Whenever Veeky Forums mentions MAID, it's usually as the punchline to a joke. So is MAID actually a good/fun system...

It is the only system I have ever played in which Shaquille O'Neal was summoned to fight a wolf and was then beaten at basketball by a pixie.

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I kekked.
Good on ya.

Maid RPG is what you bust out to break snobby point buy nerds who won't just roll for their fucking stats.

Also a brilliant 1-shot game. I ran 1-shot last Halloween where the young master was moving into a new mansion with his maids as caretakers. The mansion was haunted. Shenanigans ensued

>mfw my players randomly rolled up a vampire loli, a ghost, a robot, and a "normal" girl who wore knight armor for some reason

Being crippled from chargen through no fault of your own is no fun in the vast majority of games. Maid is the beautiful exception where having all 1's is fucking hysterical.

One of the nice parts of MAID is actually how flexible it is. You don't in the slightest actually have to be a group of maids working for a master, you just have to be some group of people who wants the positive attention of a particular individual.
I once was in a game that had us be employees for Fantasy!Walmart and we were all trying to become the employee of the month.

Pretty sure this is it.

>So is MAID actually a good/fun system, or is it a massive joke gone wrong?

You wanna play a game built around an 1-n-relationship in which lots and lots of dumb shit happens as the n are trying to suck up to the 1?

That's what Maid does perfectly.

Now if you wanna play quasi-ERP with maids, non-ERP Maids, Police Academy, Chuunibyo Office workers, steel mill workers, an Aspiring Idol parody or pretty much anything else that works as an 1-n-relationship is up to you.

Does Maid have built-in sex stuff that can't be ignored? Like, in the rules?

I might want to run it in a non-ERP way for some people as a comedy hijinks game along the lines of The Great Race or Cheers.

Nah. Seduction is an optional rule as is the fetishy stuff, and all the really freaky stuff is in a pdf.

>M-muh character will be crippled!

JUST
ROLL EM

m.youtube.com/watch?v=pBmEFgd_4ho

>Does Maid have built-in sex stuff that can't be ignored
You can ignore any part of Maid, it's fully modular.
There isn't even any actual ERP stuff in there. That's just the players being horny and thinking that's what happens.

It's fun for on-shots. Breaks down in long games.

>The DM didn't seem to have anything planned, rolling dice after dice to see what happened next. There wasn't any standard combat from what I could tell, but it was crazy slice of life that got worse and worse. A player character's panties exploded and she got turned into a cyborg. Another one was brainwashed into stealing the other girl's stockings while they were wearing them, which was doable because she was some sort of ninja samurai. The master got kidnapped by clowns who the players seduced to get him back.
This is completely normal in a game of Maid.

I have ran Maid RPG and never even read the seduction rules.

>all the really freaky stuff is in a pdf.
May I ask what PDF you're talking about?

maidrpg.com/resources/MaidRPG_Nun_Approved.pdf

It can be fun/funny if everyone is on board and wants to take it easy. It depends on what sort of game you run, too. I've known people to dodge from seeming silly slice-of-life to murder mystery.

...which ones?

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well that was interesting reading

>2/3 of them purposely trying to kill the master, fuck each other, and/or trying to burn the house down

These ones.

Maid is my go to game if we need a one-shot, using the random roll tables to make an adventure.

Here's what happened in my first game:
One player got a heroine maid with a transparent rainbow uniform and average stats (2-3) with amazing Will (5)?. Her speciality was that she had somehow killed her parents (never came up though). The other was an emotionless young lolita with a beige uniform and meh stats (some 1s and a 0, the rest were average (2-3) but she had a high Skill (4)). She was a super neat freak and wore a collar. Her stress explosion was 'violence' and her maid weapon was a knife. Yeah, secret psychotic loli...

The day started with Rainbow bringing the master (dubbed 'senpai' by Loli and his vague knowledge of Japanese honourifics) breakfast.
He was not in bed and she saw a rope of knotted bedsheets leading out the window.
Calling for Loli, she saw the master running away, going through the golf course.
They pursue the fastest way they can- by going out the window. Loli falls out but Rainbow swings out with style. Grabbing a golf cart they pursue master Senpai. A shadow suddenly covers the cart. Looking up they see an alien spacecraft that starts to aim it's weapons at them. Veering into the trees they gain safety, but fail to stop in time and run over the master. Reviving him he tells them that aliens are invading, intent on conquering the Earth, and the key to defeating them lies in the mansion.
They board the cart and begin their way back, but the ground shakes and through the trees they see ancient buildings rise to surround the mansion.
Evading blasts from the alien ship they drive towards the building and Rainbow sees a possible way in- a large window containing a large stained glass window. They flee up a buttress and fly Dukes of Hazzard style at the window, but it starts to glow and they vanish upon touching it. They pass through a whirl of colours and emerge from the window, driving out the very pane they were just going towards.

