Paranoia is a darkly humorous RPG that takes place in a dystopian future in which characters are typically tasked with hunting down mutants and secret society members, despite being ones themselves.
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What Works Inspired Paranoia?
Paranoia is obviously descended from dystopian works such as 1984 and Logan's Run with black comedy that I have sometimes heard is inspired by Monty Python's Flying Circus. For a long time I had ...
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What are the notable differences between Paranoia XP and Paranoia Troubleshooters?
What are the notable differences between Paranoia XP (2005) and Paranoia Troubleshooters (2009)?
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Are there any other Beer & Pretzel PnP games along the lines of Paranoia? [closed]
Are there any other Beer & Pretzel PnP games along the lines of Paranoia? Silly games, or mold breaking games meant to be played over hours or at most a few game sessions as opposed to longer more ...
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How is Paranoia - High Programmer different in play from Paranoia - Troubleshooter?
I've been getting my friends into Paranoia, and so far they seem to love playing as Troubleshooters.
I've been looking through the IntSec and High Programmer books too. While Intsec fundamentally ...
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What is some good advice for starting Paranoia with a new group?
My roleplaying group is talking about taking a break from our 4e D&D campaign for a bit, and doing some one-offs. We are planning on doing a few sessions with a GURPS game of some sort, and the ...
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Choosing between Tales From the Floating Vagabond and Paranoia for a “one-shot.”
I'm in a group now, headed by a very (very) capable DM. We've been playing a very solid, very serious D&D campaign in an awesome setting entirely of his creation. However, some of the players have ...
