if douchebag jock was staring at her? It sounds like she's more worried about her appearance than annoyed at his attention or even nervous that Darkseid-sempai might notice her. There's no need to make him the jerk.

>>47066329

Step it up senpai

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9cu0IVYfHtiUVJFelpZOXdZV0U/edit?pref=2&pli=1

>>47064370
>The politics teacher is an deamon
>Economics is a dwarf who constantly steals pencils
>The resident ghosts are exorcised on such a routine basis that a betting lot has appeared
If your want to go real indepth
>the skeet/target shooting team is a bunch of mechmages constantly trying to get the weapons just right.
>school fights are a supervised and regulated occurance, due to several incedents with wild magic, and now take place in a bunker and are watched vai scrying
>The english teacher is a dragon who has memorized every work of any note and can voice every character,
>the wrestling team is all muscle wizards

>>47066711

This is getting into Hogwarts-level stuff. I thought it was just supposed to be a superficially normal high school.

Damn it, you guys are making a high school game look appealing. Now I'm going to have to go mention it to my group and have them laugh at me.

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>ctl+f Monsters & Other Childish Things
>no results
Here, educate yourselves.

I ran a highschool murder mystery game with my friends, they seemed to have fun searching for clues and discussing theories

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>>47066471
How would you effectively play a succubus in an original way?

Closest I can think would be not-Jennifer's Body. But I don't know, I feel like she'd also be a Ghoul with a hunger for sex or something similar.

>>47067365
>girl gains incredible demonic powers
>decides to cuck her best friend
Are girls really like that?

>>47062128
Make the principle some sort of villain,with moons hidden about the crowd, . supernatural things going about, have there be subtle ways to stop an adventures villains in the classroom as they work. Be clever.

>>47067365

Like a higly functional but very disturbed individual, which sees everything like barter, and everything with a price.

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>>47068251
There's deep lesbian overtones in the movie, though. And she didn't really cuck Needy, because Jennifer didn't seduce her boyfriend, she just ate him. Literally.

I feel like it was more like there were some unspoken feelings between them. And Jennifer took revenge on being rejected by killing Needy's boyfriend.

>>47067038
Literally using this right now with the players as weird kids who are weird due to their souls being all blended up with ancient monsters

One of my players is playing a girl named sunny whose family is incredibly goth and permissive so she expresses her teenage rebellion by being aggressively normal, the other is a laid back musical type who has become one of the coolest kids in school, which can make it difficult to slink off to fight flesh eating ghouls and such

>>47065135
They are real, rare as unicorns but they're out there. God-tier girlfriends if you can convince them that you aren't with them just because of their giant melons

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>>47062128
But what if your high school IS adventures?

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>>47064260
>>47064370
>>47066711
>>47066793
>Hogwarts-level
Nah, son. We Baily School Kids now.

My group has recently started a highschool superhero X-men game, much to my disappointment.

The person GM'ing is doing a great job, but I hated highschool the first time around so I'm not thrilled with imaging a repeat.

I just can't get into it.

Any helpful advice on how to take advantage of the situation to do some classic murderhoboing so I don't go insane with boredom?

>>47070311

Don't play that game.

>>47069987
sucy a best

>>47070311
Talk to your group like a big boy instead of quietly voicing your unhappiness on the Internet to strangers who can't correct your situation for you.

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>>47070393

Nigga plis

>>47062128
Totally, just have Wizard High School like in Thrilling Intent.

You're in High School til your mid-thirties, basically.

>>47062128
Make high school a fundamental part of what you are doing. Eg. a school for supowered kids where the story actually has to do with school stuff instead of stuff outside of school.

>>47070311

Play a character who hates high school as much as you do. A troubled mutant from a broken home (Dad's gone/dead, mom is a druggie/drunkard, family is broke, etc) who grows increasingly restless and hostile toward authority. You're an urban youth with superpowers; go nuts.

>>47070507
>i learned how to pole dance in France
S L U T

I ran a Game of Dread once where the players were all high schoolers. However they were all on vacation at a lake house where murder and mystery happened. It was so successful everyone wanted to play as high schoolers again. I am planning on the next game being a high school that is actually an alien facility to perform tests on humans.

