Mr Orange

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Mr Orange

About 10 years ago, my brother and I started work on a game we called Cyborg. It was a great game until we tried to write down the rules. We have subsequently tried three times to codify the game and each time we have made it suck hard. I think its mostly my fault – I usually do a pretty good job of codifying rules, but I usually do my own games. This is, I think, probably something that the creator of the game concept should have done. If we are lucky, one day he will.

Essentially the game is played in the far future when corporations have taken over the running of the planet (“Will the member for Pepsi please be quiet, the member for Coke has the floor!”) but the terminology has remained largely the same. In other words, hostile take overs are take overs of companies, only now there tends to be a little more blood shed.

The model above was painted as part of a four man “Auditing Team”. There was Mr Blue, Mr Orange (pictured), Mr Scarface and Bob. I had visions of the auditing team coming from Miami and wearing ridiculous clothes – hence the orange suit. I think it worked out great – the photo was taken by a photographer friend of mine Kent Marcus.

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RupertG has been playing roleplaying games ever since he discovered Dragon Warriors at the age of 12. Since those days he has played many different RPG's, collected not insignificant Dwarf and Tomb Kings armies for Warhammer Fantasy Battles and even worked as a games designer in the heady days of the late 90's building a CCG. Now he runs a gaming blog and is a participant in the Grand Gaming Experiment
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  • Cuchulain

    Yes – eventually I will get around to writing this game up. Every time we’ve played it we’ve had great fun – the system is great, the concept is great – but we just can’t seem to get the backstory right. I’ll just have to shut myself in a bunker for a few weeks and type the thing up.

    Mr. Orange, of course, has been one of the most memorable of our characters. Just love the over-the-top colour scheme.

  • Cuchulain

    Yes – eventually I will get around to writing this game up. Every time we’ve played it we’ve had great fun – the system is great, the concept is great – but we just can’t seem to get the backstory right. I’ll just have to shut myself in a bunker for a few weeks and type the thing up.

    Mr. Orange, of course, has been one of the most memorable of our characters. Just love the over-the-top colour scheme.

  • http://www.diceofdoom.com RupertG

    Mr Orange has always been one of my favourites… The game was a lot of fun – and we used to have a crap load of tabletop gear for it… wonder where that all went…

  • http://www.diceofdoom.com RupertG

    Mr Orange has always been one of my favourites… The game was a lot of fun – and we used to have a crap load of tabletop gear for it… wonder where that all went…