Amontillado

“For the love of God, Montresor!” “Yes,” I said, “for the love of God!” Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, AMONTILLADO is a simple, one-page RPG for two players using 3 dice and a block tower. The Host (in Poe’s story, a man named Montressor) has made an exciting acquisition (in Poe’s story, a cask of fine Amontillado sherry) and baits the Guest (in Poe’s story, a man named Fortunato) to verify its quality (in Poe’s story, by tasting it). The acquisition is hidden in a secluded place (in Poe’s story, a crypt beneath the Montressor home), where the Host, quite unbeknownst to the Guest, plans to trap the latter and leave them for dead by building a wall to enclose them. The Guest will probably lose. This game focuses instead on what twists and turns will get you to the end of your story. Simple substitutions include: dominoes, plastic building toys, a dice stack, counters or tokens to indicate levels of the wall. There may be a version of the game where the Host need only rack up 11 wins, subtracting 1 each time the Guest succeeds.