Barbabianca. A role-playing game of rumour and silence in a town that is no more

Barbabianca was the oldest man in the village. Tall, hir-sute, knobbly, with too-long hair and a too-thick beard. He had no gift for speech, but he did know how to strike awe. My whole childhood was filled with the looming threat that he would come get me if I refused to behave. Barbabianca avoided people and lived in the margins, beyond our circle of stone houses. And yet his bones were the bones of the village. Maybe his furrowed brow wasn’t enough to crown him King in our little deck, but it certainly made him the Fool. Everyone remembers him. Barbabianca is a roleplaying game that requires no prep, to tell a story set in the deep Italian countryside at the turn of the Twentieth century. It’s been a long, long time, and Barbabianca is no more. But this tale keeps echoing among the village stones. It is up to us to tell it. To whom, and how honestly, is something we will only learn at the end. Will we keep up our comforting farce, just as we always have,or will we accept the change t