O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag

[bryant]

Those of us who are fond of both Shakespeare and indie gaming should scope out the new Fiasco playset, entitled "London 1593." Also, spies. From Will Hindmarch and Kenneth Hite.

Comments

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

How doe fiasco actually play? Thats the one with the Jenga tower right?

[bryant]

Nah, Dread is the one with the Jenga tower. (As opposed to the other Dread, which is the one with the twelve sided dice and the splatterpunk.) Fiasco is GM-less, group character creation, take turns framing scenes. Sort of like PTA.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Is the pdf a complete scenario? It confuses me and I'm going back to my cave.

[bryant]

Sort of. In a nutshell: you roll four six siders for everyone at the table. You then go around the table, choosing from the elements listed in the scenario document. The numbers rolled on the dice control what you can choose. At the end of setup, everyone has a character, something that's important to them, and relationships with the other characters.

Then you do rotating scenes. You can either define a scene or define the outcome (positive or negative). If you choose to determine the outcome, the rest of the table frames the scene, and vice versa.

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

Interesting. Fiasco doesn't really sound like my kind of fun, but the setting is fun (if minimal).

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I definitely DEFINITELY want to try to run the Dallas 1963 scenario at some point.

[alex-victory.livejournal.com]

You hooked me on the last two words of the post.