First time I am a GM for Paranoia: Red Clearance Edition. Do you have any tips as a brand spanking new GM and what I should do for a session zero?

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Fri, 30 Dec 2022 15:00:07 +1100

First time I am a GM for Paranoia: Red Clearance Edition. Do you have any tips as a brand spanking new GM and what I should do for a session zero?

As the title above states, I am brand new to Paranoia and GM'ing in general. I bought RCE, got the GM screen, and got the players rip-roaring and ready to go. I am looking for any general tips but mainly looking at how to ease them into this game. For starters, they are die-hard DND fans and I know that Paranoia is not the best for co-op TTRPG game but more stab your friends in the back and blame it on someone else. So I was wondering if you have any tips on how to ease them in or do something like a session zero stating that this is not going to be like DND and to change their outlook on the game. Since I got a feeling that they're going to try and just be buddies and not do anything treasonous whatsoever and always work together. (I know at some points the PC will have to work together but in general.) Any tips are appreciated thanks in advance!

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	A ''Paranoia'' mini-[[gamebook]] was published in issue #77 of [[The Space Gamer\|SpaceGamer/FantasyGamer]] magazine in the late 1980s. Unauthorized automated versions of the story (a Troubleshooter's assignment to undermine the subversive activity known as Christmas) have circulated via machine-independent ports to [[C (programming language)\|C]], [[Python (programming language)\|Python]], [[Go (programming language)\|Go]] and [[Inform]] as well as to [[Adventure Game Toolkit]] and for [[Applix]], [[CP/M]] and the [[Cybiko]].	A ''Paranoia'' mini-[[gamebook]] was published in issue #77 of [[The Space Gamer\|SpaceGamer/FantasyGamer]] magazine in the late 1980s. Unauthorized automated versions of the story (a Troubleshooter's assignment to undermine the subversive activity known as Christmas) have circulated via machine-independent ports to [[C (programming language)\|C]], [[Python (programming language)\|Python]], [[Go (programming language)\|Go]] and [[Inform]] as well as to [[Adventure Game Toolkit]] and for [[Applix]], [[CP/M]] and the [[Cybiko]].

	''Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory'' is a video game that was released on 5 December 2019{{Update inline\|date=January 2020}}, for PC on the [[Epic Games Store]]. It was developed by [[Cyanide (company)\|Cyanide]] and Black Shamrock studios and is published by [[Bigben Interactive]]. It is an isometric view real-time RPG.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/paranoia/home\|title=Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory \| Store Page}} In mid-January 2020, the game was removed from the Epic Games Store without explanation from Cyanide or BigBen Interactive. As of 30 April 2020, no public explanation had occurred.{{cite web \|last1=Saed \|first1=Sherif \|title=Epic Games Store exclusive disappears and no one is saying why \|url=https://www.vg247.com/2020/02/07/epic-games-store-exclusive-disappears-and-no-one-is-saying-why/ \|website=VG24/7 \|date=7 February 2020 \|publisher=Gamer Network \|access-date=30 April 2020}} Court reports discovered in April 2022 suggest a lawsuit involved the creators of the property against the publishers are a factor https://www.pcgamer.com/court-documents-may-explain-the-disappearance-of-paranoia-happiness-is-mandatory/	''Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory'' is a video game that was released on 5 December 2019{{Update inline\|date=January 2020}}, for PC on the [[Epic Games Store]]. It was developed by [[Cyanide (company)\|Cyanide]] and Black Shamrock studios and is published by [[Bigben Interactive]]. It is an isometric view real-time RPG.{{Cite web\|url=https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/paranoia/home\|title=Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory \| Store Page}} In mid-January 2020, the game was removed from the Epic Games Store without explanation from Cyanide or BigBen Interactive. As of 30 April 2020, no public explanation had occurred.{{cite web \|last1=Saed \|first1=Sherif \|title=Epic Games Store exclusive disappears and no one is saying why \|url=https://www.vg247.com/2020/02/07/epic-games-store-exclusive-disappears-and-no-one-is-saying-why/ \|website=VG24/7 \|date=7 February 2020 \|publisher=Gamer Network \|access-date=30 April 2020}} Court reports discovered in April 2022 suggest a lawsuit involved the creators of the property against the publishers are a factor {{cite web \| url=https://www.pcgamer.com/court-documents-may-explain-the-disappearance-of-paranoia-happiness-is-mandatory/ \| title=Court documents may explain the disappearance of Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory \| website=PC Gamer \| date=4 April 2022 \| last1=Updated \| first1=Jody Macgregor Last }}

