Seattle, Washington

San Francisco

do you live in America? set it in the city you live in.

Baltimore, Maryland

Cincinatti, Ohio

Toronto, Ontario

Atlanta, Georgia

Edge City

>>4984139
YMCA phantoms, gay slimer?

Dallas/Fort Worth

Boston

Minneapolis

>>4984189
San Francisco is an OLD port town.

Think more along the lines of old west ghosts.

St. Louis, Missouri

You realize that this will be your party, right?

Salem, Oregon

What's the nearest big city to where you live? Someplace you all have familiarity with?

Also, what system are you using?

>>4984230
>Also, what system are you using?
World of Darkness, obviously.

d20 Modern

Chicago, Illinois.

The characters lose XP every time they pronounce the silent S at the end of Illinois.

Also, gangster ghosts, ghosts of mafia victims, rum-runners, and so forth.

Mutants & Masterminds

>>4984209
http://www.haunted-places.com/san_francisco_most_haunted.htm

>When you check into the Mansions Hotel at 2220 Sacramento Street, be sure to tell the desk clerk if you want a Non-Haunting Room. The hotel consists of two magnificent mansions. The newer one is free of ghosts. The older one is haunted.

The hotel documents its uncanny history in a display that includes affidavits of witnesses, transcripts of seances, and photographs. For years, guests have complained about strange noises, cold shadows moving about, and even toilet seats flying across the room. Last year, a ghost materialized in front of several witnesses during a seance in a third floor suite. The ghost's photograph is now part of the hotel's haunted gallery.

> Moss Beach Distillery
The gruesome ghost of a lady in a blue dress, soaked in blood, haunts an old speakeasy on Highway 1. Locals say she is the spirit of a young woman stabbed to death in front of this cliffside restaurant, nearly 70 years ago. She was murdered on the beach by her jealous lover, the piano player at the bar.

then of course, there's FUCKING ALCATRAZ.

ghostbusters is shit fuck you.

All of these places need a Ghostbusters franchise.

>>4984267
0/10

No human being hates Ghostbusters. Unless.... AN UNDEAD TROLL! *gasp*

>>4984274

Inspectres, fuck year!

New Orleans.

Who are you going to call?

>>4984198

Seconded. Boston, and spoof the Cthulhu mythos.

>>4984297
Somebody else.

>>4984265
not to mention the 1906 earthquake that killed many many people in SF.

Fuck, SF should be FULL of paranormal activity in the GB universe.

http://www.gbfans.com/games/books/rpg-training-manual/1/

ghostbuster fags behold and rejoice.

I'm curious as to how you'll handle the mechanics of using the proton packs to wrangle the ghosts. I mean, some ghosts would only take one 'Buster to pull them around, while bigger haunts would take two or three.

Others (such as poltergeists) lack a meaningful physical form and would require creative use of other equipment to trap.

>>4984329
No matter where you are, no matter what you do, you may now know that I will always love you forever.

>>4984383
In Ghostbusters 2, they used a mobile containment grid to trap a poltergeist in a crystalware shop during the montage.

>>4984425
Ah yes. Memories.

Ghostbusters.

Say, how did the vidja game do? Anyone here play it?

>>4984329
I've played this system. It's fun, rules lite, and if you have a group who winds up goofing off more than playing the goofing off winds up actually being an important part of the game, so you get shit done.
It takes an absolute bare minimum of planning to run and it takes 3 minutes to make a character.
I think it's my favorite system of all time.

>>4984485
I enjoyed it.

Where are you going to find commercial property zoned for a high-voltage laser containment grid?

>>4984383
>>I'm curious as to how you'll handle the mechanics of using the proton packs to wrangle the ghosts. I mean, some ghosts would only take one 'Buster to pull them around, while bigger haunts would take two or three.

This. I have the pdfs to the whole Ghostbusters International rpg line, but I don't remember how they did it.

>>4984513
Vegas?

>>4984223

So I never got it. Does that chick have AIDS or something? I mean, they couldn't have possibly made a skankier heroin addict looking character ever, right? Whats up with that?

>>4984535
Upload pdfs plz?

