I'll be honest; the system is basically just a home-brew concoction of my favorite elements from Pendragon, Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, and Mutant Chronicles. It's a straight-ahead fantasy heartbreaker with little to no innovative or interesting elements. But since I've learned that when people are offended by something, rather than ignoring it and focusing on things they actually like and are enthusiastic about they'll instead spill gallons of virtual ink generating free publicity for the very product they profess to decry, I'm giving the game an uber-controversial title and will be liberally illustrating the book with pictures of various popes throughout history being violently sodomized by amoral adventurers. The most violent depiction will, of course, be reserved for Pope Joan, history's sole female pope. Through this, I hope to drive sales into the tens of thousands.
Expect an Open Beta release to be timed with whenever this latest brouhaha begins to wind down so that your blog rolls can once again be choked of with a kudzu-like eruption of opinionated posts on a subject 99.999% of the population couldn't care less about.
*Of which that link, more or less chosen at random, is but one of many examples.
I've barely noticed the most recent storm-in-a-teacup, so I suppose I'm lucky.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I'm offended by your PopeRape; it's "roleplaying" not "role-playing", you deviant!
Sounds like an excellent plan. You have my endorsement.
ReplyDeleteYou, sir, are a marketing genius. I strongly suggest that you include the phrase "various popes throughout history being violently sodomized by amoral adventurers" in the press releases for the game -- awesome!
ReplyDeleteWhat will the Winter Phase be like? Making Sanity checks as you store up energy for a fresh new round of Pope raping?
ReplyDeleteI"ll take ten copies, please. And some popes so that I can start raping out of the box. Win!
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to clarify that there is no actual pope raping in PopeRape. Sorry if the title led you to think otherwise.
ReplyDeleteThere are already plans under way for a supplement that WILL include pope-raping rules, among other things. Keep watching this blog for that exciting announcement!
I played the LARP version when I was at the Vatican last year.
ReplyDeleteCAPTCHA: conan...hell yes
Will you put an 18+ warning on it? Otherwise I might buy it for my nephew and catch hell from my sister.
ReplyDeleteBased on what I've seen about this on Something Awful, I beleive I can speak for everyone here when I say
ReplyDeleteHey, I heard about the upcoming Schism supplement. Is it true it has full frontal papal nudity?
ReplyDeleteWhy are women relegated to just being nuns? Can't we include them as popes for equality purposes? We need more then Pope Joan.
there was a female pope? I was raised Catholic and never heard that...
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious to me, sir, that you are missing the point of sodomtastic RPG rules design. Far more offense will be generated by making the Popes be the ones raping the amoral adventurers, except that the adventurers should all be noble high fantasy heroes; thus inverting the normal tropes, rather than presenting a beloved figure (a pope) as a victim, one reverses the roles, for even extra outrage. The simple presence of a noble victim and a horrific act is simply not efficient, or indeed truly energizing to the outraged sensabilites of the audience; the villification of the beloved plus the horrific acts( of sodomy, rape, and sodomy-rape, etc) is what makes it EXTRA BITCHIN WAYCOOL , man.
ReplyDeleteDaveL: Don't worry, you weren't misinformed--most historians today view the Pope Joan story as legendary.
ReplyDeleteI think I need to go to confession or perhaps therapy after laughing my ass off at this thread. Brad's & Doc's comments made my eyes water. Now back to something serious. . . Padre
ReplyDeleteIf you keep the price under $10 you have at least 1 sale.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to get post-trial Formosus in there for extra points.
ReplyDeleteI promise to contribute with 3d4 incensed comments on random blogs as soon as PRtRPG hits the virtual shelves. I do however expect to be compensated for my time -- its not like I'm going to market your product for free.
ReplyDeleteAs for Doc G's suggestion, I suggest you wait until 2ed to implement that.
Let's get to the REAL question that matters:
ReplyDeleteWill it use Zocchi dice?
Sir, I ****ing dare you (Double Dog Dare! f'real) to write it instead as a FATAL retro-clone. I would buy a copy just so I could be the most ironic hipster nerd ever.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've read the Vatican has the largest collection of historical porn in the world, or maybe that's a myth or silly rumor? So I doubt the Catholic Power Brokers would even bat an eye. Of course they might still send a Vatican Death Squad after you over PRtRPG. The again maybe you can contact them for some art?
ReplyDeleteI have a couple of questions. Is it going to be a boxed set? What about miniatures? Ascending or descending AC? =)~
I won't be using Zocchi dice per se; however, the system is a dice pool resolution using about a dozen d30s.
ReplyDeletePlease, Pope Joan? What about Eebgtr, the Martian Pope? That poor little green holy man....
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I am pleased when I get three responses. If I got several dozen I might be so surprised I would fall down.
Obviously, the game needs to be about both raping Popes and Popes raping.
ReplyDeleteAnd neither Zocchi dice nor dozens of d30s really do this idea justice. What it needs are specially-made, unique to this game, prime number dice: d11, d13, d17, d19, d23, d29, d31, d37, d41, d43, d47, d53, d59, d61, d67, d71, d73, d79, d83, d89, d97...
Get balls and call it "Muhammads Rape" instead. Nobody kills you for affronting the pope (at least not in Europe). Try this with the muslim parody of Jesus and see what happens then.
ReplyDelete"Get balls and call it 'Muhammads Rape' instead. Nobody kills you for affronting the pope (at least not in Europe)."--Cyric
ReplyDeleteYou missed the point of the idea. It's to get rich, not killed.
And, even more than that, you missed the point of the blog post too. It's to make fun of the online brouhaha over the DCC RPG, not raise serious issues like real world violence inspired by religious intolerance.
"...the muslim parody of Jesus..."--Cyric
Speaking of religious intolerance...
Oh, I did understand the intention of the blog post 100%. But if you want to get real attention, PopeRape won't get you anywhere in Europe. Nobody would care. That's what I was trying to say.
ReplyDeleteAnd "...the muslim parody of Jesus..." is not intolerant. Jesus (as traditional) was all about peace, self reflection, etc. Mohammad was a warleader and other things I see no sense in posting on a rpg blog.
Btw I'm neither christ nor anything else. I live by the words of Dawkins. I just find it cheap to go by "PopeRape" because it's aimed at people who are easy targets nowadays.
Will there be,"splatbooks"? Heh, I kill myself.
ReplyDeleteThe dice cracks on this particular thread are one of the funniest things I've read in a long time.
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