Maid RPG: Anyone want a go?

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I rather enjoy playing Maid RPG (of course, none of the games I've been in have been "mature" or dark...). I was wondering if anybody else was interested in getting a game going over Skype.

I don't think I'd do good as a master (I actually have very little experience). I'm currently the master in a game that's on hold for now, but that's really because nobody in that game had ever played before.

So does anyone want to get a game together?

BTW: If you don't know what Maid RPG is, it's this:

http://www.maidrpg.com/index.shtml

It's completely absurd and also completely hilarious.

just read the description out of sheer curiosity.


Wow.. that is seriously weird. I swear the Japanese developers must be on LSD trips when they come up with this stuff.

Very interesting... Though I would have nobody to play it with...

I've played "Big Eyes, Small Mouth", but quit after one session because the GM had this wierd obsession with having me portray a bishonen ... and I do not "swish" ...

One of the great things about Maid is that it really stretches your roleplaying abilities (since everything is so random).

Let me give you an example from other games I've played:

Vampire/Priestess. Turns out, she's a vampire, but she rejected the idea of living off the blood of humans. She and the master create synthetic blood in the master's lab (she's also his assistant). She became a priestess long before she met the master, and it helps bring her peace when the urge to feed becomes strong (when they run out or are low on synthetic blood, which is rather difficult to make, she drinks cow blood, which isn't nearly as nutritious for vampires as human blood).

Former prostitute. Some people are fine with playing someone who used to sell their body for money. This particular player was kind of iffy about it. How she met the master was that, on a trip, he was forced to stay in a rather run down inn, where she had brought her first client. She changed her mind, but the client didn't relent. The master heard the commotion in the next room and rushed over to help her (she has low athletics). This is also why she serves the master.

These are examples of it stretching your ability to create backstories. The first within the game mechanics itself (the vampire could probably be a priestess of an evil god, though...) and the second to create a backstory which fits into your character playing abilities and willingness. Various other random aspects of character creation stretches your abilites to roleplay not matter how you work the backstory. Just as an easy example: A person preferring to play a female character rolling "actually a man." Or a person that prefers to play male characters and not rolling that (or, if playing the butler, rolling "actually a woman").

Complexes and traumas (like the former prostitute) REALLY help to stretch your roleplaying abilities.

Here's mine: Middle-aged electrical engineer (Lee Min-Ho) who never had a steady girlfriend. One day, he discovers that his "intuitive understanding" of technology has more to do with his mutant ability to sense electrical activity, and to perceive the difference between an orderly, 'healthy' system, and a defective 'unhealthy' system. This ability eventually progresses to the point where he can perceive electromagnetic fields into the terahertz region, and develop technology to manipulate these energies.

Unfortunately, his manipulations have thinned the veil between this world and a parallel world inhabited by electrovores - a world currently undergoing the final stages of entropy, or "Heat Death", where there is so little energy that the electrovores have been driven insane by hunger, and are currently feeding on anything that generates an electric field - including each other.

So far, only a few electrovores have breached the veil, but more are coming through ... and those already here are reproducing.

Only the 'Professor' can perceive these electrovores directly, and only his lovely assistant (Kamiko) believes the stories he's telling. Everybody else just thinks that current technology is undergoing a crisis in quality control.