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Mandatory Bonus Duty List

/u/Walsfeo

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:36:59 +1100

Mandatory Bonus Duty List

I'm running Paranoia at SCARAB next month, and thought it would be fun to create a bunch of Mandatory Bonus Duty badges to replace the buttons I previously made. I'm going to laser cut them out and have them for players to wear during the game. Not only will it be a cool prop, but will also help me remember who is what.

My old buttons, and new badges, and card box.

What are your favorite bonus duties, and what punchy slogans do you like? Have you created your own?

Team Leader - On Point (I also like "Never let them see you sweat", but went with the short one)
Cleanliness Officer - A clean team is a mean team (Or, Scrubbing out Unhygiene)
(: Happiness Officer - LOL (or Happiness is Mandatory)
Equipment and Maintenance Officer - The Fix is In, or Maintenance is First, or Mr. Goodhammer
Loyalty Officer - Everyone is guilty of something
Combat Officer - With a Bang (or "Big Bada Boom")
Recording Officer - Pics or it didn't happen

I was also thinking of creating damaged versions, for when a previous clone gets killed.

I'm also thinking of creating name badges that they can write on with dry erase markers.

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First time GM, Perfect Edition: Corrections and Traitor Stars

/u/sta6

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 01:53:11 +1100

First time GM, Perfect Edition: Corrections and Traitor Stars

I'm just trying to wrap my head around Traitor Stars and Corrections

Traitor Stars:

As far as I can tell these are assigned when

Some higher clearance-level NPC sees one of the players do something suspicious
Friend Computer sees one of the players do something suspicious

Only 1 star can be assigned by an NPC at any one time. So the same NPC cant give 2 treason stars for the same 1 thing. (I assume friend computer could, since it can do anything it wants?)

Corrections

If I understand correctly these are insta punishments for situations in which friend computer either sees direct, severe treason himself or is convinced by someone else that treason took place

Summary

So from what I can tell this means:

If players get caught doing some minor treason things (breaking equipment, bad thoughts, unhappy words, etc.)
- usually friend computer is going to go with treason stars
If players get caught doing major treason things (being a mutant, being in a secret society, being openly hostile towards friend computer, being aggressive for no reason to other citizens,...?)
- in these cases most likely he will apply corrections

Is this estimation of mine correct?

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Perfect Edition: How to Spend XP

/u/sta6

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 03:52:50 +1100

Perfect Edition: How to Spend XP

So I've read the most part of the perfect edition book

Yet I am having a hard time finding any information when/how players are supposed to spend experience points

How much XP does it cost to increase your clearance level?
- Or does clearance level depend on something else?
How much XP do all these items that are listed cost?
Can players spend XP whenever they feel like or only in certain situations?

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Secret Society Side Missions - Sierra Club?

/u/svara74

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 03:51:49 +1100

Secret Society Side Missions - Sierra Club?

Comrades,

Am with Perfect edition, doing non-treasonous Holiday Special for New Years Day. Am being very interested in offering XP Point rewards that have not been laundered in any way for Secret Society requested acts of support, which are definitely not terroristic in nature. Many Secret Societies have very easy desires. PURGE? Is break monitors, cameras, maybe have viruses. Corpore Metal? Get bot on team, make bot happy. But Sierra Club is carefully assigned but nyet easy give missions. Maybe other comrades can give ideas before I reroll Sierra Club character? Power to the infrareds and down with Computer!

Or, to put it another way...

