Anyone heard of this one? It sounds like the unofficial Veronica Mars rpg.
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Anyone heard of this one? It sounds like the unofficial Veronica Mars rpg.
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I picked it up at GenCon, haven’t read through it yet.
Excitement building, excitement building, excitement building.
PbtA
Excitement fading…
Ralph Mazza /sad-trombone
It’s pretty great, in my opinion.
Having just binged all three seasons I’d be totally stoked.
But 1) ashcan, 2) PbtA, and 3) invent the mystery as you go.
For $5 it’s probably worth checking out the PDF, but unless it’s jaw droppingly brilliant, #3 is probably a deal breaker for me.
The thing I loved most about the season long mysteries in VM is they felt legit. Like they had the crime and clues and maybe a couple of backup variants just in case, but they knew the arc from the first. Lost style mysteries: “we don’t really know, we’ll just keep throwing out stuff and hope it clicks somehow” doesn’t really do it for me.
I saw it when it was first being hyped, probably in the GenCon lead-up, but passed because ashcan. I’ve got so many finished games that I can’t even manage to read them all, let alone get them all to the table, so I just can’t make time for unfinished ones.
I must have!
Ashcan? Eeeeeew
I’ve read it. Vmars is in my top 3 shows of all time.
The game is excellent and on brand. I think it needs the right players to make it work, though.
Aaron Griffin Who would the right kind of players be?
Mark Delsing like any really tight genre game, that usually means people familiar with the genre. The game doesn’t in and of itself enforce a lot of genre conventions right out of the gate
I thought Bubblegumshoe was the unofficial VM rpg?
Dave Michalak I thought that was the Scooby Doo/Nancy Drew rpg.
Oh for sure. Is VM not similar to Nancy Drew? I love Kristen Bell but never got around to watching it.
Dave Michalak I have not, either, but VM seems aimed at an older audience than ND.
Gotcha.
Having read Bubblegumshoe, it’s definitely meant to evoke VM, and can be dialled to different levels of seriousness, but the problem with it is that you have to like Gumshoe.
Bubblegumshoe, it’s definitely meant to evoke VM, and can be dialled to different levels of seriousness, but the problem with it is that you have to like Gumshoe.]]>
I’m a massive fan of VM and Riverdale and even iZombie sometimes. Bubblegumshoe hits the right notes, but it’s still gumshoe. It has some really cool social management bits.
But We Used to be Friends does it better, IMO. You create your town and neighborhood collaboratively, which is wonderful, but where it really shines IMO is the handling of Clues.
There are moves for gaining clues and spending them, but one of the core rules is you can’t make two moves back to back. The play style seems to encourage different players angling for different suspects to be the ultimate wrongdoer, and you can place your clues on suspects until one of them gets.
If you don’t like collaborative “make up the mystery as you solve it” games, ala Noirlandia, you won’t like this.
. If you don’t like collaborative “make up the mystery as you solve it” games, ala Noirlandia, you won’t like this.]]>
Interesting.
Re: spending of clues to place them on a suspect – it’s a roll, and if you fail, other players decide who the clue goes on!
Aaron Griffin That all sounds pretty cool to me.