The trick is to make the kid pathetic without making them laughable.  The whole thing rides on the believability of the kid.  I'd go with a burn victim.  That lets you kill off the family without stretching your background into the absurd.  The father was out at the bar and survived while the mother and siblings perished.  Our little tyke only survived because the mother threw him out of the second floor window into the lilac bush.  But even then he's got bad burn scars on 90% of his body and may never walk again.

Some bad actors in the press are suggesting the father might be an arsonist / murderer and he certainly hasn't been hanging around the hospital.  In fact he bought a new sports car right after the fire.  He's also been seen in the company of a trashy looking young lady.  Of course, the family didn't have any insurance and the trashy looking young lady is his sister and the sports car is hers but these low end radio shock jocks are just hinting and speculating to drive up ratings.

But the kid loves baseball.  He's a baseball fanatic and was a pretty solid Little League player before the fire.  And he's also an Encyclopedia Brown and Hardy Boys reader and he means to find out what really happened to his mom come hell or high water.

Quote from: RPGPundit;652041Who would want this shit?

Well, the GSS Kickstarter ended an hour ago with 2350 backers  and $85,266 funding. Clearly there's a market niche for it.

Quote from: The Yann Waters;656459Well, the GSS Kickstarter ended an hour ago with 2350 backers  and $85,266 funding. Clearly there's a market niche for it.

Haha! That's quite a niche! More power to 'em!

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Quote from: The Yann Waters;656459Well, the GSS Kickstarter ended an hour ago with 2350 backers  and $85,266 funding. Clearly there's a market niche for it.

Well you know theres a saying, "There's a sucker born every minute"

Somehow seems appropriate, no?

Golden Sky Stories - oh good, combining pedophilia and bestiality.  Let me guess, Golden Showers fall from a Golden Sky?

Quote from: CRKrueger;656521Golden Sky Stories - oh good, combining pedophilia and bestiality.  Let me guess, Golden Showers fall from a Golden Sky?

With Maid a part of the package, you can now storygame I mean roleplay the future of your furry little hero!

Quote from: Rincewind1;656605With Maid a part of the package, you can now storygame I mean roleplay the future of your furry little hero!

Actually, the second of the original supplements for GSS apparently introduces the elder henge as a PC option.

My Little Pony, Adventure Time, there is a LOTRs hack called Bilbo's and Bagginses or something like that. Argyle and Crew. Various pro-wrasslin' RPGs.

The Adventure Time rpg has no violence inherent in the premise?

Did the people making it ever watch adventure time??

RPGPundit

Quote from: RPGPundit;657448The Adventure Time rpg has no violence inherent in the premise?

Did the people making it ever watch adventure time??

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He's definitely mistaken on that front, the only Adventure Time RPG I'm aware of plays about as violent as any other 4e hack.

Adventure Time violence isn't particularly violent. Candy people seem to smile whenever they get a limb lopped off, most situations can be won by beatboxing and some sick dance moves.

Quote from: LibraryLass;657509He's definitely mistaken on that front, the only Adventure Time RPG I'm aware of plays about as violent as any other 4e hack.

Good!

Quote from: everloss;657727Adventure Time violence isn't particularly violent. Candy people seem to smile whenever they get a limb lopped off, most situations can be won by beatboxing and some sick dance moves.

I remember at least a couple of decapitations, and I think Finn once sliced a dragon in two longways.

Quote from: LibraryLass;657813I remember at least a couple of decapitations, and I think Finn once sliced a dragon in two longways.

He did slice the dragon in half, but there was no blood, or even guts! It was filled with happy, smiling candy people, who safely fell to the ground. The dragon's body just disappeared off screen, if I remember correctly.

Things die in Adventure Time, but usually off screen or in a comical way. The only thing in the show that I wouldn't use in a game with kids is The Lich.

It was pointed a few pages back, that it's cartoon violence, not non - violence .