>>4984178
>>4984296
One of these, you fucking have to

>>4984564

okay, let me find them on my HDDs

>>4984505
It's a blast, though short as hell. Multiplayer adds a bit more playtime to it, but it's not for everyone: you have to work as a team in all but one mode or else you'll fail.
It was worth my $60, though your mileage may vary.

If your ok with D20 systems, there is always Exorsystems, which is actually fairly Awesome.

It works with D20 Modern.

Ive played just about every version of Ghostbusters there is, and I have to say the old school West End Games, and Exorsystems are my favorites.

Detroit or Minneapolis. They're major air-travel hubs, so you can jet out easily if someone specially requests you.

>>4984127
Looking back, all those times that Slimer slimed somebody, it was like he cummed all over them.

>>4984637
Is that an Ecto-1 Transformer? Hofuck, that's made of win.

>>4984485
Proton packs heat up during use and must be vented manualy to prevent a system shut-down and automatic venting (which takes longer).

Proton streams act as methods to sap PKE from ghosts until they are weak enough for the stream to wrangle them.

while wrangling, you can struggle and "slam" he ghost if you build up an energy reserve from extended wrangling, these slams pacify the ghost enough so you can position it above a trap, or you can try and "slam dunk" the ghost into the trap.

Depending on the ghost (ghosts are ranked I-X), they may struggle more or less than others and you'll have to stuggle against them to keep them in the confinement beam until the trap closes.

>>4984649
Too fucking cold
And if you're going by air hubs, then go with Dallas-Fort Worth. We got American airlines.

>>4984657
Such details... Nerdgasm!

>>4984383

If it was d20, I'd just make the proton pack Grapple, and give the ghosts good Grapple modifiers. I mean, that's how it works. Hold the ghost still, then trap it.

So, give the Proton pack a Grapple modifier of, say, +5. Small ghost are +4, so a challenge but doable. You have to Grapple to Pin, then another party member can use a trap to trap them.

What do you think?

>>4984669

That's all game mechanics from the new video game.

Ok boys, actually what I've got is the content of Ghostbusters International (Ghostbusters RPG Second Edition) and Tobin's Spirit Guide, which is an add-on. I don't have the scenario books. I don't care about scenario books anyways, never played a scenarii from the market, always wrote them myself. Uploading now.

>>4984682
Don't forget kick attacks for last second placement of traps.

>>4984649

This is the only person I've seen mention Detroit, and that shocks me.

For about a decade it was the murder capital of the world, and (this is from my close proximity as a metro-fag) the economic crisis is helping it to have lots more abandoned businesses and industries.

Try to imagine some of the horrible HP Lovecraft monsters you'd have to go against at a gang-inhabited abandoned meat-packing plant.

>>4984711
>meat-packing
gay

>>4984711
cause that shit is too damn dark for The Real Ghostbusters

unless OP is going more for the movie style

>>4984657

Thats fairly true to the RPGs and how basic ghostbusting works.

>>4984738
Hmmm...

not gay enough looking

Don't let them drive an old Cadillac. Ever.

>>4984682

Thats roughly how it works in D20 Exorsystems

Busting makes me feel good.

>>4984127

Mexico city. He said America, not USAs, and shit is way more ancient and blood-stained than any USA metropolis.
I'd suggest some incan shit but Cuzco is probably too much of cesspole, and while Rio de Janeiro/Caracas are fucking violent, they're also modern.

If not/if not so serious: LA. Do a San Andreas/Ghostbuster crossover.

>>4984762
THIS is the PC's vehicle.

>>4984828
People have to actually PAY them for their work.
So Mexico is out.

Although dodging the drug war would make for some fun.

>>4984682
>d20
Sage for the shitiest system out there.

Set it up in whatever city you guys live in. You'd be surprised how little dicking around you have to do with maps when everybody actually lives in the city in question.

Play the Ghostbusters RPG, learn to worship the Ghost die!

>>4984941
I just had a post-traumatic flashback. Thanks for mentioning the ghost die, asshole. Enough to make you want to roll a one, just so you don't roll a six.

>>4984862

Can our heroes get their way to pay the rents...

... in the labyrintic and corrupt civil services mexican system?

