Desperation Dead House And The Isabel RPG
In stock at the following stores: Games Aarhus
Desperation is 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 and take an hour or two.
Dead House is set during the great blizzard of 1888, and in it you meet the people of the small town of Neola, Kansas, who find themselves unprepared in the thick of the storm. 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 in the Gulf of Alaska in 1888. Passengers and crew have unpleasant secrets, and they are sailing into a storm the Isabel cannot weather. 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 do not decide what is said; you decide who says it. And in a small community it makes all the difference who says "I burned a house down with the family trapped inside".
The cards for each game hold a whole claustrophobic world of characters forming a web of relationships, which you will then put under agonising pressure and, in most cases, destroy.
Each set also contains the isolated locations where all the action takes place. The locations are characters in their own right in the unfolding horror.
Finally, most of the cards are prompts that follow the inevitable passage of time. Some will drench the experience in unforgettable colour, and others will drench it in blood, or worse. And each time you must decide which of the survivors speaks the words.
The two games included here, Dead House and The Isabel, have subtle connections between them, but each also stands on its own. As every playthrough will lead to different decisions, replay value is high.
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