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thewayneSteve Jackson Games is relaunching Toon, the game where you get to play an animated character of your design from Saturday morning cartoons. Recreate a facsimile (or mockery) of your favorite cartoon character, all for $20 for the PDF! If you want a softcover of the rules, you can get that for $35 ($45 with shipping to the USA), which will also get you the PDF. In this game you can't get killed, you just fall down and will be back in the next scene.
Every character has a Schtick, a form of superpower, much like Popeye's spinach gives him temporary super-strength. Your toon has characteristics of Smarts, Brawn, Chutzpah, and Zip, you also have to decide Species, though you don't have to be organic or Earth-based. You wanna be a Martian? Go for it! You wanna be a toaster, or cloud, or imaginary friend? Why not! In this game, the game master is called the Animator, for obvious reasons.
The Backerkit project is open for another 16 days, and is already massively overfunded. They are projecting fulfillment by the end of next year. Presumably that's a massive overprojection and it will be filled well before then.
A family game of silliness suitable for ages six and up! And not for gamers who take things crazily serious. ;-) If someone is incapable of sticking their tongue thoroughly in their cheek, they really ought to witness a game before diving in, and there's really not much preventing them from jumping in in the middle of a session.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/steve-jackson-games/toon-the-cartoon-roleplaying-game
Every character has a Schtick, a form of superpower, much like Popeye's spinach gives him temporary super-strength. Your toon has characteristics of Smarts, Brawn, Chutzpah, and Zip, you also have to decide Species, though you don't have to be organic or Earth-based. You wanna be a Martian? Go for it! You wanna be a toaster, or cloud, or imaginary friend? Why not! In this game, the game master is called the Animator, for obvious reasons.
The Backerkit project is open for another 16 days, and is already massively overfunded. They are projecting fulfillment by the end of next year. Presumably that's a massive overprojection and it will be filled well before then.
A family game of silliness suitable for ages six and up! And not for gamers who take things crazily serious. ;-) If someone is incapable of sticking their tongue thoroughly in their cheek, they really ought to witness a game before diving in, and there's really not much preventing them from jumping in in the middle of a session.
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/steve-jackson-games/toon-the-cartoon-roleplaying-game
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Date: 2025-12-31 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-31 12:50 am (UTC)Heh. I literally just posted it and flipped to my email and there you were with this post!
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Date: 2025-12-31 10:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-12-31 06:22 am (UTC)Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2025-12-31 07:05 am (UTC)It's a game suitable for non-gamers. Get a half-dozen goofy non-gamer friends, think of a strange story with a vague start, middle and end and go for it! It'll have suggestions on how to run a game. You'll need a couple of handfuls of six-sided dice. Honestly, running a game is not that difficult, and this is a game that thrives on simplicity. As the web site for the game says, Act First, Think Later. :-)
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Date: 2025-12-31 07:22 am (UTC)LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: 2025-12-31 07:41 am (UTC)Three or four would do. Two in a pinch, three is probably a good minimum.
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Date: 2025-12-31 11:56 am (UTC)no subject
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