Witch Trial?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 27 Sep 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Strega	27 Sep 2002
A company named Cheapass Games has created a board game called Witch Trial. They're advertising it as: "A fine wholesome card game concerning the Prosecution of Witches, Vagrants, Vegetarians and all those different from ourselves ." How can something so mocking be wholesome? :confused::confused::confused:

Pollux	28 Sep 2002
"It is a dark time in American history. Society has chosen to rid itself of the influence of "witches," i.e., unmarried women, free thinkers, vegetarians, the homeless, and other undesirables. In Witch Trial, you play an attorney at a prestigious law firm. You will act as prosecutor or defender in several cases involving unsavory characters mentioned above. While witchcraft per se isn't really a crime, it's customary to bring suspects into court on related offenses, such as Card Playing, Smoking, and Tampering with the Post. There's no burning-at-the-stake in this game, for two reasons. First, once the case is out of the courtroom you couldn't really care what happens. But more important, you don't normally burn witches at the stake. You press them to death with stones. This game requires lawyer-like reflexes, a little bit of luck, and the willingness to plea bargain when you know you can't win. " This is so amusing! I must call and tell Mojo to get there... *LOL* As a Pagan, Vegetarian, Witch, Gay, Very Leftist Man I have some chances to be added as character in the expansion pack! WOW! *LOL* :D Oh, and "Tamperer with the Post" - that is definitely me. They know me by names at the Post Office for all the packages I send and get... That is another point in favour! YIPPE!!! *LOL* Unluckily I don't smoke, but I could make so that I stink of cogarette smoke - the other three in the family do... I hope they'll accept me as character for the next year expansion... *LOL*

Sulis	28 Sep 2002
Oh Dear, Pollux you`re definately for the chop babe. Never mind so am I. Love and light Julie xx

RedWood	28 Sep 2002
Well I think it looks funny! I would buy it LOL..

the hermit	28 Sep 2002
I know the game sounds outrageous... and probably is. But read the links about the company and the 5 folk who run it... they are definitely not "establishment" anything. The company name says it all. So please don't be too upset... and they actually make pretty good games.

VmprGokuboi69	01 Oct 2002
im next in line pollux..... i have most of your list.. and I smoke!!! ::lights up cig:: 8) AHHHHH beloved nicotine

Teranar	01 Oct 2002
I can't breathe around cigarette smoke. I've almost passed out from it. In Tennessee they have a thing similar to witch trial. If you're wierd, and nosy people prove you're such an undesireable the teachers intentionally give you straight Fs so you fail. Its evil, unfair, and sadly sadly true. :(

the hermit	01 Oct 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Teranar I can't breathe around cigarette smoke. I've almost passed out from it. In Tennessee they have a thing similar to witch trial. If you're wierd, and nosy people prove you're such an undesireable the teachers intentionally give you straight Fs so you fail. Its evil, unfair, and sadly sadly true. :( this is the sort of issue that the ACLU lives for! they'd just love to drag some school district like that right into court. i've got a friend who used to work for them (aclu) who used to just go ape over stuff like this... sadly she's now entered the world of corporate corruption and just isn't the same fun loving radical she once was.

Minderwiz	03 Oct 2002
I don't think the game is out here in the UK (though I may be wrong). I understand hermit's point about the game perhaps being not only tongue in cheek but also a roundabout way of making people think about their prejudices. However one of the problems that this approach might well run into is that people take the game seriously. Unfortunately this is a time when there are huge pressures to conform in the US, and it is difficult to express a non-conformist stance. This game could be taken as pointing the finger at non-conformists even if it is meant to do something completely different. Minderwiz

ChrisTheObscure	03 Oct 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Pollux As a Pagan, Vegetarian, Witch, Gay, Very Leftist Man I have some chances to be added as character in the expansion pack! WOW! *LOL* :D Darn it, I've only got Pagan and Gay out of that list :( I eat meat and I'm politically moderate. Poor me eh? C.

Laurel	03 Oct 2002
As a matter of fact, I know some of the Cheapass Games folk personally (not friends, more as friends of friends) and I can promise that -all- of them are wacky people who'd get killed off first thing in their own game universe. Its a light-hearted, playful product. Laurel

Pollux	03 Oct 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Laurel ... and I can promise that -all- of them are wacky people who'd get killed off first thing in their own game universe. Its a light-hearted, playful product. Well, I don't want to be nasty... *LOL* But Laurel, i do think we understood that already. Or at least, I personally did... :D *LOL*

Laurel	03 Oct 2002
Pollux, I was pretty SURE everyone knew... but I've discovered in the past that middle class "low brow" American humor is an aquired taste and tends to offend at least ~someone~. What can I say for a nation where the longest, most popular television show ever has been "The Simpsons." LOL

the hermit	03 Oct 2002
excellent point laurel :D

Indigo	04 Oct 2002
This sort of reminds me of a computer game based on Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. One of the features in it was the "Burn the Witch" section. You had to click on the witches as they popped up on your screen, kinda like whack-a-mole, only with every witch clicked on, she and her pyre would burst into flames. Quite addictive. As far as getting fried to a crisp myself, I do qualify as far as being gay and pagan go... but I live in South Carolina (first you go past the swamp and the Baptist church, then you turn off the paved road). I guess they prefer to burn a cross in your front yard around here.

Pollux	04 Oct 2002
Quote: Originally posted by Laurel Pollux, I was pretty SURE everyone knew... but I've discovered in the past that middle class "low brow" American humor is an aquired taste and tends to offend at least ~someone~. Okie, okie... But I'll be quiet this time, won't comment. I see you point, let's say so. ;) Quote: Originally posted by Laurel What can I say for a nation where the longest, most popular television show ever has been "The Simpsons." LOL Oh! *LOL!* :D

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