PARANOIA One-Shot: The Funball Championship

Meetup Title: PARANOIA One-Shot: The Funball Championship

PARANOIA is a darkly humorous game where players publicly attempt to cooperate to achieve an ‘official objective’ while privately accomplishing secret objectives as well. Total Mission Failure is indeed possible. The game’s is about exploring the limits of the setting and engaging in the social satire as much as it is about betrayals and schemes.

Setting: Alpha Complex is an underground society led by a benevolent, but slightly insane supercomputer. The Computer has built a utopia, but is also extremely paranoid, and is fighting a constant war of attrition against Communists, Unregistered Mutants, and Traitors.

It is the Year 214. You’re a fresh batch of Troubleshooters - having been promoted into that rank after turning in a fellow citizen for treason. Troubleshooting is a high-risk, high-reward career. Play your cards right - and you might get promoted to a leadership role. Don’t - and you’ll be terminated for high treason.

Mission Premise: It's the Funball Championship! The Shooters and the Vat-Stirrers are competing for the right to be known as the best Funball team in Alpha Complex. There's a lot of prestige/money/INFRARED morale on the line here, and it's up to our Troubleshooters to ensure the "safety, security, and sanctity" of this Championship. Will they though?

If you like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Brazil, and Catch-22, you’ll definitely like this game. Missions will be one-shots, possibly with different Troubleshooters. Creating your own characters is fairly easy, though you will be provided a Secrets Sheet.

Additional Info (for those already familiar with PARANOIA): We will be using "Lasers and Treason" rules. Mutant registration is allowed. Style of mission will likely lean Classic.

This will be an online-game using Video chat, so be sure to block out your time and be on the Discord server prior to start.
If the Meetup is full, sign up for the Waitlist, and we may open a second table depending on the amount of interest

Paranoia is published by Mongoose Publishing and can be found at https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/us/rpgs/paranoia.html