NINJA BORG RPG Session: Kill Cheap Trick Live at Budokan
ACTUAL PLAY of NINJA BORG with game creators Walton Wood and Rugose Kohn. Mission: Get in a time machine. Get Applebee’s. Kill Cheap Trick.
Walton Wood and Rugose Kohn, the makers of NINJA BORG, let me come along for a special ninja mission that left me conflicted: Some degenerate record producer wanted to stick my and Rugose’s ninjas into a time machine so we could go back to 1978 and eliminate Chicago power-pop legends Cheap Trick right on stage during their career-resurrecting gig at Budokan in Japan.
With the boys’ help, I created a bitter former Applebee’s prep cook ninja (Maudy “Ultimate Trio” Yeggers aka Toxic Smoker the Laconic) who feels extremely put upon when the action compromises a) his smoke breaks b) his compulsion to keep eating the fare of his former employer. My teammate was Martoke “Karen” Tagit aka Festering Warlock the Punisher, who got excellent mileage out of the Roomba he rides around on.
With Walt guiding the action as the Motherfuckin’ Ninja Master and Rugose ensuring my incessant dialog didn’t make the action sag, we got about the business of the game’s bloody combat and hyperconductive silliness.
The complete audio of this event is below.
Maudy “Ultimate Trio” Yeggers: NINJA BORG character sheet. I didn’t draw my guitar, but it broke anyway.
NINJA BORG TTRPG: The Game that Says “Yes” to Hysterical Killing
I needed an explanation as to why there were 32 shuriken types available in NINJA BORG character. IT’S BECAUSE NINJAS
Would you like to go on an ‘80s movie-style ninja killing spree? Get off some one-liners? Pick from 32 shurikens for no reason other than that it’s beautiful and fun?
Walton Wood and Rugose Kohn, the makers of NINJA BORG, made a pretty book that lets you arm up with a ludicrous backstory and start the sneaking, slicing, and dicing. Why get borged down in the details?
I queried them about the thinking behind the RPG book — and the blood-drenched results. A lot of results.