Overview

The Big Store (That's what Mafiya goons call America) is set in Brighton Beach in 1990, just before the Gulf War, after the introduction of Windows 3.0, as the Soviet Union disintegrates. The protagonists are Russian emigres involved in organized crime. They are, in fact, a group of losers known as "the Potato Bag Gang" working for mobster who has broken away from the Organizatsiya, the Jewish-Russian mob in America.

The game is being played with Prime Time Adventures and is therefore structured like a television show, with a pilot and five episodes slated for the first season.

Character Creation

Read about the Potato Bag Gang and think up a guy. The majority of the pre-collapse emigres were Jewish and many were crazy anti-Communist true blue Americans. Choose an Issue, and some Edges and Connections, two of one and one of the other, either way.

An Issue is something you want your guy to deal with, something fairly broad and not necessarily positive:

Edges are things unique to you that can make you more interesting when you invoke them:

Connections are interesting people you know and care about and want to be part of the story:

Pick stuff you want to see come up in the game all the time. So 2 Edges/1 Connection or 1 Edge/2 Connections.

You can also declare a Nemesis if you want - one Nemesis for multiple characters would also be awesome.