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Naturally you need to first walk down memory lane and list all the previous Go Play NW Roaches, in all their epic wrongness...

The Party Nod at GPNW Jr.
Geck In, Gack Out (Wall St. Roach) at GPNW 2009.
Race for the Roach Cup at GPNW 2010.

Alas, the Wall Street Roach game was never documented.

Here's some ideas:

Young Adult Literature Conference Roach - authors vie for editors' favor and movie/tv projects. (I think Johnzo brought this up last year?)

Red Roach - members of the American Communist Party in the late 1950's vie to get the mission of assassinating Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Project: Ares Roach - astronauts vie during training for slots on the first mission to Mars.

Red Planet Roach - Martian colonists vie for control over the future of the planet. The Reds want only bubble cities and to preserve Mars as-is as much as possible. The Greens want to introduce genetically engineered plants, animals and eventually humans to bring Mars to life. The Blues want to initiate a huge terraforming project to make Mars a New Earth. Some or all of these groups may be infected by religious zealots and terrorists.

The Wall Street game being undocumented is a feature, not a bug.

I am all for small-stakes Roach, which I think keeps things grounded and hilariously petty. I've suggested Local Politics Roach in the past (you're either a Department Head or a Council Member, fighting to cram your agenda items into the township's annual budget) and I'd be up for Lit Conf Roach as well. Red Roach sounds cool, but I want to reverse it and make the players investigators for HUAC! Other ideas: maybe High School Roach (getting a bit close to the source material there) or Kennel Club Roach?

PTA Roach. And I don't mean Primetime Adventures.

Even better: high school musical Roach. Because HSM and Glee and all those shows are missing the real fucking drama: the parents.

Brendan likes these!

I'm loving Red Roach and GLEE Roach so far.

Let me stuff the Roach in my ear and see what other ideas come out.

Chris "Nootie" Bennett

I will just note for the record that the Roach thread has gotten more views than all of the other game threads PUT TOGETHER.

Everyone slows down and looks at an accident on the highway, too...