[Blog Carnival] Humorous Indie RPGs

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This month’s blog carnival revolves around humor and so along those lines I present a list of independent and small-press RPGs that are conducive to light-hearted themes. Here are a few games guaranteed to generate some laughs.

InSpectres -  Start a company in the burgeoning supernatural investigation and elimination market. This is a game where you essentially play the Ghostbusters, so how can it not lead to hilarious scenes?  The game’s mechanics give players narrative control and it’s just full of awesome. A must buy in my opinion. In the past sessions I’ve run, the group has  faced off against a nacho-cheese demon, dealt with a haunted sorority house, and had an investigator who carried a rocket launcher….

Kill Puppies for Satan – No, the game is not meant to be taken seriously, but rather is pure sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek gold.

Committee for the Exploration of Mysteries – a GM-less game about pulp adventures, this game will meld to fit the group’s styles. It can be serious, campy, or totally off-the-wall. One game we played involved undead penguins and a Chinese kung fu master who didn’t wear underpants.

octaNe – is the psychotronic game of post-modern, trash culture America. Rev your engines, tune up your six-string and feed your damn monkey. Enter a world where Mexican wrestlers run the White House and mutants run the wastelands. A world where rock n’ roll rules! How can a game with a description like that not lead to some hilarious scenes?

Ninja Burger – become employees of the world’s only fast-food chain run by ninjas.