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peter_xxx's review
5.0
on second read through this is even funnier and more promising then i remembered. on saturday we will try it out.
nickdouglas's review
4.0
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!
ramonnogueras's review
3.0
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.
wishanem's review
3.0
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.
barry_x's review
3.0
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.
mburnamfink's review
5.0
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.
nharkins's review
5.0
Incredibly fun storytelling game, with just the right amount of structure, not total improv. Tons of additional free content for it on the internet beyond the included few settings.
ryanjjung's review
I've played this twice, but it's been a while, and I wanted to review it since I plan on playing this in a couple weeks with a new group. It's interesting in that it's really a meta-game. You focus on crafting a story by following story-telling rules. You never worry about the statistics of a character or rolling dice to resolve a conflict. Instead, you worry about how well the story plays out, how compelling the story is, how fun it is to collaborate on a story live, together. Maybe the best aspect of it is that you can almost guarantee your character won't have a happy ending. Every story is intended to become a beautiful disaster, and it's a ton of fun to just let that happen, to play a bad person who does bad things for bad reasons and have everything turn out expectedly bad for them.