It's the Final Week! More Limited Rewards Coming Soon!
over 4 years ago – Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 07:29:00 PM

T-Minus 7 days

It's the last week, folks, and we would like to take a moment to thank you for your support. We knew the campaign would fund, but your enthusiasm has been... well, it's beyond what we thought were high ambitions! So thank you to everyone who has backed the campaign, shared it on social media, or talked to folks you know about it- we really appreciate it.

The subject said more limited rewards!?!

You read that right, we are opening up additional Drunk Cowboy reward tiers- that's the one with the digital rewards, boxed game, all the expansions, and a large envelope curated by Jason himself. We'll make those rewards available at 12:30pm Eastern on Friday August 30th, so mark your calendars (or don't, we aren't your boss). 

At the same time, we will also drop a very special, very exclusive high-level reward:

This is a one-time reward for one special knucklehead. 

Here's the deal - for a pledge of $1000 or more, Jason will make you a playset of your own, based on your idea. BPG will design and print one copy and it will be yours to do with as you please. If you want to Martin Shkreli it, you can enjoy it privately in your prison cell or penthouse suite, or set it on fire before a live studio audience, or whatever you want. If you prefer to share it with the world, we will format the game for printing and release it so anyone in the world can get it. We hope you choose the latter option because it will invariably be a work of genius, but it's up to you.

Caveats: We reserve the right to workshop your playset idea, or to reject it entirely. We will print one copy, and one copy only, of the resulting playset - unless you tell us we can release it publicly. 

This reward will also include the digital rewards, boxed game, all the expansions, and a large envelope personally curated by Jason.

More Streams and Podcasts!

Dragon's Demize will be streaming actual play of Fiasco tonight 8/28 at 8pm EDT- find them at Twitch.tv/DragonsDemize.

The second half of our stream from Twitch.tv/ActualPlay is available in audio form over at Roll to Play. We had great fun playing the Poppleton Mall playset with an all-J crew!

Jason's talked with the folks at That DnD Podcast yesterday- if you missed it the recording can be found here. Topics included games in the classroom, what's changed in this version of Fiasco, and Jason's desire to curate a small lake monster museum.

Thank you again for all of your support, we couldn't make weird games without you.

-- The Bully Pulpit Team

Stretch Goal #3 - Build Your own Fiasco!
over 4 years ago – Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:52:50 AM

Bummed that we aren't printing your favorite playset through this campaign? Worried that you won't be able to make your own playsets anymore?

This is the stretch goal you've been waiting for!

At $200k, we're going to give you two things we know you're going to love:

Form Fillable Playset PDFs

We'll give you a suite of form-fillable PDFs that you can put your very own homebrew elements into. We'll have one print-and-play version for home use, and other templates that will be suitable for Print-on-Demand services such as DriveThruCards and Print Play Games. 

Using Adobe Reader, you'll be able to enter all of the Relationships, Needs, Objects, and Locations your darkly-comedic mind can come up with in order to build your own custom Fiasco playset! We can't wait to see the hijinx you get up to!

Free Expansion Pack for Blank Card Decks!

In addition to the form-fillable PDFs, we'll also produce a full expansion pack of blank playset cards. This will include the following:

• A digital edition PDF with blank element cards for printing at home and writing in your elements. 
• A print edition Expansion pack with two decks of blank element cards for use with permanent markers. 
• Unlike the blank templates in each regular deck, these will have their own custom playset color and branding so you can easily keep them separate.  

If we reach our stretch goal of $200K, We will make these Expansion packs available for sale as add-ons in BackerKit and to the public when Fiasco is publicly released, but we'll give all of you the digital files for free and we'll include a free copy of the blank expansion pack with every print reward of $90 ("Street Racer") or above. 

We know how much fun you have making the game your own, and we are committed to assisting in those grand plans. 

Jason talks to people

Jason spoke with Jodie over at Stoffel Presents about Fiasco, which you can find here. 

Jason will be streaming with the folks at That DND Podcast tonight at 9pm Eastern- head over to their Twitch channel to watch and join the chat! 

-- The Bully Pulpit Team

A little extra something...
over 4 years ago – Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 11:22:38 PM

What about Joel?

Recognizing the endless, dark inventiveness of Fiasco fans everywhere, we're adding four blank cards to every playset - one each for Relationship, Need, Object and Location. If you looked at the preview PDF for Poppleton Mall, you might have already noticed it! 

We trust that you'll get up to no good with these! You can customize, you can embarrass and delight your buddies, you can add local landmarks, you can hand-craft the perfect addition to put a playset over the top.

These will come with each playset deck, no need to order or pay for anything extra. It's just our way of saying thanks for cooking up grand plans with us.

-- The Bully Pulpit Team

Tuning Your Playset Deck
over 4 years ago – Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:44:06 PM

Getting Tuned Up

This new version of Fiasco offers a lot of obvious and subtle improvements. One that I'm genuinely excited about is the range of possibilities that having playsets on cards affords in terms of creating new experiences.

One that we've talked about a bit is that you can "tune" your playsets now. For example, you could go through Poppleton Mall and Tales From Suburbia and choose only the elements you like best, then mash them together into "Tales From Poppleton," where suburban mayhem and mall-related subterfuge will co-exist seamlessly. 

And that's all fine and good. Now imagine doing the same thing with Poppleton Mall and Dragonslayers.

Honestly I have no idea what that would look like! I think at my table I'd declare that everything in Dragonslayers was simply metaphor to be interpreted through the lens of a failing suburban mall, but who's to stop you from playing it absolutely straight? Or maybe there's a rough-hewn shopping mall in the shadow of the castle, neutral ground where the night elves and the orcs both buy protein powder, fashionable children's apparel and tobacco accessories.

Or maybe a single perfect card from a different playset might mischievously migrate to upturn everything we think we know about the peaceful neighborhood of Redbud Court. Cards make such experiments very, very simple.

Individual cards are numbered with a unique code, so you can even share a list of them as your perfect playset mashup for others to enjoy.

Keeping it Friendly

Of course this functionality allows you to control for content as well. A common complaint we received about the classic version of the game was that playsets were rarely "family friendly" - even the most neutral would have a few bits of objectionable material that made them hard to introduce in, say, public libraries for thirteen year olds. While I take umbrage at this view of the minds of thirteen year olds, who are gleeful, worldly monsters in my experience, I can understand wanting to remove specific elements for various reasons. Now it's as easy as reviewing the deck and pulling the cards that are not going to fly in your situation.

So that's tuning your deck, one of the many cool things about playsets on cards. What sorts of mashups can you imagine? We're really excited to see what you all come up with.

- Jason and the Bully Pulpit Team

Free fonts and Bored Ghosts
over 4 years ago – Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:32:41 PM

Fiascodenz Grotesk for the People

It looks like our custom font was a hit yesterday, with several of you asking us to share it. We're glad you like it, and happy to share! 

We've added a zip file with the font to the Fiasco preview folder so all backers have access. If you need the link to the preview folder again, you can find it in the first backer-only update.

We're releasing this font under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, so you're free to use it however you like as long as you let people know that Brennen made it. He's made a bunch of other cool stuff, so you might check that out as well. 

Fiasco on Bored Ghost

Jon, Audrey & Dan play the Regina's Wedding playset with classic Fiasco on episode 175- amusingly titled Boo Que? You can get your marriage-minded hands on the updated version of this playset in the "Unknown Monsters" Expansion Pack, along with Beast of Sucker Creek!

-- The Bully Pulpit Team