>>47070699

I dunno, a girl that can detach her head seems potentialy way sluttier to me

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>>47071381
way to slander an entire species there champ

>>47070021
Oh no.

>>47071549

Come on, Celty was quite obviously a nymphomaniac.

>>47071549
She cucks doctor guy with that indestructible waiter all the time.
HUGE SLUT

>>47062144
Anima: Beyond Fantasy has a university staffed by magic/psychic secret agents. Also, there's a laboratory underneath it, where scientists with no sense of right and wrong work day and night to further the plans, whatever they are, of the province's prince. They also have the assistance of an ancient, self-aware Magitech golem in trade for providing a place for him to recharge.
It's sad that the though of starting a party off as students at said university JUST occurred to me upon reading this thread.
Shit could be cash.

I don't have that problem, OP. The problem I had was with players playing overly grimdark characters. "I challenge the teacher to a fist fight" kind of thing.

>>47063124
>a really big fucking hole coming right up

>>47062128
>Is it possible to have a high school setting in a tabletop game?
No more or less than any other game where all the characters have a "day job." Save the day, do it without skimping out on your other responsibilities, and probably keep as many NPCs as you can from figuring out it was you. It'd be super easy for a superhero game.

>>47070311

>how to take advantage of the situation to do some classic murderhoboing so I don't go insane with boredom?

So you don't like the theme of the game. And your response is to ask us how you can literally turn it into a Columbine simulator?

You sound like a real stand-up player, anon.

>>47062262
Have fun!

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>>47069754
>God-tier girlfriends
Fucking fuck you. Had 2 ultra-nerdy girlfriends. One with huge tits, another with REALLY HUGE.

Both absolute garbage people under the shy crust. First one was fine with wasting my entire salary on minis she never bothered to even unbox and Steam games (NOT ON A SALE DAMMIT) she never bother playing, month after month after month. And started throwing shit fits when I denied her direct access to my money because "Mom always supported me!" Second one felt it was a respectable fucking achievement whenever she bothered to bathe once a WEEK. Just getting out of bed more than 4 times a week was above her bearable responsibility.

Neither were landwhales. Both were 8/10 if forced into shower, combed and dressed into something that is not pajamas. Possibly 9/10 if ever come to understand the concept of makeup. Still absolutely fucking unsalvageable as functional people due to complete lack of social skills (powerlevel "can't order pizza over telephone without spilling spaghetti"), ability, and most importantly - any will or interest to do fucking anything with their lives. Also are the deadest fishes I ever fucked. Last I heard they still lived with their moms after moving out from my place.

>inb4 >not turning your nerdy girlfriend into a proper waifu
Return when you actually have any experience changing people for the better. It's far worse than raising children. Children are curious and will learn. This is like having a 5-year old with an attitude of a high-school teenager.

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Military Academy - all the people in class are there for formal officer training. For one semester each year they get sent to the front line as a special formation to get some real combat experience and weed out the crap students.

Usually they're not expected to see much action or only gets deployed when the outcome of the battle is already pretty clear, but once in a while the see some real shit.

>>47075719
>(powerlevel "can't order pizza over telephone without spilling spaghetti")
That honestly sounds more like "actual disorder" than "generally useless."

>>47075891
I somewhat suspected that. Although it really appeared like just attitude. She - second, the more autistic one - wasn't anxious, she just detested human interaction and didn't care to the point of going "Uh, I have to actually MAKE A CONVERSATION to make an order, I'd rather tell them to fuck themselves and starve a bit more" after making a call. Still, I felt it was right to give her the benefit of a doubt - it could be indeed that her state was caused by a some serious psychological issue as opposed to just careless upbringing. But in an unrelated issue I discovered that it's absolutely im-fucking-possible to get her to a doctor. At which point I was already giving up.

>>47075964
>But in an unrelated issue I discovered that it's absolutely im-fucking-possible to get her to a doctor.
Doctors are assholes. I don't blame her. I'm pretty well-adjusted and even I won't go see one unless there's a damn good reason.

>>47062128
Why does Darksied looks like Josuke?