Somehow they have gotten turned around, but the building now looks new and is even still being constructed! They narrowly miss falling off a half finished buttress and land on the ground unharmed. There is a crowd of people in robes and loin cloths toiling on the construction.
A man in a red robe makes his way through the crowd and demands to know who they are. On hearing where they came from and who they flee he is shocked and surprised for the day of prophesy is not to come to pass for 10,000 years! They learn that this building is being made to fulfil a foretelling of a cataclysmic danger in the future, to assist in the aid of the descendants of Atlantis.
I can't remember too well but I THINK this is when Loli was given a mysterious box that contained a rose that fused with her palm and allowed her to shoot thorns from her hand and make roses bloom wherever she willed. It also slowly turned her into a plant creature, I added that myself.
Alien ships come through the portal and start blasting people and buildings so the maids and their master are taken to a temple. As they flee Loli fires thorns at a ship, which pierce the hull and erupt in crushing vines. In the temple is housed an altar that holds an ancient secret to unlocking the power that will save the world. It is said that it will surrender it's power when filled with the force of life. Rainbow asks for water and empties buckets in it and Loli commands roses to grow within.
The flowers wilt immediately and nothing seems to happen but then a form rises from the floating detritus, in the form of a woman. The being asks their reason for seeking her assistance and acknowledges Rainbow as worthy, gifting her with a magical sword that transforms her maid uniform into a scale mail bikini. She warns that there is one final test and outside the ground shakes again and out rises a powerful dragon.

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As it shakes the earth from its wings Rainbow leaps, stabbing it in the chest. It roars in pain and spews forth a gout of flame, but Rainbow raises the sword and splits the jet in half, each half passing her by. The heat is terrible, but she is mostly unharmed. Raising her sword again, she swings harder, driving it into the beast's heart and it dies. As Rainbow goes to take the massive head it revives, congratulating her on passing the final test and pledging it's services for one task. She asks it to help destroy the invaders.
Together they fly at the ships, fire engulfs some, powerful claws rend others. Rainbow leaps on another, slashing it with her enchanted blade. As it falls she jumps off and is caught by the dragon. It was very animu.
Meanwhile, the master and Loli have been caught in a tractor beam and captured by aliens. They are placed in a cell. Rainbow sees and gets the dragon to bring it down. It's unable to open it so Rainbow makes her own entrance with her sword. Following a path of roses she frees her friend and master.
Unfortunately one of the ships has escaped back through the portal and they persue.
Back at the mansion things have stayed the same same for the exotic jungle that is now filling the area between Atlantean architecture and the mansion.
Outside is the last ship, a silver wire grasping the wall.
The dragon lands on the craft, crushing it. Duty discharged it turns to fly away. Loli uses her power to cover it with roses as it flies. The dragon disperses as a cloud of red petals which are swept away by the wind.
Rainbow climbs the wire and Loli makes her own way up, a trellis of roses.
In the jungle they meet some natives, all wearing large ornate masks.

Loli tries to impress them with roses but they scoff, bringing forward their shaman. He lays large tulips on the ground and ceremoniously burns leaves at their centre. The smoke coalesces in the form of an old man who looks like the master, an ancestor from nearly 10,000 years ago. He tells the master of his heritage, of the ancient Atlantean blood that runs in his veins and duty his family has held for nearly one hundred decades to guard against this day. He also blesses Rainbow's blade.
They travel on, kill a giant snake, kill an escaping alien carrying a bag of extraterrestrial firearms and get to the mansion. Outside the trees have brought to the surface previously covered items from the mansion's past. Amongst them is a coffin containing the same ancestor they spoke to. They give him an honourable burial and Loli decides to take the coffin.
Inside the building is infested with vines and plantlife. The entrance to the secret chamber with the device they need has been flooded. Loli uses her morbid acquisition to sail them down the flooded corridor. A brief encounter with a giant crocodile causes the master to fall out the makeshift boat, but he is saved and crocodile slain so they pass through fair enough.
At the sacred reccess an alien has found it's way ahead of them. It offers a deal as they stand before an unknown object under a black sheet.
They decline and the ghost appears again to reinforce their resolve and tell Rainbow that she has the ability to use the device for she shares the blood of the ancients- she is, in fact, the master's sister. The alien dives for the device but Loli protects it with a bed of roses that their foe begins to claw at. Eventually it brings it out and holds it aloft in triumph. Rainbow knocks it out of its grey hands and grabs it, unveiling a large metal ring showing a hideous realm that looks like hell.

She throws it over the alien and strikes it with her sacred blade. It offers resistance as the forces of holy and unholy collide. There is a a flash of light and it explodes, everything goes dark.
Rainbow wakes up to the sound of her alarm. Looking at it she sees that it is the morning of the day they left. She goes into the master's room to serve him breakfast. He says he had the strangest dream. Loli enters and they briefly recount the day's events and say they know, it was real. They begin their day again, this time much more peacefully.
The End.

