👀 What the Game Looks Like -

A game of Babayaga goes for the length of most of a day in real time and throughout those hours Players will be engaged in negotiations, conflict, and gambits. The majority of the game will take place in a large space that can hold a table for every team/House as well as some other stations like the battlefield tables and the map rooms. Players will move around the space at different times to interact with other Players and forward their agenda outlined in the briefing documents that they will be sent before the event day.

Megagames, and Babayaga in particular, are open ended in how they will resolve by the end of the session. This is because they are driven by the Players choices, in response to scenarios presented to them throughout the day. Players are advised to hold what they know about the game loosely as though the game exists to offer a framework for the resolution of the scenarios presented, each Player will have a different agenda outlined in their briefing documents and the very landscape on which they plan to achieve their goals may shift during play and may do so rapidly.

The rules outlined in this handbook are as the game looks at the start of play, but all rules are malleable and Players will have mechanisms available to them in order to move the structure of the game toward their own advantage. Keep in mind that all Players have this ability and that you will likely be out manoeuvred or undercut, if you only attempt to play the rules as written.