[Comrade Stalin] Alpha rules 0.1
Background: Stalin's Story A long time ago -- late in 2005, it seems -- I created a role playing game called Stalin's Story . It combined the structures that Vladimir Propp found in Russian fairy tales with a totalitarian Stalin figure. One of the players is Stalin and has unlimited power to kill people and change the rules; the others are either actors trying to tell a Proppian tale or courtiers trying to use the tale's elements to have each other killed. I never played it, because I had serious doubts about the game achieving my design goals. However, I just found a post by Harry Giles who says he has played it several times, and goes on to say that “Stalin’s Story” is rich, multi-dimensional, original and scary fun[.] He is definitely being too charitable in that piece, but I do need to talk to him about his play experiences! But this blog post is not about Stalin's Story . Thematic content Stalin apparently still occupies my brain. I've just gotten...