Adamant Entertainment announced a Buckaroo Banzai tabletop roleplaying game, due in Spring 2012.

"Where are we going?!"

"PLANET TEN!"

"When?!"

"REAL SOON!"

Last July's octaNe adventure War Zeppelin of the Iron Man was insanely fun. I knew I had to run octaNe again at some point, and that time is now.

This Saturday at Emerald City Gamefest I'll be running a foray into Hong Kong b-movie style madness called Shadows of Lo Pan: Big Trouble in the International District from 10am to 2pm. I'll have room for six people at the table; pre-generated characters will be on hand as well as lucky envelopes containing clues, red herrings, and game-altering revelations.

There will be stiff competition for my game, though: other folks will be running adventures during the same time slot, including We Be Goblins! for Pathfinder RPG. (Complete schedule here.) There's also a gamer garage sale offering all sorts of cool games at affordable prices.

People want to believe that illusions could be real; that’s why we go to magic shows. I think the illusion that’s important to us as RPG players is the sense that events in the imagined world have their own independent and pre-existing reality. Even though at one level we know that some of these events are the result of random rolls on a chart, at another level we treat the dice as oracles that reveal this other world. This illusion that both dice rolls and asking “what do I see when I throw a torch into the pit?” are ways of discovering what’s out there in the game-world seems to me vital to what roleplaying is about.

Link from Jeff's Gameblog