Fiasco (2009) is a GM-less game for 3-5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation. You'll play ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. During a game you engineer and play out stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It's like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it'd take to watch one.
In Fiasco things can go wrong fast. Maybe some dude from a youth group talked you into boosting a case of motor oil, and somehow you wound up killing your cousin in a swamp. Maybe you and your girlfriend figured you could scare your wife into a divorce, but things went pear-shaped and now you're running from a gang of cranked-up skinheads with latex gloves and a pit bull.
Fiasco is inspired by cinematic tales of small-time capers gone calamitously wrong – films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan. There will be big dreams and flawed execution. Things won't go well, to put it mildly, and in the end everything will burn in a glorious bonfire of jealousy and recrimination. Lives and reputations will be lost, painful wisdom will be gained, and if you're really lucky, your guy just might end up back where he started.
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