Two summers ago I was in an exceptionally
good mood, one of my friends was visiting from England, my other friends seemed
to be in a great mood too, and I just wanted to throw a crazy one-shot game, so
I just put in 5 to 6 hours of work and whipped together a Desperate Housewives intrigue. Yes, you read that right. I printed
the map of Wisteria Lane available online, and nice pics of Bree, Suzan, Lynette,
and Gaby, created their character records and skills (Bree is better with
pills, Gaby has a sweet +25% when shopping, etc), and created a bunch of silly NPCs
like the creepy mailman, the thieving nanny, the split personality insurance
broker / serial killer, and so on.
“Suzan attempts a Fast-Talk: she needs 30 to succeed, rolls 37.
Bree makes her
Saving Throw vs Bullshit, and fails.”
It would have been lots of fun... but my
friends had other things planned every day for the entire summer. So that’s that.
Desperate
Housewives wasn’t the best TV show in the history of TV shows, but it was
the only one my mom watched, and whenever I saw her we could laugh and talk
about Suzan’s insane shenanigans or Lynette’s latest faux pas. It was great.
Now that the Housewives are history,
my mom watches Castle, which is cool
too – but quite noticeably less silly.
Still, looking at those character sheets and
maps from two years ago, I can’t help but to think it would make an awesome one
page dungeon!
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