Running Man idea

Maybe this has been discussed before--and it may be a fricking stupid idea, but has anyone ever made a game based upon Running Man?

It may be too obscure--but the set up of ultra violent gladiator like fights with kickass types of weapons. The runners (or runner) has to get through and past the stalkers --- all within a corny gameshow context. Death, mayhem, and Richard Dawson!

Not sure if it would be too bland--how to get past just a dungeon crawl (Descent-clone) while keeping the sense of fast-paced action for the short attention span of TV audiences. Maybe something mixing Epic Duels, Cowboys:Way of the Gun, and Descent.

Just two-player? Or could you have multiple runners and multiple stalkers. Of course, player elimination with more than two players would likely be a draw-back to some--but....

Heck, it could be party game with "betting"--with the audience getting prizes for correctly voting on who wins each encounter (maybe that's where the eliminated players go--into the audience--where they have a chance to get enough of "something", I don't know, to win.

Perhaps a stupid idea--maybe you could sell Stephen King on the idea and he'd put up the money just for shits and giggles.

How are you going to figure Maria Conchita Alonso into the design?

Merkles wrote:

Maybe this has been discussed before--and it may be a fricking stupid idea, but has anyone ever made a game based upon Running Man?

It may be too obscure--but the set up of ultra violent gladiator like fights with kickass types of weapons. The runners (or runner) has to get through and past the stalkers --- all within a corny gameshow context. Death, mayhem, and Richard Dawson!

Not sure if it would be too bland--how to get past just a dungeon crawl (Descent-clone) while keeping the sense of fast-paced action for the short attention span of TV audiences. Maybe something mixing Epic Duels, Cowboys:Way of the Gun, and Descent.

Just two-player? Or could you have multiple runners and multiple stalkers. Of course, player elimination with more than two players would likely be a draw-back to some--but....

Heck, it could be party game with "betting"--with the audience getting prizes for correctly voting on who wins each encounter (maybe that's where the eliminated players go--into the audience--where they have a chance to get enough of "something", I don't know, to win.

Perhaps a stupid idea--maybe you could sell Stephen King on the idea and he'd put up the money just for shits and giggles.

I could see several ways to 'design' this:
- One player is the sportslord, the others are the competitors. Its like a dungeon crawl but in the end only one player can win. So the competitors may team up to survive the arena, but eventually they have to turn on the other competitors to claim the prize.

- All players take the role of both the competitors and the arena. When it is another players' 'competitors' turn they play the part of the arena trying to defeat them. Kind of like dungeoneer where everyone else is the dungeonmaster during a players hero turn.

- The arena is automated and not controlled by any player, with everyone simply being a competitor.