Branching out from another thread, so I don't Threadjack.

My old SR GM used to have a little rules-lite homebrew game he'd run as a pick up called "Backyard Battles" that was basically Calvin & Hobbes the RPG. We'd play out an eventful "Day in the life" of a bunch of 3rd graders (Things like Show & Tell day, Field Day, etc), characters were horribly steroetyped, and you had cry points instead of hit points. If you lost all your cry points, you went home crying.

Now I'm thinking of a variation of this as a Shadowrun themed game. Have a simplified version of the SR4 rules, a "kiddified" skill list, and the kids have to perform grade-school style runs... Stealing test answers, breaking a friend out of detention, stopping bullies from picking on kids. Hell, it's an RPG version of the Disney cartoon Recess, just toss in a few SR elements (Kiddie Hacker for the Nerd archetype, Kiddie Troll for the "Big, Dumb but sweet and friendly kid", Elf for the "Charismatic kid", etc), and you're good to go.

Shit. I did NOT need a new project right now. I'll report back when I have more.

Bull

Upon reading the campaign precis my two thoughts in order:

1: that's not right

2: might be kinda fun

Sounds kinda like Cybergeneration if it was run in a Jr. High...

I dunno... I just remembered this from the motivational posters thread... (top poster on the page)

I think that Codename:Kids Next Door has substantially more shadowrun potential than Recess does. You wouldn't even have to kiddify the skills. Just change the fluff so that all of the high-tech equipment and cyberware is make out of plywood.

...and the junior runners can be sent to steal Calvin's transmogrifier.

Oh man, there's a nice little walk down memory lane. That game sounds like a lot of fun - I'd play it.

You should take a look at Little Fears. While it is more of a horror game it might carry some inspiration.

I must also say I am really digging this idea.

There's a homebrew game that's real popular with my players called Heavy Ordinance. The whole idea is that everyone that's gone through puberty has been taken over by brain-eating demons.

I believe the opening quote goes something like: "In the third grade, Mrs. Watson gave me a D in Math. Now she's a brain-eating demon and I have a minigun with 3000 rounds of HESH ammo. Mrs. Watson, class is back in session."

It was a delight to play, even if we did have to tear out the rules and replace them with the rules from Unknown Armies.

...I guess I was thinking more along this line...

Gunslinger Girl

...now aren't they just sweet little darlings?

http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=20295

Starting a thread in community projects, where I'll post my work as I go.

Bull

I've actually watched a few episodes of Gunslinger Girl a couple of years back, I was pleasantly surprised.

Chris

Have you watched the anime series Denno Coil? It's all abot kids, hacker kids, hacker kids in a full AR-enabled city. Pretty good too.

Also, I think one of the settings for the true20 system has a nice kid setting too, can't remember the name thogh. IIRC the archetypes were very cool. like: normal kid: quote: "I like icecream" and so on...

But consider the possibilities of the Matrix and AR for opposition. And if there is a technomancer in the group, well, things could become very serious pretty quickly. Yeah, "Children of the Matrix" ... that could be interesting...

Cheers,

Max

i did watch dennou coil . . i wasn't in the least bit impressed by it . . even if it gave some good ideas as to how the AR Overlay would work . .

...ohmigoddess... didn't mean to [Derail] this thead so badly. I just posted a pic that's all...really.

Bull, please accept my humble apologies.

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