Desperation Dead House And The Isabel RPG
In stock at the following stores: Games Aarhus
Desperation are two small role-playing games, built on the same dark tone and mechanics, that are true pick-up-and-play experiences for you and your friends.
Both games are designed for 1-5 players in an hour or two.
Dead House is set during the Great Blizzard of 1888, and in it, you meet the folk of the small town of Neola, Kansas, who find themselves unprepared in the midst of the storm's fierce grip. As supplies and sanity dwindle in equal measure, who will survive and who will be added to the Dead House?
Isabel is set aboard a three-masted cod schooner fishing the Gulf of Alaska in 1888. Passengers and crew hold unpleasant secrets and they sail into a storm that Isabel cannot handle. A doomed ship, raging seas, and a handful of leaky wrecks await them – and then the hard times begin.
If you like card-based role-playing games such as For the Queen and The Quiet Year, but have a dark and merciless heart, you will like these Desperation games.
The Desperation engine is different because you don't decide what is said – you decide who says it. And in a small community, it makes all the difference who says "I burned down a house with the family trapped inside."
The cards for each game contain a whole claustrophobic world of characters that form a network of relationships, which you will then put agonizing pressure on and in most cases destroy.
Each set also contains the isolated locations where all the action takes place. The locations are themselves characters in the unfolding horror.
Finally, the majority of the cards consist of prompts that follow the inevitable passage of time. Some will douse the experience with unforgettable colors, and others will douse it with blood – or worse. And each time, you must decide who among the survivors says the words.
The two games included here – Dead House and The Isabel – have subtle connections between them, but they also stand alone. As each playthrough will result in different decisions, the replay value is high.
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