WEBVTT 00:00:00.485 --> 00:00:03.684 One shared planet. Private ambitions. 00:00:03.724 --> 00:00:09.199 This is Firebreak, a game about making money while your choices change the 00:00:09.239 --> 00:00:11.800 climate everyone depends on. 00:00:11.904 --> 00:00:15.823 You have six Agents: the six pieces in front of you. 00:00:15.863 --> 00:00:20.481 In each of eight rounds, you give every Agent one job. 00:00:20.635 --> 00:00:24.394 Choices are secret, then take effect together. 00:00:24.455 --> 00:00:29.084 Your hidden Agenda rewards a particular climate at the end. 00:00:29.145 --> 00:00:33.786 If the world survives, the highest Legacy score wins. 00:00:33.847 --> 00:00:37.594 We will explain scoring after the pieces. 00:00:37.994 --> 00:00:40.949 A round is one cycle for everyone: 00:00:40.989 --> 00:00:44.305 the world changes, you choose jobs privately, 00:00:44.345 --> 00:00:46.824 everyone shows their choices together, 00:00:46.864 --> 00:00:49.518 then players buy or take wages. 00:00:49.558 --> 00:00:52.898 Your market turn is just your part of that round. 00:00:52.959 --> 00:00:56.181 An Agenda is your secret objective card, 00:00:56.221 --> 00:00:57.981 kept throughout the game. 00:00:58.021 --> 00:01:01.431 Money means game coins, not real money. 00:01:01.832 --> 00:01:04.372 Start with the climate display. 00:01:04.433 --> 00:01:07.225 P P M means parts per million. 00:01:07.265 --> 00:01:09.768 This is the shared climate reading. 00:01:09.808 --> 00:01:12.243 Higher is more dangerous. 00:01:12.490 --> 00:01:17.164 The current bands are Warming, below five hundred and ten; 00:01:17.204 --> 00:01:21.901 Severe warming, five hundred and ten to five hundred and forty-nine; 00:01:21.941 --> 00:01:27.822 and Extreme warming, five hundred and fifty to five hundred and ninety-nine. 00:01:27.862 --> 00:01:33.246 At six hundred, the game ends immediately in Collapse. 00:01:33.377 --> 00:01:38.099 Being in the first band does not mean the planet has no warming. 00:01:38.230 --> 00:01:42.683 Each round begins with automatic heating from the baseline, 00:01:42.723 --> 00:01:46.096 cracked tipping points and owned assets. 00:01:46.136 --> 00:01:49.591 The baseline increases in later rounds. 00:01:49.631 --> 00:01:52.041 Ice Loss starts cracked. 00:01:52.081 --> 00:01:57.846 Each cracked tipping point adds two each round and never repairs itself, 00:01:57.886 --> 00:02:00.565 even if the reading falls. 00:02:00.964 --> 00:02:05.069 Baseline means automatic heating before anyone's jobs. 00:02:05.109 --> 00:02:09.121 A cracked tipping point is a permanently triggered effect. 00:02:09.161 --> 00:02:12.801 Reaching five hundred, five hundred and fifty, 00:02:12.841 --> 00:02:16.818 or five hundred and seventy-five activates another. 00:02:16.858 --> 00:02:20.083 These triggers differ from scoring bands. 00:02:20.144 --> 00:02:24.262 Cooling later does not switch their extra heating off. 00:02:24.662 --> 00:02:28.790 Each Agent is one of your six reusable pieces. 00:02:28.830 --> 00:02:33.933 WORKS, COOL and BURN are the jobs you give those pieces this round. 00:02:33.973 --> 00:02:36.269 You choose again next round. 00:02:36.388 --> 00:02:41.285 WORKS earns money or buys assets without changing the climate. 00:02:41.485 --> 00:02:46.867 Later, use that labour for a purchase or collect two money per Agent. 00:02:46.907 --> 00:02:50.628 A WORKS Agent is simply one assigned to this job, 00:02:50.668 --> 00:02:52.614 not a different kind of piece. 00:02:52.654 --> 00:02:58.154 COOL lowers the climate reading by three and costs you one money per Agent. 00:02:58.308 --> 00:03:03.866 BURN raises it by three and normally earns three money per Agent. 