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Gammaworld - Mr. Potatohead and Dudemanbroguy

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You're probably thinking right now, "...What the hell is this supposed to be?" Well, I went to play Pathfinder last night with my nerd friends, but half of them didn't show up, so instead we sat around and did little more than play Magic and video games... until suddenly, my friend James found a box with some aliens on the front which read "Gammaworld". The other guys describe it as a D&D/Pathfinder/whatever sort of game, but simplified a bit, and based on a post-apocalyptic alien planet far in the future. "Holy shit, let's play it."

Turns out that instead of picking species and classes for your character, what happens is: You roll dice for particular boxes on your character sheet, your traits are based on these rolls, and you can take these traits and create any character you can come up with that would fit into the traits of your character sheet. I found myself with a "hypercognitive-radioactive" character origin, (meaning I am a radioactive super-thinker) and a rather low strength level, so "Fuck it, I'm a short skinny alien dude with a big brain... with a gas mask. My name is... 'Dudemanbroguy'." Yay. James' character origin was rolled to be "plant-electrokinetic". "What does that mean?" "It means you are a plant-creature... and you are a walking battery, able to conduct and manipulate electricity." James gets a huge grin on his face. "I'M A POTATO!!" And so his character became a giant potato man with copper wire for arms and legs. That made everyone's day.

We cycle through the rest of our character stuff, which includes setting more and more stats and then picking your own weapons and armor. As with your character's appearance, you can get as creative as you want with this part. James decides his potato man will have chain-link fence for armor, a STOP sign as a shield, and a tee post for a weapon. More laughter. (Boring little me just picked a thick leather trench coat with some umpire padding for armor, and a long glass shard with linen wrapping on one end as a sword, and then a crossbow.) Then comes rolling for gear. James's potato wins a pick-up truck and a supply of duct tape. What the fuck? XD And as luck would have it, I collected an assortment of gear that included five cans of gasoline. Instant plot point for partnership between our characters.

So considering one of the characters in the game was a potato, and James played it perfectly with endless moments of mindless electric potato stupidity always justified by the simple line, "I'm a potato," this session of Gammaworld quickly became the most hilarious role-play I've ever seen in my life. I certainly cannot wait to continue playing in our next session, during which a few others may join in our hysterical questing.
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