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Red Markets: A Game of Economic Horror
[978-1-987916-97-3]
$20.00
Publisher: Hebanon Games
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by Kevin N. [Verified Purchaser] Date Added: 03/08/2018 22:21:29

This is an incredible game that sets out to bring some really new things to gaming, and nails every one of them. In most traditional games, like D&D, your gear is a huge part of your character and you grab all you can get. In Red Markets, your gear keeps you alive but it can break, or be used up and need replaced (think grenades), or create new risks (noisy toolboxes, blood tests that report the immune to some really scary people). Even your regular workaday zombie-headshotting gun requires maintenance and ammo. Pay the costs, everything keeps working but it's a little less for retirement. Don't pay, maybe you don't make it to retirement.

Another of Red Markets' innovations is that adventuring sucks. No sane person wants to risk their life for loot if they can avoid it, and every character's goal in the game is to have enough money to never go adventuring again - the sooner, the better. There are more cinematic play modes, but the game also has rules I can't recommend enough for driving home how difficult, dirty, dangerous, and stressful it is to live job to job risking your life, all to stop doing that exact thing. It may not sound attractive, but the feeling of accomplishment in overcoming everything a postapocalyptic wasteland can throw at you is really something.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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