00:03:03.927 --> 00:03:08.868 Four at work, one cooling and one burning uses all six. 00:03:08.908 --> 00:03:13.595 The cooling and burning cancel, but their payments still happen. 00:03:13.995 --> 00:03:17.197 You must afford cooling when it is charged. 00:03:17.350 --> 00:03:21.258 Open burning can pay for it when choices take effect; 00:03:21.298 --> 00:03:23.998 masked burning and future wages cannot, 00:03:24.038 --> 00:03:27.030 because that money is not yours yet. 00:03:27.431 --> 00:03:31.921 Reveal means showing the jobs everyone chose secretly this round. 00:03:32.168 --> 00:03:35.448 Think of players placing choices face down, 00:03:35.488 --> 00:03:37.866 then turning them over together. 00:03:37.926 --> 00:03:42.275 In this digital game, Confirm locks your choices. 00:03:42.315 --> 00:03:47.128 When everyone has confirmed, the game reveals them automatically. 00:03:47.168 --> 00:03:49.612 There is no separate reveal button. 00:03:49.652 --> 00:03:54.317 This regular job reveal does not show your secret Agenda card. 00:03:54.470 --> 00:03:59.669 Open means unmasked, not visible while you are still choosing. 00:03:59.915 --> 00:04:03.579 At reveal, open choices show their owners. 00:04:03.619 --> 00:04:06.540 You have two masks for the entire game. 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:11.102 Spend one to hide the owner of one COOL or BURN choice. 00:04:11.142 --> 00:04:12.960 You can never mask WORKS. 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.804 A used mask is gone, but your Agent returns for next round. 00:04:17.981 --> 00:04:22.422 A masked burn is a BURN choice with a mask attached. 00:04:22.462 --> 00:04:24.976 It still heats the world by three. 00:04:25.016 --> 00:04:28.505 The mask hides who burned, not the heat. 00:04:28.545 --> 00:04:30.734 You can also mask cooling, 00:04:30.774 --> 00:04:35.752 which still removes three and still costs its owner one money. 00:04:35.999 --> 00:04:40.928 The Fog pool is the shared area for these masked climate chips. 00:04:40.968 --> 00:04:46.303 At reveal, they are mixed and turned face up without owner labels. 00:04:46.343 --> 00:04:51.426 The computer still remembers ownership to charge cooling and track points. 00:04:51.487 --> 00:04:54.070 Players see the pooled totals. 00:04:54.110 --> 00:04:58.856 They may guess an owner, but receive no identifying label. 00:04:59.257 --> 00:05:01.887 The separate Fog pot holds money. 00:05:01.927 --> 00:05:06.183 Each masked BURN puts three money into this shared pot instead 00:05:06.223 --> 00:05:08.298 of paying its owner directly. 00:05:08.452 --> 00:05:11.930 A masked COOL puts no money into it. 00:05:11.970 --> 00:05:14.565 After the reveal in this digital game, 00:05:14.605 --> 00:05:17.656 players privately request money from the pot. 00:05:17.809 --> 00:05:22.228 If you made one masked burn and have not claimed its earnings, 00:05:22.268 --> 00:05:24.749 three is your honest claim. 00:05:24.903 --> 00:05:29.681 But the controls can let a player request more than they earned, 00:05:29.721 --> 00:05:31.980 even if they contributed nothing. 00:05:32.020 --> 00:05:37.112 Not audited by the table means other players cannot check your claim against 00:05:37.152 --> 00:05:39.146 your hidden contribution. 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:43.369 The game accepts dishonest requests within the pot limit. 00:05:43.409 --> 00:05:45.555 Requests are secret. 00:05:45.615 --> 00:05:48.513 If they add up to more than the pot contains, 00:05:48.553 --> 00:05:54.053 this digital game pays them clockwise from the first player until the money runs out. 00:05:54.114 --> 00:05:58.499 Asking for three does not guarantee receiving three. 