DURANCE
Designer: Bully Pulpit Games | Publisher: Jason Morningstar
Science fiction gives us a lens through which to view reality and come to conclusions unadulterated by our usual preconceptions and Durance by Jason Morningstar provides exactly that. The premise of the game is that the worst criminal scum from a dozen star systems have been dumped on a remote prison planet where they are expected to build a new civilisation under the watchful eye of the Authority. Sound familiar? Well, don’t worry if it doesn’t because Durance does well to explain at the end of the book that this is a sci-fi reimagining of the first European prison colonies in Australia and even explains that the sci-fi coating can be rubbed off to play a historical setting of the first such colony.