To Owen E Oulton . . . Care Bear?

[JALU3]

OK, WAY back in 2002 you told us to remind you to tell the story . . . now please, spill the beans. What is this about Care Bears in RPGs?

[REG]

???

[Phoenix]

That's a good memory...I forgot.

[Owen E Oulton]

Oh, jeez, that's an old anecdote...

Back in my old FASA Excalibur game, a bit of a rivalry broke out between two groups of player characters. I forget the actual trigger for the incident, but I believe it involved gambling on Grav Ball games. At any rate Major Korran Bilgebottom, the ships Marine commander - this was pre-STVI, so there was still a Starfleet Marine Corps - took things far enough that the other characters decided an act of complete and utter stupidity was in order. The ambushed Bilgebottom - a member of an ursoid race resembling a 2.1m tall Grizzly - and stunned him from behind. They then bleached his fur and dyed him pink, except for a round white patch on his stomach where they stencilled a red heart. They left him unconscious in the Rec Deck, with enough booze in his stomache to make him stinking drunk, and waited for the results to be announced on the intercom system. The final result: 5000 credits damage to the Rec Room when security tried to arrest the unwilling Care-Bear.

[JALU3]

It's funny . . . I was just excepting a little more . . . like if you had in with the Doctor, change his vocal cords so he would talk all high pitch and child like. But still funny, I am sure you can make a mini-game during an exploration game.

Entering the atmosphere and you look around, and everything around you looks like a badly drawn ancient 20th century 'cartoon'. Landing you don't find grass, but a bright green Earth with unmoveable blades interdispersed every couple meters. . . and you can go on and on and on . . .

Have a continent where starberry short cake lives . . . gummy bears . . . and all those really feminine shows of that era . . . but have it really twisted . . . like what if they had to interact type of thing . . . Gargamel the evil ruler or something like that.

Talking mice in Hawaiin Shirts and Bomber Jackets . . . etc.

And of course, cartoon physics would need to apply.

And then at the end find out that there is an ancient Earth probe with 'cultural records' that interacted with some type of lifeform that created all of this in a permanent basis.

Or you can section of the system by cartoon creater classes . . . one moon is disney, another hanna-barbara, etc.

[C5]

I think there's a recent Doctor Who novel adventure where the TARDIS lands in such a cartoon world. My brother bought it, but i hadn't time to read it yet.

And JALU3, you might also be interested in reading this (which you may already know)

Apart from that, the care bear story is indeed quite funny. Wonder if my players could have such an idea in my Werewolf game

[JALU3]

What not a mixed set of WOD characters?
I played a werebear (Ursa) myself . . . an Icewalker to be exact.

Yes . . . I can become a carebear if you like . . . but I don't prefer it . . . it degrades you AND me . . . now if you don't mind . . . I am going back to hibernation.

[Don Mappin]

Major Korran Bilgebottom

Best

Name

EVAR!

[Owen E Oulton]

I'm afraid I cannot take credit for the name - the character's player, Todd, came up with it.

It is... evocative, isn't it, though?