00:05:58.899 --> 00:06:02.075 For example, a pot holds three. 00:06:02.115 --> 00:06:04.724 Two players each request three. 00:06:04.785 --> 00:06:07.125 The earlier player receives three; 00:06:07.165 --> 00:06:09.438 the later player gets nothing. 00:06:09.685 --> 00:06:11.560 First-player order matters. 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.535 A claim does not prove who burned. 00:06:14.935 --> 00:06:20.642 Now the reveal. Separate showing choices from resolving their effects. 00:06:20.682 --> 00:06:24.685 First, every player confirms a full allocation: 00:06:24.734 --> 00:06:27.921 the jobs assigned to all six Agents. 00:06:27.961 --> 00:06:32.856 Until everyone confirms, your choice stays secret and locked. 00:06:32.896 --> 00:06:36.330 You cannot react to a rival's revealed choice. 00:06:36.390 --> 00:06:38.336 Commitments reveal together. 00:06:38.376 --> 00:06:41.018 Unmasked jobs show their owners. 00:06:41.058 --> 00:06:46.741 Masked climate choices show only their shared COOL and BURN counts. 00:06:46.781 --> 00:06:49.539 Your Agenda and money remain private. 00:06:49.579 --> 00:06:53.846 Then the game resolves, meaning it applies those choices. 00:06:53.886 --> 00:06:56.981 Count all COOL and BURN across the table, 00:06:57.021 --> 00:07:03.241 including Fog. Subtract three for each COOL and add three for each BURN. 00:07:03.383 --> 00:07:07.210 Move the climate reading once by that combined result. 00:07:07.250 --> 00:07:13.259 WORKS contributes zero. Masks never remove chips from this calculation. 00:07:13.299 --> 00:07:15.418 If the reading reaches six hundred, 00:07:15.458 --> 00:07:19.194 Collapse stops play before the remaining payments. 00:07:19.313 --> 00:07:23.431 If play continues, open burns pay their owners. 00:07:23.550 --> 00:07:26.227 Masked burns pay the Fog pot. 00:07:26.267 --> 00:07:29.013 Then each owner pays for all their cooling, 00:07:29.053 --> 00:07:31.744 including masked cooling. 00:07:31.991 --> 00:07:38.072 Finally come private Fog claims, followed by the market and wages. 00:07:38.132 --> 00:07:43.561 You do not click individual rival chips or choose whether their effects happen. 00:07:43.601 --> 00:07:46.405 The game applies the reveal automatically, 00:07:46.445 --> 00:07:49.287 then offers your next decision. 00:07:49.687 --> 00:07:53.699 The market is the row of four face-up asset cards. 00:07:53.739 --> 00:07:57.904 Buy and keep these cards in your own asset rack. 00:07:58.151 --> 00:08:01.338 The Fog pool holds anonymous climate chips, 00:08:01.378 --> 00:08:03.881 the Fog pot holds claimable money, 00:08:03.921 --> 00:08:06.261 and the market sells assets. 00:08:06.301 --> 00:08:09.851 Buying runs clockwise from the first player. 00:08:09.981 --> 00:08:13.877 Each purchase costs the card's printed money price and three Agents 00:08:13.917 --> 00:08:19.543 you assigned to WORKS. Those three cannot also earn wages this round, 00:08:19.583 --> 00:08:22.886 but return next round. For example, 00:08:22.926 --> 00:08:25.534 assign four Agents to WORKS. 00:08:25.574 --> 00:08:29.739 Buy one card using three of them, then finish buying. 00:08:29.800 --> 00:08:35.149 Your one unused WORKS Agent earns two money when you take the wages. 00:08:35.396 --> 00:08:38.328 Two WORKS Agents cannot buy a card; 00:08:38.368 --> 00:08:40.803 they can earn four money instead. 00:08:40.864 --> 00:08:43.970 You cannot spend wages before you collect them, 00:08:44.010 --> 00:08:47.676 and taking the wages ends your market turn. 00:08:48.076 --> 00:08:50.857 These cards are in our opening market. 00:08:50.897 --> 00:08:55.736 A Refinery costs four money, plus three WORKS Agents. 