Fiasco '11 Playset Anthology Volume 2

FIASCO ’11: Playset Anthology Vol. 2

FIASCO ’11: Playset Anthology Vol. 2 collects twenty-four playsets for FIASCO, the universal RPG system from Bully Pulpit Games. These story prompts—micro-settings, really—embody the minimalist, mosaic storytelling style that's taken the indie RPG community by storm in recent years. They'll inspire you to create your own stories about tortured robots, cursed supermarkets, funeral parlors at war with their customers, and more.

All seven playsets from the acclaimed Fiasco '11 campaign are collected together in one place for the first time ever. Immerse yourself in these unique tales of small time crime and big time consequences - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be talking about them at work next week.

In volumes one and two, Fiasco was built on four basic principles: to be a game about interesting people, doing terrible things, in strange places, for deeply personal reasons. With this anthology volume two you have three and a half hours of play: three complete playsets with genre-bending twists right at the heart of them. In The Network your team of mercenaries keeps mistaking the heroes for bad guys. In Milagro you’re a group of low level superheroes who can’t get any respect from anyone. All Quiet on the Martian Front boils down to a war story where no one cares why

This second collection of playsets is a fast and furious dose of Fiasco. Each play tells the story of a community in complete failure. Whether it’s a sitcom family getting caught up in an apocalyptic disaster, or a group who wants to stage a drug-fueled arts festival, or a military platoon doing battle with paranormal forces… Whatever the premise, these playsets are sure to bring on the hilarity!

The second installment of our anthology volumes, containing playsets from eleven designers. This volume repeats the format of the first, with a foreword by the 2011 White Whale Challenge judge, and an afterword by a designer who also provided a foreword this year.

At the end of 2011, Fiasco was a year-long game system with eight playsets and more than 100 characters available to anyone who wanted to pick up the game. Our efforts were only slightly hampered by the cataclysmic destruction of our warehouse and the irrecoverable loss of our inventory by a flood.

Six new playsets for Fiasco. Science Fiction, Noir, Western, Conventions of Space and Time. A horror-sci fi shoot-em-up in a post-apocalyptic desert town: Journey to the Den of Ouranos. A terrifying fairy tale: The Hare's Shadow. An elegant underwater romance: The Floundering Luau. An epic comedic sci fi adventure: Spirit Dog and the Palace of the Great Platypus. A haunting retelling of Hamlet set in a small town during an entirely different sort of apocalypse: Incident at Ticonderoga—in which the only ghost is that of