Pol Jackson hosted the Roach for my first slot here at Ambercon NW.
We had a lot of fun.
I'll go over the high points.
Jeremy Zimmmerman created a character who was a little person that was a expert in little people fighting sports throughout the ages and had been a midget westler himself in his past. Someone looked up from writing notes about the fellow on his character sheet and said "Let me get this straight. You made a dwarven fighter for a game of TheRoach?" I think that set the tone.
I named my character Professor Heinrich Rathkenmuller-Hallstatlerdorf for schadenfreude's sake, and it was fun watching everyone else try to write it down in those little boxes.
Cults were taken over, personalities were taken over, and an unfortunate dean of students was beaten to death by a burlap sack covered midget wielding an oar in a kidnapping gone bad.
All in all pretty good. it's too bad we didn't get to the last scene. No flaming Christmas tree.
Curious. My experience with Roachy goodness is that it usually goes very over-the-top, Grand Guignol black comedy with first-time players, but wow. The dwarf thing blows my mind.
That sounds lovely. About half-way through every Roach game I do a time check and if we're running short, I pick something else to cut so we can get to the Christmas ball. It seems to bring out the worst in people, even more than Homecoming.
What was really great was how the most popular coed went from pervert's minion and sex-toy, to satanist's minion and sex-toy, to cult leader and castrationist.