00:08:55.797 --> 00:08:58.090 Each world turn after purchase, 00:08:58.130 --> 00:09:02.261 it earns three money and adds one to the climate reading. 00:09:02.507 --> 00:09:07.436 The Carbon Sink beside it costs five money plus three WORKS Agents. 00:09:07.476 --> 00:09:09.642 It earns no regular income. 00:09:09.682 --> 00:09:16.111 Instead it removes two from the climate reading each world turn while owned. 00:09:16.474 --> 00:09:21.693 It also gives three Legacy points if the game ends in the Warming band. 00:09:21.733 --> 00:09:24.201 Its cooling starts next world turn, 00:09:24.241 --> 00:09:26.419 not immediately on purchase. 00:09:26.459 --> 00:09:29.135 The Media House changes accusations: 00:09:29.175 --> 00:09:32.505 its owner's accusation counts twice. 00:09:32.565 --> 00:09:35.860 It does not double the payment per accuser. 00:09:36.014 --> 00:09:39.712 Inspect each card: income, climate effects, 00:09:39.752 --> 00:09:44.207 points and special abilities happen at different times. 00:09:44.607 --> 00:09:49.629 Legacy is your final score if the world survives eight rounds. 00:09:49.669 --> 00:09:52.671 Each full two money gives one point: 00:09:52.711 --> 00:09:56.446 nine money gives four, not four and a half. 00:09:56.588 --> 00:09:59.776 Add asset points and your Agenda bonus. 00:09:59.816 --> 00:10:04.861 Add one per COOL Agent used during the game and subtract one per BURN, 00:10:04.901 --> 00:10:07.151 including masked choices. 00:10:07.212 --> 00:10:10.446 Stewards want Warming: four bonus points, 00:10:10.486 --> 00:10:14.465 plus three per full ten below five hundred and ten. 00:10:14.619 --> 00:10:17.530 Opportunists get nine in Severe warming. 00:10:17.777 --> 00:10:20.976 Accelerationists get four in Extreme warming, 00:10:21.016 --> 00:10:24.633 plus one per asset that adds heat each round; 00:10:24.673 --> 00:10:26.853 otherwise they lose two. 00:10:27.053 --> 00:10:29.788 Check your Agenda card for its bonus. 00:10:29.828 --> 00:10:33.422 Tied scores favour whoever used more COOL; 00:10:33.462 --> 00:10:36.731 still tied, first-player order decides. 00:10:36.771 --> 00:10:39.970 On Collapse, normal scoring stops. 00:10:40.010 --> 00:10:43.163 The richest Accelerationist with at least ten money wins; 00:10:43.203 --> 00:10:46.425 if none qualifies, everyone loses. 00:10:46.465 --> 00:10:49.388 Accusations are a different reveal. 00:10:49.449 --> 00:10:55.423 After rounds three and six, each player points at an eligible rival or abstains. 00:10:55.463 --> 00:10:58.804 These are suspicions, not proof of cheating. 00:10:58.864 --> 00:11:02.249 The uniquely most accused player is cornered: 00:11:02.289 --> 00:11:08.254 they must show their Agenda or pay two money to each accuser to keep it secret. 00:11:08.408 --> 00:11:11.027 Two accusers therefore cost four. 00:11:11.067 --> 00:11:14.291 If they cannot pay, they must reveal. 00:11:14.445 --> 00:11:16.845 A tie corners nobody. 00:11:16.906 --> 00:11:20.965 Revealing the Agenda shows their objective for the rest of the game; 00:11:21.005 --> 00:11:26.029 it does not expose previous masked chips or audit Fog claims. 00:11:26.090 --> 00:11:32.191 A revealed Accelerationist earns four per open BURN and cannot be accused again. 00:11:32.231 --> 00:11:36.466 Their masked burns still put three each into the pot. 00:11:36.867 --> 00:11:39.184 Let's follow one whole round. 00:11:39.224 --> 00:11:41.808 We begin at four hundred and fifty. 00:11:41.848 --> 00:11:46.301 The first world turn adds seven baseline heat and two for the 00:11:46.341 --> 00:11:48.646 cracked Ice Loss tipping point. 00:11:48.686 --> 00:11:51.690 The reading becomes four hundred and fifty-nine. 00:11:51.844 --> 00:11:54.405 I send four Agents to WORKS. 