Macho Women With Guns
| Macho women with thick cannon (Macho Women with Guns) |
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| publication | |
| Author (s) | Greg Porter |
| Original publisher | Blacksburg Tactical Research Center (BTRC) |
| Original publication | 1988 |
| original language | English |
| German publisher | Spielzeit Verlag |
| German publication | 1996 |
| World and system | |
| genre | satire |
| Game world | The macho |
| Basic system | own system / d20 |
| Ascent | freely distributable women points |
| cube | 3W6 or W20 / d20 |
Macho Women With Guns ( MWWG for short ; German Macho women with thick cannons , MWMDK ) is a satirical pen & paper role-playing game by Greg Porter released in 1988 . The German version was published by Spielzeit Verlag in 1996 and was largely newly illustrated in color by FeliX (known among other things from the comic series Playbär ).
Game world and game mechanics
In MWWG, in a post-apocalyptic world, the players represent lightly clad, attractive women with heavy weapons. The men of the "machoversum" have degenerated into sentimental weaklings and depend on the protection of women. These fight against monsters that stream into the earth from different alternative realities (see also: TORG ). To those described in the rules monsters include such figures as killer rabbits (killer rabbits, see also: the Holy Grail ), Bambo (see Bambi and Rambo ), Hell Kittens (Hell chicks), drunken frat boys (drunken frat boys ), Oddzilla (see Godzilla ), Alienses (see Alien , Alien II etc.) and various allusions to beings of the Cthulhu myth , such as B. Bthulhu (the immortal sleepy morning grouch), Issac Azathoth and Gnarlyhotep (the surfer with a thousand toes).
The system has only three character classes : "Macho Women with Guns" (dt. Macho women ), "Batwinged Bimbos from Hell" (dt. Hell chicks ) and "Renegade Nuns on Wheels" (dt. Sadononne ) where the only difference is that certain properties are not available for everyone: only hell cussies can have bat wings, only sadononnas can have a winged habit (see: the TV series The Flying Nun ). Among the basic characteristics of the characters are, of course, appearance and macho and samples are rolled with 3d6, which must be added together under a modified value - the German macho women with thick cannons uses a D20 instead of the 3d6. All properties are bought with "women points" (in the German version; the English version only speaks of points ).
history
The first issue of Macho Women with Guns appeared in August 1988 at GenCon, where half of the 300 copies were sold and the rest were distributed to dealers. The edition was 12 pages and the illustrations were by Darrell Midgette, a local artist, and were printed in full black and white. The second edition (2nd Edition) from 1989 is no more extensive than the first and was only supplemented by a few allusions to expansions that did not exist at the time and that appeared in response to requests from fans that same year: Renegade Nuns on Wheels and Batwinged Bimbos from Hell (each with 12 pages).
With The Final Chapter one final 12-page rule extension appeared for this edition of the game
In 1994 the third edition appeared, which is mostly referred to as "2nd edition" in role-playing circles. This edition includes all previously published additional "books" together and also contains an adventure scenario, so that a total of 68 pages plus two sheets with characters printed on cardboard come out. Four different editions were printed, each with the same content but different front images. In 1995 the game got an expansion with More Excuses to Kill Things .
In 2003 Mongoose Publishing published a d20 version of the game and in 2004 published the rules as a PDF under the title Macho Women with Guns (Diet Edition) .
The German edition was published in 1996 by Röbchen Hood , which was soon renamed Spielzeit Verlag .
Curiosities
- The rulebook contains a list of translations of the title into various languages, including Etruscan and Klingon . The game was actually translated into several languages.
- In a table of the English set of rules (for rolling the order for Sadononnen) there is an allusion to a non-existent game called Kung Fu CB Mamas on Wheels vs. the Motorcycle Aztec Wrestling Nuns , for which an errata sheet and character sheet appeared as a joke in Space Gamer magazine.
Web links
- MWMDK - DRoSI review
- MWWG at RPG.net
- MWWG at RPGeek
- Macho Wimen with Guns - Unofficial Tribute to the MWWG RPG
- The Flying Nun in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Greg Porter: Macho Women with Guns . BTRC, 1994, ISBN 0-943891-27-2 , History, pp. 2 .
- ^ Mach Women with Guns - The Final Chapter. In: RPGeek. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
- ↑ see e.g. E.g .: Macho Women with Guns. In: RPG.net. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
- ^ Lester Smith: Role-Playing Reviews . In: Wolfgang Baur (Ed.): Dragon Magazine . No. 220 . TSR, Inc., August 1995, ISSN 1062-2101 , pp. 52 ( PDF, 11 MB [accessed on July 18, 2011]).
- ↑ More Excuses to Kill Things. In: RPGeek. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
- ^ Macho Women with Guns (d20). In: RPGeek. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
- ↑ Macho Women with Guns (Diet Edition). In: RPGeek. Retrieved July 18, 2011 .
- ^ Greg Porter: Macho Women with Guns . BRTC, 1994, ISBN 0-943891-27-2 , pp. 20 . : Aztec Werstling Nuns
- ↑ J. David George (Ed.): Murphy's Rules . Steve Jackson Games, 1988, ISBN 1-55634-099-0 , Other Strange Stuff, pp. 35-37 .