This looked interesting until I read Geiger Counter itself and discovered it’s one of those boring, lifeless anti-GM things.

I used to belong to a group that played poker, pinochle, Uno, that sort of thing, and they might have enjoyed Geiger Counter as a strategy game with a sheen of color fluff that has no value or impact whatsoever on the set played.

However, my RPG group would hate this game. We come together in our RPGs to ROLE-PLAY (I’d think it was obvious the notion of *roleplaying* is important to RPGs since it uses two of the three letters) not to play at storyboarding. Geiger Counter is like telling people, “We’re playing the movie version of Lord of the Rings — Bill, you get to play the 3rd unit camera man; Michelle, you get to play the best boy; Jack, you get to play the continuity gnome. Now, no one get attached or committed to Frodo or Legolas or any of the characters, and don’t make the mistake of immersing yourself in any of them, because we’re just going to pass them off to each other as we feel like it, just like they were lifeless pawns or shared dishplates. Some fun, huh?”

Yawn.

However, I like some of your ideas, and in a game which understands the importance of roleplaying and game mastering, I think they could work quite well.