>>4984762
THIS is the PCs' vehicle.

>>4984953
The ghost die is the greatest thing to ever happen to gaming. I added it to all games!

>>4984849
>>4985010
WRONG.

BUMP for those PDFs the frenchfag promised.

>>4985235

I would have bumped myself you know.

Anyways, here they are :

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UCOG4FGS

>>4985259

You fucking deliver, dude.

>>4985259

Are you a god?

yes yes i am

>>4985374

errr... no ?

>>4985462

Then... Diiiie!

>>4985462

>>4985010
>>4985116
Maybe a Hurst (Is that how you spell it?) would be a better ride. Atlanta has a big ass club that meets monthly or quarterly. If you go for the ATL thang.

Hearse.

>>4985259
Bumping for this. If you like to have fun with your /tg/s then you need to try this system at least once.

Chicago.

Undead gangsters, burning skeletons from the Chicago Fire, Haunted Sears tower?

>>4986587
Bonus points if the run into Harry Dresden

>>4985686

Now I'm imagining these four as the PC's in a Ghostbusters campaign. And it's made of so much WIN.
God only knows where they get their proton packs, though.

Detroit

fight hardcore ghost gangs

>>4986853
And the ghost of the American auto industry

>>4986611
Extra bonus points if they kill him.

>>4986874
you sir, get a rimshot.

Maine

>>4984140


This. Do this.

I've always thought it would be pretty neat to have a Ghostbusters truck built into a refurbished fire engine, instead of an old ambulance or hearse. It could be rigged up as a mobile containment unit.

>>4987056
It could have a FUCKING PROTON TURRET, man!

Do Ghostbusters help with alien attacks, or do they forward that shit to X-com?

Is there an X-com/Ghostbusters exchange program?

>>4987056
>>4987063
fuck yeah

LIGHT IS GREEN
TRAP IS CLEAN

>>4987056
I don't think street-legal automobiles are allowed to have functioning atomic piles.

>>4987064
Now THERE'S a scary thought:

- Ghostbusters wouldn't last five minutes as rookies/squaddies against Sectoids.
- X-Com Operatives would create so much collateral damage that it would be cheaper to put up with the ghosts.

>>4987100
Neither are most citizens allowed to have one in their home or strapped to their backs.

>>4987122
I think the storage unit was run off city power (which would explain why ConEd was able to shut it off)

>>4987056

I'm almost certain they did this in the Extreme Ghostbusters series finale. The entire Bermuda Triangle anomaly was coming up to the New York area, and they got a firetruck and a crane (or something similarly large) rigged up with artillery sized proton packs to get rid of it.

>>4987101
Ghostbuster Rookie sees Slimer. Ghostbuster Rookie panics!

And X-Com only generates property damage with, y'know, BLASTER BOMBS and stuff. Not so much with a proton beam. Unless you're that guy with the banquet room, he'd disagree.

And yeah, a seasoned Ghostbuster wouldn't shit himself the second he saw a Grey. He's seen worse.

>>4987161
>Extreme Ghostbusters
sucks, is the rest of that sentence.

>>4987064
>>4987101
>>4987181

Holy shit! I'm hard.

We need a drawfag for Ghostbuster/X-com company picnic day

Kansas City, Missouri

>>4987269

Seconded, Any artist willing to do this would be a god.

Make your story set in ohio.
Then steal stories from these books for your plots (pic related)

>>4987191
I liked it when I was a kid. What was wrong with anyway?

>>4987353
Diminished expectations.

First, it had 'extreme' in the title.

>>4987122
Not to mention, that in the first movie is theorized that crossing streams can destroy the Universe. (and if recall, they actually did that, but not our universe, but the plane where goser came from)

>>4987334

hahayouarenowstuckinohio.jpg

But yeah, I already saw Cincinnati get mentioned once. This place is...interesting. I always say to people its two major exports are racial violence and pork fetishes. There's a few things here that might actually attract some Ghostbustan, though, and helpful fa/tg/uys feel free to help.