00:11:54.445 --> 00:11:57.122 That reserves enough labour for one purchase, 00:11:57.162 --> 00:11:59.516 with one worker left for wages. 00:11:59.623 --> 00:12:04.264 Of the remaining two, I send one to COOL and one to BURN. 00:12:04.464 --> 00:12:07.605 I leave the cooling open and mask the burning, 00:12:07.645 --> 00:12:09.800 using one of my two masks. 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:12.333 Review the summary before confirming: 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:19.496 four work, one cool, one burn; zero masked cooling and one masked burning. 00:12:19.743 --> 00:12:22.549 My own climate change is zero. 00:12:22.610 --> 00:12:24.047 I confirm. 00:12:24.108 --> 00:12:27.333 My choice is locked while the others finish. 00:12:27.732 --> 00:12:30.028 Now everyone reveals. 00:12:30.089 --> 00:12:34.286 Across the whole table there are seven COOL and one BURN, 00:12:34.326 --> 00:12:37.644 including the anonymous chip in the Fog pool. 00:12:37.798 --> 00:12:40.895 Seven cooling Agents remove twenty-one. 00:12:41.142 --> 00:12:43.586 One burning Agent adds three. 00:12:43.626 --> 00:12:46.419 The combined change is minus eighteen, 00:12:46.459 --> 00:12:50.984 so four hundred and fifty-nine becomes four hundred and forty-one. 00:12:51.138 --> 00:12:54.595 We know the pooled chip's face is BURN. 00:12:54.655 --> 00:12:56.777 The pool does not show an owner. 00:12:56.838 --> 00:13:01.212 I know my own choice; rivals do not get that owner label. 00:13:01.273 --> 00:13:04.740 My masked burning puts three money into the Fog pot, 00:13:04.780 --> 00:13:08.559 not into my hand. My open cooling costs one, 00:13:08.599 --> 00:13:11.696 taking my eight money down to seven. 00:13:11.850 --> 00:13:16.721 I now request three from the pot, the amount my masked burn earned. 00:13:16.761 --> 00:13:20.146 Here I receive three, reaching ten. 00:13:20.186 --> 00:13:22.900 Other claims could leave less available. 00:13:23.053 --> 00:13:26.554 My four WORKS Agents have paid no wages yet. 00:13:26.594 --> 00:13:29.668 Their labour is available for the market. 00:13:30.069 --> 00:13:32.595 I choose the Refinery from the market. 00:13:32.635 --> 00:13:36.182 It costs four money and three WORKS Agents. 00:13:36.222 --> 00:13:41.302 I confirm: ten money becomes six, the card moves to my rack, 00:13:41.342 --> 00:13:45.377 and the market refills. One WORKS Agent remains. 00:13:45.417 --> 00:13:48.143 I take the wages and confirm. 00:13:48.192 --> 00:13:54.366 That last worker earns two, so I finish my market turn with eight money. 00:13:54.496 --> 00:13:59.811 I could have skipped buying and earned eight from all four workers instead. 00:13:59.941 --> 00:14:03.860 Buying trades money and wages for future benefits. 00:14:03.900 --> 00:14:06.997 Both opponents finish their market turns. 00:14:07.127 --> 00:14:09.746 One also buys a Refinery. 00:14:09.786 --> 00:14:13.543 The round ends and the first-player marker moves. 00:14:13.583 --> 00:14:17.597 At the next world turn, both Refineries add heat. 00:14:17.646 --> 00:14:23.644 Seven baseline, two from Ice Loss and two from the Refineries raise four hundred and 00:14:23.684 --> 00:14:26.850 forty-one to four hundred and fifty-two. 00:14:26.981 --> 00:14:29.959 My Refinery also earns three money, 00:14:29.999 --> 00:14:31.878 taking eight to eleven. 00:14:32.101 --> 00:14:35.254 I now assign all six Agents again. 00:14:35.294 --> 00:14:38.481 Remember: pool for anonymous climate chips, 00:14:38.521 --> 00:14:43.346 pot for burning money, market for assets bought with money and labour. 00:14:43.386 --> 00:14:46.458 Choose six jobs, check the reveal, 00:14:46.498 --> 00:14:49.002 and watch the shared climate.