No.402034
How would you run a Goosebumps-inspired game?
>100 character 100 characters 100 characters 100 characters
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No.402035
>Players play kids
>Adults either don't believe kids or are in on the mystery
>Creepy/weird monster that serves as the main antagonist while kids are trying to solve mystery (some system that is about overcoming challenges, as opposed to player versus monster would be best)
TWIST ENDING.
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No.402036
>>402035
And, that last line is the problem, really. With very few exceptions, twists negate whatever happened before them. To throw around stupid buzzwords, twists tend to deprotagonize the PCs. It can be done, but you have to make sure that the twist happens before the climax, so the players are given an opportunity to act in a way that affects the "real" story. Unfortunately that doesn't follow the GB format, where the twist would usually come as part of a denouement when you'd normally be past the point where choices matter much.
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No.402040
>>402036
>Unfortunately that doesn't follow the GB format, where the twist would usually come as part of a denouement when you'd normally be past the point where choices matter much.
It doesn't have to be exactly like Goosebumps, just inspired by. It can have twists without them needing to be final or turn everything upside down.
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No.402043
>>402036
do more of a secret final boss monster thing, like "don't look under the sink" or whatever its called
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No.402058
>>402034
>100 character 100 characters 100 characters 100 characters
If you've got to do this, you need to rethink your thread, post in the QTDDTOT, or not post at all, you lazy faggot.
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No.402060
>>402043
That is a good way is interpreting the Goosebumps twist ending into an RPG format.
https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/It_Came_from_Beneath_the_Sink!
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No.402079
>>402035
>>402034
There is a game like that already: Little Fears.
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No.402083
>>402079
Outside of RL Stine's goofy sense of humor, Goosebumps is pretty much just horror cliches and twilight zone twists for kids. So a game like little fears or even WoD Innocents, or any of the Stranger Things-inspired RPGs about kids dealing with the supernatural can all be successful used to emulate Goosebumps.
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No.402085
>>402083
Little Fears you can make super dark, but you can go the goofy direction as well. The biggest reason I suggested it is that there are already mechanics for teens and adults who don't believe, and trying to get them to help you.
An Innocence mechanic dealing with belief and imagination.
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No.402086
>>402079
Little Fears in a goofy direction does have a Goosebumps feel. But I think it's aiming slightly younger? It says characters are 6-12, while Goosebumps protagonists are at the very upper end of that, without innocence/belief in monsters any more. Goosebumps is the point where the kid has an adult voice as narrator, but is still treated as a kid by actual grownups.
But maybe that's what the 2 innocence at 12 represents? Able to believe X-Ray Specs just about, in an "It can't be real! But it's working!" awed kind of way. No longer afraid of monsters under the bed but still spooked out walking past the haunted mansion on her own.
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No.402241
As far as player autonomy goes, I'd run it like Paranoia. Goosebumps wasn't really meant to be taken too seriously, even if a few stories had some genuinely creepy elements. But I wouldn't try too hard to make the players feel like choice matters, that's antithetical to Horror, to me.
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No.402294
>>402085
Every RPG dealing with kids and horror has mechanics for that and "innocence" is really stretching it since the age average for protagonists in Goosebumps is 8-12. The TV show can stretch that to teenagers too because of the actors.
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No.403333
>>402079
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fears
>Blair released Little Fears Nightmare Edition in print and PDF on October 19th, 2009. This version is a complete overhaul of the system and premise with some figures key to the original, such as the Demagogue and the Kings, being completely removed. Closetland remains as the source of the monsters and is better detailed than before. Tonally, the game is more focused on Goosebumps-style horror. The controversial elements were mostly removed. While the Kings were excised, some of them remained in name as regular monsters.
>The game uses a dice engine called the Top 3 System which was built especially for the game.
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No.403361
>>402035
>Players play kids
>Adults either don't believe kids or are in on the mystery
>Creepy weird monsters are not actually monsters but "only" the friendly neighborhood pedophile
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No.403420
>>402294
>and "innocence" is really stretching it since the age average for protagonists in Goosebumps is 8-12.
I thought they were like 11-13? I don't remember one under 10 and I am thinking of the books not TV.
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No.413662
>>402034
For starters, every single game session has to end on a sUpEr suspenseful cliff-hanger.
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No.413716
>>413662
More like every scene, which you break with a short moment to relax and resituate, only to reveal it was nothing.
Seriously, fuck Stine and his moronic habit of ending nearly every fucking chapter of every single Goosebumps book with "AND THEN A MONSTER ATE ME." Only to start the next chapter with "Just kidding it was NOTHING!"
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No.415252
>>402034
Just play a game of some horror-esque RPG and give it the story of any of the Give Yourself Goosebumps books, just replace the main character as the party and homebrew stats.
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No.415282
>>402034
CoC is literally the game for this. You can just tweak it by using kids as investigators and using the Goosebumps books as modules.
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No.416347
>>402034
Play it like Scooby-Doo meets X-files?
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No.417609
>>402034
> 100 characters
That's Battle Royale, not Goosebumps.
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No.417629
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