1: Like I said, oodles of racial tension, not as much as there used to be, leads to violent crimes. The 2001 riots were scary. Lots of ghosts just from this.
2: We used to be the pig slaughterhouse capitol of the world, essentially. We were unofficially named Porkopolis. Meatpacking industry is still huge. Pig ghosts?
3: The abandoned subways. This is the big one. Basically, due to bureaucratic hurfing and durfing, we built an entire subway system, then realized we ordered the wrong size rails. We were far too deep in the hole to keep spending, so we essentially said "fuck it" and sealed it shut. However, there's still plenty of open spaces to get in, and there's all sorts of crazy shit reported down there. It's full of graffiti, is often purported to be incredibly dangerous due to structure falling down after nearly 100 years, and if you believe the local hysteria mongers, is a hot point for satanic rituals in the deeper, less-accessible junctions. Dead hobos, occult rituals, easy place to hide dead gangbangers, this place would be hopping with supernaturals.

Ive run several GB games, One of the more enjoyable ones I did was set in Japan for a few of my more Weeaboo friends, Ghostbusters Tokyo.

The "Firehouse" was an older Bank,2 stories tall with a vault in the basement. The 2nd floor became the rec area / bunk rooms and Labs, the main floor the new garage and customer area.

The basement became the workshop / storage area, the containment unit and some gear was housed in the vault.

While the English part of the sign out front read "Ghostbusters" the Japaneses translation however came out a little something closer to "Dishonorable Dead Disposers"

So they got to deal with the whole Japaneses style of ghosts and restless dead.

Good times, Good times.

As long as I can aim for the flattop I'm in.

Remember there are several kinds of ghosts in most GB settings,

Actual spirits of dead humans, some are warped over time to look somewhat inhuman.

Beings that were never human or alive, devils, boggans, sprites, angels, so forth and so on.

and lastly Summoned or incidentally created ectoplasmic manifestations. These can come about in PKE active areas, ley lines and the like, special places basically. You would be surprised how many there are.

My GBs once had a bust at a used car lot, ghost kept showing up and wrecking havoc with all the cars almost every night, breaking glass, cloging exhausts, the works.

The PCGBs go in, bust the ghost, get the money and leave... but in a week its happening AGAIN.

Lucky for the PCGB they Carlot owner did not sign up for the rehaunt insurance so could charge him again for the 2nd time, but the PCs had to figure out why this was a repeat haunting.

It boiled down to the fact that the car lot owner was a schister and was cheating people left and right selling lemons. This Negative emotion from his customers manifested here as the ghost doing the haunting and pranks, the PCs has to convince the car lot owner to stop screwing people, or they would not come back out to bust the ghost again...

Sorry about the wall of text.

Anyone else play in a GB game?

Describe your favorite Bust.

Now I kinda want to run a Dishonorable Dead Disposers campaign.

>>4988075

for being fairly Weeaboo it was pretty fun.

Had my players deal with a few Paramortal creatures, like the Kappa, which is the Big Foot of the East.

One of players was a Shinto priest, with some exorcism powers, but nothing crazy wild, she also had some PKE sense. She still rocked out with a proton pack of course.

Oh I also forgot, Since Tokyo is not always car friendly I had the players use Ghostbusting scooters with sidecars a good deal of the time...

Good times.. good times

>>4987420
It was also theorized that detonating an atomic bomb could ignite the atmosphere and set the whole planet on fire. Their initial calculations were off, crossing the streams just creates an enormous blast.

The containment unit is about to blow!!!

However you have the initiative.

What do you do?

>>4988255
I move and shoot.

>>4987064
>>4987101
What about a Ghostbusters/MiB crossover?

>>4988492
Ghostbusters get flashy thing'd.

Lets see, what else did I throw at my players..

Oh yes, high school pervert ghosts,
Japanese Vampires, the weird ass kind where the head flys off with all the major organs still attached...

Lets see... oh Goku showed up at one point, and no, not that DBZ asshat, Goku from journey to the west.

He was tearassing around national museums looking for several sacred items.

Hmm what else.. already mentioned the Kappa...

They cleaned out a few shrines, and factories...
Had to chase several ghosts out of the factory robots.

Now I want to run another GB game!

>>4988549
wouldnt they work for MiB though, since they deal with wierd shit.