>>47071606
To be entirely fair; Shinra deserves the absolute worst in life, including being cucked by best-girl.

>>47064621
>>47064621
I've been thinkin of running something similar - but rather than "official supers school" it'd be just a school in a district in which a lot of retired or just settled down supers live, so a lot of kids inherit powers. However, the school disapproves of superheroing (and villainning) and tries to keep everything normal.

(heftily inspired by Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Super Villain books)

>>47062144
>BESM
is it good?

>>47076856
All I know is that it exists and that I gave it a once over. It was so long ago I don't even remember anything out of it besides it being class-based with stuff like mecha pilot and gun bunny being classes.

>>47076887
Come to think of it, those are the only two classes I remember.

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>>47075719
To be honest that sounds more like actual mental illnesses instead of just nerdy anxiety or dorky insecurity. I've had three and they've all been pic related, only one with big tits mind you, the other one was black and the current one is flat.

Maybe you're just a magnet for crazies, it happens.

>>47062128
what's the source on the image? Couldn't find anything.

>>47077749
>To be honest that sounds more like actual mental illnesses instead of just nerdy anxiety or dorky insecurity
As I said - I don't completely exclude such a possibility, but it genuinely seemed as 100% lack of interest in anything that requires any amount of effort to do. True basement dwellers with total 0 life, existing like vegetables and fully accepting it, who just happened to be given nice genetics for looks which only help them to achieve a life totally free of effort.

I happen to have a plenty of contact with people on the further end of nerd scale, and a few of them are indeed autistic/aspie/mental. But these girls, while being the basementest and dwelliest basement dwellers I've ever known, appeared the least like sick people and most like fucked up personalities.

> I've had three and they've all been pic related
if they are so awesome - why do you burn through them like that? Maybe that how you roll though, but if I ever happened on a 10/10 God-tier loving and pleasant girlfriend I wouldn't hesitate to reproduce with her.

what about monsters and other childish thing that can be based around highschool setting with actual highschooling

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>>47077997
>if they are so awesome - why do you burn through them like that?
Life gets in the way, man. With girl#1 I moved away for college, with girl#2 she got an offer to study across the pond, long distance relationships are fucking stupid so we break up. If I was the sort of guy that never moved out of his hometown and just took over the family business we'd have a nice little house with girl#1, a couple of kids and a dumb dog; if girl#2 never recieved that scholarship our first mulatto baby would be growing inside her right now, we'd be discussing moving back to my hometown vs staying in the city. We'll see where it goes with girl#3.

I think you ran into the mythical fembot, the female r9k poster, not once but twice. I imagine it was rough, but you shouldn't give up on nerd puss because of that. You can still be happy, bro.

>>47076856
I like BESM but it can get a little crazy. The shouldn't be a problem in an anime style game. One caveat is to limit classes to keep non-genre stuff out...not all campaigns can handle both pokemon trainers and mecha pilots.

>>47077857
Probably some deviantart or tumblr bullshit who the fuck cares kill yourself.

>>47076887
>>47078558
>classes
d20 BESM should only be burned when encountered.

Tri-Stat, proper BESM, doesn't have classes.

>>47078694
Wow, several more posts like that and you'll REALLY fit in!

>>47062128
Put the adventure in the school.

>>47062484
World of Darkness Innocence handled it fairly well in my opinion.

>>47062128
It only works if you go the wacky route and have all the adventures happen in school.

>The science club has accidentally built a rogue AI android thats rampaging through the school and you have to take it down before it can escape to terrorize the outside world
>The student counsel is actually an ancient vampire cabal thats been using the students like cattle since the 1950's
>It turns out the old school legend of David Whitwicky, the nerd who died from an atomic wedgy, is true and his vengeful spirit is hunting down the the highschool football team. Break out your ghost hunting gear and team up with the paranormal activity club to lay his spirit to rest

I'd play it

>>47063331
War has as many periods of action as the average fatguy had sex during HS. Historically being in a campaign is boring. It is basically marching, setting camp and doing patrols.

>>47078294
>Life gets in the way, man.
Circumstances are a bitch, yeah.
>the female r9k poster, not once but twice
Exactly that.

