Irish
Eyes Are Dying
Slainte, and
welcome to Ireland, Feens and Bures.
Times are tough
here in Dublin. The Great Potato Famine, the Civil War, and now the First Great
War have taken the sons and daughters of St. Patrick. England still calls for
her taxes and arseways the country. There’s also the matter of the new “family”
from the new world and now here.
Grab your scoops,
be sound, and gander over the green.
If you’re lucky,
you’ll survive this Fiasco!
Going to
the Pictures
Irish Destiny
(1925), The Quiet Man (1952), The Snapper (1993), Michael Collins (1996), Waking
Ned Devine (1998)
Curl Up with a Book
Curl Up with a Book
W.B. Yeats: Cathleen bi Houlihan, The Winding Stair
James Joyce: Ulysses
Liam O'Flaherty: "The Sniper"
Patrick Pearse: The Collected Works
James Joyce: Ulysses
Liam O'Flaherty: "The Sniper"
Patrick Pearse: The Collected Works
CREDITS
Written by Marcus
Leab under a Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0) license.
BOILERPLATE
This playset is
an accessory for the Fiasco role-playing game by Bully Pulpit Games.
This playset is
copyright 2015 by Marcus Leab.
Fiasco is copyright 2009 by Jason Morningstar.
All rights are reserved.
For more information about Fiasco or to
download other playsets and materials, visit www.bullypulpitgames.com
Relationships Needs
1. Family 1. To Get Out
1 Mother/
Father & Child 1 …of Dublin/ Ireland
2 Aunt/Uncle & Niece/Nephew 2 … of Your Obligations
3 Siblings 3 … of the family
4 Happy/ Estranged Couple 4 … of Your Church/Vows
5 Fake Family 5 … of Your Regiment
6 Cousins 6 … of the Irish Mafia
2. Work 2. To Survive
1 Potato Farmer 1 … The Potato Blight
2 Whiskey Distiller 2 … The Irish Civil War
3 Doctor / Veterinarian 3 … Your Family’s Shame
4 Writer/ Poet 4 … Your Church’s Destruction
5 Priest/ Minister 5 … The First World War
6 Pub Owner/ Bartender 6 … The Mob’s Hold on You
3. Trouble 3. To Get Respect
3. Trouble 3. To Get Respect
1. Loving
Parent/ Difficult Child 1. … From the British
2. Love Affair between English & Irish 2. … From the Irish
3. Rival Distillers/ Brewers/ Farmers 3. … From your Family
4. Rivals for Same Love 4. … From your Boss
5. Rival Soldiers 5. … From your Regiment
6. Rival Religious Leaders (Priest/ Minister) 6. … From God/ Religious Leader
4. Romance 4. To Gain
1. Spouses 1. …Freedom
2. Priest/ Altar Boy 2. … The Farm/ Bar/ Distillery
3. Lovers 3. … A Higher Rank
4. Once Upon a Time… 4. … God’s Approval
5. Reunited Lovers 5. … His/Her Love
6. Stalker & Obsession 6. … A Higher Position in the Clergy
5. Military 5. To Get Some Answers
1. Republican
Army 1. … About Yourself
2. Free-Stater Army 2. … About What Happened to the Farm
3. Deserter 3. … About Why He/She Left
4. English/ Irish Spy 4. … About God’s/ Your Boss’s Plan
for You
5. Objector 5. … About the Money
6. Ready to Kill Bismarck 6. … About the Secret Recipe
6. Government/ Crime 6. To Hide
1. Diplomat 1. … Your Shameful Past
2. Secret Police & Informant 2. … Your Feelings
3. Bureaucrat 3. … Your Allegiances
4. Secretarial Pool 4. … Your Connection to the Mob
5. Mob Boss & Underling 5. … Your Religious Beliefs
6. Pickpocket & Fence 6. … Your Money
Locations Objects
1. Dublin 1. Religious
1. Dublin 1. Religious
1.A Rooftop 1. Staff of St. Patrick
2. The Four Courts 2. The Book of Kells
3. St. James Gate Brewery 3. Sarcophagus from Tomb of Cormac
4. St. Patrick’s Cathedral 4. The Blarney Stone
5. Trinity College Dublin 5. The Preserved Heart of St.
O’Toole
6. Kilmainham Gaol 6. The Lady of Dublin Statue
2. Around Ireland 2. Weapons
2. Around Ireland 2. Weapons
1. Galway 1. A Cache of British Rifles
2. Cashel 2. A Box of Dynamite
3. Donegal 3. A Broken Hoe
4. The Cliffs of Moher 4. A Bottle of Guinness Lager
5. A Farm in Cork 5. Antique Dueling Pistols
6. Killarney 6.A Gallóglaigh Sword
3. On the Run 3. Sentimental
3. On the Run 3. Sentimental
1. On a Boat
in St. George’s Channel 1. A Soldier’s Diary
2. In a Methodist Church in Cookstown 2. A Wedding Ring
3. On the Beach in Portugal 3. A Bible
4. As a Fisherman in Tramore 4. A Potato That Survived the
Blight
5. As a Seamstress in Hell’s Kitchen, NY 5. The First Bottle from the
Distillery
6. In a Catholic Church in Monaghan 6. A Letter from a Parent to a
Child
4. Meanwhile in Rest of United Kingdom 4. Information
1. Canary
Wharf 1. A Map to Something Valuable
2. British East India Company Headquarters 2. A Letter from the Queen/King of England
3. Buckingham Palace 3. A List of Soldiers from a Regiment with Notes
4. Birmingham 4. A Letter with the Papal Seal
5. Cardiff, Wales 5. A Blueprint of The Four Courts
6. Edinburgh, Scotland 6. A Recipe for an Old Whiskey
5. Over in Europe 5. Unsavory
1. Austria-Hungary 1. An Aborted Fetus in a Pickle Jar
2. Netherlands 2. A Picture of a Priest and an
Altar Boy
3. Spain 3. “Big” Bill Dwyer’s Little Black
Book
4. France 4. A Bloody Soldier’s Knife
5. Portugal 5. Orders to Shoot Civilians and
Blame Enemy
6. Italy 6. A Potato Tainted with Blight
6. The New World 6. Oddities
6. The New World 6. Oddities
1. New York, New York 1. A Trunk Filled with Counterfeit
British Pounds
2. Boston, Massachusetts 2. A Potato Snuck Out of India
3. Toronto, Canada 3. A Bible in Latin with Leviticus
Torn Out
4. Chicago, Illinois 4. Falsified Passport
5. Kansas City, Missouri 5. An Malnourished Dog Named
Francis/Frances
6. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6. A Bullet with a Name on It
2 comments:
what the heck
I like this a lot, and did a tightened up variant that's nice for printing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U0wxj4d8slcO57J_BDLoAu_ML1LY8FsopGlijW8y6Cc/edit#
Tightening include:
- Make all the relationships two-party
- Make the needs more distinct (join up a few that very extremely similar and add new ones)
- Make the locations more specialized - rather than a city/country, somewhere specific in each (matched against the time period)
- Make this fit Ireland in ~1920 and remove anachronisms (like the potato blight/famine being about 70 years earlier and Bismarck dying in 1898).
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