>>4988492

Funny you should mention that, I also used to run the old West End Game MiB Game too, also a blast..and while more complex then the GB system, still very quick and easy, with lots of room to customize.

You boys don't seem to know what you're getting into.

Take some friendly advice: leave it to the REAL professionals.

Fucking civilians. Give 'em a sharp stick and they think they can fight things they can't even comprehend.

>>4988638
Delta Green, fuck year. Why doesn't anyone talk about it, anyway?

Is Delta Green going to come out and exorcise the spook in my basement?

Didn't think so.

Back in 3 hours, keep the thread alive!

>>4988364
CLEAR THE BUILDING!!

>>4988673
because its not that good

>>4988638

Well man, private enterprise is more efficient than your fucking bureaucracy. It took 3 days to the team dispose a Shoggoth on my basement since i had to file a fucking ton of paperwork.

>>4988594
Man, the WEG MiB game... great mechanics, but it was written for ten year-olds or something.

>>4988920

Eh the beauty of it however was that you could make it as silly or as serious as you liked. Take the game, make it your own!

>>4988944
What, you can't do that with any system?

>>4988811
'We won't be able to get to you until after the new year.'

>>4989126
"Well just don't go in there!"

FFS guys, Ghicago!

>>4989231
I fcuking LOVE Ghicago. The Sed Rox rules!

You know they make a system for this, right? I forget the name.

>>4989231
>>4989259
>Ghicago

God dammit I hate my spelling some days.

I'm suprised no one even mentioned New Orleans as a possible setting, but I was about to mention Chicago or Houston myself. But Houston kinda sucks for ghosts.

As for New Orleans, you have an ancient French city that's been victim to murders, hurricanes, gambling, and not to mention the bayou and the superstitions that run around there. I'm sure you can make some fun encounters regarding ghosts using the dark mysticism of voodoo to screw around with your players.

>>4989298
Here we go, found it.

http://www.lulu.com/content/991020

>>4989378

Meantioned exorsystems waaay early in the thread, but its a good system as far as d20 goes, so a 2nd mention is not out of line

Set it up in Honolulu, HI and base the stories on those from this book.

>>4989433
Do you need d20 modern core to use it, or is it stand-alone?

>>4989361
Except for the part when >>4984296 mentioned it.

>>4984267

Egon: I'm worried, Ray. It's getting crowded in there and all my recent data points to something big on the horizon.

Winston: What do you mean big?

Egon: Well, let's say this twinky represents the normal amount of trolling on /tg/. According to this mornings sample it would be a shit twinky 35 feet long weighing approximately 600 pounds.

Winston: That's a big twinky.

Egon: Try to understand. This is a high voltage laser containment system. Simply turning it off would be like dropping a bomb on the forum.

Peck: Shut it off!

Peter: Don't shut it off!

ConEd Guy: I've never seen anything like this before....

Peck: I'm not interested in your opinion just shut it off.

KLAXON SOUNDS

ConEd Guy: Oh, shi-

Ray: No! It can't be! It can't be!

Peter: What did you do, Ray?!

Winston: Aw, shit!

Ray: Snacks is back.

Peter: Well, there is something you don't see every day.

Egon: I have a radical idea! /tg/ swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate.

Ray: How?

Egon: We'll cross the streams.

Peter: Excuse me, Egon! You said crossing the streams was bad.

Ray: Cross the streams....

Peter: You are going to endanger us. You are going to endanger our client. The nice lady who paid us in advance, before she became a dog.

Egon: Not nesseccarily. There is definately a very slim chance we'll survive.

Peter: I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it! Let's do it!

Winston: This job is definately not worth 11.5 a year.

Peter: See you on the other side, Ray.

Ray: Nice working with you Doctor Venkman.

Arlen, Texas

BBEG is the ghost of Cotton Hill.

>>4990241
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>4990238
>>4990231
>>4990224
>>4990221
>>4990215
>>4990205
>>4990198
>>4990176
>>4990171
>>4990166
>>4990158
>>4990148
EXCELLENT.

