1. WoD - 100% normal humans (through the entire game) Vs Anastagio's Olde Time Lunar Carnival and Midnight Circus.

-iE².  Any System - Time travel.... lots and lots and lots and lots of time travel.

3. any system - PCs must all have romantic relations with at least two other PCs. Bonus if you don't tell them till chars are created and genders are picked.

4. dnd - Third party races and classes only.

5. Any system - All the PCs have amnesia the GM makes a secret character for each player. Then the players play without the sheet and just guess. "Do I have a sword? Ok, I swing it"

2.  Any System - Time travel.... lots and lots and lots and lots of time travel.
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And what has brought this on?

I like the idea of normal humans vs The Midnight Circus. It's very Something Wicked This Way Comes. Doesn't have to be a slaughterhouse. It could be a hope spot for the humans. It could be about the creatures remembering their humanity, if they had any to start with. Or anything. A lot of directions.
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Who cares what started it, let's keep it going.

7. M&M - Everyone's powers are extremely limited and weak, example: "Player X can fly... north only"

8. D&D - Time period is early man, no communication skills have developed.

9. BESM - Modern American Football theme.

10. D&D - A nautical adventure based off the adventures of the movie Life of Pi.

What degree north? Only north north? Or anything in the North Direction?

XI. Any System - Time travel.... lots and lots and lots and lots of time travel.

In reply to Nirobo (msg # 5):

True north, as in directly toward the north pole in a straight line.

I'm afraid that I love these "bad" ideas too much. I have cultivated poor taste and I enjoy it.

11. World of Darkness Vampire and Mage Crossover based on West Side Story or some kind of Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. I'm picturing street fights and characters breaking into song/players posting in rhyme. Using Disciplines and Spheres to orchestrate regular humans into dance battles.
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In reply to Sleepy (msg # 7):

Or only in the direction of the rising (or else setting) sun, based on the last time it was observed. If you wind up out over the ocean... Oh, well.

12. WoD, W:tO - The players are pathos tax collectors.

13.  Any System - Teleport.  Maximum distance 6 inches.

14: Any System: Characters are forced to act as if in a musical, with spontaneous burst of music and singing when ever music is heard.
Wandering NPC mistrals wander about forcing everyone to break in to song and dance routines.

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I have run the 'everyone has amnesia' game, though I did let them check their equipment list. Then let them try and work out why they were, why they were there, and such.
(Put a group of people in medieval armor and weapons in catacomb / sewer type setting - did not tell them till the end of the game that they were actually lost under modern NYC and were actually Larpers)
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Magic Minstrels? Best. Game. Ever.

15. D&D and Muppet Babies crossover. Perilous dungeon crawls rewarded by snacks and naptime. ^_^

16. Exalted- A cooking tournament to determine the next Orichalcum Chef.

17. Any magic system: Cast in Pig Latin!

I'm having such a hard time disliking these ideas. :(

Here's an easy one for you to hate:

18. D20 Modern - Justin Bieber meets with the cast of Twilight, they must act and sing through hordes of people who want to kill them.

In reply to Sleepy (msg # 17):

OH! Even better! The story of Twilight told through the music of Justin Beiber! The players must work to save the benighted town of Forks before they fall to the Evil Temptation of slaughtering them all. Or worse: succumb to the plague Beiber Fever!

Dun Dun DUNNN!

19. Any system - The game takes place in a dream, when they finally figure it out an find a way out of the dream they lose all there exp and go back to there starting charter sheet,

20. F.A.T.A.L-Thinking about even running or having anything to do with this system.

21. RIFTS - You have 15 minutes to complete your chars.

If at the end of the 15 minutes you don't have all the %'s figured for all your skills, the uncacluatled skills are 0%. Incorrectly calculated skills are 0%.
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In reply to Sleepy (msg # 17):

The sad truth here is there are people who Like Justin Beiber.

And I for one like the Twilight books (not much for the movies though). Cold one vampires (the reason for the sparkle effect - perma ice) - actually I have read legends of such before. Just never in a romance type setting.

22. D20 Modern - The characters are all ordinary college students playing D20 Modern in which their characters are all ordinary college students playing D20 Modern in which their characters are all ordinary college students playing D20 Modern...

In reply to ShadoPrism (msg # 22):

Except that perma-ice wouldn't sparkle, if it were cold enough to be frozen in the sun, it would glow blue.

22a. DnD - Your chars are normal dnd chars playing d20 modern chars who are normal every day office workers. Boss is going around giving lay offs, roll a saving throw... roll a saving throw!!!!!
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In reply to Azraile (msg # 25):

Did somebody say Cubicles & Careers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS5-ayYTMiQ

In reply to Eggy (msg # 26):

lol awsome.

