Recruiting Fun Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1-shot

Game System
OK, so, not actually an official TMNT game - rather the one-page rules-very-light off-brand ENNIE-nominated free/pay-what-you-want Secret Science Sewer Siblings. You can see some Lasers and Feelings DNA in the game system.

SSSS totally leans into the cartoony fun version of TMNT-like-action - with this system you're not going to die, you'd probably have to actively try hard to loose if you wanted to be beaten by the baddies. The focus is on broad stroke cartoony mutant ninja teenage sewer-animal action. Not the game for gritty precision coordinated Last Ronin tactical combat.

System is designed for one-shots and that's how we'd play it.

The Story
You'll play as teenage sewer-animal mutant found-family siblings (rats, opossums, alligators, cats, you get the idea) who are looked after and trained by a mentor.

Who can Join?
Everyone - no expectation that anyone has any familiarity with the rules. AND I expect that fans of TMNT are likely to have the most fun with the game. Would be looking for 4 or 5 players.

Technology
We'll just play using GamersPlane forums for messaging.

We'll use The X Card and a shared Google Sheets Lines and Veils document as safety tools.

Posting frequency
I expect I can keep up with maybe 5 posts a week.

It might be a few weeks before I would start putting the forum and resources and recruitment thread together - but was excited by the idea so thought I'd post now.

I'm new to PbP GMing and am trying out running a range of different kind of games here - I'm curious with this one to see how one-page rules-light stuff runs here. My hope is that it will play fairly fast and with less effort than more complicated games (for players and for the GM).

I'm guessing the adventure would take maybe 3-4 months here on GP.

Questions?
Very here for any questions you might have :)

Game on GamersPlane
Game page here on GamersPlane

Editing to rearranging my comment. I think I confused folks to think that this is Palladium TMNT (it's not), or that this will focus on the Turtles (I don't think it will).

This sounds awesome. I'd totally be down to play. I really like this take -- four stats, based on the letters of TMN[T]. Brilliant.

However, I am in a few games currently, so I'm also happy to let newer players join if you end up getting a lot of interest.

P.S. The Palladium TMNT was actually the first RPG I played!

Hah! Same! I think I played in one or two sessions at high school with the Palladium rules and suspect that may have been the first TTRPG I ever tried out.

Don’t know that Kickstarter has started a resale of these books!

I am a massive TMNT rpg fan, but have not played since High School. I would be interested in a 1shot :)

I am to be Michelangelo, but I will probably end up Raphael

I've changed my mind—I definitely want to play this if you'll have me. I'm thinking of a punk possum girl in flannels and band T-shirts.

That's my fault. The game BeardHare is proposing is actually a stripped down, indie, two-page game and nothing like the Palladium RPG. Sorry for muddying things.

Hi, I'd be interested as well, if you'd have me!

Ah, nice, looks like we have enough people interested to run a game :) I'll put together a Character Sheet template, do a bit of other prep, and will ping you when we're good to go. I'll use this thread as the recruitment thread, and will send out invites to 4 or 5 people.

If you're interested and didn't ping here yet, then please go ahead and do so - I'll aim for players with a mix of experience/time on GamersPlane, some oldies, some people who are newer.

I had been assuming you wouldn't play as one of the TMNT i.e. not as donnie, leo, mikey, or raph - but if some of you want to play a character directly from the TMNT-verse, we can try that out. If we do that, we'll discuss together whether they lost some of their previous siblings and found new ones, whether in this world they were never the 'classic' team of 4, and only had this set of siblings, etc.

Don't know if you're interested in one more?

Haven't closed for recruitment yet - so you're welcome to throw your hat in the ring :) Will be trying to a set of players with a range of experience on the platform.

This game sounds like a lot of fun, but I don't have the time for it atm.
I might check in to see if you need a replacement player when you've already started.

Hope you all have a great time :)

I've created a Game for this here on GamersPlane - I'll set up some initial info in the Session Zero thread and then send out invitations. We've got five people interested in this thread, and that works for me as a number of players. So! Looking forward to playing with y'all!

I want to play as Donatello if I can!

We're building characters atm - if space opens up I'll ping you @Unicorn!

Popped in to say TMNT is being reprinted on Kickstarter, but I see it's been mentioned already. Have fun everyone!

Thank you @BedzoneII!

Could just play the original. "Back in my day we had typos, charts that were questionable, rules that were unclear, and by gawd we liked it!"🤣🤣