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bryantThe Men of Action game, invented by Rob MacDougall:
Pick a historical figure; let's say Walt Whitman. Walt Whitman's Men of Action! Describe the ensuing campaign.
Go.
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Date: 2004-09-21 07:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 08:12 pm (UTC)The London theater scene of 1885: broad, brightly-colored, and gas-lit. It isn't yet ready for an operetta set in a fever-dream version of medieval Japan. Your mission: make it ready. Popularize kimonos, spread paisley through the city's gardens, convince people to walk in a Japanese manner and fend off the dreadful kickboxing legions of your archnemesis Sullivan, who keeps asking why it has to be Japanese.
Al Gore's Men of Action!
Think America has it bad? You can't imagine how horrible the last four years of history would be without the timely intervention of these left-leaning operatives, Democratic fundraisers, and party hacks. The Department of Justice is too busy worrying about nude statuary to track down the Anthrax mailer, and it's been years since anyone at the White House spoke the name Osama bin-Laden. There's a lot to do, and for the good of the nation, someone has to do it.
Herodotus's Men of Action!
He has a wonderful dream: an encylopedaic treatment of the war between the Hellenes and the Persians, with deep background all round and a full discourse on geography, history, politcs, economics, and zoology. But he's only one man, and the furthest he ever got from Athens was Thebes. He needs strong men, wise men, men without fear, to brave the wilds of Persia, Ethiopia, Scythia, and even the magical land of India -- describe the flying serpents, the giant ants which harvest gold, the temples to strange gods with pillars that glow green in the dark. The History needs you!
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Date: 2004-09-21 09:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-21 08:45 pm (UTC)The only thing the Nazi's fear:
FDR's Men of Action!
FDR leads a team of daredevils in a series of wild adventures designed to capture the hearts and minds of all Americans, help them throw off the shackles of depression, fight the evils of dictatorships worldwide, and all so that his men may be established as additional Supreme Court judges who will permit his expansive New Deal programs.
Huh...y'know, FDR is a lot like Prof. X....
Tom
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Date: 2004-09-21 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 02:28 pm (UTC)Hee! Tasteless! Hee!
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Date: 2004-09-21 09:44 pm (UTC)It's the civil war, and Alcott runs an elite cadre of nurses from the utopian community she was part of growing up. The nurses are doing double duty helping wounded soldiers and running secret black-ops missions.
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Date: 2004-09-22 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-22 02:17 am (UTC)um, I got nothin.
I too would play in the Al Gore game, an unabashedly left leaning political setting. Might be the only thing keeping me from tears come 11/2.
Also: Cesare Borgia'a MEN OF ACTION!
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Date: 2004-09-22 02:32 pm (UTC)Which suggests:
Jorges Luis Borges' Men of Action!
or better yet:
Victor Borge's Men of Action!
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Date: 2004-09-22 12:26 pm (UTC)[cough] I'll let you draw your own conclusions. Want a hint? Okay: it involves gay sex.
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Date: 2004-09-22 02:39 pm (UTC)Marshall McLuhan's Men of Action!
Vince McMahon's Men of Action!
Benjamin Franklin's Men of Action!
David Cronenberg's Men of Action!
King Edward VIII's Men of Action!
Catherine the Great's Men of Action!
Anne of Green Gables' Men of Action!
Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen's Men of Action!
Jeff Wikstrom's Men of Action!
Yes, I know it's too easy if you don't have to describe the campaign--but hey, I came up with this game. Use your own imaginations, jackals!
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Date: 2004-09-22 07:03 pm (UTC)Millard Fillmore's Men of Action! See! Something involving busting open safehouses and muscling up villains who are trying to sabotage the Compromise of 1850 has already sprung full-formed to your mind!
(and I would totally play in a Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's Men of Action game!)
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Date: 2004-09-22 07:14 pm (UTC)Oh, absolutely. That's why we couldn't stop doing it the other night.
Millard Fillmore's Men of Action! See! Something involving busting open safehouses and muscling up villains who are trying to sabotage the Compromise of 1850 has already sprung full-formed to your mind!
Heh... actually, I've already run this game. See, my old 1970s Mage game (it ain't Gothic Punk, it's Gothic Funk) which I never finished summarizing was called "The New Know Nothings", and the name was a reference to the Know-Nothings, the 19th Century nativist anti-Catholic anti-immigrant movement. And Millard Fillmore was the head of the Know Nothing party at one point, and the head of the Anti-Mason party at another point, and became president under weird circumstances when Tyler? Taylor? died from eating cold cream on a hot day, so I had this idea that Millard Fillmore had actually been a mystical conspiracy buster back in the day, and so the secret password / slogan of the New Know Nothings was "MILLARD FILLMORE DIED FOR YOU", even though none of my players knew enough about American History to know what the hell I was talking about, and and and and ... (continues breathlessly for several pages)
(and I would totally play in a Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen's Men of Action game!)
Crossover with Totally Spies!
MILLARD FILLMORE DIED FOR YOUR SINS
Date: 2004-09-22 07:31 pm (UTC)I keep threatening Totaly Spies! and one day I WILL run it...
Also: Emperor Romulus Augustulus's Men of Action!
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Date: 2004-09-22 09:33 pm (UTC)Been there, done that.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mgrasso/198263.html
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mgrasso/208053.html
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Date: 2004-09-24 07:12 pm (UTC)A crack troupe of elite wrestlers in the mid to late 90s working undercover for Vinnie Mac that are hired by WCW. Their mission - to boost ratings for a short time, and then start a master campaign of backroom politics and convenient "injuries" to eventually drive Ted Turner to his knees!
And to go all fantasy
Date: 2004-09-22 08:15 pm (UTC)Thank you! I'll be here all week!
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Date: 2004-09-24 01:30 am (UTC)H.L. Mencken's Men of Action!
Don Rickles' Men of Action!