Random encounters, random items, it makes for a pretty chaotic game when you play it like that but I think it's fun that way when you want something quick.

That's almost as good as MAID Heresy.

It takes a special kind of person to make a session of made actually funny, rather than a mess of highschool-tier "perverted" jokes and memes everyone will get tired of in an hour. It takes an even special-er person to use it to actually create notable stories of any kind except "absolute chaos, everything goes fanservice hilarity" (and don't tell me the game wasn't meant to accommodate those, half the sample scenarios in the rulebook are stuff like "the master is a regular kid in the regular world, and his regular maids need to help him get a date with a regular girl". It's a HUMOROUS premise, but there's a difference between humorous and crazy)

How about this?

>Right
Who is that Keratas Kutie?

>is no fun in the vast majority of games
It's also incredibly unlikely in most games that roll for stats that you will actually be meaningfully crippled.

And if nothing else you can take Gamma World 7e's lead. it's based on 4e and you get an 18 and 16 in your primary stats, 3d6 down the line for the rest.
If your two character types have the same primary stat it's 20, with you having one more stat at 3d6.

The inferior sister.

Highlights of the session included dealing with rush hour, dealing with the ninja infestation in the store's rafters, and breaking a siege made by the Society for the Ethical Treatment of Monsters.

I wish doushio still had its dedicated Maid RPG board still up.

It's a well-made system for what it's trying to do. Like, yes, it's a joke system, but it only works as a joke system because it's completely functional. I was really bummed that my group fell apart before we could really get into it.

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Whatever happened to that?

I have a friend who runs literally all his campaigns in MAID. He has convinced me that MAID is a suitable base system for anything relating to a group of people competing for the approval of another person.

That seems like incredibly specific circumstances. Where else does it work? Political wrangling of nobles trying to appease the king? Horny teenagers trying to impress the hottest girl in school? Travellers stuck in a horror nightmare on a space ship where their only hope for survival is to appease the malfunctioning AI?

... Actually that's a surprisingly wide field.

>Political wrangling of nobles trying to appease the king?
I know he's run something close to this. It was competing knights or something of the sort. I remember he also ran a scenario where a group of monstrous body guards escort the future demon king to the heart of his evil castle so he can assume the throne, with each trying to prove themselves most worthy. He doesn't tell me about all his games but I know that group runs almost nothing besides Maid.

It is a really broad topic if you think about it.

>Political wrangling of nobles trying to appease the king?
You now realize that the entire Versailles system was IRL MAID.

>he also ran a scenario where a group of monstrous body guards escort the future demon king to the heart of his evil castle so he can assume the throne
That's literally a core scenario for maid, if I remember correctly.

So what I'm getting from this thread is that MAID is an example of "ha ha, only serious", like that time medical treatment for President Garfield involved pouring whiskey up his bum for days.

Sounds about right.

On that note had a campaign of Comedy Cop maids. Exploited media of Tank Police, Police Academy, Naked Gun, Riding Bean and Gunsmith Cats as source material.

The Municipal Emergency Intervention Defense Organization. They were the stop gap measure between the Domestic Enforcement Routine Police and the military.

Setting took place in a post post apocalypse where cat girl tears were the most energy dense substance on the planet and were refined in the city state that MEIDO monitored and protected.

The Soap-Sud Plague was the event that laid mankind low 200 years prior and was initially released by a top secret government lab run by a Mari-Tan expy in order to prevent the world from being terriformed by My Alien Spaceship Totoro.

Super-Naturalized Citizens (SNACs) were creatures of myth and legend given enough alcohol and job placement to symbiotically integrate into the reawakening splinters of civilization.

Mansionville was the jurisdiction and Maid uniform the source of the players law enforcing and sometimes otherworldly powers.

Was a lot of fun. Had it in my mind that the French won the Space Race with the original "A Trip To The Moon" being a historical recreation. MEIDO did end up in hand to hand combat with a death Satellite from the Old World so that sorta was touched on.
youtube.com/watch?v=BNLZntSdyKE

Pixel Maritan was the Master of a previous game taking place at The Property the Area 51/BPRD analog that eventually caused the collapse of civilization.
youtube.com/watch?v=rCCzZN803_w

Playing a game of MAID should be a requirement for posting desu

I've heard it can be fun as hell, but have never had the kind of group that would willingly play it or play it without getting all kinds of creepy.

That said if I ever had a group of relatively tame weebs to play it with I'd be all in.

>Says the useless older sister whose only purpose is to troll

Just downloaded the rules, super excited to run this with my friends.
I love the "Walmart employees trying to impress their manager" scenario so I will probably steal that too.

I think I'm lucky in that my trpg friends have great senses of humor and can be spontaneous and improv without getting into lolsorandumb

That was beautiful

>Horn not glowing
DROPPED

>no incest
>no bestiality
>nobody was even killed and then the body violated
Bad aristocrats joke