>but you shouldn't give up on nerd puss because of that
I know, but the experience still pushes me towards seeking out normality and conformism in girls.

>>47078728
Character archetypes then if classes cause mass Jimmy rustling. It's a matter of genre, not system.

Besides I like d20 BESM. Yes, I am the groggiest of grognards.

>>47062190
I want to believe that there was a line about that somewhere to justify it, but I that's just wishful thinking.

>>47062128
Play monster hearts. Some of the most fun I've ever had.

>>47078950

>the science club has accidentally built a rogue AI Android

For maximum feels, it's feminine and has a crush on its builder. A crush he never consciously planned.

>>47080556

Or worse. One he did plan, but has outgrown.

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>>47081021

>players meet New Girl
>New Girl is shy, but funny and likable
>Has massive crush on president of now-dissolved science club
>President is pining after some other girl.
>New Girl feels bad
>Through investigation and contact with other former club members, party learns President built New Girl to be his prom date.
>Abandoned project when it neared completion because his feelings moved on.
>Rest of club finishes project, causes schism which dissolved the club.
>New Girl asks President to prom, rejected.
>Pres goes to Prom with other girl
>New Girl crashes Prom.
>Party now has to fight unstable, lovesick android

>>47081254
That episode of Buffy sure was wacky

>>47067038
I once was going to join a game of this, and I was going to play a schizophrenic kid whose monster description was nothing but garbage text, as was the descriptions of its limbs and attacks. Her dad was a drinker and her mother was a social worker who was constantly hanged by red tape.

GM said that it "Didn't fit the game". The fuck, nigga?

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160 replies and nobody mentions this?

I am disappoint.

>>47081459
Who's tall boy? I don't recall him.

>>47081528
William, was promptly possessed by XANA and rejoined the team sometime in season 3.

>>47062128
The adventures are the classes.

>Seatbelts, everyone!

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>>47081630

>>47062128

AdEva, mate. The school sessions are when you can actually relax, safe int he knowledge that its super unlikely that no one is going to suffer a horrible death today at the hands of the Angels or your own Nerv superiors.

Not impossible, mind you. Just unlikely enough that you can let your guard down and tackle your personal problems while the larger plot moves in the shadows.

>>47064748
That sounds amazing. If you happen to create a formalized pfd for your modded system, I hope to see it in a PDF thread someday. Doing The Lord's work anon.

>>47081459
>french people

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Ran a Battle Century G campaign set in high school where the party were members of the school's new VR mecha-combat club. Hey, it teaches teamwork and technical knowledge so it has some educational merit! Honest!
It's not that the English teacher's literally an alternate-universe General Revil with a serious boner for tactics at all!

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>>47070507
>>47070393
BEST
GIRL

>>47062128
This image doesn't have any associated porn to follow, does it? I'm genuinely displeased.

>>47081361
fuck, I remember that

>>47077857
>>47078782
/co/'s booru says OC from the board
http://desustorage.org/co/thread/81335668/#81357625

And googlan THE FRIGGIN LOGO YOU IDJIT gets us http://megasweet.deviantart.com/gallery/ DA and http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/MegaSweet/1 http://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=megasweet pornographics.

>>47084511
Good investigation skills, anon
Thank you

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>>47076776
I've heard good things about that book.

The game I wrote about takes after the webnovel "Supers powereds"

>>47084511
>all that horsecock garbage

>>47088098
>not liking horsecock
what are you, a faggot?

>>47062128

Been there, done that, the campaign lasted almost three years, and was 90% focussed around "deal with the monster problems and don't fail that big test that's coming up, and oh crap I'm supposed to be at a club meeting now!" One of the players had an almost perfect attendance record, and spent all of his time brown nosing to the head of the student council. (who was of course, a benevolent evil tyrant. It's required.)

It was all kinds of fun.

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>>47062484

New Vindicators. Mutants and Masterminds campaign. Worked out pretty well for a while. Lots of it posted up on their forums.

