Although I'm technically Board Game Staff, I want to run some RPG events at the convention. Specifically, I'm planning on running two games:
Fiasco and
Primetime Adventures. Here's the elevator pitches:
Fiasco is pretty much the Coen Brothers Movie RPG: ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impluse control. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. It won’t go well for them, to put it mildly, and in the end it will probably all go south in a glorious heap of jealousy, murder, and recrimination. I'm going to be bringing at least three different playsets for the people at the table to choose from, possibly
Manna Hotel,
The Ice, and
Mirrorshades (a
Shadowrun-inspired playset) More information is at
http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/Primetime Adventures is the game of television drama. It's very character driven and has brought out a lot of fun play at various tables I've run the game at. The game really gets to what makes the characters tick that if you are starting a game campaign in any setting, I recommend running your first game with PTA, then switch to the game system you want to play. Right now, I'm torn between a
Dungeons & Dragons/Pathfinder: The Series show, one of the shows set in the Zombie Apocalypse*, and a few dozen other ideas. (Good thing there are several months until the game event.) More on PTA:
http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/pta.html* PTA Zombie Games: Back in Arizona, I ran a monthly game day and one of the PTA games I ran was
Zurvivor, which was the reality television show
Survivor on Zombie Island. It went so well, we had three game sessions of it. Later, one of the players ran a spin-off game at the game day called
COPZ, which was
COPS during a zombie breakout. And after that, I ran a convention game called
Safety in Numbers, which was about actual survivors behind the walls of zombie-occupied America.
