Erol Otus Alma Mater RPG Artwork (NSFW)

Aos · March 24, 2009, 08:49:41 PM

are you calling us fat?

droog · March 24, 2009, 08:52:33 PM

*wedgies fat boy*

mrk · March 25, 2009, 02:08:11 AM

I've always wanted to run a tournament-style Alma Mater game. Not a columbine massacre scenario, but more in the line of the Kids vs the Teachers such as films like " The Substitute" and "Class of 84".

jcfiala · March 25, 2009, 01:33:52 PM

I'd love to get a copy just for the sheer historical oddity of it. Plus, Erol Otis art is always nice to wn.

Herr Arnulfe · March 25, 2009, 02:39:14 PM

Quote from: mrk;292435I've always wanted to run a tournament-style Alma Mater game. Not a columbine massacre scenario, but more in the line of the Kids vs the Teachers such as films like " The Substitute" and "Class of 84".

It's pretty easy for a GM to strip out the "blow up the school and kill all the jocks" elements. There's plenty of fodder for a good AM game that just focuses on sex, drugs, social dysfunction, and messing with the Evil Teachers.

In my experience though, players who are given access to guns and bombs in AM will use them at some point. Then again, I haven't played much AM since I was a teenager, so my perceptions might be skewed. Hmm, I really need to dig out my battered old copy.

Kromm · March 25, 2009, 02:43:46 PM

Quote from: Herr Arnulfe;292226My cousin co-wrote Alma Mater with a friend of his in university. They're both Nova Scotians. AM is a satirical game about a dystopian US high school, although many of the NPC references are inspired by real people from a well-known high school in Nova Scotia (since demolished).

Er, I was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I lived there from 1967 to 1990. What school was this "well-known high school"? (I attended Queen Elizabeth High School in the 1980s.)

Herr Arnulfe · March 25, 2009, 02:53:28 PM

Quote from: Kromm;292514Er, I was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I lived there from 1967 to 1990. What school was this "well-known high school"? (I attended Queen Elizabeth High School in the 1980s.)

Horton District High School. It's well-known in the Annapolis Valley anyway; though perhaps not as notorious as Cole Harbour High School was during the racial violence of the early 90's.

mrk · March 25, 2009, 03:45:05 PM

Quote from: Herr Arnulfe;292512I In my experience though, players who are given access to guns and bombs in AM will use them at some point. Then again, I haven't played much AM since I was a teenager, so my perceptions might be skewed. Hmm, I really need to dig out my battered old copy.

Maybe, but my players are 30 and over and have careers. So, I highly doubt their going to in flick any real world harm..LoL!

Herr Arnulfe · March 25, 2009, 03:56:17 PM

Quote from: mrk;292525Maybe, but my players are 30 and over and have careers. So, I highly doubt their going to in flick any real world harm..LoL!

I was thinking less in terms of players flipping out in RL, and more in terms of people's comfort zones. If any of the players might be bothered by a Loser PC buying an M16 and gunning down the school football team, then you might consider just not making guns available at all (combat is pretty lethal in AM).

Then again, a Loser in AM probably wouldn't hit anything anyway.

mrk · March 26, 2009, 12:35:36 AM

Your right. it really would depend on your players. If I was to GM it with a more "darker" tone, I probably use BRP mechanics and apply stuff like sanity roles,ect.

It's too bad your cousin doesn't want to revise it, because I think there's a whole lot of possibilities you could do with the game since it's debuit back in 82. From a "Freaks & Geeks" type scenario to a "Twilight" like campaign or even a " Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure"