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TableTop Thursdays: Machine of Death
On this TableTop Thursday we’re featuring the
kickstarted Card Game “Machine of Death” a Kickstarter game that has
come to fruition! Brian Smawley will be lending B&B his copy of the
game to play. Want to know more? Check out the official webpage here!
In the world of our game, there exists a machine (the titular Machine of Death) that can issue people little cards: deathpredictions. Nobody knows just how it works, but it’s always, always right. (You may recognize this concept from our #1 bestselling short story collection, which is also titled, COINCIDENTALLY, Machine of Death.)
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The book was about exploring the existential ramifications of the
existence of the machine in worlds otherwise much like our own. It’s a
thoughtful, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, meditation on fate.
The GAME is about flinging SHARKS from CATAPULTS in order to kill
imaginary people. It’s basically a game of Mousetrap or a Road Runner
cartoon, except that it’s TOTALLY WITHIN THE RULES to create a QUICKSAND
GENERATOR in a TREEHOUSE in order to DROWN A CHILD. (That was a real
game we played.)