If Girls is a game of Monsterhearts,
and if Leverage is a game of, well, Leverage,
and if The Expanse is a game of, maybe, Traveler
and if Star Trek is a game of, say, GURPS
and if The 100 is Apocalypse World
Then what is Gilmore Girls? Grace & Frankie? Halt & Catch Fire? Cheers?
What do these five have in common? Other than the fact that I like them, what similarity do you see in each?
Here's an easy one: There's a set of really important characters, but room for the characters in any particular session to go in and out.
[ If you don't buy into the premise, that's OK! But this isn't the thread to discuss that. Each of these five has very particular aspects that I want. ]
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Primetime Adventures, duh
ReplyDeleteGrace and Frankie is probably Hill Folk
ReplyDelete^ you already got my two answers from last time! PTA and DramaSystem :)
ReplyDeleteAgreed with T. Franzke, but I'm not sure PTA is amenable to protagonists being there and the not with frequency.
ReplyDeleteThe first five all fit a game system pretty well. Trek may be a bit of a stretch into GURPS (though, 4 stats and the only one that matters is INT? Sounds about right).
ReplyDeleteIts interesting that the standard response on the next ones is primetime adventures.
David Rothfeder That fits remarkably well!
It's just when I hear "how do I do a character-based drama," I immediately think of PTA, but I don't know any of those shows well enough (except maybe H&CF) to know whether the mechanics work for it.
ReplyDeleteRobert Bohl I think screen presense supports that exactly. If you character's presence is 1 this session, you might be better off playing NPCs instead of your own character most of the time (I dunno if PTA is explicit about allowing players to play NPCs when their protaganist isn't in a scene)
ReplyDeleteGilmore Girls is Suburbia, Grace and Frankie is Old Maid, Cheers is Red Dragon Inn, Halt and Catch Fire is Acquire. Oh wait you didn't mean these kinds of games ....
ReplyDeleteGrace and Franke really is about a tribe that has reasons to both hate and love each other in equal measures
ReplyDeleteFor my money, I think every one of these is a hack of Dream Askew
ReplyDeleteWilliam Nichols interesting. Can you spell that out a tad more?
ReplyDeleteFiasco
ReplyDeleteAndrew Ragland Some of those characters have poor impulse control, but a lot of Gilmore Girls is about having too much impulse control -- Rory as opposed to Lorelei.
ReplyDeleteAaron Griffin In DA, we've got these fronts, right:
ReplyDelete-- The Queer Enclave
-- Society Intact
-- Outlaying Gangs
To do something like gilmore girls, maybe replace with:
-- Stars Hollow (the town)
-- Respectable Society
-- Tourists (or maybe other townships)
I've thought for a while the DA schema could be used for a whole slew of things, but I am ... hesitant .. to touch a masterpiece.
This 200 word RPG entry, maybe? 200wordrpg.github.io - Girls from Gilmore, Boys from the Dwarf
ReplyDelete... that's for sure aimed in the right direction.
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