>>4990205

a snacks joke? really? REALLY? I imagine there are less than a dozen people on this board who remember snacks (not including moot)

>>4990231

Russia. Old KGB men turned into violent ghouls. The mafia and government tangling with the supernatural and the players have to deal with both. Around the areas of battles from WWII there'd be a lot of ghost activity.

Stalin's ghost is the BBEG

>>4990454

shit just got epic

>>4990454
Gritty eastern bloc atmosphere, supernatural activity originating from many time periods. Rival Ghostbusters using shoddy jerry-rigged Russsian-style Proton Packs. Rural areas around Moscow, and the thick urban Soviet jungle inside with all kinds of shady characters, living and dead.

Haunted KGB torture chambers, Ghost soldiers fighting each other. White Russian Ghosts that walk around in pre-revolutionary finery.

Etc.

The majority of my suggestions have been said, but they bear repeating:

Chicago (Mafia ghosts, Chicago Fire ghosts, Sports fan ghosts)
New Orleans (Nature-themed/Shaman ghosts)
San Francisco (Earthquakes, fires, riots, etc. all make for some mean ghosts)
Detroit (Violent deaths abound there will make for some especially violent ghosts)

What I would find interesting is something that is mentioned in the Ghostbusters game. Peck (in all his inaptitude) says something smart; the Ghostbusters put up with him so they can try to get a government contract and take their business nation-wide.

If I was to RP out a Ghostbusters game, I'd have it be like 1995, with the RP'ers all being contracted out to work in [insert choice city here] by the government after you've completed "basic training" in New York with the original four (the Rookie from the game is the head of the DPICT - Department of Paranormal Investigators and Capture Teams). "Basic training" includes your government authorization to carry/wield a Proton Pack, your "Government will provide your customers with collateral damage" insurance plan, and getting slimed by Slimer, who by now is the "unofficial" mascot of the Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusters is set in New York in the late 80s.

Pic related.

I propose a musical crossover adventure involving the sexually frustrated ghosts of HIV-ridden bohemians.

>>4990539
More fun things about the SF bay area - The Golden Gate bridge is a pretty popular suicide jumping spot, Alcatraz island doesn't need much introduction, but if you go a little down south (about an 45min drive away) and hit San Jose, there's the Winchester Mystery House which was built (and built some more) by the wife of the Winchester Rifle company founder who was convinced ghosts of people who died from the rifles were coming after her. The house is a maze, with hallways going everywhere and nowhere so the ghosts couldn't get her.
San Jose also boasts the Rosicrucian Museum, which is THE place if you want to learn about ancient Egypt.

Nearby is the Haunted Toys R Us in Sunnyvale, home of a spirit of a rancher who died in an accident, supposedly as the story goes.

Chicago would be the best choice. Its a city that burned down several times so you'd expect some ghosts.
New Orleans would also be a nice choice.
It is currently a dream of mine to find a 1959 Miller Meteor, or at least the outer shell on top of newer guts, and convert it fully to an Ecto 1.

>>4990901
New Orleans - lots of Voodoo, Houngans, drowning victims, Lust Spirits from Mardi Gras and considering it was used as a pirate port back in the 17-1800s, ghost pirates!

>>4990941

Think of the problems the excessive moisture would cause with the proton pack. Not to mention the spores, molds and fungus that Egon would so love to collect.

>>4991083
He keeps his business and his personal life separate.

>>4991143

One of the upgrades to the slime blower in the new game was created by using a new growth medium discovered in Egon's mold collection.

>>4991248
Getting a lot of mileage out of the food of the future.

>>4991143

Not all the time. In the game, one thing he mentioned is that to maximize his time to develop new gear, researching up on the ghosts, make new weapons for the proton pack and STILL bust some ghosts, he is experimenting with sleeping (on average) 12 minutes a day.

Voted to archive this on sup/tg/, would like to be able to come back to this thread if I need ideas for crazy haunted places and things.

hey, there's a really good old ghostbusters thread on rpg.net too, here:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=447509

lol @ Ghostbuters

shit still up ?

You guys all seem to be forgetting one thing:

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/deaths.asp

Bumping, and hopefully this gets archived..

>>4993313

Holy shit, a session that took place in Disneyworld would be SPIDER GRADE nightmare fuel.