Stuck in an Elevator With Ayn Rand with Jamie
This is an RPGFest event; we'll be playing an in-person tabletop roleplaying game with a small group. The game will be hosted in Western Queens. Come prepared to roleplay!
You are trapped in an elevator between floors high above the ground. You have only one other passenger, notorious philosopher and political cryptid Ayn Rand. You also have a loaded handgun, with one silver bullet.
Credit to Oliver Darkshire for this one-page game! Here's a link to his Patreon with the rules: https://www.patreon.com/posts/trapped-in-with-123307253
The rules as written leave some interpretation open, as usual. Particularly: "what happens during an event?" Here are some rules I think make sense for an objectively lively improvisational time:
Whoever has read the most Ayn Rand books rolls to start the game. Tie goes to whoever survived one of the books most recently.
Players will take turns rolling events, in clockwise order. Any player may unilaterally decide to roll any round, though, because who doesn't want to be the Randieset ubermensch?
During each event, Ayn Rand will read the prompt. Players will then take turns, in clockwise order, making one response to the current debate or conversation topic. Again, any player can simply shout a response to assert their social status.
THIS GAME MIGHT BE OVER IN AN HOUR OR LESS. I've never played it. It seems like it'll take a few dozen rolls to reach endgame, and that doesn't take into account the UNASSAILABLE ARGUMENT that accelerates progress. That said, I'm very open to playing board games after for a few hours. I have plenty. Feel free to bring your own.
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