History TabletopGame / TalesFromTheFloatingVagabond

* MediumAwareness[=/=]MusicalSpoiler: The Theme Song aspect of the Rogers and Hammerstein Effect, which gives the PC a "soundtrack" that can warn them of surprises or ambushes when the music shifts.

* StupidJetpackHitler[=/=]ThoseWackyNazis: The Space Nazis are a recurring foe.

A second edition was crowdfunded in 2013, but after years worth of development, the project hit a stumbling block when author Lee Garvin passed away in June 2019, leaving behind a near-complete draft. A postmortem edition was announced to be in development from this draft alongside this news, and this version was eventually released digitally in December 2023.

This postmortem version has since been completed, and can be found [[https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464473/tales-from-the-floating-vagabond-second-edition here]].

A second edition was crowdfunded in 2013, but after years worth of development, the project hit a stumbling block when author Lee Garvin passed away in June 2019, leaving behind a near-complete draft. A postmortem edition was announced to be in development from this draft alongside this news.

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''Tales from the Floating Vagabond'' is a comic multiversal TabletopRPG from Creator/AvalonHill.

* ChickMagnet[=/=]HelloNurse: Any PC with the Valentino Effect causes [=NPCs=] who fail a Hard Cool test to fall madly in love.

* ChandelierSwing[=/=]VineSwing: The Flynn Effect shtick lets players find something to dramatically swing on virtually anywhere.

* ContrivedCoincidence: With the "It'd Take a Miracle" Effect, a player can think of [[NoodleImplements something outrageous]] to get them out of a life-or-death situation, and it'll appear if they make a Luck roll. Also, players with the Trench Coat Effect have a chance to have any small, minor item on their person if another character asks for it.

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Any PC with the Doolittle Effect.

* MadeOfIron: The Schwarzenegger Effect lets a PC ignore wound penalties to skills, at the cost of not knowing how injured they are until they run out of Ouch Points, and not being to receive serious medical attention when anyone is looking.

* WaveMotionGun: the top end of the guns size scale, "Don't Point That At My Planet!"

''Tales from the Floating Vagabond'' is a comic multiversal tabletop role-playing game from Avalon Hill.

* ThoseWackyNazis: The Space Nazis are a recurring foe.

* WeirdTradeUnion: The Bylaw Effect Shtick gives a PC membership in one of these.

* PowerIncontinence:

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: The Newton Effect lets a player stop another character from doing something the PC believes should be impossible.

* MediumAwareness: The Theme Song aspect of the Rogers and Hammerstein Effect, which gives the PC a "soundtrack" that can warn them of surprises or ambushes when the music shifts.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: The John Doe Effect makes a PC have "one of those faces" that causes people to constantly "recognize" them as a friend, a distant relative, or even a celebrity.

* TheNondescript: The John Doe Effect makes a PC have "one of those faces" that causes people to constantly "recognize" them as a friend, a distant relative, or even a celebrity.

* WeirdTradeUnion: The Bylaw Effect Shtick gives a PC membership in one of these.

The player characters are a motley group of such newcomers to the Floating Vagabond who end up getting into various misadventures for one reason or another. A player goes through the usual routine of assigning stats, skills with silly names such as "Swing Nasty Pointy Thing" (basic melee weapons), "Hurt People Really Badly" (martial arts), "Notice Obvious", and "Raise Children to be Responsible Adults Instead of [[SelfDeprecation Game Designers]]" ("This isn't so much a skill as a warning for parents who may read these rules"), and special powers called Shticks (which can let players ignore wound penalties, become almost irresistible to the opposite sex, or channel a slapstick comedian to bamboozle [=NPCs=]), and then run around causing trouble.

* ContrivedCoincidence: With the "It'd Take a Miracle" Effect, a player can think of [[NoodleImplements something outrageous]] to get them out of a sticky situation, and it'll appear if the make a Luck roll. Also, players with the Trench Coat effect have a chance to have any small, minor item on their person if another character asks for it.

* GargleBlaster: The Singularity, the strongest drink available at the Floating Vagabond. Spit is one of the few people capable of making one that won't kill the imbiber, and anyone foolish enough to drink a Singularity suffers one or more of a number of strange side-effects.

* TheNondescript: The John Doe Effect makes a PC hard to recognize.

* ContrivedCoincidence: With the "It'd Take a Miracle" Effect, a player can think of [[NoodleImplements something outrageous]] to get them out of a sticky situation, and it'll appear if the make a Luck roll.

The player characters are a motley group of such newcomers to the Floating Vagabond who end up getting into various misadventures for one reason or another. A player goes through the usual shtick of assigning stats, skills with silly names such as "Swing Nasty Pointy Thing" (basic melee weapons), "Hurt People Really Badly" (martial arts), "Notice Obvious", and "Raise Children to be Responsible Adults Instead of [[SelfDeprecation Game Designers]]" ("This isn't so much a skill as a warning for parents who may read these rules"), and special powers such as Shticks (which can let players ignore wound penalties, become almost irresistible to the opposite sex)

The player characters are a motley group of such newcomers to the Floating Vagabond who end up getting into various misadventures for one reason or another. A player goes through the usual shtick of assigning stats, skills with silly names such as "Swing Nasty Pointy Thing" (basic melee weapons), "Hurt People Really Badly" (martial arts), "Notice Obvious", and "Raise Children to be Responsible Adults Instead of [[SelfDeprecation Game Designers]]" ("This isn't so much a skill as a warning for parents who may read these rules.")

* TheRival: Luger's rival Solomon Crane, owner of the neighboring "Crane's Nest" and "a man with more money, more style, and a lot fewer scruples than Spit."
* ThoseWackyNazis: The Space Nazis are a recurring foe.