Another Bundle - Fiasco 2020
Feb. 23rd, 2022 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This all-new Fiasco 2020 Bundle presents the recent card-based edition of Fiasco, Jason Morningstar's cinematic game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control from Bully Pulpit Games. (The original 2009 Classic Fiasco line appeared in the April 2019 Fiasco and More Bundle.) Fiasco is a storytelling game inspired by cinematic tales of small-time capers gone disastrously wrong. You'll tell a story about ordinary people flailing through stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It's like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it'd take to watch one. Lives and reputations will be lost, painful wisdom will be gained, and if you're really lucky, you just might end up back where you started. (You probably won't be lucky.) Funded in a big August 2019 Kickstarter campaign, the new Fiasco plays more smoothly and intuitively than ever, so your hapless characters' plans collide with reality faster and harder.
We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these files have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices.
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to the charity designated by Bully Pulpit Games, the Mines Advisory Group, an international organization that saves lives and builds futures through the destruction of landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other weapons left behind after conflicts.
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$100. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all five titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $44) as DRM-free .PDFs, including the complete Fiasco 2020 (retail price $12) and four games Jason Morningstar designed for the Bully Pulpit Games Patreon campaign and, earlier (2017-2019), for Kickstarter's short-lived "d.rip" subscription platform (retail $8 apiece): Deep Love, Space Post, The Underwater People, and Welcome Guests.
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with eight more titles worth an additional $56, including four recent expansions for the current version of Fiasco (retail $6 apiece): Feel the Rush, Fiasco, USA, Teen Angst, and Unknown Monsters; and four more games from the Bully Pulpit Patreon campaign (retail $8 apiece): The Black Drink, Cowboys With Big Hearts, The Crushers, and Uncle Gordo's House.
When the previous release was on offer I said: I've taken a quick look and this appears to be a very playable system with a lot of the features I like - it's mainly orientated toward collaborative story-telling, not complex rules, it's fast-playing, and it's a genre that isn't already served by dozens of other systems; there are a few around, but most of them are aimed at successful criminals, not the "how the hell did this go so wrong?" failures it emulates. There are dozens of film quotes from films like Fargo and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and it's a game that even low-impulse-control idiots are unlikely to ruin since most of the characters are likely to be low-impulse-control idiots...
Recommended!
Later - belatedly remember playing this at a con a few years ago and really enjoying it. Definitely recommended!
Looking at the new version, my main feeling is that there are a hell of a lot of cards to print out, and I can't help thinking that people are going to be playing it with the mindset of a card game rather than an RPG. It might work, but the old game worked pretty well, I'm not entirely sure it needed such a major revision. One consequence may be that it's harder to come up with new scenarios "on the fly" since there may not be cards for every eventuality.
I think I'm going to treat this as I did the previous version, as a source of ideas and plot points I can adapt to my own games.
