Fiasco Role Playing Game

by Bully Pulpit Games

• Fiasco is a roleplaying game about ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control
• GM less game for 3 to 5 players
• Takes a few hours to play
• This popular RPG is authored by Jason Morningstar

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Origin: China
• ASIN: 1934859397
• Item model number: BPG 005
• Manufacturer recommended age: 18 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,985 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Fiasco is an award winning, GM less game for 3 to 5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with 6 sided dice and no preparation. During a game you will 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. An Ennies Judge's Spotlight award recipient. Fiasco is a roleplaying game about ordinary people with powerful ambition and poor impulse control. 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.

Product Description

Fiasco is an award-winning, GM-less game for 3-5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation. During a game you will 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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Make believe all grown-up July 13, 2012

By Smartguy Reviewer

Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

If you love great storytelling, and have a group of moderately creative friends. Fiasco is the game for you.

The premise of Fiasco is simple; You and a group of four friends craft the story of the next great cinematic masterpiece. The main rulebook provides some structure to the storytelling and the playsets provide some details and specifics for your story. It sounds impossible at first, and the book can be intimidating, but your know what? The system actually works, and the games are a ton of fun!

The Fiasco system works like this. The story, you and your friends are telling, is laid out in 5 parts. Set-up, Act 1, Tilt, Act 2, and Epilogue. The main rulebook lays out all of these parts and provides some structure for these phases using dice(not included)and tables . The dice provide some structure, limit infinite variables, and inevitably will throw a wrench in your best laid plans. The Playsets provide the scenario, help flesh out characters, set up locations, determine needs, and throws some objects (often deadly) into the mix. With this structure to launch from, the players use the power of their imaginations (remember that thing?) to create their characters, interact with each other, push their agendas, plot, scheme, back stab, love, lie, and cheat their way to the finish. By the end of the game the collective group will have told a story worthy of an Oscar (hopefully).

I have played Fiasco three times in the past four months, and have enjoyed myself immensely. I will say this game is only as good as the people you play with. So, if you have 2-4 highly creative, funny, or witty friends your games will be awesome. If your players freeze up easily, lack creativity, or can't maintain a conversation for more than 30 seconds without looking at their smartphone; you're going to have a bad time. Fiasco is a group game and a lot of it is built on consensus. So, a bulldozer type player will be a bear for the rest of the players. Additionally, events thrown in from left field can at times be fun, and at times be ridiculously stupid. So, it's OK to veto ideas sometimes. Finally, remember that Fiasco is ultimately a guide for storytelling, if you need to bend the rules to make a better story, do it. There is no such thing as the imagination police. Except if your imagination, of course.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant game! May 3, 2012

By Ross Cowman

Fiasco has earned a spot as one of my go-to games for an evening of fun. Unlike many RPGs fiasco dosen't have a huge setup time, or a GM that runs the show. The huge number of playsets available for free at bullypulpitgames.com keep it fresh every time.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple mechanics, loads of fun April 14, 2012

By Trey Allison

My friends and I play a lot of board games, rpgs and related nerdery. The first time we played Fiasco. even though no one had played it before, we had a blast. This is probably one of the easiest games to pick up and certainly the most fun I've had in a while.