23. Call of Cthulhu - tell everyone they are playing a different game system, let them make chars of different races and worlds. Instead pick random normal human characters for them who are in an insane asylum, there char sheets are all who they THINK they are. Don't let them see there char sheets or tell them they are in a Call of Cthulhu game until they figure it out themselves, then give them there 100% insane chars.

In reply to Azraile (msg # 27):

Actually, I was in a game here where everyone was a personality in an individual with multiple personality disorder, and only the player of the main personality did not know.  It was a pretty neat.

In reply to Malakan (msg # 28):

That would be an Everyone is John variant
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In reply to Azraile (msg # 29):

I've played EiJ before, that can be a hilarious game, or it can get very repetitive.

24. WoD W:tO - Separate people into two groups, one group makes wraiths the other makes shadows. When ever the wraiths need to sleep the shadows take over there bodies and the wraiths play the Psyche. This switches back and forth until the wraiths finish the story, the shadows consume all the players, or the group falls apart and starts fighting IRL or OOCly to the point there is no recovery.

(I tried this.... the game didn't even get started, people fought to much)

I would love to play any of these except for the D&D ones. Ugh...

I'd especially love to play the time travel ones ;) (I'm actually running a game right now where one NPC lives backwards through time, and another has a time machine he uses to mess with the past to make things more punk-rocky. It's working out very well.)

One game I've wanted to run for so long ...

Pitch it as a high school drama. Run two weeks as a high school drama. Middle of second period, the English Lit professor keels over, an alien bursts out of his stomach, the military puts the school into lock-down and the city is thrown into eldritch horror.

(Unfortunately, I suspect the only person who'd enjoy it would be me as the GM.)

anything similar to real life. play regular people living in an apartment building in Chicago.

(this was actually posted as a game here on rpol, dumbest idea ever)

who is so starved for RL interaction that they choose to role-play it online?

Many many people on facebook and other social media as a replacement for any type of real social interaction

25. Paranoia

Where the computer isn't a schizoid personality......

WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT????????????????

26. D&D - The campaign is EXACTLY the same as the original Final Fantasy game. Only you don't tell the players this until they figure it out for themselves.

27 mixed system pvp
Who would win in a fight a dnd 4e wizard or a pathfinder bard?

I am not much of a fan of any pvp

28. Paranoia
In communist Beta Complex, trouble shoots you!

29.This is the true story... of seven vampires... picked to live in a house...work together and have their lives taped... to find out what happens... when people stop being polite... and start getting real...The REAL World of Darkness...
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In reply to warjoski (msg # 40):

That's beautiful. :3

7 vampires?  No no no no. Throw in one char from every setting: a vampire, a fera of some sort, fae, a Mage,a daemon, a risen, a human, a mummy, and a hunter.....you could add an umbrood and a NT1 (HITMark6) to make it an even 10

Huh? I like slice-of-life games... What's wrong with them?

And I think I remember that game idea. I considered joining it...

30. Any Replica games.

Anything that has tried to copy another game that has been successful, just because they think it will also be successful. Even going as far as copying some of the words from the other game. It just makes the game bad. This goes for any system, unless the game is tweaked in your own way.
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Not so much the game itself, rather the need some people have to escape reality that such games don't provide. For them, the game is a terrible idea.

In reply to Varsovian (msg # 43):

same here. Been in plenty. Only one I hated. Now two though for another reason.

As for replica I think this goes beyond. As someone who has been ripped off on one of my ideas I just say this. You'll never be as good as the original. No matter how hard you try. Same goes for ripping off of characters.

Now games set in same cities and stuff. That just happens not replicating. Or sometimes it may look this way that a person is but it's cause they went to the GM and asked them on it. It does happen folks. In fact the GM sometimes is nice enough to play in your own casuse of it.

31. Games based on bad video games

Video game was bad enough why duplicate it. Not a good one at all. Just sad.

In reply to PyraBlack (msg # 46):

Yeah i get that, i mean all the major cities must have been used plenty and plenty of times but its never nice to have a game completely replicated to another even with words and phrases nicked from it. Of course replicating a similar game is going to happen but like i said doing it just because you'll think its going to be as good isn't necessary. May as well just join that one. I agree having a game idea or game itself complete replicated is quite gutting because of how much time you spend on it.

