A Portuguese Fiasco
In moving pictures! Retropunk’s translation looks great.
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One Cool Thing I Saw At Origins 2011
One Cool Thing I Saw At Origins 2011, in which I look haggard. I shot all this on Sunday and missed a lot of people.
Origins Roundup
Origins was great, better than ever. I had a fantastic, memorable time. Big thanks to Kira and Travis for graciously opening their home to me. Having a safe and comfortable home base among friends made everything so much nicer.
I played Fiasco three times:
Rainbow Mountain, in which new arrival Cindy Peppering used some tricks she had up her sleeve to terrify the entire cult and take over the Mountain…
News Channel Six, which was all about lust, the death of journalism and the sad descent of anchor Don Featherton, sort of melancholy in the end…
Rainbow Mountain, a session aptly named “My Two Dads”, in which all the characters (including the terrifying cult enforcer Lenin Peppering) were secretly related…this one in particular did not end well. Suicide, a fatal grizzly bear mauling, and life imprisonment sum up the Act Two action. Lenin Peppering came out well, though.
I also played/ran:
Dungeon World, in which the sorceress-spider Udjutan encouraged the paladin to fail his Last Breath move…
Dresden Files, in which my guy got to punch a bunch of screaming baby head ghosts in a haunted house…
Freemarket, in which a travel writer, a word detective, an apple farmer and a wrench fetishist saved a blank from her heart’s desire by kidnapping her…
Technoir, in which a lot of hot spheels were employed to bring down the double-crossing gangster Dumas – with a great final showdown at the Blood Derby…
I also helped playtest a cool new thing that is somewhat secret yet, introduced a pile of people to Escape from the Aliens in Outer Space, and participated in a Larp I wrote! Watch the Skies! went well and I got a ton of useful feedback from the eight players. At one point we all actually watched the skies and, lo and behold, a flying saucer appeared.
Thanks to everyone who helped make Origins so great this year!
In My Sweaty Little Paws At Last
One shipment of the Fiasco Companion arrived last night (others are winging their way to New York, Ohio and Nevada, but we got 300). Holding it in my hands is a huge relief.
The book looks great – we went with a matte cover after seeing the results of that treatment on the Italian edition, and I love it. There are no soul-killing mistakes, which is always an existential terror. As objects, the books are wonderful, and as a text it is very strong. The call-outs from our friends just shine. I’m really proud of the final product and cannot wait to get it in your hands!
If you have a thanks in the front of the book, we have a copy we want you to sign when next we meet!
More on Origins
I’ll be at Origins 2011, which is this week! Holy cow!
Come say hey at the Games on Demand area, which is in Delaware-A. I’ll be running whatever you are interested in, provided what you are interested in is How We Came To Live Here, Archipelago II, Microscope, Dungeon World, Fiasco, Montsegur 1244 or Zombie Cinema.
Other than that I have few structured commitments, so if you are up to something unspeakably cool please let me know.
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