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Obscure RPG help required please...

toughest, fastest, fatest

10:12 / 02.08.06

When I was a kid, 14 or thereabouts a mate of mine had a brilliant little RPG (pen and paper) where the characters were cartoons and fighting, carrying out tasks, and the physical laws of the universe were the ones out of cartoons. It was a right laugh blowing your enemies up, or shooting them full of holes and pushing them into a pond, and then seeing them get up and the water pour out of the holes...

Anyone else come across this? Anyone know what it might be called?

TIA.

Jack Fear

10:32 / 02.08.06

That would be Toon, by Steve Jackson Games.

Never played it, myself; count yourself as one of the lucky few—I think Toon was one of those "much admired in theory, but rarely actually played" games.

toughest, fastest, fatest

10:57 / 02.08.06

Wow that was quick, I thought it would be a lot more obscure than that, cheers.

Spaniel

11:55 / 02.08.06

Jack beat me to it.

I did play it. It was good. I was ten.

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22:11 / 02.08.06

I played it about three times. It was fun but the hilarity was a little forced, now I think about it. The best thing about it was that anything could happen. As they started piling on rules and expansion sets it lost the freshness and stupidity and became a reconstruction of Looney Tunes.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:11 / 02.08.06

I never played Toon, though I always wanted to. Recently I found out that one of its creators was none other than Warren Spector. As anyone who's ever been subjected to one of my rants on the subject will know, I think the man is god in games developer form. Motherfucker made Deus Ex. That's instant acceptance to the pantheon, in my book.

Rumour has it his new computer game may be cartoon-related. My stoatie-sense says whatever it is it will ROCK.

gridley

14:24 / 03.08.06

The nice thing about Toon was that you could play a simplified version just hanging out at the bar with your friends. And since all successes/failures were determined by the flip of a coin, you didn't have to worry about looking geeky with your funny little dice.

Quantum

12:23 / 09.08.06

Great for when you're very tired/stoned/drunk, easy to freeform, like a junior Paranoia. Gotta love Toon.

grant

16:00 / 09.08.06

Yeah, I remember playing Toon, too -- Paranoia was much better for laughs, which always kind of confused me.

I remember two Toon characters, which I may have played myself or may have been playing alongside (memory is awful). One was a rabbit (?) with a Felix-the-Cat-style "bag of tricks" - no telling what was going to come out of it. The other was, basically, Godzilla. Only played as comedy. Kept crushing things around him.

Actually, maybe Godzilla came out of the bag of tricks every so often. Can't remember.

doctorbeck

12:39 / 14.08.06

er yes, outing myself an a one time rpger here but went to my local rpg club when i was 15, drifted to the Toon game, played it for a month before the rest of the AD&D players asked us to stop playing as we lowered the tone, so i never went back. made a friend in that game who i still knock about with 20 years later. think it was very good when someone played an AD&D character who had got teleported into the tooniverse and wanted to kill things and wondered where their treasure was ('but every monster has treasure...!'). rollicking fast moving fun though right up to singing the loony toons theme at the end of each game.

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