This looks amazingHas anyone played this before? I am in love with the concept. D6 RPG with no preparation required and it markets itself as a "make your own Coen brothers movie". Everyone role plays as a character with clear motivation and no self control, meaning everyone winds up in incredibly dicey situations, getting in over their heads and trying to deal with the consequences.
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I wasn't there for that, but it is talked about in hilarious terms by everyone involved.
Seriously, I shot tea out my nose.
Also, Scott trying to roleplay as someone who is drunk, when he has no idea what being drunk is like. Priceless.
Fiasco's concept is great, and it can produce a really great Cohen Bros.-style story, but I didn't find it to be particularly engaging mechanically. It's not so much an RPG as it is a framework for collectively creating a particular kind of story. Shock: Social Science Fiction is the same way, in my opinion. It's not bad, but I like more "G" in my "RPG."
That said, I know a lot of people that absolutely love games like PTA, Fiasco and Shock:. Story games like that usually do what they do very well, they're just not my thing. Give me Burning Wheel, Fate or Dogs in the Vineyard any day.
On the other hand, if you want something that hits a nice sweet spot between Story Games and RPGs, check out Lady Blackbird by John Harper. The mechanics are pretty light, and it's got a very Final Fantasy-meets-Firefly feel to it.
Pete, my game also lost steam towards the end of Act II, and we cut it short 4 turns because 2 characters were dead and the rest of the characters didn't have a conflict to keep the game going.