Serious Reading
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...The rigid abstemiousness runs the risk of putting him at a dietary distance from an American electorate that still binges on carbohydrates and¸ after eight years of a tea-sipping president¸ craves a relatable eater in chief...
...She denies him pies these days...
Serious Reading is the only game inspired by the brow furrowing and spine shuddering evoked by opinion columns.
It is a comedy-focused¸ solo journaling RPG where you take on the role of a grossly overpaid opinion columnist who probably should have quit years ago¸ as most of them should have if we could only be so lucky. You'll use two tables of prompts to write headlines for fictional opinion pieces¸ ostensibly about very serious topics¸ and excerpts from those articles that reveal nothing about their supposed topic but everything about the bizarre¸ broken life of your columnist character.
UPDATE (Jan. 10¸ 2022): A new expansion is now included with your purchase: Seriouser Reading . It adds first and last name roll tables for your columnist character and a full second set of Headline and Write About tables¸ more than doubling the content in the original game. If you already have Serious Reading¸ just redownload the PDF¸ and you'll have both!
Using a bit of William Lentz 's Second Guess System and made for the Second Guess Jam¸ Serious Reading ensures every columnist character will gradually wane in their relevance until they rightly fade into obscurity as culture passes them by.
With your purchase¸ you get a hyperlinked PDF and a printer-friendly alternative that eliminates the background art for you to save on ink and increase readability .