A Teen Fiasco
MJ Harnish is playing Fiasco with high school students. I love this idea and think it could be a great pedagogical tool, but the playsets and tables need some age-appropriate refinement. Stay tuned.
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Fiasco on the RPG Golden Geek Shortlist!
We’re very excited to be able to say that Fiasco made it to the shortlist for Game of the Year in the 2010 RPG Golden Geek Awards! We’re honored that our game is in such good company, and we thank everyone who voted to put it there!
Lucca 2010: The Booth
I’m back from Lucca 2010, where I was a guest of the ever-amazing Janus Designs crew. I have lots to say, but figured I’d start with a few photos of the booth they set up with Narrativa and Coyote Press.
Here’s the booth in action:
Here’s the adjacent tiny demo area:
The Janus section, in the middle, with Spirit of the Century, Shock: and Fiasco (I didn’t get any good photos because this area was a choke point mobbed with customers):
Some Coyote offerings, including their game Ravendeath. You can’t see their beautiful translation of Contenders in this photo:
Some Narrativa offerings:
and their Montsegur 1244 version, which was a runner-up for RPG of the Year:
It was a really slick setup, with those beautiful full color vinyl banners as a backdrop. On the two busiest days of the show, they also had an “indie games palace” with six tables and a small retail space in a fancy hotel within the city itself. Amazing support and organization!
November Playset of the Month – London 1593
The Playset of the Month for November is London 1593, written by Will Hindmarch and Kenneth Hite! This playset is for those who love Shakespeare, a master of fiascos if ever there was one:
Elizabeth, Queen of England, has enemies everywhere.
If you can read and write, if you can tell lies with quill or voice, you might have a place as a peddler of bombast, as a player of parts, as a nefarious practitioner of the business of show… or as a spy. For all the world is a stage and the great lords of England and abroad are writing the parts that lackeys, liars, agents, and actors shall play.
Show business and skulduggery are tangled together–here like lovers, there like brawlers–and all those within reach of politics and art must balance their secrets against their ambitions. Love and lust and loyalty are all called into question as poets seek the literature of the age and spymasters seek the enemies of the crown.
Yet for all that the strife of the age claims to be about crowns and kingdoms, so much comes down to the common quagmires of coins and cons, jealousy and greed, love and spite. Petty gripes and dirty designs conspire to determine the fate of England. Some folk may hang or burn and some may slip away smelling of roses.
But, for sure, a reckoning draws nigh.
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