Pyramid Review
Executive Decision: A White-Knuckle Game Of Real-Time Political Crisis
Written by Greg Stolze with D. Vincent Baker, Dennis Detwiller, Ron Edwards, Daniel Solis, & Chad Underkoffler
Layout by Daniel Solis
310kb Zipped File containing one 309kb & one 222kb PDF documents; $1,000
The first thing you may well have noticed about this game is the price.
It really did cost a $1,000.
Fortunately you can now get it for free. Go to the publisher's website and download it now, but do something else while you are there. Make a donation. For Executive Decision: A White-Knuckle Game Of Real-Time Political Crisis is part of a number of roleplaying projects created and sold to raise money for the Hurricane Katrina Relief efforts. Yet where others have used the more traditional method of donating an amount based on the number of books sold, Executive Decision employs the "Ransom Method."
Particular to the use of the PDF format, under the Ransom Method, an author announces that he has a game or book ready to release, but will only do so once a certain amount of money has been donated. In this case, $1,000 -- all going to the American Red Cross. Elsewhere Dennis Detwiller is using the same method to fund the release of a series of scenarios for Delta Green, the highly regarded modern conspiracy setting for Call of Cthulhu.
As the title suggests, Executive Decision is actually pertinent to the disaster it is intended to raise money for, because as politicized as Hurricane Katrina and its effects . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: August 11, 2006
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