Vegas, Baby!

It always sounds like a good idea. A few days in Vegas to blow off steam before the wedding, or to celebrate closing the deal, or just for the hell of it. Check responsibility at the door, you’re in Sin City, baby!

But so are the grifters and the hookers, looking to fleece tourists. The mobsters looking for prey. Showbiz lowlifes and corrupt officials, all looking for a better deal. Desperate locals with an eye out for a quick score.

Hundreds of thousands of tourists a day, from all over the world, rub elbows with the locals. Sometimes it’s champagne and caviar. Most times, it’s not. And, sometimes, it’s about burying the bodies in the desert.

Vegas, Baby! is a playset for the Fiasco roleplaying game that tries to emulate “Vegas trips gone horribly wrong”, such as in films like Very Bad Things or The Hangover. 

This is not Steve Segedy’s Las Vegas-based playset Vegas, originally sold with the game at Gencon 2010, and later published as part of the Fiasco Companion. While Vegas, Baby! was initially written without any knowledge of Vegas (and originally released prior to the publication of the Companion), the two are eerily similar in some ways and totally different in others. Vegas, leans a little bit into a Rat Pack and Ocean’s Eleven style Vegas, while this playbook intentionally leans away and is set more firmly in the Las Vegas of 2011.