Fiasco (role-playing game)
Cover for 1st edition
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| Designer(s) | Jason Morningstar |
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| Publisher(s) | Bully Pulpit Games |
| Publication date | 2009 |
| Genre(s) | Indie |
| System(s) | custom |
Fiasco is a role-playing game by Jason Morningstar, independently published by Bully Pulpit Games. It is a GM-less game for 3–5 players, designed to be played in a few hours with six-sided dice and no preparation. It is billed as "A game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control" and "inspired by cinematic tales of small time capers gone disastrously wrong—films like Blood Simple, Fargo, The Way of the Gun, Burn After Reading, and A Simple Plan."
Fiasco was the winner of the eleventh Diana Jones Award and has been one of the featured games on Tabletop.
Fiasco is designed to simulate the caper-gone-wrong subgenre of film. It shares creative control of the story among the players, even when determining who each player's character is. Themes of the game include black comedy, and poor impulse control.
Although there is no one standard setting, each game of Fiasco uses a "playset" that indicates the setting of that specific game. The core rulebook contains playsets for Main Street (small town America), Boomtown (The Wild West), Tales from Suburbia, and The Ice (McMurdo Station, Antarctica). Bully Pulpit Games also released a free Playset of the Month on their website. These, and many more, are available for free online on the Bully Pulpit Games website, with many fan-made playsets available online, as well.The Fiasco Companion provides additional advice on creating playsets.
Each playset consists of a basic description of the setting and:
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