The Generalissimo is Dead @ PAX Unplugged - Earlybird Tickets
Il Generalissimo is dead! How can the country go on? Who will lead the people?
Enter the political arena as the glorious nation of Yugenya goes through its first succession crisis in this megagame inspired by the Death of Stalin. A Megagame about a country in Crisis! The all-powerful leader is dead, but even in death, he casts a long shadow on the future of Yugenya!
Play as the various Ministries and Departments that hold together the small nation of Yugenya as it struggles to forge a new identity after its charismatic leader dies.
PAX Unplugged Convention Badge required to attend event.
Friday, December 6, 2024
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Pennsylvania Convention Center
110 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19106
United States (map)
↓ See more details below! ↓
Il Generalissimo is dead! How can the country go on? Who will lead the people?
Enter the political arena as the glorious nation of Yugenya goes through its first succession crisis in this megagame inspired by the Death of Stalin. A Megagame about a country in Crisis! The all-powerful leader is dead, but even in death, he casts a long shadow on the future of Yugenya!
Play as the various Ministries and Departments that hold together the small nation of Yugenya as it struggles to forge a new identity after its charismatic leader dies.
PAX Unplugged Convention Badge required to attend event.
Friday, December 6, 2024
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Pennsylvania Convention Center
110 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19106
United States (map)
↓ See more details below! ↓
Il Generalissimo is dead! How can the country go on? Who will lead the people?
Enter the political arena as the glorious nation of Yugenya goes through its first succession crisis in this megagame inspired by the Death of Stalin. A Megagame about a country in Crisis! The all-powerful leader is dead, but even in death, he casts a long shadow on the future of Yugenya!
Play as the various Ministries and Departments that hold together the small nation of Yugenya as it struggles to forge a new identity after its charismatic leader dies.
PAX Unplugged Convention Badge required to attend event.
Friday, December 6, 2024
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Pennsylvania Convention Center
110 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19106
United States (map)
↓ See more details below! ↓
The Event
The Megagame Coalition is proud to present the acclaimed conspiratorial megagame masterpiece, The Generalissimo is Dead, originally designed by Ciaran Sullivan in association with True North Megagames, and most recently updated by Sydney Megagames.
This is part of the PAX Unplugged 2024 suite of megagame events being hosted by the Megagame Coalition. Badges to the PAX Unplugged convention are required to attend the event and can be purchased here.
The Generalissimo is Dead is a negotiation-heavy megagame of diplomacy, politicking, and possibly a coup or two in the wake of the death of a charismatic strongman leader, inspired by the absurdist (if not entirely unrealistic) political satires of Armando Iannucci (Death of Stalin, The Thick of It), and similar media (Papers Please, House of Cards, The Regime) set roughly in the golden age of neoliberalism (80s - 00s).
The Setting
Il Generalissimo is dead! How can the country go on? Who will lead the people?
Take up a role vying to come out on top as the glorious nation of Yugenya goes through its first succession crisis! The all-powerful leader is dead, but even in death, he casts a long shadow on the future of Yugenya!
The Generalissimo is Dead is a Megagame set in the chaos that follows the death of a strong, autocratic leader without any clear plan for succession. Most of the players in this game are Party Members of the People's Party of Yugenya - the only political party in the fictional nation of Yugenya. Party members are either members of the Central Committee - the Generalissimo’s Inner Circle - or one of the many departments that keep Yugenya functioning as a country. However, your position at the start is not set in stone. It is certainly possible to rise to the Inner Circle of the Committee, and it is possible for those in power to fall from grace.
On the geopolitical horizon, Yugenya is now on the frontline of an economic cold war between China and the West due to the discovery of large rare-earth metal mines- whose profits were used to fund the Generalissimo’s revolutionary guard, navy, air force, palace, generous gifts for his political allies, the new and even more secret police, and a host of other grandiose paranoia- or ego-driven projects. Perhaps now is a good time to reassess our spending priorities.
The Deetz!
Rules and roles will be distributed via email before the event. The rules will also be gone over at the start of the game for those who didn’t have time to read the rules.
Cosplay welcomed and praised but entirely optional.
Mature themes. This design has more mature themes than our other, more family-friendly PAX Unplugged Megagame events. The game revolves around the political machinations within a totalitarian government in the wake of the death of a charismatic strongman leader.
Age Limit. 18+
Have questions or concerns? Please reach out at phillymegagames@gmail.com
