The Internet’s own Ryan Macklin spent some time with the Game Salute gang at Gen Con, discussing Fiasco:
Ryan also talked earlier in the interview about some other little game called The Dresden Files. Apparently that one’s pretty good too!
If you’re looking to buy the print version of Fiasco right now, you might have noticed that it’s out of stock at Indie Press Revolution. We were caught off guard a bit by our success at Gen Con, but no worries- we have a new printing under way, and it will be available in the next few weeks.
Re-order Pre-order!
No need to wait, however- we have a new “re-order pre-order” deal in place at IPR. If you buy the game now, you’ll get immediate access to the PDF and your print copy will ship to you when it is available (expected by mid-September).
Check out Will Hindmarch’s crazy Fiasco playset, All the Damn Time. He needs feedback from dedicated, experienced Fiasco players, so get cracking! Elevator pitch: “Sam Howard is a man unstuck in time. Some kind of quantum-level shenanigans have him traveling to and from key moments in his life. But if one Sam Howard managed to mess things up the first time, who’s to say that even more meddling Sam Howards can make things any better? Will Sam improve his life by futzing with his own history or will he turn a life of perfectly ordinary mistakes into a paradoxical catastrophe?
Who plays Sam Howard, by the way? You all do. You play Sams from different points in time. Good luck with that…”
“Fiasco was one of the greatest storytelling RPGs I’ve ever played. I highly recommend it.” - Wil Wheaton
Among the many honors Fiasco received at Gen Con, perhaps the greatest was having it played by this bunch of writers and all-around fantastic guys:
In honor of this event, we’re adding the Los Angeles 1936 playset to every PDF download of Fiasco sold until the end of the year.
Written by Chris Bennett and released exclusively for Gen Con, Los Angeles 1936 puts Fiasco players in the black and white world of Raymond Chandler’s L.A., full of smoky nightclubs, Hollywood starlets and hard men with guns looking to unravel all their grand dreams.
If you’ve already purchased the PDF from one of our distributors, please log in again to grab this special edition playset for yourself.
If you haven’t bought the PDF, you can find it at Indie Press Revolution or Drivethru RPG!
We here at Bully Pulpit are very excited to be able to say that Fiasco won a 2010 ENnies Judges’ Award from Jeramy Ware. He explains his reasoning on his blog:
I had an extremely difficult time choosing which one of the fantastic products we received to recognize with my Judges’ Award, so in the end I went with the most important criteria I could think of – which one provided the most fun at my game table.
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[Fiasco] took a group of people who barely knew each other and had us playing and laughing together for nearly 4 hours without any hesitation or awkwardness. I don’t know that there is a better test for a roleplaying game.
Thank you Jeramy and all of the ENnies Judges for your time and consideration. We’re very honored. Thanks also to Ryan Macklin for accepting the award on our behalf during the ceremony!
