Colonials

One Shot

James D'Amato

Games, Comedy, Leisure

4.8 • 908 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2013

⏱️ 105 minutes

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To celebrate the pilgrims who first settled the United States we decided to ask ourselves a question: What caused the terraforming colony in “Aliens” to get completely overrun? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are adventurers.
0:02.0	We've been to every place anywhere in the world.
0:06.0	We are adventuring.
0:08.0	We are adventurers.
0:10.0	Happy Thanksgiving Heroes and welcome to One Shot. I'm your game master, James Damato.
0:16.0	This week we're going to be playing indie game favorite fiasco.
0:19.6	It's a D6 system with a storytelling focus. Theasco was designed to recreate stories from Cohen Brothers movies
0:26.4	where people with high ambition and low impulse control cause calamities to happen.
0:32.0	Theasco is an intriguing system for a number of reasons,
0:35.4	but one of them that I like the most right now
0:38.0	is that there is no GM, so I actually get to play this week. Fiosko really is a gem of a system.
0:44.7	If you're looking for a unique experience, this is it.
0:47.6	It also really lends itself to one-shot adventures.
0:50.5	So if you're looking for a break from the drudgery of medieval magic, I can't recommend it more.
0:55.6	Theasco is published by Bully Pulpit Games and can be found on indie press revolution in
1:00.9	PDF, ebook, and traditional paperback forms.
1:04.9	Of course, there are a lot of fiasco play-thrues out there, including Wil Wheaton's own
1:08.8	tabletop.
1:10.0	So in order to distinguish ourselves a little bit, and celebrate the holiday, we thought we'd make
1:14.8	our own play set.
1:16.4	As a nod to those people who struggled to survive when this country was first being colonized,
1:21.3	we're going to make the principal characters in our story colonists as well.
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