Fiasco Read online

  Four Note-Perfect Fiascos

  Blood Simple

  Burn After Reading

  Fargo

  A Simple Plan

  Ten Historical Goatscrews

  Bad Day at Black Rock

  A Big Hand for a Little Lady

  Drugstore Cowboy

  Guizi Lai Le (Devils on the Doorstep)

  The Bank Job

  L.A. Confidential

  Miller’s Crossing

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  The Proposition

  True Grit

  Ten Less-Lethal Clusterfucks

  Bad Santa

  Bottle Rocket

  A Fish Called Wanda

  Observe and Report

  Office Space

  O Homem Que Copiava (The Man Who Copied)

  Next Day Air

  Crna Macka, Beli Macor (Black Cat, White Cat)

  Raising Arizona

  Primer

  Ten Ugly Bloodbaths

  Buffalo Soldiers

  A History of Violence

  In Bruges

  Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

  Pineapple Express

  Three Kings

  Shaun of the Dead

  Snatch

  The Way of the Gun

  True Romance

  Ten International Shitstorms

  Boksuneun Naui Geot (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance)

  Cidade de Deus (City of God)

  Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate)

  Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens)

  Bande à Part (Band of Outsiders)

  Le Poulpe (The Octopus)

  Du Rafifi Chez les Hommes (Rififi)

  Soliti ignoti, I (Big Deal on Madonna Street)

  Topkapi

  You Hua Hao Hao Shuo (Keep Cool)

  Ten Crimes That Do Not Pay

  Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

  Bound

  Thelma and Louise

  Heist

  Jackie Brown

  Let’s Do It Again

  Out of Sight

  Shallow Grave

  Two Days in the Valley

  Very Bad Things

  Cheat Sheet

  The Setup

  Choose a Playset.

  Roll a bunch of dice into a central pile.

  Develop a web of Relationships and Details.

  Create characters attached to those Relationships and Details.

  Put all the dice back into a central pile.

  Playing Scenes

  When it is your turn, your character is in the spotlight. Choose to Establish or Resolve the scene.

  If you are Establishing, create a scene. If you are Resolving, ask your friends to create a scene for your character.

  Begin the scene. At some point during the scene, determine the outcome.

  If you Established, accept a die from your friends. If you Resolved, choose a die and the outcome.

  If it is Act One, give the outcome die away to another player. If it is Act Two, keep the outcome die.

  Finish the scene, informed by the outcome die color.

  Act One

  Take turns. When it is your turn, your character gets a scene.

  When only half the dice remain in the central pile, Act One ends.

  The Tilt

  At the end of Act One, roll the dice in front of you. Do some dice math.

  If you have the high number of either color, you will help add a pair of complications.

  Roll the unused dice in the central pile.

  Consult the Tilt table and choose two Elements.

  Reassemble the central die pile. Keep dice already assigned in Act One.

  Take a break; stretch and get a snack. Talk about where the game is heading.

  Act Two

  Take turns. When it is your turn, you get a scene.

  Tilt the hell out of it!

  The final die is wild – it can be either black or white. Once the final die has been allocated, Act Two ends.

  The Aftermath

  Roll all the dice in front of your character. Total them by color, as in the Tilt.

  Consult the Aftermath table.

  Play the Aftermath as a montage, with one “this is” statement per die associated with your character.

  When you are out of dice, your story is over.

  Resources

  Bully Pulpit Games Website

  www.bullypulpitgames.com

  Bully Pulpit Games Youtube Channel

  www.youtube.com/user/bullypulpitgames

  Bully Pulpit Games Business Contact

  [email protected]

  Bully Pulpit Games Nerd Contact

  [email protected]

  General Game Chatter

  www.story-games.com/forums/

  News of the Weird

  newsoftheweird.blogspot.com/

  The Smoking Gun

  www.thesmokinggun.com/

  Disposing of Corpses

  ask.metafilter.com/7921/

  Making A Fake ID

  www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Fake-ID

  Avoiding a Bear Mauling

  dnr.alaska.gov/parks/safety/bears.htm

  Cousin Marriage by State

  www.cousincouples.com/?page=states

  Distilling Alcohol from Hand Sanitizer

  www.instructables.com/answers/Is-it-possible-to-extract-alcohol-from-hand-saniti/