Helpful Goat plays an experimental 1-shot RPG (and improvised sequel!) inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher movie, The 'Burbs! Designed and GMed by Adam (Burbage Kemp in The Fates of Ryn, Silvyr Norran in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, GM of Big Gay Orcs) and streamed on Twitch on Thursday, October 24, 2019 as part of our Special Spooktober Stream Series!
Warning: There's some potentially offensive/triggering content in this episode, including violent imagery, darkly comedic references to 9/11 and drug abuse, and jokes about Canada that only came about because one of the players rolled for their motivation to be "To get even with the dirty immigrants." Speaking of which, thank you to Jason Morningstar for the list of needs/motivations that we used (from the "Tales From Suburbia" Fiasco playset)!
The premise:
Mayfield Place. A cul-de-sac located in Hinkley Hills, a neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa.
30 years ago, on this very street, Tom Hanks began suspecting that his new next-door neighbors were killers. While investigating with his man-child friends, he inadvertently blew up his neighbors’ house—and went down in history in the process.
Now, 30 years later, the events of 1989 are the stuff of local myth and legend—and firmly set in the past.
Or are they...?
- Map used on Roll20 - https://i.imgur.com/5xWICvI.png (adapted from http://www.dayc.vispa.com/burbs/)
- 0:41 - 1:11 of Spooktober intro - Reddit user r/posidonking
- In-game music: Incompetech ("Classic Horror 3," "Neo Western," "Western Streets," "Thinking Music," "Hero Down," "Air Prelude," "Marty Gots a Plan," "Sinfonia No. 3 in D Major - BWV 789," "Classic Horror 2," "Dark Walk," "Sneaky Snitch," "News of Sorrow," "Evening of Chaos," "Invariance," "Long Note Two," "Supernatural Radio," "Custav Sting," "Waltz of the Carnies," "Reawakening," "Anxiety" & Tabletop Audio ("Crossroads," "Abandoned Fair")
- Theme song: "Theme for Harold (var. 1)" by Kevin MacLeod
- All music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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