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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 5: Fiasco Week 2
The second week of Fiasco began with determining the tilt. The result was adding a new character investigating a stolen lemonade cart, and one of the the criminals regretting their actions. The two rival lemonade stands now have to deal with legal issues of determining whose cart was stolen. Meanwhile my cousin’s revenge escalated to…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 4: Fiasco Week 1
Fiasco is a game of collaborative story telling. Compared to other roleplaying games like D&D it is much lighter on rules. To me it feels more like a collection of improv skits that put together tell an intriguing story. For me this style of improv is one of the biggest challenges of the game. When…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 5: Fiasco Week 2
The second week of the Fiasco game went a lot better. The second week of the game is easier than the first week because you have previous experience and a general direction. In this game, everyone no longer feels strange before, so everyone’s conversations are more arbitrary. By the second week, I think the difficult…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 4: Fiasco Week 1
In the fourth week, we played Fiasco, a game with very few rules and props. It’s more like a random set of characters, and then you are the screenwriter to design the plot and you need to act out the plot you designed. I often feel overwhelmed when I first start a game. Because everything…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection (For Class on 2/17/2022): Fiasco Week 1
Not long ago, our class got together to play sessions of the Fiasco Role Playing Game over a course of two weeks. Fiasco is an RPG System designed with the intent of creating chaos and allowing players to create the most disastrous situations they can. In this game, players use the color coded dice they…
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Gaming Event Reflection: Strategy Gaming Club
On Tuesday, February 15th, I attended a gaming event here on campus, specifically one of the Strategy Gaming Club’s (SGC) meetings. SGC is a student organization that provides a time and place for students to play all sorts of tabletop games, as well providing a wide selection of these games at each Sunday and Tuesday…
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A Frightening, Flammable Fiasco in the Far West (Act 2)
This week, we finished up our playthroughs of Fiasco! Picking up right where we left off after the Tilt, players ran through Act 2 and the Aftermath of their games. In the case of my group, we finally reached that climactic bank heist that had been built up all of Act 1 and concluded with…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 3: Mysterium
In this class I played Mysterium for the first time. The hardest part of the game was trying to figure out the clues. There were times throughout the game where multiple people thought their clues were pointing to the same room or object. We knew someone had to be wrong, but it was hard to…
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A Frightening, Flammable Fiasco in the Far West (Act 1)
Within the realm of tabletop gaming, role-playing games can be one of the most intimidating to players. Players either are given or create a character then assume the role of that character in personality, goals, dialogue, and so on. This Game of the Week, Fiasco, tasks 3 to 5 players with creating a web of…
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Game of the Week Blog Reflection 3: Mysterium
Mysterium is the first time I’ve come into contact with a group cooperative reveal type game and it’s a board game. Knowing the rules I thought it was going to be a very complicated and exhausting game, and as I played it with the group, I realized it was more fun than I thought. First…
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