Newbie World Order: World Domination for Beginners
by Glen Barnett
This is designed as a OBD for beginning players, and with ease of putting it together in mind. You can make it with only a Factory set and a SubGenius set. It has no Specials (in case you don't have a factory set). All cards should be playable pretty much as written.I have cheerfully stolen some thoughts of Ralph's in getting this all together.
It has no Disasters, no Assassinations, no Resources, and no cards to deal with these. There are initially no Goals.
As in SubGenius, there are no Privileged attacks, and there are no special rules for Secret groups (Secret doesn't "do" anything gamewise, unless another card says so).
Some cards with complicated or non-obvious rulings/FAQ entries have been omitted.
There are several lists at the end with suggested cards if you want to add Goals, Resources, Privileged Attacks, Assassinations and Disasters, etc. You may want to add some of these when the players get the hang of the basic game.
Currently, Bavarian Illuminati, Adepts of Hermes, Shangri-La and UFO's are not really viable as Illuminati. If you add in Resources (see the lists at the end), the Adepts come back in, if you add in Privileged attacks, Bavaria comes in, and if you add in the Goals, it makes sense to include the UFO's (even though their goal is relatively useless, it is too confusing to have them in if there are no goals.
There are currently 60 groups and 90 plots. Every card that is here I included for some reason - some come in on several criteria. There are 59 cards from the SubGenius set - quite a large proportion, because they have many cards that play with the uncontrolled area, and plots with costs well suited to OBD games. There are 50 cards in the lists of suggested extra cards that could be added. (With the extra cards added, this deck seemed to work very nicely in playtest. I haven't yet had a chance to try it with only the main 150 cards.)
Possible Illuminati: Bermuda Triangle, Discordian Society, Gnomes of Zurich, The Network, Servants of Cthulhu, Church of the SubGenius.
Factory Set:
Groups
Places:
California
England
Hawaii
Italy
Japan
Orbit One
Pentagon
Silicon Valley
Texas
Personalities:
Bjorne
Ronald Reagan
Saddam Hussein
Organisations:
Big Media
Cable TV
Cattle Mutilators
Comic Books
Dentists
Fast Food Chains
Federal Reserve
Gay Activists
Hackers
KKK
Libertarians
Loan Sharks
Madison Avenue
The Mafia
MI-5
Mossad
Multinational Oil Companies
NASA
Nephews of God
Offshore Banks
Phone Company
Phone Phreaks
Pollsters
Psychiatrists
Recording Industry
Religious Reich
Robot Sea Monsters
Secular Humanists
Supreme Court
Templars
Tobacco Companies
W.I.T.C.H.
Wall Street
Wargamers
Plots
New World Orders
Red NWOs:
Gun Control
Peace In Our Time
Political Correctness
Solidarity
Yellow NWOs:
Bigger Business
Don't Forget To Smash The State
Law and Order
World War Three
Blue NWOs:
A Thousand Points of Light
Chicken In Every Pot
Energy Crisis
World Hunger
Other
Agent In Place
The Auditor From Hell
Backlash
The Big Score
Blitzkrieg
Bribery
Cold Fusion
Computer Virus
Dictatorship
Double-Cross
Embezzlement
Emergency Powers
George the Janitor
Good Polls
Harmonica Virgins
Hat Trick
Hidden Influence
Hoax!
Let's Get Organized
Martial Law
Media Connections
Messiah
Mothers' March
Murphy's Law
Mutual Betrayal
Power Corrupts
Power Grab
Pulitzer Prize
Reach Out...
Read My Lips
Resistance Is Useless!
Revolution!
Rewriting History
Save the Whales
Seize The Time!
Senate Investigating Committee
Stealing The Plans
Sucked Dry And Cast Aside!
Swiss Bank Account
Terrorist Nuke
Unlucky 13
The Weird Turn Pro
Whispering Campaign
SubGenius:
Groups
Places:
Saucer Landing Strip
Personalities:
Connie Dobbs
OverMan Philo Drummond
Reverend Ivan Stang
St. Janor Hypercleats
Organisations:
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Advanced Supersonic Aluminum Nazi Hell
Creatures from Beneath the Hollow Earth
Citizens for Normalcy
Divine Mail Order
The Hour of Slack
League for Obvious Decency
MWOWM
Rogue SubGenii
www.subgenius.com
Yetis
Plots
Other:
...Or Kill Me!
Attitude Mutation
Bulldada
Comet Hail-Bob
Decency is OK!
Devival
Eternal Salvation or Triple your Money Back
Fake Healing
False Slack
Give Me Slack, Or Give Me Food
Head Launching
JHVH-1
Luck Plane
Miraculous Manifestation
More Slack
Official, all Inclusive, Divine Excuse
OverMan
Psychic Pstench
Rain of Prairie Squid
Random Jesii
Rant!
Repent!
S.C.A.M
Sacred Jests
Schizm
Shordurpersav
Smite Them All!
Stark Fist of Removal
Tape Runs Out...
They May Be Pink. . .
Time Control
The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
X-Day
Yacatisma
You'd Pay to Know What You Really Think!
Add in Goals (6 + UFOs):
The Corporate Masters
Criminal Overlords
Hail Eris!
Power For Its Own Sake
Arise!
Brag of the SubGenius
Add in Resources (16 + Adepts of Hermes)
Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
South American Nazis
Angel's Feather
Book of Kells
Center for Weird Studies
Crystal Skull
Death Mask
Midas Mill
Orbital Mind Control Lasers
Perpetual Motion Machine
Shroud of Turin
Suicide Squad
Weather Satellite
Deasil Engine
Hex
The Saint of Sales
Add in Privileged Attacks (9 + Bavarian Illuminati):
Israel
Intellectuals
Moonies
Censorship
Deep Agent
Eat The Rich!
Interference
Ketchup Is A Vegetable
Privileged Attack
Add in Disasters and Assassinations (17):
Boy Sprouts
NATO
Car Bomb
Poison
Sniper
Earthquake
Hurricane
Meteor Strike
The Oregon Crud
Volcano
The Hand of Madness
Up Against The Wall!
Annual Convention
Early Warning
Head In A Jar
Mistaken Identity
Volunteer Aid
Add in "Complicated" but interesting cards (2):
Bill Clinton
Are We Having Fun Yet?
One other card I'd consider is March on Washington. It isn't quite playable as written, but I think it is such a useful power that it should be at least considered for inclusion in a set like this.
