je voudrais jouer un jeu, s’il vous plait
Might I suggest The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, an improvisational storytelling game of danger, romance, and talking shit about the French? Players assume the roles of aristocratic adventurers and take turns spinning implausible stories about their various heroic exploits, while the others act as audience and interject their own nitpicking objections by spending game currency; the speaker may either reject the interruption with a sharp (and mandatory) insult, or go double or nothing by incorporating the objection into their tale. Intractable disagreements of fact are to be resolved via duel – which the text is quite clear means live steel, though less lethal alternatives are grudgingly permitted for the benefit of cowards and children.
(Also included are a variety of alternative milieux, rules for team play, and a tabletop implementation of Mornington Crescent, because why the hell not?)
