Allen Varney
Mongoose
Too-long-didn't-read: "Alpha Complex," Dan Curtis Johnson's authorized PARANOIA-themed playset for Fiasco, is now available as a free download from Bully Pulpit Games.
Fiasco is Jason Morningstar's tabletop storytelling game of "Coen Brothers roleplaying." From the Bully Pulpit Games site:
Of course you're thinking, "Gosh, what a perfect match for PARANOIA." So was Dan Curtis Johnson, author of "Mister Bubbles" in the 2004 Mongoose Publishing PARANOIA rulebook and contributor to several of its supplements, with such acclaimed missions as "Stealth Train" (from the Crash Priority supplement), "The Lightbulb Mission" (Service, Service!), and above all, "Hunger" (WMD).
Dan is a fervent Fiasco fan, as shown by his memorable blog posts recounting past games, such as "Objective Zebra," "What's in Kaku Inlet," and "Manna Hotel" (where Dan was joined by comics writers Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction as well as Wil Wheaton -- yes, that Wil Wheaton). For years he's wanted to compose a Fiasco "playset," a collection of story elements that recasts the game in a different setting. Published playset topics range from an Antarctic base to Beverly Hills to mythic China to the Salem witch trials. In creating "Alpha Complex," Dan drew on a wide range of published PARANOIA material, and he managed to allude to all his previous work for the game.
"Alpha Complex" is authorized by the PARANOIA owners and Mongoose Publishing. The "Alpha Complex" playset is available for free download from Bully Pulpit Games, and will eventually be posted to the official PARANOIA development blog and at Ultraviolet Books. "Alpha Complex" isn't the first playset that crosses Fiasco with another RPG -- that would be "Bookhounds Fiasco" by Kenneth Hite and Will Hindmarch, a crossover with Ken's Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu supplement Bookhounds of London. Fiasco designer Jason Morningstar and a cast of writers with poor impulse control have produced many other free Fiasco playsets.
A couple of related plugs: Jason is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his latest RPG, Durance. And feverishly productive novelist Matt Forbeck has offered to design a new Fiasco playset as a stretch goal for his own current Kickstarter, a trilogy of convention-based murder mysteries called Dangerous Games.
Fiasco is Jason Morningstar's tabletop storytelling game of "Coen Brothers roleplaying." From the Bully Pulpit Games site:
Of course you're thinking, "Gosh, what a perfect match for PARANOIA." So was Dan Curtis Johnson, author of "Mister Bubbles" in the 2004 Mongoose Publishing PARANOIA rulebook and contributor to several of its supplements, with such acclaimed missions as "Stealth Train" (from the Crash Priority supplement), "The Lightbulb Mission" (Service, Service!), and above all, "Hunger" (WMD).
Dan is a fervent Fiasco fan, as shown by his memorable blog posts recounting past games, such as "Objective Zebra," "What's in Kaku Inlet," and "Manna Hotel" (where Dan was joined by comics writers Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction as well as Wil Wheaton -- yes, that Wil Wheaton). For years he's wanted to compose a Fiasco "playset," a collection of story elements that recasts the game in a different setting. Published playset topics range from an Antarctic base to Beverly Hills to mythic China to the Salem witch trials. In creating "Alpha Complex," Dan drew on a wide range of published PARANOIA material, and he managed to allude to all his previous work for the game.
"Alpha Complex" is authorized by the PARANOIA owners and Mongoose Publishing. The "Alpha Complex" playset is available for free download from Bully Pulpit Games, and will eventually be posted to the official PARANOIA development blog and at Ultraviolet Books. "Alpha Complex" isn't the first playset that crosses Fiasco with another RPG -- that would be "Bookhounds Fiasco" by Kenneth Hite and Will Hindmarch, a crossover with Ken's Pelgrane Press Trail of Cthulhu supplement Bookhounds of London. Fiasco designer Jason Morningstar and a cast of writers with poor impulse control have produced many other free Fiasco playsets.
A couple of related plugs: Jason is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his latest RPG, Durance. And feverishly productive novelist Matt Forbeck has offered to design a new Fiasco playset as a stretch goal for his own current Kickstarter, a trilogy of convention-based murder mysteries called Dangerous Games.
