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Bacchanalia

FLEE and Feast

Bacchanalia is a role playing game based on a handful of cards and intended for adults only! You are a stranger in Romagna fleeing from accusations of offenses against the law of the Empire and encounter gods in the hills looking for amusement. All players together decide on a timespan for the game and on regulations for the tales, for instance no curses or no explicit sexual descriptions or no details on violence in crimes. At the start each player invents his character, describes him and his current location as well as his fictive partner and the real or alleged crime. The very first player must also introduce a description of the Bacchanalia, that is, a scene involving singing, drinking and other trappings of an orgy. You draw cards from a deck; the game holds two kinds of cards – Deus cards with characters and Umbra cards with symbols. The rule state exactly how to distribute cards and also the kind of scenes resulting from which constellation of cards; for instance, a Satyrus card demands a tale including change of location and descriptions of unrestrained scenes at the new setting; Pluto demands inclusion of a crime and description of your involvement, if any; the content details are up to the players. Aim of the game is to escape dangers and to find your fictive partner; if you manage to leave the Empire with him or her, you win. The game ends in any case when each player has arrived an end-of-game scene.

An absolutely unusual game where all players need to know exactly what they are getting into; also a game that only reveals itself in playing, some role playing experience could be of advantage.

Players: 3-6

Age: 18+

Time: variable

Designer: Paul Czega, Michele Gelli

Artist: Claudia Cangini

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Narrattiva 2012

Web: www.narrattiva.com

Genre: Storytelling, Role play

Users: With friends

Version: de en

Rules: de en + fr it

In-game text: no

Comments:

For adults only

Rules need preparation time

Cards determine kinds of scenarios, not content

In cooperation with the City of Bertinoro

Compares to:

Other narrative games

Other editions:

Italian/French edition

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 0

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 3

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 3

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0