Paranoia

by Allen Varney

Paranoia XP is the entirely updated and perfected version of the darkly humorous RPG originally published by West End Games. This 256 page book brings back one of the greatest roleplaying games ever produced, in a fabulous new edition utilizing many of the original design team that made Paranoia great.

Genres: Role Playing Games, Games, Gaming, Reference, Science Fiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 3, 2004

About the author

Writer and game designer based for many years in Austin, Texas, USA; currently in Ithaca, upstate New York. Designer of the 2004 edition of the classic science fiction roleplaying game PARANOIA. I operate the Bundle of Holding ( bundleofholding.com ), which presents time-limited offers of tabletop roleplaying game ebooks.

Reviews

[TheBigGSN5 · Rating 5 out of 5]

(CLEARANCE RED)A great read even if you don't intend to play the game. The Computer is your friend.

[S. · Rating 4 out of 5]

i suppose there'll never be any tracking how this gamebook, priced, accordingly, at $25 us or thereabouts ended up in a used book store off East Nanjing Road in Shanghai spring of 2012, but in any case, it did, and for $3 or $5 or whatever, providing a couple hours' delight at what is an obviously well-designed role-playing game set in some post-apocalyptic computer-controlled world where clearance levels, cctv, bouncy beverage, and reflectoarmor determine everything. tongue-in-cheek humor and injokes for the literary set make an interesting work of writing in its own right.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Best RPG ever... well, top two, at least. Hilarious book. Too bad my players are scared to read it. Mwahaha.

[Daniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is going to be fun.

[Olof Larsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

ULTRAVIOLET CLEARANCE ONLY

-First mission as a GM after reading this book
-total party kill 6 times
-Best inspiration source ever!

[Casey Stark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love flipping this one open just to read the page number captions. Great game. Hilarious writing.

[Trent · Rating 5 out of 5]

F u N n Y G a me

[Arthur B · Rating 5 out of 5]

In contention with 2nd edition for the best Paranoia core book. Full review: https://refereeingandreflection.wordp...

[Gr · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting system. I like the emphasis on the narrative. I could see it being very well done with the right group, but this perhaps more so than other systems relies on the entire group having similar playstyles.