Pitch Generator

[Valamir]

Ok, anyone who enjoys The Pitch must now go to this web site and click multiple times...

http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm

A near infinite variety of random dumb pitches such as:

He's a witless Jewish cowboy with acid for blood. She's a radical
Bolivian nun with an MBA from Harvard. They fight crime!

[TSL]

I forced my players in one of the last Feng Shui games I ran to run this site three times and pick their character concept from the six that were generated.

It was a lot of fun.

My favorite pitch yet:

He's a short-sighted ninja cowboy from a doomed world.  She's a manipulative tomboy fairy princess with the soul of a mighty warrior.  They fight crime!

[Clinton R. Nixon]

He's a fast talking coffee-fuelled farmboy who dotes on his loving old ma. She's a supernatural antique-collecting cab driver with only herself to blame. They fight crime!

This site is the instant game generator.

[Valamir]

Feng Shui is perhaps the only game where you could generate characters that way and they WOULDN'T be completely bizarre :-)

[Ron Edwards]

Oh, I dunno ... every result I got suggested a different RPG to me.

He's a genetically engineered white trash senator possessed of the uncanny powers of an insect. She's a transdimensional wisecracking detective who don't take no shit from nobody. They fight crime! CHAMPIONS

He's a time-tossed playboy cat burglar fleeing from a secret government programme. She's a hard-bitten gold-digging barmaid looking for love in all the wrong places. They fight crime! UNKNOWN ARMIES

He's a jaded overambitious sorceror moving from town to town, helping folk in trouble. She's a plucky insomniac stripper from a different time and place. They fight crime! SORCERER

He's an ungodly flyboy hairdresser on a mission from God. She's a blind hypochondriac former first lady who dreams of becoming Elvis. They fight crime! GURPS

He's a war-weary soccer-playing Green Beret with nothing left to lose. She's a ditzy goth safe cracker who can talk to animals. They fight crime! VAMPIRE

Hell, I think I even played a few of these at one point or another.

[TSL]

Actually, this whole thread got me to thinking there could be worse than a game specifically designed with a character generator built off a random pitch table...

Have to kick that one around for a while. :)

One last pitch (that kicked off a campaign for me):

He's a genetically engineered one-eyed gangster who knows the secret of the alien invasion. She's a cynical foul-mouthed research scientist with an evil twin sister.  They fight crime!

[Jared A. Sorensen]

He's an ungodly flyboy hairdresser on a mission from God. She's a blind hypochondriac former first lady who dreams of becoming Elvis. They fight crime! GURPS

GURPS? Damn, man...not octaNe? For shame...Professor Edwards, for shame...

[Ron Edwards]

OctaNe? Never heard of it. And I talked to my retailer, and he'd never heard of it either. So SOL to you, man, I only play real games.

Best,
Ron

(loud hyena-like laugh)

[wyrdlyng]

He's a leather-clad native American cop with no name. She's a manipulative nymphomaniac schoolgirl in the wrong place at the wrong time. They fight crime!

Is it just me or does this suggest a really bizarre hentai-action game? I'm surprised that no one's written this one up yet.

Man, I feel really dirty now.

[Jürgen Mayer]

Wow, what a cool random generator.

I don't know if this belongs here or if you already know about it, but WTF: another generator which is especially useful for parody superhero games like Stuperpowers! is "Lee's Useless Superhero Generator": http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/herogen/

Jürgen Mayer