Ghost Toasties is an adventure module written for the original Ghostbusters Role-Playing Game. The players' Ghostbusters have been chosen to represent the company at a convention for experts in the paranormal.
Back Summary[]
A 3-panel GM screen packaged with the first Ghostbusters adventure. Hagost, a South American agricultural deity, returns and is attempting to retrieve his lost life force, now stored in a crystal hidden in a packet of breakfast cereal.
Characters[]
Page numbers listed after characters name.
Jerome Westerbrook III (02)
Hagost The Horrible (02)
Fred Lunt (03)
Daphne Prevost (03)
Hoover Horror (03)
Howard Garriott (03)
Agnes Greer (06)
Jason Greer (06)
Louis Tully (06)
Ronald Reagan (06)
Possessed Executives (08)
Gigantic Demonic Muscular Arms (08)
Cross-rip (09)
Vast Psychic Influence (10)
Zap, Crinkle, and Bop (15)
The Quix Rabbit (15)
Cap'n Crackle (15)
The Cocoa Quips Koala (15)
Toucan Jack (15)
The Lucky Chomps Leprechaun (15)
Flakey Jake (15)
Mindless Slaves (18)
Barley Flake Vortex (22)
Items[]
Crystal of Hagost (02)
Flakey Jake Barley Flakes (02)
Westerfoods Inc. (07)
Locations[]
Peru (02)
Candyland Dimension (02)
Yum-Mee Food Place (03)
Fritz Mondale Elementary School (07)
Greer House (07)
Development[]
Allen Varney completed writing a Paranoia supplement called "Send in the Clones" with Warren Spector. Varney, Spector, and Scott Haring were working at Steve Jackson Games at the time. West End liked how "Send in the Clones" did and offered "Ghost Toasties" to Allen and Warren. Warren requested to be removed due to time constraints. Allen and Warren both put in a good word for Haring, and he got the job. They were told to make it like a sequel to the Ghostbusters. The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man was their inspiration for the story, a juxtaposition of cuteness and evil. They took turns writing scenes. After Warren and Haring submitted their work, West End made changes. Allen was furious and had his named removed from the credits.[1]
Trivia[]
- On page 20 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #13, a there is box based on Ghost Toasties to the left of Dana Barrett.
- On page 12 of Ghostbusters Volume 2 Issue #14, the Ghost Toasties is present in the kitchen again.
References[]
- ↑ Proton Charging Interview: Scott Haring, GB RPG designer 6/6/1998 Scott Haring says: "My co-author (*uncredited* co-author — story to follow) Allen Varney had just completed writing a Paranoia supplement ("Send in the Clones") with Warren Spector. All three of us were working at Steve Jackson Games at the time, and the West End powers that were offered the gig to Allen and Warren, since they were pleased with how the Paranoia adventure turned out. Warren begged off due to time constraints, and they both put in a good word for me, and I got the gig. Now, after we submitted the adventure, the editors at West End made some changes, and Allen (in full artiste mode) was incensed at those changes and insisted that his name be removed from the product. So I got sole credit. C'est la vie...Make the adventure seem like a sequel to the movie — equal parts slapstick, smart-aleck satire, and rip-roaring action...Hard to recall, honestly. I think we were still looking back at the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man from the movie as this great juxtaposition of cartoon cuteness and ultimate evil, and we ran with it from there. The other ideas — the making him the Demon God of Refined Sugar, the alternate dimension where all the cartoon pitchmen lived, the giant mountain of breakfast cereal — all followed from there. Allen and I basically took turns writing. One of us would do one scene, then the other would read what was written and go from there to write the next scene, then back and forth like that until the end."
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