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For questions about the Paranoia RPG written in 2016 and published in 2017 by Mongoose Publishing. Notable new features include a boxed set of booklets, d6 dice pools featuring the Computer die, cards, and group character creation.

For questions about the Paranoia RPG written in 2016 and published in 2017 by Mongoose Publishing. Notable new features include a boxed set of booklets, d6 dice pools featuring the Computer die, cards, and group character creation.

This edition of Paranoia was crowdfunded in 2014, completed in 2016, and released in 2017 by Mongoose Publishing.

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Does a 5 on the Computer Dice count towards successes?

The Players Handbook says: When your character needs to do a non-easy thing in the game or the GM asks you to do a thing, you’ll roll a number of dice equal to your NODE plus the Computer Dice. You always roll the Computer Dice. Even if your…
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Does Paranoia 2017 have a Perversity Point system?

Does the 2017 version of Paranoia include an equivalent of the old perversity points system, points handed out to reward great role playing or suitably loyal behaviour, which could be spent to make a task easier, or make someone else's task…
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How does Body Armor work in MGP Paranoia (2017)?

I'm just starting a series of Paranoia (2017), having not run Paranoia since 5th Edition (a long time ago). I'm confused about the cards, in particular, 'Body Armour'. The card states that it has an Action Order of Athletics-2 and is a level 2…
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Does a Computer Symbol on the Computer Dice count towards successes?

The Players Handbook says: When your character needs to do a non-easy thing in the game or the GM asks you to do a thing, you’ll roll a number of dice equal to your NODE plus the Computer Dice. You always roll the Computer Dice. Even if your…
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How can I run an ongoing Paranoia campaign?

I am planing on running Paranoia (2017 edition) to give my D&D DM a rest for a few weeks. My players love social engineering boardgames such as Resistance and Secret Hitler but also would prefer to have an adventure run over a couple of weeks rather…
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Different ways to run Player Creation in Paranoia

I am now looking at running my 5th Paranoia session and this will be the 4th time the players have used the Player generation system from the New Paranoia system (pick a stat player to your left/right etc gets a -ve value) Now seeing as how the…
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