Because truckers are 90% dumb assholes

>>97883859
>Instead of a party you have a convoy.
>Instead of a build you have a rig
>Instead of zombies you have meth addicts
I can see it working. I'd prefer for it to be in a semi-fantastical setting like the Cyberpunk 2020 world myself but it could work in many frames.

>>97883859
Because it's driving from A to B with nothing happening? Where the fuck is the game?

>>97884721
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the GM would probably create things that happen between point A and B.

As a former trucker, the current environment isn't really suitable for rpgs unless you're all independent operators, and most groups of independent operators run local or regional. National hauling has been infected with the corporate 'cut costs at all costs' cancer thats causing the current disasters. Your time and route are now micromanaged.

Toothpicks = potions
Lot lizards = tavern wenches
CB radio = adventurer's guild mission board

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>>97883859
Honestly this sounds a lot like Night Shift atmosphere-wise, except this time you travel around at night and encounter all sorts of weird or creepy stuff instead of the stuff coming to you
I think it's a neat idea, but a major problem is that AFAIK truckers are generally on their own and at most speak to others via radio, while most people want ttrpgs to be a social experience with at least a small party of PCs

>>97883859
>Why is that? Struggles with player count?
Yes which is why you get space trucker games like Traveller

>>97883859
It would really only work for a one on one game and those are pretty rare. And with a horror game especially it would need to be pretty short, once the PC has had a few run ins with fucked up shit you start to wonder why he doesn't just find a different job.

>>97883859

And on the verge of becoming extinct because of technological disrutpion. Wait, you probably went for a fantasy vibe, not a cyberpunk one.

I dunno, the idea might work, but it would be a solo rpg, wouldn't it? Trucking on the side of being a demon hunter, or vice versa. Besides unless you want it to be Maximum Overdrive I suppose trucking is very minor.

>>97884206

Well, so are most PCs, seems a pretty good match

>>97888310
>on the verge of becoming extinct because of technological disrutpion
Kek. I want to see an AI blindside back a big rig into the cramped Van Nuys Red Bull warehouse

>>97887221
>truckers are generally on their own and at most speak to others via radio
You could probably make a serviceable and even somewhat fun scenario with only 1PC having actual weird shit happening to him, while everyone else is just talking to him on CB radio, not being able to directly intervene, but still advising their pal and genuinely trying to help him survive. Bonus points if you can arrange it so that the radio players hear only what the main dude can relay them via the radio and don't hear any GM's descriptions of what's going on.
Or you could even make all the PCs radio listeners trying to help some poor NPC colleague survive the weird, horrifying shit he got himself into and make sure he returns home.
You can build lots of tension from limited agency and information about what's going on.
Still, that's more of an experimental one-shot material than a whole game of its own

>>97883859
Would hats give stats and do you need to stop every so often to murder a prostitute?

>>97891725
Certain hats alter your vision in certain ways depending on the type of cap, and might reveal the world better to you.
And the gas station prostitutes anywhere outside of town most of the time turn out to be shapeshifting vampires so killing them and dumping their body in a ditch is a moral duty really.

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>>97887221
>but a major problem is that AFAIK truckers are generally on their own and at most speak to others via radio, while most people want ttrpgs to be a social experience with at least a small party of PCs
That's a minor problem which can be overcome in several different ways:
>meets friends in different towns/places
>local calamity (snowstorm, highway closure, flooding, etc.) forces trucker and randos into scenario
>Father Fate brings PCs together at random like in a Neil Gaiman novel
You'd really want a "weird modern magical realism" game like Unknown Armies or Delta Green for this. Night Shift is good too if you prefer rules-light games, there are several rule variants out there.

>>97883859
I can drive trucks in real life. Dumbass.

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>>97883859
Isn't Ultraviolet Grasslands kind of this?
You'd have to strip and replace the theming but it's there to build on.
>>97889029
Sounds like a fun one-page game for parties.

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>>97897105
UVG has caravan creation and travel rules, true, but it's designed for wild science fantasy, not contemporary North America trucking. It'd be too much work converting it, especially since the system is kind of undefined and flaky and incomplete.

>>97883859
OP, did you get your idea from listening to the Alice Is Missing podcast show?

>>97900097
>Alice Is Missing
Probably the best work from that crew ngl. I've debated setting a Delta Green game in that universe.