I had a bit of a nightmare last night. The nightmare involved this game, for which I've created a "playable" ruleset for a game where Apples to Apples meets your college composition class. I'm assuming the nightmare was at least partly generated by the new stack of papers to be graded that were turned in to me yesterday.
The name did not come from the dream, and is totally not a parody of Exploding Kittens.
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Expostulating Compositions, a Horrible Game for 4-7 Complete Masochists
What you'll need: Lots of paper; several pens, at least one of them red; time.
Choose one player to be the first player; s/he will be the reader for the first round. Players will then take turns as the reader, going around the table.
The reader chooses a subject or theme. This can be a general topic--for example, Desire, Beauty, Epistemology--or something more specific--for example, the treatment of women in Shakespeare's plays, or Napoleon's failed campaign in Russia.
Each of the other players then writes an essay, prose fiction piece, or poem that they feel fits the theme or subject.
After all players have finished writing, one player should shuffle the papers so that the reader does not know which player wrote which paper. The reader examines the finished papers, and chooses the one that s/he feels best fits the theme of the round. Note that, like Apples to Apples, the reader may choose any criteria s/he wants! S/he may take spelling and/or grammar into account, or base his/her choice on the best parody of the theme, or any other variation.
The player who wrote the piece chosen as the best by the reader gains a commendation. The player to the reader's right becomes the new reader.
Play continues until one player has earned three commendations.
Coming to Kickstarter Summer 2015!
The base set includes 100 double-sided cards with a general theme on one side and a more specific topic on the other side. Useful for those who may not be as creative coming up with topics! Also includes 20 Commendation tokens and 10 ballpoint pens.
Planned Tiers Include:
Expostulator ($35): One copy of the base set.
Expansionist ($50): One copy of the base set, plus two reams of paper.
Narcissist ($200): Only five available! Work with the game designers to create a card with your custom themes, to be included in every set. Perhaps even just your name!
Alacrity ($10000): Don't want your games of Expostulating Compositions to stretch on for days? Add some extreme speed to your expostulation! Includes four copies of the base set, six Dell laptops, one inkjet printer, and five cartons of printer paper. (Extra ink not included. No, not even for ten thousand bucks.)
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