I was just reminded that Fiasco was played on Wil Wheaton's TableTop. If you want to see it played here's a video:

So, I magically have a free Saturday for once, and I know there's people around here who were interested in RPGs but couldn't make a weekly time commitment, or didn't want to deal with rolling dice or all that math or big books and complicated rules. Well, if you're one of those people, then I have just the thing for you! This Saturday, I'd like to host a game of Fiasco. This game is a blast and very easy to pick up even if you're never read the rules or role played before.

This is not the same kind of game as DnD or Shadowrun, we will not be rolling dice to fight monsters or defeat evil, in fact dice will only ever be rolled twice, and those dice are more like guidelines anyway. Instead, we will all be trying to build a fantastic story together, even at the expense of our own characters. Here's the elevator pitch from the rulebook:

Here's a link to the rulebook. Don't let the page count fool you, most of it's big fancy graphics, all you need to get the core of the game is the overview on page 10, it's like a page and a half. If you want to read more, that's cool. If you don't want to read at all, that's cool too, I can (and will) explain as we go.

Like I said, this game's a hell of a lot of fun, so if you've got that time, I recommend you give it a try.

The Jefferson Starship bit was clearly better, and the best is of course the Boba Fett cartoon.

I believe we are

I will point out that there is a difference between blocking blaster bolts after a couple hours training and mind controlling people with absolutely zero training. Being force sensitive naturally conveys enhanced reflexes and physical abilities, so being better at flying, fighting, blocking blaster bolts, etc. makes sense. My bullshit meter thinks mind controlling someone takes still, finesse and practice.

People keep jumping on the fact that they "rebuild the deathstar and got wrecked again." Starkiller base worked. It one-shot an entire major space government and it's whole fleet. Sure, it got blown up afterwards, but it was still almost certainly worth it.

If that's what it takes to avoid that terrible helicopter shot, I'm ok with that.

We cut away after her first couple attempts to mind control and cut back when she gets it. I like to imagine that there's a whole bunch more failed attempts in the meantime while she figures it out. I just picture the stormtrooper getting more and more confused and pissed off, but unable to really do anything to Rey without risking pissing off Kylo Ren, so he's just kinda cussing her out while she tries to tell him what to do.

I'm good for tomorrow

Yes, we are playing tomorrow.

I thought we were skipping this week, so I've got some other plans during the evening, so if we want to play we'd have to start later, like ~7pm.    I'm willing to stay up late though.

I wouldn't mind a week off either, to be honest. I'm pretty tired and could use the time to get caught up on some stuff.

I like it, looking forward to more