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The "Maid" RPG: Real or Hoax?

Started by RPGPundit, October 08, 2008, 05:21:32 PM

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October 08, 2008, 05:21:32 PM
Can anyone who isn't a forger confirm that this game really does exist in Japan, that it really was a translation effort and not some idiotic "awfully clever" idea by a group of Forgers to fake a "translation" effort?

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#1
October 08, 2008, 07:58:05 PM
If it's not real, it's one of the most elaborate hoaxes in the history of entertainment.
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#2
October 08, 2008, 08:05:10 PM
Well, I spoke with Andy K. at Gen Con, and spoke with him about helping to translate Maid as well for a bit about his efforts to translate Terra Bansho Zero as well (and saw the original for that one).

Here's the website for Sunset Games in Japan that publishes Maid.  

Where is this coming from, out of curiosity?  Any particular reasoning?
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October 08, 2008, 08:23:05 PM
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#4
October 08, 2008, 08:25:40 PM
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#5
October 08, 2008, 08:34:57 PM
It's real.
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#6
October 08, 2008, 10:26:59 PM
It looks kind of wacky. Not my genre, but I love the idea and I am curious as to what kind of thinking goes on behind rpg's in Japan.
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#7
October 08, 2008, 10:38:03 PM
Quote from: walkerp;255032It looks kind of wacky. Not my genre, but I love the idea and I am curious as to what kind of thinking goes on behind rpg's in Japan.
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#8
October 08, 2008, 11:22:29 PM
Yeah, I played a game of it at GenCon last year before the translation had been released, so the GM Ewen was using the books in Japanese along with his own translation notes.  I posted my thoughts on it in my GenCon 2007 report:

http://jhkimrpg.livejournal.com/63384.html

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#9
October 09, 2008, 01:24:47 AM
It just seemed like the kind of bullshit that the Storygamers would pull off as a hoax.

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#10
October 09, 2008, 01:32:34 AM
RPGPundit: Before asking, think about it for a while... why would forgers attempt to fake transaltion efford, especially when nearly anyone can check if the original japanese version really exist or not. Wouldn't that be quite stupid...?
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#11
October 09, 2008, 01:57:52 AM
A bar bet maybe?


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#12
October 09, 2008, 02:10:17 AM
It's real, and unsurprisingly, proceeded to be a big hit on 4chan, what with it being based on a porn genre and all.  

Really pretty damn creepy if you ask me.
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October 09, 2008, 04:00:03 AM
Quote from: Fritzs;255064RPGPundit: Before asking, think about it for a while... why would forgers attempt to fake transaltion efford, especially when nearly anyone can check if the original japanese version really exist or not. Wouldn't that be quite stupid...?

Oh come on, cut pundit some slack. Just because you are clever enough to type "maid rpg" into google and find the links section (which is in plain sight, imagine that) on the games website doesn't mean he has to be that "clever".

I mean come on, it is clearly a forge/swine/IPR/left/rpg-net/wotc conspiracy. The catholic church is probably in on it, too.
 

DeadUematsu

#14
October 09, 2008, 04:12:05 AM
It's not a bad game but I would only play it with the right people (people who aren't sick fucks). The major draw for me is that game filled with random charts and uses them extensively in play.
 
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