Toon (role-playing game) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Toon is a role-playing game in which the players take the roles of cartoon characters. It is subtitled The Cartoon Roleplaying Game.Toon was designed by Greg Costikyan and developed by Warren Spector, and first published in 1984 by Steve Jackson Games.
The game uses a very simple skill-based task resolution system based on a list of only 23 skills that cover all possible character actions. These are assigned to four controlling attributes, humorously named Muscle (strength), Zip (dexterity and speed), Smarts (intelligence), and Chutzpah (pushiness and self-confidence). In addition, characters can have optional Shticks, which give them unusual cartoon-like abilities, such as flying or invisibility.
As in many role-playing games, characters have hit points, which are deducted when the character is injured (usually in combat, or by having anvils fall on them). Unlike most games, however, when a character is reduced to zero hit points he does not die or fall unconscious, but falls down. Since cartoon characters never actually die, and always return in time for the next scene, a fallen down character returns to play a set time later, with all hit points restored.
Toon games are controlled by a game master called the Animator.
Although Toon is careful to avoid any copyright violations, it is clear that the game was inspired by the classic Warner Brothers cartoons of the 1950s and '60s, and characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
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