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I was talking with a bud about AD&D or dungeons & dragons, and other roleplaying games. Would you guys play a GI Joe RPG. You know we start out as green shirts and have battles along side Snake-eyes, and the rest of the Joes. Your enemies would be Cobra and other bad guys.

 

Tell me what you think. Try not to be to cruel.

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I love RPGs. I use to play D&D back in the 80s. When they started making good RPG computer games I gave up D&D and played them. I would love big Joe universe RPG, like Morrowind. You go here and there stopping Cobra and other bad guys in their various plots as you gain experience and weapons to make an assault against the main base. You could be a small underfunded team that gets more resources with each success. Maybe some kind of RPG/Strategy War Game would be cool. I think the only Joe game I ever played was the first person shooter arcade game.

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the best system to me would be to use the RIFTS/palladium system. They even used to make a modern combat book, with rules and info.

 

Have any of you guys ever tried playing RIFTS. It wouldnt be that hard to make it GI Joe friendly.

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doyou mean a video game, the game with the set up and the tiny figures, or the script and people dressed up acting like the guy from reno 911....??

 

video game=yes

other stuff = heck no

 

I agree. No offense to anyone who may partake in those games, but I kind of like the fact that GI Joe seems a bit less nerdy than stuff like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.

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doyou mean a video game, the game with the set up and the tiny figures, or the script and people dressed up acting like the guy from reno 911....??

 

video game=yes

other stuff = heck no

 

I agree. No offense to anyone who may partake in those games, but I kind of like the fact that GI Joe seems a bit less nerdy than stuff like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.

 

we collect toys! i think were all pretty nerdy! of course on different levels....you would like to play a gijoe video game... I would like to dress up as destro and "RULE THE WORLD!!/my basement! it's all the same really! ;) an RPG sounds cool but i never played any befor and really wouldnt know how to start?

 

TM

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I've been toying around with the idea for some time now. Right now I've only got the setting nailed down. Mine's a little bit different than an actual GI Joe RPG would be. First off, the events of Joe history happened in real time, therefore all of our favorite Joes and many of the Cobras we know are Old/dead, I feel this allows the players to be the star... and not constantly be overshadowed by the big guns of the Joeverse. When game mastering I delight in throwing little twists at the player. The catch here, none of my players know they're playing a GI Joe rpg. When describing this to them I describe it like: "It's a covert black ops rpg... think splinter cell with some sci fi elements." Then I throw in clues about what they're playing throughout the game. This is just kinda fun for me, I like seeing how many clues I can pepper in before the players catch on. I'm a sadistic GM.

 

Anyhoo here's the setting. The government shut down the GI Joe team in 1994. The vast majority of the public has no clue that a shadow war was waged throughout the 80's and most of the nineties with a terrorist organization named Cobra. But recently things have been changing. Intelligence communities are abuzz about a new shady threat. The players know about this looming threat, but know nothing about cobra, Joe, or any of the events of their conflict. The US government in a desperate attempt to stop this threat before it happens has dashed together a team of military specialists, in several cells. Each of these cells is unwittingly part of a larger reinstated GI Joe team.

 

I divided the team into cells because the Joe team eventually became too large for my liking, and it goes well with a small gaming group. The players' characters are rising stars in the military, but due to their strong personalities, or strange character quirks (Wild Bill anyone?) they've been held back in their careers. That's when they get a visit from Agent Conrad Hauser offering them an invitation into one of these new cells, called "Steel Brigade".

 

Once again, it was important to me make the players the stars... They're the next generation of GI Joe. I had planned to work my favorite Joes into the new team as instructors and trainers to the new team. For instance if a player wanted their character to train in more non-conventional military techniques, This new team has the last 4 masters of Arashikage-do Ninjitsu on the payroll as instructors. "The silent master", an eerie figure clad entirely in black, could teach the player about stealth and use of edged weapons to get the silent drop on your opponent. "The Blind Master" a woman in a red blindfold, could teach the players techniques that would allow them to fight without the use of their eyes. "The Crimson Master", an apprentice of the Silent Master, would teach the players how modern warfare and ninjitsu can work hand in hand, he also has an intimate knowledge of a mysterious network of corrupt politicians and lawyers that are controlled by this new terrorist threat. Finally, if the characters want the truest experience of Arashikage-do, they would train with "The Young Master", called that because he was the youngest man ever to reach mastery of the esoteric principals of his art. Not so young anymore, The Young Master would teach any character interested in becoming an Arashikage ninja.

 

I'd more than likely use D20 modern with some elements of D20 future as the base system for the game. There are some great books on weapons and gear out there, more to keep any joe fan happy.

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doyou mean a video game, the game with the set up and the tiny figures, or the script and people dressed up acting like the guy from reno 911....??

 

video game=yes

other stuff = heck no

 

I agree. No offense to anyone who may partake in those games, but I kind of like the fact that GI Joe seems a bit less nerdy than stuff like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings.

 

we collect toys! i think were all pretty nerdy!

TM

 

can't say it anybetter

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the best system to me would be to use the RIFTS/palladium system. They even used to make a modern combat book, with rules and info.

 

Have any of you guys ever tried playing RIFTS. It wouldnt be that hard to make it GI Joe friendly.

 

 

I own most of the books. Palladium takes so friggin' long to put out new stuff, I stopped collecting (that and my gaming group moved away).

 

Not just Rifts, but a lot of the other "modern" Palladium books (Heroes Unlimited, to a small extent, Beyond the Supernatural and Ninjas & Superspies especially) would work too.

 

 

I read, once, there WAS a G.I. Joe RPG.

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