Reading in bed: very bad for eyes. Staying up until 4 working on layout: same |
- HOP ON POP
- THE CAT IN THE HAT (metaphor for some weird perp shit, IMHO, by the way Sally and Nick you should tell your mom.)
- THE CAT IN THE HAT COMES BACK
- DR SEUSS'S ABCs
- I CAN LICK 30 TIGERS TODAY
- ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH
- TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET
I believe more in not-railroading, but this could make/has made for a fun night's entertainment |
This would be easy to set up for a Dr. Seuss story approximation, say for kids, with nice pastel colors, little threat of violence (but some feeling of danger to wrap up nicely at the end), and simple rules. The Seussian monsters are, for the most part, somewhat silly but sometimes really and truly spooky. Fu Fu the Snoo seems to even make a Young Cat uneasy, for example.
I think I like those OZ rules that I always harp on about, or maybe something easy like I ROLL FOR SHOES (which seems to be going around my circles these days on G+)
Make it fun and distinctive: add a die to your roll if you explain your action in rhyme.
Make it awful and terrifying: Use DCC, and add corruptions and XP for critically failed Action rolls. Nobody can die but it can Always Get Worse
A Little Fuzzy Guy DCC Microclass: like a hobbit, but people can always spend Luck and burn stats for the little guy/gal. Hirsute and Cute, plucky and Lucky.
If you wanted to really do a brain bender, it could all take place in the Dreamlands. Grinches, Skrinks, Whos, Star-Belly Sneetches, and all the monsters (there's the Gak and the Gox, for example) from Dr. Seuss's The ABCs, and Hop and Pop. Once your SAN is down to 0, you switch into Seussian mode (or maybe even a temporary insanity). Everything is in 4 colors, and everything Rhymes - you have to speak clearly and rhyme at all times
I'm particularly terrified by Skrinks and the other various monsters from IHSTIGTSS. Perfect 0-level irritants. Seems to me that the Seuss books eschew acquisition of material wealth, and focus on cleverness and resourcefulness, and The Cat in the Hat makes for a terrific example of Picaresque hero/antihero
Speaking of which, check out The Archzenopus' +Zach H's OD&D resources - in particular his 1 HP monster thing for things you could use in a Seussian game
What's this? Funnel, did you say? I love to grind low-levels through funnels! |
Look for 'On Beyond Zebra' and 'McElligot's Pool', they are basically Monster Manuals. My favorite page in One Fish Two Fish is "Look what we found in the park in the dark. We will take him home. We will call him Clark."
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