"Groo: The Role Playing Game" Topic

I never played the card game, but, IIRC, you were trying to build a kingdom, and, if you got the "Groo" (Prince of Chichester?) card, bad things started to happen. Of course, this is the way it worked in the comic books as well.

Anway, Groo generally means well, but when he shows up, the city is usually a smoking ruin within 10 pages or so. How dould you represent this in a humorous rpg? Obvicouly, it is not enough to say "Okay, Groo chows up, someone calls him a mendicant, and now the city starts to burn."

Easy, the party awake in prison, drunk battered and charged with murder, to avoid there own executions they have to escort this strange man with a dog away from this and any friendly cities…

. . . by ship . . .

Oh boy, escorting Groo? Now that sounds like the task from heck. The party will be neck deep in cheese dip before they know it, and the GM will be defining 'mulch' at every possible opportunity. I don't know why no one has thought of it before!

I do have a reputation of being an inventive GM…

The intrepid adventurers could be hired by his sister to hunt him down and escort him towards one of her enemies. First they would have to find him by following a trail of horrific accidents and bloody battles, then the hard part, herding Groo.

I wonder if anybody would accidentally use the PCs map as a bib while eating messily and ruin it? That would be weird if somehow when the map was hastily redrawn on the back, it ended up leading the PCs to bring Groo to his sisters kingdom accidentally (along with the armies of her enemy).

"Did I err?"

Mulch?

Partly rotted plant material, etc.; (Hort.) loose material consisting of straw, decaying leaves, shredded cuttings and bark, etc., spread on soil or around or over a plant to provide insulation, protect from desiccation, and deter weeds. Also: textile or other artificial material used for the same purpose.

Long after I got past the Comic collecting stage I was still buyinh this one. Man that brings back memories of bygone days.

Sounds like a great idea, escorting Groo that is. Boy would my players be irritated when they realized what was up, but they'll be talking about it for years.

It would be even more fun if the PC's managed their own kingdoms and into their wonderful storybook lives walks Groo. The rest is history.

Skipper

A fray!