Games and Sushi

Peril, the final postcard game from @WorldChampGameCo that I own, is a three-player story game about gods and cataclysms. Each player embodies a god and proposes a solution to the peril, which is then voted on. A complication: the gods have complicated relationships that make a simple vote no easy task. Once three potential solutions have been put forth, the one with the most votes wins. If no consensus can be reached, the Peril wins.

Exceedingly simple while being endlessly complex.

Proof that there is a GURPS sourcebook for everything: here’s the one for The Prisoner.

The Prisoner was a short-lived 1968 British TV show starring Patrick McGoohan about a secret agent kidnapped and forced to live in a bizarre village that is part resort town, part prison, part psychedelic fun house. It’s a cult classic thanks to its weirdness and its counter culture themes and you should check it out if you haven’t already. If nothing else, you’re probably familiar with the line, “I am not a number, I am a free man!” especially if you’re familiar with Iron Maiden’s song “The Prisoner.”

Running a paranoid campaign in the Village, a place of constant surveillance and weird science, (which, incidentally is the topic of another Maiden song, “Back in the Village”) is an intriguing idea. This book makes an honest go of it, but I find it a bit thinner than I like. While details of life in the Village, painstakingly mined from the TV show, are welcome, I would have liked a lot more suggestions on how to make the game a serious head-trip for players without rehashing the events of the show. As it stands, I came away with a better understanding of the show, but not a lot of confidence I could run a game based on it.  

And those maximum extremes she came up with?

Fucking nuked into extrasolar orbit by whatever the fuck is going on in actual real life right now, to the extent that monopoly just looks like…… a reflection of the actual world, rather than an exaggeration of anything.