Gotham Cleanup Ep. 4 - Machine of Death [Tabletop Simulator]
2Cards against humanity too wimpy? Pretend you're xyzzy too limited? Well today is your lucky day! Observe as our host play Machine of Death, where improv comedy is king and the only limit is your imagination!
In Gotham Cleanup our intrepid murderers will venture to the roaring 20's in an attempt to rid Batman's fictional home of its biggest crime bosses after the Dark Knight himself decided to take some well deserved time off and leave us in charge of the Batcave.
In this first episode we will attempt to deprive the Irish mob of its head potato in a hopefully grisly manner for your amusement and the safety of Gotham's inhabitants. How? Well, that is for the Machine of Death to decide.
About the game (courtesy of boardgamegeek.com):
Machine of Death: The Game of Creative Assassination is a storytelling game set in a world in which a machine can predict how a person will die with 100% accuracy with only a small blood sample. However, the machine delights in being vague and twisted. A card reading "Old Age" could mean you die in your sleep at age 120, or it could mean you're run over tomorrow by an elderly driver who forgot to take his pills today. Players of the game take the role of assassins, who must use the various tools at their disposal -- from storytelling to a slew of items available from specialty Black Market shops -- to create a situation in which a target is killed in a way in line with their Death Prediction. The Machine of Death Game uses this basic idea, of assassins working in a world were cause of death is known to create various game modes.
The General Gameplay of most modes works like this:
A target is assigned, and given certain details (including Death -
- Prediction, and extra Intel details, such as things they particularly like or dislike – to help predict their behavior).
- Players – assassins – are given Black Market Gift Cards. These are the items they are allowed to use in order to accomplish their goal: killing the target.
- Players use the Gift Cards to devise a plan. Each Black Market card provides an item to be used in an Action. Three actions should chain together in some way that results in the death of the target.
- The plan is greenlit, either by a Chief player, or via consensus, depending on game mode.
- The timer starts and the plan is put into action. This is represented by dice rolling to beat a "difficulty score." An unlikely plan hinging on a single item may need to roll a 6 for that Action, but a rock-solid intricate plan may need to only roll a 2 for each card.
- The skull face on the die (1) also adds a frantic element (replacing the 1 face, if the skull is rolled it prompts the flipping of a Fate Coin to add additional randomness).
- In case of failure of any die roll, that Action didn't work, and the plan must be revised. While the timer continues running, the assassins draw a new Black Market item, amending their previous plan and rolling for a new Action. They may also call in "Specialists", who are characters with special skills (earned in previous rounds).
- If any three Actions are successful before the timer runs out, the target is killed. With the remaining time, the players may roll for Aftermath tasks (such as fleeing the scene or destroying the evidence). Completion of these tasks earns Specialist cards to be used in later rounds. This is the only way to replenish the group's overall Budget of playable cards.
- If the timer runs out before three Actions are completed, the target escapes. This is the end of the round.
In the published rules, this also ends the game. This rule was subsequently revised, allowing players to make another attempt on the same target, or take the loss and move on to additional targets. Hard-core players may end the game at this point.
- The team wins if they can accomplish four successful kills before their total Budget of Black Market cards are exhausted.
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