“If this is read or heard of in some future time, let the record show that on July twenty–third 1863 I returned to the world after being abandoned by General Edward Potter and God himself. The men by my side in Rocky Mount are all dead. Their suffering will be forgotten—I am its lone witness, and I choose not to etch it into my memory. Tomorrow I will either be hero, or deserter shot dead. Either way, what happened between there and here will go to my grave with me.” –Private Henry Eager, Company L, First NC Volunteers, United States Army

CAROLINA DEATH CRAWL is a swampy, Southern Gothic roleplaying card game for three or more players. At the height of the American Civil War, your characters have been abandoned deep behind Confederate lines. Can they fight their way through enemy territory and treacherous terrain back to safety? For all but one, the answer is “no!”, but the dark story you tell in trying will be memorable and thrilling. Fun and competitive, CAROLINA DEATH CRAWL gives you all the history you need—you supply the desperation, depravity, and destruction.

The free 19 page rules PDF is available for download here and provides detailed, step-by-step directions for how to play the game, options for playing with three or five players, a glossary of noteworthy terms, and an extended “replay” example of a session of the game. In addition to this, you’ll need the premium deck of full-color cards (or the print-and-play PDF version) available now from DrivethruCards!

THE DECK

The game includes a full-color deck of 60 standard-sized cards printed on premium card stock, double-sided, with rounded-corners and a low-gloss UV Coating. The cards are printed on demand through DrivethruCards.

Here’s what’s included:

12 Color Cards (four each of Background, Raid, and Escape) provide evocative historical context throughout play;

12 Character Cards, 6 sets of given name and surname cards that are paired in different combinations to determine who your character is and what will drive him through the story;

36 Action Cards (12 each of Kill, Disgrace, and Destroy) provide inspirational prompts that shape your scenes and points that determine the outcomes for each chapter.

Print and Play PDF Included

Purchase of the print cards includes the Print-and-Play PDF at no extra charge, so you can get started right away while you wait for shipment to arrive!

It’s been a while since an official Fiasco playset has been spotted in the wild. We’ve been deep in the swamps and finally we’ve returned to bring you this astounding proof: please enjoy this special playset release, The Beast of Sucker Creek, written by Jason Morningstar.

Sightings of a hairy, man-like creature in and around Sucker Creek go back hundreds of years—the legends of the Rayado people tell of Ni-teshi-ih; “The Strong One” who lived in the dark swamps of the Sucker Creek basin.

Since white settlement of the region, reports of blood-chilling cries in the night and occasional sightings of the Beast have been a fixture of local gossip. Is it a madman? A crazed bear? Something strange and wholly new to science? No one knows, but those who have crossed paths with it are convinced of one thing—the Beast of Sucker Creek is real, and you don’t want to make it angry.

International Tabletop Day is tomorrow, March 30th, so we got excited and made stuff! Well sort of— we got excited and put together stuff we’d already made so that you can more easily enjoy it!

So if you’re planning to celebrate the day with games and you’d like to play Fiasco, grab the free Fiasco bundle from DrivethruRPG, which includes the following:

• Our Fiasco facilitation cheat sheet, perfect for running the game for friends
• The Fiasco play mat for use on the table during play
• the Saturday Night 78 Playset (co-written by Wil Wheaton) and table cards used in the Fiasco Tabletop episodes
• the Business Casual Playset (based on shows like Office Space and the IT Crowd) excerpted from our American Disasters collection just and made available for free as a Tabletop Day exclusive

Some of this you can already find here in our Downloads, but you should grab Business Casual while it’s free!

In addition, if you play Fiasco tomorrow and send us a picture or an anecdote from your game, we’ll add your name to a drawing for a special prize- a custom Fiasco dice bag from CustomDiceBags.com!

In addition to running games, I’ll also be joining the Campaign Doctors panel with Jack Graham, Tracy Hurley, and Joshua AC Newman. Please come tell us your gaming woes and we’ll give you a fiasco-worthy answer!

Steve