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4.31 AVERAGE
4.31 AVERAGE
I got the game originally as a gift for Christmas of 2009 or 2010 and read it immediately, but had no one to play it with. Reread it and read up on it in November, determined to drum up some friends to play. It was everything I hoped.
The game itself is fantastic and the book presents everything clearly, with great examples and with great style. It's fun to read even if you aren't jumping right into a game.
The game itself is fantastic and the book presents everything clearly, with great examples and with great style. It's fun to read even if you aren't jumping right into a game.
adventurous
funny
informative
fast-paced
I love this concept! It's very RP heavy (obviously) so might not be everyone's jam, but definitely a great fit for the storytellers and anyone trying to write a movie/novel. The settings in the book are a bit basic, but there's a wealth of free content online and it's easy enough to customise once you've got the principles down, so that doesn't lose it any points.
The book is well-designed, gorgeous to look at, written in a conversational style that's easy to breeze through, and gives you everything you need and nothing you don't. Too many indie TTRPGs try to reinvent the wheel for no good reason, but this is one where it makes sense as its own system, rather than leaving me wondering why this isn't just a D&D/Pathfinder/WoD fan supplement.
Only skips a 5-star rating because I've not played it myself yet, so who knows, it might be horrible in practice.
The book is well-designed, gorgeous to look at, written in a conversational style that's easy to breeze through, and gives you everything you need and nothing you don't. Too many indie TTRPGs try to reinvent the wheel for no good reason, but this is one where it makes sense as its own system, rather than leaving me wondering why this isn't just a D&D/Pathfinder/WoD fan supplement.
Only skips a 5-star rating because I've not played it myself yet, so who knows, it might be horrible in practice.
on second read through this is even funnier and more promising then i remembered. on saturday we will try it out.
Kind of a cheat posting this as a book. It's a guidebook to a tabletop RPG I'm excited to play. Thank you Tim Mucci for buying me this!
Es un no-juego de rol que pretende y consigue emular las pelis estilo Fargo, Quemar después de leer, Sangre fácil y ese género de pobres desgraciados que tratan de dar el golpe y todo sale mal. No tengo nada en contra, y de hecho algunas de sus ideas son explotables para otros juegos de rol (por ejemplo, el sistema para crear relaciones entre los personajes es genial). Simplemente, me gusta ver pelis sobre ese tipo de historias, pero no tengo el menor interés en jugarlas.
A great game!
An imperfect rulebook.
I found myself constantly flipping back and forth to reference small things, and the tables needed during actual play weren't all together in a convenient place. There's a "cheat sheet" page which is meant to remind you of the basics, but it didn't have nearly enough info to serve that purpose.
The playsets (settings and details needed to play) included in the book weren't really to my taste, but the free playsets available on the website were wonderful. I highly recommend digging through those for something that fits your specific group rather than using one of the ones included in here.
An imperfect rulebook.
I found myself constantly flipping back and forth to reference small things, and the tables needed during actual play weren't all together in a convenient place. There's a "cheat sheet" page which is meant to remind you of the basics, but it didn't have nearly enough info to serve that purpose.
The playsets (settings and details needed to play) included in the book weren't really to my taste, but the free playsets available on the website were wonderful. I highly recommend digging through those for something that fits your specific group rather than using one of the ones included in here.
Pretty much fascinated with this game at the moment. It's a collaborative GM-less rpg with a nod to fiasco or caper type movies. I've not played it yet but would love to get a game of this on. There's not much to the book itself as the game is rules-lite although it's brevity is not a criticism. The style of the book is engaging, the rules simple to follow and the whole game concept is excellent. Great product.
Simply an amazing game. Fiasco emulates the kinds of movies where hapless people engage in criminal misadventures that invariable hilariously and tragically fall apart with elegance and grace. The system is a paragon of rules-light mechanics, avoiding task resolution nearly entirely in favor of getting the group to generate a fascinating and bizarre cast of characters, and having them stumble towards catastrophe. Both readable and playable, Fiasco is on of the best indie RPGs I've played.
