CasusNO

4 hours

4

0-10 birth gen generation a diff a the age of innocence

young street gang

10-20 descent difference + the fall from grace + expulsion

pass me the leaf

20-30 hell wallowing
30-40 death death or ground down to nothing
essent██l destruction as a playable character
or viable human beeing

Past Dues: Creationism

* Characters are created by taking words and sentences randomly from books in order to fill the headings written on a character sheet. You may use the same headings as we did, you may not. Players use the character sheet by scanning it for words and phrases which seem meaningful to them. These ideas are the ones they should use to construct their characters. The purpose of this exercise is to form an emotional bond between the player and their character.

4 hours

4

0-10 birth gen generation a diff a the age of innocence

young street gang

10-20 descent difference + the fall from grace + expulsion

pass me the leaf

20-30 hell wallowing
30-40 death death or ground down to nothing
essent██l destruction as a playable character
or viable human beeing

Past Dues: Creationism

* Characters are created by taking words and sentences randomly from books in order to fill the headings written on a character sheet. You may use the same headings as we did, you may not. Players use the character sheet by scanning it for words and phrases which seem meaningful to them. These ideas are the ones they should use to construct their characters. The purpose of this exercise is to form an emotional bond between the player and their character.

Créé par un duo d'amis en 2001 et mis à dispo gratuitement sur itch-io, le jeu en est actuellement à sa quatrième version. Composé de pages dactylographiées plus ou moins griffonnées, de croquis, BD, gribouillis et autres pages extraites de documents variés, scannées puis réimprimées jusqu'à en devenir à peine lisibles, le jeu se présente comme un jeu existant réellement dans l'univers alternatif qu'il décrit. Le livre de base, ainsi, ne serait pas de notre réalité mais bien de celle dans laquelle les personnages évoluent. Le jeu s'offre par ailleurs le luxe d'être rédigé dans au moins trois langues, anglais, espagnol et chinois. Les pages quant à elles, ne sont même pas forcément imprimées dans le bon sens.
Jeu-concept réputé comme étant un ovni prétendument injouable, il se situe dans un univers alternatif au nôtre où, suite au 11 septembre, "Dieu aurait été lobotomisé", provoquant des vagues d'hystérie collective de plus en plus violentes et chaotiques. Les personnages, qui ne sont d'ailleurs pas épargnés par les vagues "berserk" et qui vivent dans un empire dictatorial régi par un George W. Bush qui n'aurait jamais quitté le pouvoir, vont devoir tenter d'endiguer le fléau en réparant la réalité.
Et bien entendu, pour rester totalement fidèle à son concept, tout ce que peut raconter le jeu est par conséquence potentiellement faux.
A ce titre, c'est donc en 2009 que le jeu s'est vu adjoindre un "guide du GM" pour débroussailler un peu le jeu, ses concepts et les manières d'y faire jouer.

4 hours

4

0-10 birth gen generation a diff a the age of innocence

young street gang

10-20 descent difference + the fall from grace + expulsion

pass me the leaf

20-30 hell wallowing
30-40 death death or ground down to nothing
essent██l destruction as a playable character
or viable human beeing

Past Dues: Creationism

* Characters are created by taking words and sentences randomly from books in order to fill the headings written on a character sheet. You may use the same headings as we did, you may not. Players use the character sheet by scanning it for words and phrases which seem meaningful to them. These ideas are the ones they should use to construct their characters. The purpose of this exercise is to form an emotional bond between the player and their character.

Parrot Tree: Run piggies run

Once you’ve got things rolling by forcing the characters to finally take some kind of decisive action, keeping it moving along is quite simple. The action you forced the players into initially should have created some impetus to leave wherever they started out, and other goals will invent themselves quite naturally as the rampage continues.

This is the point at which you start lying to the players - subtly at first, but slowly start telling bigger and bigger lies, with a straight face. Don’t bother to correct any misapprehensions the players may have come into:

1. Misapprehensions will correct themselves - the same way that your delusion of having direct mental control of your molecular substructure will be corrected by an attempt to walk through a solid object.

2. Your end goal is a state where all of the players are becoming confused as to where the line is between fantasy and reality.

The best way to foster delusions in your players is to build on a theme, and always reinforce the rightness of their opinions - for example, say one of your players stabs a man in the throat with a shard of plexiglass during a robbery. You tell him that the other players now owe him their lives, because his decisive action saved the day.

Reward him every time he takes decisive or rash or violent action by intensifying the feeling of power he gets. You might even tell him he’s developing superpowers related to speed and predatory violence. On the other hand, a player who correctly guessed when someone was lying to the group might develop more along the lines of increasing insight into the minds and hearts of others, and eventually become a psychic or some such. Be creative in fostering delusions of grandeur.

With five or six players going off the rails simultaneously things will go horribly wrong very fast. Always make it worse - never forgive and never forget.