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Maid RPG is coming

  • Apr. 18th, 2008 at 8:43 AM
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A recent announcement by some Story-Game members that they are working on an English translation of the Japanese Maid RPG. And I can't tell you how excited I am.

This is a very quirky sounding game, and from the few actual play reports I've been able to find, it also sounds like a lot of fun. Below is a short game description, just to give you an idea of how charming and bizarre this game is going to be.


In Maid RPG, the players take on the role of maids who serve a Master who lives in a mansion. That’s the basic setup, but what ensues is often an excuse for the most bizarre chaos imaginable. This is a game that embraces randomness. Characters have random Special Qualities, ranging from Freckles and Glasses to Stalkers and Cyborgs. During the game, characters earn points of Favor by pleasing the Master, and one of the things they can spend Favor on is causing Random Events.


Awesome.

Be sure and check out the site and bookmark them for future updates. The hope is to have the game out by GenCon Indy this year.

ME

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[info]gillan wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:04 pm (UTC)
WOW

It's too bad that whenever I find awesome games like this none of my friends want to play them.
[info]merb101 wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:20 pm (UTC)
Yeah, it can be challenging to get people to try different styles of games. I had a friend walk out on a session of "Best Friends" because he felt he had been tricked into playing. He wanted swords and sorcery and instead got high school seniors arguing over prom dates. The other players loved it, though.

I have some friends who will play anything, and I tend to rely on them to get other people involved when I have something unusual to bring to the table.

ME
[info]gillan wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:21 pm (UTC)
All my friends who will play anything live several hours away from each other.
[info]maliszew wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:19 pm (UTC)
Sounds a bit like My Life with Master but without the emo.
[info]merb101 wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:22 pm (UTC)
I thought the same thing, though I haven't had any personal experience with My Life With Master, just read about it and listened to it on podcasts.

I tend to be a little more light-hearted in my gaming, so Maid already seems a better fit for me than MLWM.

ME
[info]maliszew wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 01:31 pm (UTC)
MLWM can be fairly "heavy," so I am sympathetic to your feelings on this. Maid sounds wonderfully Japanese, though.
[info]jake_richmond wrote:
Apr. 18th, 2008 08:41 pm (UTC)
I'm very excited aboutthis as well.

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