Fiasco 2020

In February 2020 we presented the all-new Fiasco 2020 Bundle, featuring the recent card-based edition of Fiasco, Jason Morningstar‘s cinematic game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control from Bully Pulpit Games. (The original 2009 Classic Fiasco line appeared in the April 2019 Fiasco and More Bundle.)

Fiasco is a storytelling game inspired by cinematic tales of small-time capers gone disastrously wrong. You’ll tell a story about ordinary people flailing through stupid, disastrous situations, usually at the intersection of greed, fear, and lust. It’s like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same amount of time it’d take to watch one. Lives and reputations will be lost, painful wisdom will be gained, and if you’re really lucky, you just might end up back where you started. (You probably won’t be lucky.) Funded in a big August 2019 Kickstarter campaign, the new Fiasco plays more smoothly and intuitively than ever, so your hapless characters’ plans collide with reality faster and harder.

This bargain-priced offer was also ornamented with eight live-action freeform games — on cheery topics like dimensional warfare, deep-sea romance, dying cowboys, and domestic cannibalism — all designed by Jason Morningstar for the Bully Pulpit Games Patreon campaign and, earlier (2017-2019), for Kickstarter’s short-lived “d.rip” subscription platform.

There were five titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $44) as DRM-free .PDFs, including the complete Fiasco 2020 and four Patreon games: Deep Love, Space Post, The Underwater People, and Welcome Guests.

Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got our entire Bonus Collection with eight more titles worth an additional $56, including four recent expansions for the current version of Fiasco — Feel the Rush, Fiasco, USA, Teen Angst, and Unknown Monsters — and four more games from the Bully Pulpit Patreon campaign: The Black Drink, Cowboys With Big Hearts, The Crushers, and Uncle Gordo’s House.

Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to the charity designated by Bully Pulpit Games, the Mines Advisory Group. Mines Advisory Group (MAG) is an international organization that saves lives and builds futures through the destruction of landmines, unexploded ordnance, and other weapons left behind after conflicts.