FIASCO - Fist City
FIASCO - Fist City
FIASCO - Fist City
CREDITS
Boilerplate
This playset is an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully
Pulpit Games.
Among suburban Americas rivers and lakes, parking lots and strip
malls exists a secret community of warriors: martial pilgrims, spiritual
leaders, and sublime masters. Bowing to no temporal authority and
disregarding such mortal concerns as effectiveness, authenticity, racism,
or taste, they clash with one another in underground fight clubs, heavily
padded tournament halls, or black-backgrounded forums on the Internet.
Maybe you got into this business because you wanted strength or
toughness or respect. Maybe you watched too much anime, too much
Ultimate Fighting, or too many wuxia films. Maybe you needed a front
for your drug dealership, or maybe you were just lonely. In any case,
theres no backing out now. The gloves are off, or in some cases on,
depending on your style. Ahead of you, the road to hell is paved with
broken bottles, splintered timber, and the curbstomped faces of your
enemies. Right after that its paved with warrants for your arrest. Now
come out and play.
Movie Night
Enter the Dojo, Miami Connection, No More Heroes (video game), Kill Bill, the
Boondocks, Legend of the Liquid Sword, The Last Dragon, JCVD, The Man with
the Iron Fists, Samurai Fiction, Kung Fu Hustle, Bloodsport, the Karate Kid
Relationships...
1 FAMILY
1 Divorced
2 Married to cement alliance between schools
3 Child and relative who took over for absent parent
4 Successful sibling, irresponsible sibling
5 In-laws
6 Parent of child who doesnt know youre their parent
2 CRIME
1 Corrupt neighborhood watch members
2 Paroled ex-convict and dishonorably discharged prison guard
3 Gang leader and traitor from the Scorpions
4 Pusher and addict
5 Uncertified holistic healer and license counterfeiter
6 Crafter and dealer of illegal martial arts equipment
3 WORK
1 Mall security
2 Small-time stunt double and fight choreographer
3 The only two members of a private military company
4 High school fencing and wrestling coaches
5 Biker bar bouncer and upscale nightclub door supervisor
6 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives desk jockeys
4 RELIGION
1 Cult leader and follower
2 Militant evangelist and holiday religionist
3 Partners in violent misinterpretation
4 Reincarnated religious luminary and handler
5 Prophets
6 Defrocked cleric and congregant who exposed their crimes
5 TRAINING PARTNERS
1 Teacher and live-in student
2 Partners in Death Touch fakery
3 Senior and junior student, one trying to seduce the other
4 Instructor and student whos actually better than them
5 Rival stylists secretly collaborating on a new style
6 Injuriously aggressive instructor and lawyer
6 TRAINING RIVALS
1 Same nickname, different teachers
2 Second and third place at the last All-County Kumite
3 Enemy paintball team captains
4 Competing to inherit the dojo when emphysema kills Sensei
5 Practitioners of styles which are knockoffs of one another
6 Minor-promotion pro wrestling rivalry turned real
2 TO WIN
1 the all-county mixed martial arts championship
2 the all-county underground kumite championship
3 control of the Parent-Teacher Association
4 that cute white belts affections
5 membership in the Scorpions
6 the right to call yourself master without everyone laughing
3 TO LOSE
1 the distractions which keep you from fighting effectively
2 the bad habit which keeps getting you knocked out
3 the drug habit which is very quickly killing you
4 the debt you owe to your nemesis
5 so your parents will finally let you quit
6 your reputation as a fraud
4 TO LEARN
1 your rival styles secret technique
2 the source of the Scorpions invincibility
3 how to swing a meteor hammer without killing yourself
4 where the cash is hidden
5 who sponsors the Kumite
6 to unlock the power within you
5 TO Rule
1 the PCP trade with an iron fist
2 the after-school activities pecking order
3 the worldits a mess, at least around here
4 your own damn household for once
5 from beyond the grave
6 Co. B, 13th North Carolina Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia
6 TO DESTROY
1 any drug dealer who will not bow to you
2 the incident report
3 the Ducati 1098 motorcycle belonging to the Scorpion leader
4 yourself as gloriously as possible
5 the evidence of your subterfuge
6 the groin
5 WILDERNESS
1 Neo-pagan druidic circle
2 Survivalist bunker
3 Mud run course condemned by the County Health Board
4 Secret cave behind waterfall downstream from treatment plant
5 Moonlit bamboo forest on the Promise Hill Country Club golf course
6 Abandoned summer camp taken over by the Society for Creative
Anachronism
6 COMMUNITY
1 Neighborhood Watch fortress (formerly the Weatherford house)
2 Lyman C Mills High School gymnasium
3 Family Federation for World Peace and Unification church
4 Masonic Temple
5 Municipal building, police station, courts and City Hall
6 Storefront cult
2 WEAPONS
1 Throwing stars, throwing hearts, throwing rainbows
2 Ninja sword with straight blade and square handguard
3 Sai with sharpened points
4 Flying guillotine
5 Creatively modified garden tools
6 Plank with a nail in it
3 SPECIAL TECHNIQUES
1 29 Pressure Points which Cause Cardiac Arrest if Struck in Order
2 Mystical Ninja Hand Symbols
3 Qi Fireball
4 Nut Shot
5 3.228-Inch Punch
6 Throw a Snake at Them
4 GARMENTS
1 Swedish plate armor which the art museum wants back
2 Training uniform composed entirely of patches
3 Ill-fitting youth category striped purple belt
4 Sexy ninja costume from Halloween City
5 Buddhist monk robes
6 Orange-and-purple camo fatigues
5 TRAINING REGIMENS
1 Sit under a waterfall during your lunch break
2 Tantric BDSM for qi development
3 24/7 stalking and ambushes by the teachers prison buddies
4 Punch cars in the parking lot outside a rival dojo
5 $300/hour Skype lessons from Ethan Shepesky
6 Smartphone app thats like Tinder, but for fighting
6 ARTIFACTS
1 Golden panda
2 Certificate of authenticity, price tag still attached
3 Matching Chinese character tattoos, meanings forgotten
4 Wu-Tang Clan fanfiction novella
5 Towering plastic rhythmic gym-kata trophy
6 Disputed 6th (explosions) & 7th (food) chapters of the Book of Five
Rings
**Food & Drink: Bar Fight (dojo by day, dive bar by night)
This variant was first suggested by Jenn Steen and is included in the
Fiasco Companion. The idea here is to apply a little extra structure to
certain Act One and Act Two dice. These dice suggest not only positive
or negative outcomes, but also specific attributes for the scenes in which
they are invoked. Confused yet? Hold on.
Lets say youre in a four-player game. Instead of eight white and eight
black dice, youve got six white, six black, two golden panda and two
shadow panda dice (of course you can also vary the number of panda dice
to taste). A panda die is a positive or negative scene outcome as usual, but
when it is chosen the player whose scene it is immediately initiates some
special effect. In addition to the various SFX in the Fiasco Companion and
the Quest for the Golden Panda playset, I suggest this variant for Fist City: