![]() ![]() These "indie" RPGs are now something of a flavour of 21st-century hobby gaming. At the same time, smaller, independently-published books like Fiasco have been gaining attention. Sales of fat, luxurious role-playing source books, meant to create grand campaigns, have been trailing off for a while now. You're still just paying for a slim little rulebook, and there are dice, but beyond that you'd be best off scorching all such comparisons from your mind.įiasco has ended up at the forefront of a great shift in role-playing. Yes, like the original Dungeons & Dragons! Except not like that at all. The second thing you should know about Fiasco is that it's a pen and paper role-playing game. And laminated, beer-proof printouts of the playsets. pdf is available everywhere, but you want the book. ![]() My own games of Fiasco have seen me fretting over such miserable tasks as (i) trying to rob Holdenby Falconry Centre, with no knowledge of birds or, indeed, robbery and (ii) discovering my getaway car is a stick shift, which I couldn't drive, then fleeing the police in 1st gear. If you've ever witnessed the downward spiral of films like Burn After Reading, In Bruges or Bottle Rocket, you'll know what to expect. The first is that it's the funniest game I've ever played.Īs "a game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control," it sets out to simulate disastrous crime capers. There are two things you should know about Fiasco (and you should know about Fiasco). ![]()
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