Welcome to Market Fiat

Market Fiat is a place for me to talk about Red Markets.

What is Red Markets, you ask?



It is an Economic Horror RPG by +Caleb Stokes, in which the world has crumbled under the onset of a Zombie Apocalypse. When the Zombies came, humanity withdrew behind significant geographical boundaries, cutting of huge sections of nations, like amputated limbs. In the states, everything west of the Mississippi has been abandoned to the casualties, quarantined in an effort to stem the tide of infection.

But not everyone got out. Large numbers of people, survived, behind the barricades of survivor enclaves. Now, five years on, you play a taker, one of the rage tag survivors, desperately trying to get rich in the abandoned sections of the world, so they can escape to civilisation.

Red Markets is pretty much the coolest thing happening in RPGs right now, with interesting elements from all across the gaming spectrum. There are tools such as large random events tables, that would feel totally at home in an OSR Hexcrawl there to support emergent narrative,  coupled with a difficulty level which from what has been said would make most 1e WFRP fans blush. But it also contains character focused mechanics which would be very at home in a modern Storygame.


You can check it out here.

So, what can you expect from Market Fiat?

Well, the initial aim is to have one post a day, until the end of the Kickstarter. That way, I can start to build up some material for running my first game of Red Markets.