I'm doing a Holiday Special Paranoia one-shot, and I've randomized all the characters and got "Sierra Club" for one of them. My main joke for the whole thing is offering the party that "this is an RPG that you can actually WIN!" by offering a lot of ways to obtain XP Point bounties. For Secret Societies I've got small missions worth 25 XP Points (random terrorism, like PURGE breaking cameras) and big missions worth 100 (Executions, such as PURGE "Proving" someone is a member of FCCCP and gets them a new clone, or taking out a high-clearance lackey of The Computer.) And for the most part, it's been easy to come up with these... except for Sierra Club.

Before I go ahead and reroll that character's Secret Society, I wanted to toss this out to my fellow Ultraviolets and see if anyone can suggest a couple of bounty ideas... Feel free to reference older books, I have a big stash of 2nd edition stuff from DriveThru RPG.

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	==Premise==	==Premise==
	The game is set in a dystopian future city controlled by the Computer (also known as "Friend Computer"), and where information (including the game rules) are restricted by color-coded "security clearance". [[Player character]]s are initially enforcers of the Computer's authority (known as Troubleshooter, mainly for the fact that they shoot trouble), and will be given missions to seek out and eliminate threats to the Computer's control. The player characters are also part of prohibited underground movements (which means that the players' characters are usually ''included'' among the aforementioned 'security threats'), and will have secret objectives including theft from and murder of other player characters.	The game is set in a dystopian future city controlled by the Computer (also known as "Friend Computer"), and where information (including the game rules) are restricted by color-coded "security clearance". [[Player character]]s are initially enforcers of the Computer's authority (known as Troubleshooter, mainly for the fact that they shoot trouble), and will be given missions to seek out and eliminate threats to the Computer's control. The player characters are also part of prohibited underground movements (which means that the players' characters are usually ''included'' among the aforementioned 'security threats'), and will have secret objectives including theft from and murder of other player characters. {{Citation needed\|date=December 2022}}

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PPE: Arbitrary Justice mission

/u/therealbreel

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:47:30 +1100

PPE: Arbitrary Justice mission

Hey fellow Ultraviolet high programmers. I've been reading through the sample one-shot Arbitrary Justice. And it mentions 8 traitors for the players to judge, but there are only 7 NPC's, am I missing something, is the 8th meant to be one of the players?

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Paranoia Perfect Edition: First time GM

/u/sta6

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 03:36:29 +1100

Paranoia Perfect Edition: First time GM

What happens after a characters death?

Things that change:

Wounds back to 0
Treason stars back to 0
Moxie set to 4
Xp down to 0 (<- most unsure here. Does XP stay the same after clone death or is reset back to 0?)

Things that don't change after clone death:

Still in same secret society
Still same mutant powers

Treason Button - Need inspiration

Play A finds himself in some situation where he decides he wants to act out his treason button to earn some moxie. What exactly can he do that is treasonous?

Steal something from other players
???

Violence seems so much easier to be acted out than treason, especially for new groups

Is it possible for some players to get into a higher clearance level than others?

Since the game encourages XP rewards, it should be rather easy for one player to be let's say Yellow clearance level, while others are red or even infrared. If such a situation where to occur I will have one player bossing others around.

Is this something that I should try to avoid? The book never mentions this situation so I believe this is not wanted.

How do some corrections work?

Let's say Friend Computer either sees treason being committed himself or is convinced by player A that player B committed treason. In this case we have a number of corrections we can apply. I shall focus only on those 2:

Brainscrubbing: Since this correction affects the players stats I was wondering whether this "debuff" is permanent or just until the traitor clone is dead and will be reset back to normal when new clone arrives?
Execution: If friend computer decides to execute a clone, how does this happen? Do some guns from the ceiling start shooting, will be some "soldier clones" send out to shoot the traitor or will friend computer demand that some of the other players shoot the traitor on sight?

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Where can I find this form?

/u/veleon_

Sun, 25 Dec 2022 18:38:50 +1100

Where can I find this form?

I am looking for the form that can be found in this post.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ParanoiaRPG/comments/o8novm/so_a_player_turned_in_this/?ref=share&ref_source=link

The style matches some of the stuff in Paranoia XP but I haven't had any luck find what book it came from. If someone knows and could share that would be greatly appreciated.

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