Routine Maintenance: A Paranoia RPG One-Shot

Sep '09 28 Mon 7:00 PM
Location

2338 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60647
(773) 276-5802

Attendance
 7  people attended.
4.50 4.503 (3 ratings)

Who organized?
Josh K.

I'd looking to host a Paranoia game for 4-6 players on Monday September 28th, 7pm to around 10pm at Cole's Bar (one block from the California Blue line stop).
Pregenerated characters will be provided. No experience necessary. New players encouraged.


Game description:
  • Welcome, Lucky Troubleshooter!
  • The Computer is looking for new Troubleshooters to join in glorious service of the Computer and Alpha Complex. You and your fellow Troubleshooters will serve the Computer by patrolling completely safe hallways and performing routine checks of harmless fellow citizens. While it is well known that all sectors of Alpha Complex are fully functional, Communist free, and mutant free; only constant vigilance will ensure that Alpha Complex will remain that way.
  • This will be Fun. Fun is mandatory. Failure to have fun is Treason.

Abridged from Wikipedia:

  • Paranoia is a humorous RPG set in a dystopian future similar to 1984 and Brazil. The tone of the game is rife with black humor and frequently tongue-in-cheek. The game is set in Alpha Complex, an underground city controlled by The Computer, a schizophrenic civil service AI construct. The Computer has made happiness mandatory. Failure to be happy is punishable by summary execution.
  • The Computer fears a number of threats to its 'perfect' society, such as The Outdoors, mutants, and secret societies. (Secretly, almost all of the people who inhabit Alpha Complex are mutants and members of a variety of secret societies.) To deal with these threats, The Computer employs Troubleshooters, whose job is to solve problems: they go out, find trouble and shoot it. These Troubleshooters are also almost always mutants and members of secret societies, and traitors of the very sort feared by The Computer. Players are usually given self-contradicting mission goals; dangerous, faulty, or experimental equipment (such as a tactical nuclear grenade marked "Throw Hard!"), as well as contradictory missions from their secret societies. Paranoia missions are typically fatal for the Troubleshooters.

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  • Laura
    Posted Oct 1, 2009 12:33 PM
    Assistant Organizer
    The organizer/DM Josh is friendly, funny and helped me get the hang of how to play RPG (this being my first time). The people were great - really creative, funny and overall great to play with. The venue is relaxed and the staff is nice (though the band was a little loud, making it hard to hear fellow gamers sometimes). This was a really good time.

Who attended?

  • 7 attendees
    •  Excellent game! Thanks to everyone for coming and participating in the chaos and making it a halarious game. 
    •  It was really fun and Josh is a great DM. As a newbie to RPG I was unsure what I was supposed to be doing, but I learned more about how to play RPG games as the evening progressed. Plus, I now think confusion is an intrinsic part of Paranoia! Overall, it was a fun night and I was glad to get out and meet some really nice, creative, funny people who love RPG and are welcoming to newcomers. 
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