The Lunch Room

A place for people to ask questions, theorize or say they need a few days away from the game!

Thanks for having me! This game looks silly and fun, and easy to pick up and play!

And since you did mention this as a purpose for the lunch room, I actually will be going away for a few days—a short trip to Hong Kong on April 19th. But aside from my sleep schedule being thrown from a 12-hour time zone change, I don’t think my posting will be completely off from the trip.

Hi! Nice to meet you and thank you for getting the game run! Looking forward it!

An unfamiliar with RCG here ;)

I’m just about ready to kick this thing off! How do we feel about a fourth player?

Sounds traditional!

Great! If it is ok for the GM, the more, the merrier (there were a couple of more interested in the recruiting thread)

Okay by me!

We're about to muscle some non corporeal entities into submission! And we can always sell steamy calendars to help pay the bills. 💪

Also, love the RCG2 choice!

Hey evbody!

Excited to play a psychic in a supernatural game, especially one as freewheeling and simple as a Goons-derivative.

Depending how long this runs, I will be in Europe June 10 – 20 …

Oops… I meant to post in the Lunch Room.

Anyway, @tibbius , welcome! I also rolled a 1 for the day job so we’re colleagues!

:} … actually I had been thinking I'd shuffle the dice around to be a Psychic! But your sanitation worker could certainly have visited Jasper Strone's "office" betimes.

Welcome, all! I hope to permanently return to Europe myself sometime in May. Been in Korea a long ole time and the moves are being made to, well… move.

I lived in Asia for a few years (in my case, US to Hong Kong and back), so I kinda know the feeling. Good luck with the move!

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Looking forward to busting some ghosts together! Also, this is the closest I’ve come to playing a game with mind/body/spirit stats and it’s the ONLY game in which I LIKED randomizing character creation!

Always wondered what HK is like to live in.

My first pandemic live chat game was Tunnel Goons, the ancestor of Goons & Ghosts. "Brute + Skulker + Erudite" were the three stats. I suggest you check it out on itch.io; it was a lot of fun to play.

I loved HK when my wife and I were a childless couple, and I was thin from the combination of walking and the tropical climate. But the best part has to be the food. You get the local flavors—dim sum, cha siu fan (BBQ pork rice), sweet soups, freshly-caught sea food (which I normally don’t like, but Lamma Island is where I make an exception), beef brisket noodles, and various street foods and SE Asian fruits. And you also get authentic Shanghai cuisine, Korean and Japanese.

I will admit that it helps to be dating/married to a Cantonese-speaker, but you can get by speaking English in some places.

Funny that the stats are B-, S- and E-words in both Goon games. Like, I seriously started thinking of other combinations like "bold", "sneaky" and "enchanting." (I probably didn’t need to admit to this dorkiness in writing.)

@KCC — I took too long to write my post, so you beat me to it!

But I had an OoC question in that post, so I’ll ask now.

@gesges - it’s the psychic stat

ESP = Extra-Sensory Perception (by knowing that, I basically just admitted I’m old)

Forgot to answer the trash can query! That sounds fine to me! Go, go gadget trash can!

Cool! I’ll give that a shot next time!

Thanks!! :)

I love the team-aspect of zapping the ghost!

I believe we each have a ghost trap, but we probably don’t need to worry about that yet because the team total (rolling one die each) needs to beat the ghost HP to damage it.

It looks like once the ghost HP is zero, one player can toss the trap. (I expect KCC will fill us in after we drain HP to zero—and will show us the stream-crossing table if two of us roll 1’s!)

right, right. That makes sense!

I think it’s ingenious, actually. I’ve always wanted a rules-lite RPG with a teamwork aspect (that players would actually use), and this game’s design didn’t just totally nail it—the fail conditions are true to the source—accidental damage and, on rare* occasions, we risk crossing the streams.—and we can always have that "careful not to cross the streams" moment, since in PbP we roll one by one. We can see a 1 was rolled, and do others roll anyway? Is the ghost weak enough the other successful rolls are enough?

Oh! The +1 Lucky Hat reminds me—


@KCC , I actually brought my trash can lid to use as a shield!

Can I use that to shield AJ (+1 to her roll) instead of saving myself?

Yeah! That sounds fine to me!

Cool—I edited that into my existing post.

Uooo Thanks!

Apologies, all! The day got away from me! I’ll get a post up on this on the way to work tomorrow!

No problem!

Dont worry, life goes always first :)

I got a kick out of this!

Lmao me too

If you’re asking because of the pace, I’m fine with it. My only bad experience with pacing was when a GM kept booting players for being too slow, which made it feel like every other PC was one excuse away from ceasing to exist.

The fun of PbP, for me, is to perform without pressure to perform. This game is super fun, and I love how many source material references the designers got out of an extremely simple system. Crossing the streams is a brilliant mechanic. I’m glad it happened, and thanks for being open to suggestion.


TL;DR version - I’m enjoying the game.

@KCC I'm having fun, the game pace is fine. My RL obligations vary; sometimes very heavy, right now not so much. So I'm sympathetic to you feeling like life is fast-paced.

@legendary_sidekick 💯 on the no-pressure thing.

I agree 100% with what has been said above!

I agree with what is already said!
I am enjoying the game and the pace is perfect for me!
Great job everyone!

Yeah super simple system and allows us to focus on the fun story and characters.

I’ll let someone who’s not being stealthy (or trying to be..?) answer Ryan’s question.

@gesges - don’t forget it’s 2d6+.

Only the particle thrower is a flat 1d6.

ouch! I'll go

Apologies, all (again!). I’m 35 today, woohoo. I’m also training my replacement at work. A brand new teacher with no experience… so I’ve been busy! Luckily, I finish working on Wednesday, April 30. So I won’t have (too) many more distractions after that!

Happy birthday!!!

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!


While I am nothing like Abby, I started a daily workout routine on my birthday in December. I’m up to 75-second planks as part of the routine. Normally, I use a song’s remaining seconds on Spotify to time myself.

But since the phone was within reach, I figured I could make a quick post just to see if I wouldn’t roll a 1. By the time I got my phone back in a place where I could see the timer, I had actually done a two-minute plank without realizing it. (Normally, the last 15 seconds pass like six eternities.)

Maybe Abby got her abs by posting attack rolls instead of timing her planks in seconds..?

Happy Birthday! 🎂

haha that is a good strategy @Legendary_sidekick

Booked my tickets to move from Korea to Ireland for May 29th. So I’ll get this puppy wrapped up before then!

What a move!

Something I love about tunnel goons derivatives: the versatility of the system. Very similar to cypher system in this regard, but simpler.

I’ll wait to see how AJ’’s defense goes (because I want Abby to react to it).

—we’ll, since there’s no description of A.J. becoming a child, I threw in an insult to the demon for a +1 instead, as if Abby only noticed the demon stroking A.J.’s face.

Oh… I want my post to count for next turn. @KCC , should I hold up a bit in case someone else wants to do that this turn?

If so, feel free to delete my post.

Looks good to me! You traded a pretty nice damage score to get Niles back up! Incoming!

I did… but I knew what Abby would say.

Well, we have all five of us next round (I hope).