More or less agreed.  I'm not sure I'd call it the dumbest idea ever, but I have never been able to get excited about slice of life games of any kind.  I get to live real life, why would I want to RP it?  I'm actually semi-amazed at all of the 'real life' games that pop up on here when there are so very, very many other ideas to be explored.  I know some people who I RP with who also like slice of life, so I don't like to generalize, but it does seem like a lot of people who join those games are pretty attention starved.  I mean when half of the profile is just a few giant shots of the character model in a swimsuit or lingerie... XP

Even worse than 'normal' slice of life games in my opinion are games set in/around real life high schools.  I just can't take high school drama seriously.

People like the concept behind the game if not the execution.  There for they use it as a launching point to tell a better story.

31a. The LEGO Movie game d20

I admit if you can do better do it. But when a bad video game spawns an even worse RP than it's bad. Haven't we been tortured enough. Same for (insert  bad thing here). Whether movie, book, or TV it just is sad. Yes, I think I can write a better script for Showgirls. Would I want that to be a game....no. Horrible, torture fest.

Eh, there are lots of cases where source material can be made better in the fan version.  I've read a whole lot of fanfiction where the source material is terrible, but the fics are good.  Same for games.

32. The archlich Jum Jum is summoning the shades of the most deadly bowlers from the pits of Hell in order to win the Forbidden Kingdoms Mystic Ten Pins League Championship....and only YOU can stop him!!!!!

In reply to warjoski (msg # 53):

Ooh! If you happen to win, can you be like 100 years old when you wake up?

In reply to Eggy (msg # 54):

Only if you take the Pin Splittah! Feat at level 12

Um, I see you hate One of my favorite ps2 games lol.

Some pretty funny sounding ideas here rofl.

Showgirls in rpg form? Ever see suckerpunch does that count?

What game is that

In reply to Azraile (msg # 57):

I believe the reference was to Sucker Punch, the movie of a girl in a mental institute who disenfranchises herself into numerous scifi and fantasy action scenes with her inmates, all of which are attractive young women. If memory serves there was a creepy warden that was involved in the girls doing a kind of dance show... That film has the most depressingly bittersweet endings ever though...

Nah, I rmailed him the game I meant, I was on a slightly different page though.

Just saying the game name right now could have people crying spoilers.

Sucker Punch... is kinda a horrible idea going back on-topic... I mean the action scenes would be awesome, the bookmarks of abuse in a mental institution... Much less so... :/

In reply to cero1 (msg # 60):

Indeed, I found the movie... kinda dull and boring honestly.

Then again one of my game ideas was where everyone started as gladiators, over through the king. Then find out they were on a tv show and the public thought it was all fake. They end up taking down the studio in charge of it.

I liked it a lot, actually. Saw it in IMAX and it was gorgeous.

The only horrible game ideas I can think of are the boring ones. I throw super-low power'gritty, no magic' fantasy into that...

Seems like Busty Barbarian Bimbos could handle it.

I'm the opposite with likes, after a fashion, I love low fantasy in the stylings of Robert E. Howard's Conan series, but things like LOTR and generic D&D/Pathfinder I am pretty uncaring for. There are so many games here that do that and I tend to pass those by unless they have something really big going for them.

Funnily enough, the likely most boring idea for a d20 game, the adventurers go into a dungeon and descend each level until they reach the big bad ECL 20+ monsters I actually like ^^'

I also play Dungeon World, but thats kinda different as you build the setting around you and as such you can pick and choose ideas.

I'm a little different to the average roleplayer it seems... ^^;

In reply to cero1 (msg # 64):

You know, that's actually part of the appeal of the GURPS Dungeon Fantasy series for me. It almost feels like a satirization of d20, and the characters in DF are often referred to as Murder Hoboes on the site.

 This actually sounds like my present game - we got almost all of these (though the fay is an NPC and the 'mummy' is a Dhampyr and we are playing a modified AD&D game)

Have had a ton of fun playing a game like this actually.  We all started with no memories and pretty much blank sheets with the single directive of being in an asylum and wanting to escape.  Good times.
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I was in a game like that, too. All of our characters had amnesia and we didn't even know our stats - we had to discover them in the course of the game.

I ran a game like this on here.  it died the death of RPOL games from player attrition.  It was interesting, I was really looking forward to the guy with a severe phobia of dogs to come across a dog....

Best part of all was one of the PCs was an employee of the antagonist but never figured that part out.
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Similarly, when I was a teenager in the 80s, I ran a scifi game where the characters went into a mutation device and came out with randomly rolled mutations  (of which there were many per character, good and bad) that completely changed all their characters physically (and mentally, in some cases).  Oh, to be young again...