F-trol [Open Source Laws]

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Empowering Players to Disrupt Power Dynamics

F-Trol is an iterative and incremental card game based on real-life events, but processed through the lens of our imagination as humans.

You may

🔓 Print the Deck yourself and add any new cards or rules 'on the fly'

⭐ Buy one of our Decks here

🦄 Almost Play on your computer

Pitch

🌍 In an alternate reality very similar to ours, most governments worldwide have relinquished their power to financial conglomerates, who no longer hide their dominance over state policies. Nations that resist have become lost in the maze of dictatorships, teetering on the brink of vital supply shortages for their populations.

🌶️ Faced with exponential inequality and catastrophic climate change, unprecedented social movements are shaking the so-called developed world, while countries deemed part of the Third World suffer from the devastation of armed conflicts between great powers and civil wars displacing entire populations.

⚙️ 🏴‍☠️ 🔧 Groups inspired by pirate and privateer utopias of past centuries are organizing to do things differently. Through practical demonstrations of their philosophy, they aim to prove that another world is possible. When pirates and privateers meet individuals still striving through administrative systems to preserve rationality and fairness, they form cells.

🛰️ Regularly, these cells broadcast coded messages online, while their members on the ground organize resistance. One of these cells has adopted the name "Forward the Rave-o-lution," and you now hold their tool for spreading the message...

🎴 YOUR TURN TO PLAY!

Objectives of the game

🍾 If you have in your hand the card of the Revolution which first reaches 10 'Rave-o-lution points', you win.

🕰️ Each turn, the 'Collectivist', 'Totalitarist', and 'Capitalist' revolutions progress by one 'Rave-o-lution point'.

Mechanics

👉 'Rave-o-lution points' points are earned by overcoming Situation cards.

👉 To aid you on your journey, you have Setup cards that you can keep throughout the game.

👉 If things get tough, you can occasionally rely on Bonus cards. But beware, you might encounter some Problemos along the way...

Rave-o-lution ?

Through dynamic participation and an agile philosophy, the Rave-o-lution builds a resilient and ever-evolving system designed by and for the people: Balance of powers and a scientific approach through Open Source publication.
The Rave-o-lution transforms governance into an open-source framework, where laws function like code in a shared repository. Citizens become active participants, proposing, reviewing, and refining the system collaboratively. This flexible and transparent model fosters collective innovation while ensuring that every modification undergoes rigorous validation.

Three key powers shape this digital democracy.

Key Features:

🌱 Inspiration

F-Trol freely takes inspiration from several streams

Munchkins

👉 Playful and Humorous Spirit: The game is built on quirky humor and interactions between players full of unexpected twists.

👉 Bonus-Malus System: Each player must juggle cards that provide advantages (equipment, spells, allies) or penalties.

👉 RPG Progression: Players level up, gain equipment and skills, while attempting to thwart their opponents.

Dvorak

👉 Flexibility and Free Creation: Players can create their own cards and rules, allowing for unlimited creativity.

👉 Action and Thing Card System: Actions have immediate effects, while Things remain in play and influence the game in the long term.

👉 Rule Adaptability: The rules can evolve during the game based on the cards played or created.

Le Stendhal

👉 Inhabit vacant spaces and give meaning back to urban voids.

👉 Contribute to a truly dynamic neighborhood, vibrant and open to everyone: organizing performances, exhibitions, and debates

👉 Gratuity, recycling, DIY, conviviality, and self-management everyone — groups or individuals — can find room for activities and sharing, to build a stronger, collective intelligence that is, above all, joyful.

Insoumis

👉 Emphasis on non-commercial interactions

👉 Inclusive, transgenerational, multicultural, cross-disciplinary

👉 Individual Freedom, horizontal hierarchy, self-disciplined small units & artifacts (Compte-Rendu, Assemblée Générale, Groupe de Travail ...)

Technoplus

👉 Harm Reduction and Cooperation: benevolent action, grass root mouvement, questionning one's position when in action.

👉 Objective Information: Emphasizing transparency, informed decision-making.

👉 Unpredictable Events: Be ready for the unexpected !

Kraken Krew

👉 Disruptive cultural scene, musical research

👉 Events sector, Professionalism, Efficiency

👉 Crew Values, Mission oriented, a sprawling network

Spiral Tribe

👉 Freedom and Autonomy: Championing independence, personal liberty, and creative self-expression.

👉 Collective Resistance: Uniting communities through music, art, and non-conformist actions.

👉 Nomadic Sustainability: Temporary spaces, minimal waste, and respect for the environment.

Henri Laborit

👉 Biological Mechanisms in Social Behavior: how biological systems, like fight, flight, and inhibition, shape human responses to oppressive societal structures.

👉 Interplay of Neuroscience and Philosophy: bridges biology and social critique, showing how pain and pleasure circuits drive behavior within complex systems.

👉 Emphasizing creative ways to navigate and challenge systemic pressures.

Pierre Bourdieu

👉 Unveiling Hidden Mechanisms of Domination: Bourdieu's theories expose how institutions and culture perpetuate inequality through subtle and often unseen dynamics.

👉 Habitus and Symbolic Capital His frameworks demonstrate how social class and cultural capital influence seemingly free choices.

👉 Empowering Players to Disrupt Power Dynamics: Identify and subvert the systems shaping their reality.

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