>>47078294
>if girl#2 never recieved that scholarship our first mulatto baby would be growing inside her right now
Or how about you fuck off and stick to your own women? This white poles in chocolate holes fad needs to die, I'm so sick of it.

>>47091899

>caring this much

Faggot.

>>47062128
I love the wide kitty

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>>47088636

>the Bailey School Kids see a brown person for the first time

>>47081254
>android
>female

It's "gynoid", people.

>>47092917
Don't judge the female androids, shitlord.

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>>47064370
I had to draw this. I had no Choice.

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>>47064370
have another.

>>47093982
>>47094034
Great stuff, bro

>>47093982
>I.M. Hotep
Keks were had

>>47093982
>>47094034

This is amazing.

Call of Cthulu games honestly work best in a school/young person setting, because when all the characters are 'realistic adults' you've got constant 'yeah nah no I'm not going in there' which kills plots constantly.

I'd play this game.

>>47070393
that's not how you spell Lotte

>>47075719
either you clicked the wrong file or you don't know what "decadent" means

>>47081254
>filename
I see what you did there

>>47093982
>What? He's a BURN VICTIM, dude. Don't be an asshole.

Anyone tried East Texas University? Seems to be pretty on point for this thread

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>tfw running a monster girl harem game for a cute trap and 4 10/10 girls who I fuck

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>>47101042

>>47062128
Did this once, no school skipping was necessary. They went to school, and got together after to go to haunted houses and investigate supernatural stuff.

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Shocked nobody posted this system yet

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>>47062484
Yes.

You people never heard of miskatonic?

>>47103354

The most intriguing detail is that there are only zombie children here.

>>47105511
those are actually midgets

>>47101042

>totally true and not a lie u guiz

>>47062484

>What is Grimm?

>>47107879
a TV show about Detective Nick Burkhart, his partner Hank, and his friends Monroe and Rosalie.

>>47064042
Ironically, had she been hit by a literal truck she could take it,

>>47081459
jumpin jesus you could land a fuckin jet on that forehead

>>47107965

Before that, it was an elementary school age fantasy game.

>>47104772
That word is used for many things, gotta be more speciifc

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>>47109062
The board game.
You play as girls trying to survive the year. You have BFFs that bail you, pet teachers you can sick on your rivals, and Nyarlatothep is the director.

>>47109506
Sounds neat.

>>47110415
It is. Played some games of it, its prettry friendly despite the theme.

>>47101042
So you ERP with a trap and 4 dudes after GMing a lewd online game?

>>47109506
Neat concept, but I must point out that Comic Sans on the card triggers me pretty hard.

>>47111235
Oh yeah, it... it was a poor life choice.

>>47062128
nWoD geist game centred around a murder mystery investigation.

>>47111306
Apparently the game itself has normal font, only this promo image has Comic Sans.

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>>47111339
That is correct! I was referring to my choice of image.

>>47111409
looks like a lot fun

I gm'd a magical girl game using exalted 2e that was mostly set in school. I had players roll for first or second lunch, and then had class schedules set where they were allowed to arrange math, history, science, language, gym, and an elective as they pleased. The game turned into an attrition contest to see who could act human for the longest amount of time, because obviously half-caste exalted could over power high school staff. Only one character went full fucking batshit.

Probably the most memorable part was a fight they had with an ex special forces history teacher (heroic mortal) inspired by one of our old teachers.

SPEAKING OF, I have this hypothetical campaign where the PCs are faculty at a school where some of the kids have powers. The players would have little to no power themselves, and would be managing the empowered students as they solved some Persona-style problem.

How could I prevent a game like this where the PCs spend most battles in the sidelines interesting?

>>47112504
Shit, that's a weird typo.

"How can I prevent a game like this from getting boring?"

>>47062128
It's possible but honestly, generic and unimagibativ unless you go while hog and full Hogwarts/Boku no Hero Academia tier.

But then it's not a high school, it's a specific kind of training camp.

>>47081721
Until terrorists attack your high school in an attempt to hold you hostage, forcing Section 2 to try and rescue them.

Out-of-Eva shenanigans are the most fun part of AdEva IMO.

>>47112396
It's not. There's so much bad game design crammed into such a small and attractive-looking package.