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Eve of Destruction: Introduction

Eve of Destruction: Climate Change Comes to Town

Eve of Destruction is a new game based on Steve Jackson's classic card and dice game, Illuminati. It is not an expansion set although you may wish to use the megabucks and illuminated dice from your Illuminati set. The rules of EoD are similar to those of Illuminati. They are summarized as follows but please, refer to your Illuminati rule book to settle disputes without assassination.

The game uses a deck of groups heavily modified from the realm of all previous Illuminati decks. These changes reflect the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the Internet. Overall, EoD has more international flavour than the original game and, while still humorous, may be a little more dour. But such is our present… eve... of destruction.

As you play, you will recognize many of your favourite groups but many others have been retired, renamed or repurposed. Do not fear, the balance of powers, alignments and relationships between groups has been scrupulously maintained to mimic the gameplay of Deluxe Illuminati. The exceptions to this are an increase of Transferrable Power in the deck to make The Network competitive, and the addition of more Government and Communist groups – now called Corporate and Socialist.

The EoD deck contains twelve Illuminati cards, eighty-eight Group cards and seventeen Special cards. It introduces two new Illuminati, two new Specials, and many new Groups. It can be played just like the original game of Illuminati, however, it is best played a little differently. EoD has been designed to be played with a twist in order to simulate the deep forces confronting today.

In Eve of Destruction one of the new Illuminati, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (a cabal as devious as any in the minds of many), is always played. They attempt to save human society from ecological disaster but must do so in competition with the nefarious forces of greed and power that have always sought to control humanity. On the rare occasion the IPCC wins a game (circumstances are stacked against them), all players can rejoice that there may be hope the real Illuminati can avoid the disruption a post-apocalyptic world would pose to their rule. FNORD

enjoy!   Jeff Hohner, Sept, 2013
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note: Low-res images were pulled from the Internet for use in the EoD deck; none of them have been cleared of any potential copyright. If your likeness or intellectual property appears in EoD against your wishes, I apologize. But the sad truth is, sooner or later, each of us is snared in the dragnets of conspiracy wrought by the Illuminati.

Eve of Destruction: Cards

4:20
Anonymous
Aristocrats
Artists (Baristas)
Big Box Stores
Big Farma
Big Media
Blogs
Book Clubs
Boy Sprouts
Celebrity Sweat Shops
Central Interrogation Agency (CIA)
CFL-AIO
Climate Change Deniers
Comic Books
Congressional Wives
Convenience Stores
Defence Contractors
Deprogrammers
Eco-Warriors
Environmental Promotion Agency (EPA)
Evil Geniuses For a Better Tomorrow
Fast Food Franchisers
Feminists
Fiendish Fluoridators
Fnord Motor Companies
Food & Drug Amalgamation (FDA)
Fraternal Orders
G1 through 20 (G1-20)
Goldfish Fanciers
Goths & Street Kids
Gun Lobby
High-End Supermarkets
Hipsters
Hollywood
Indebtedness Management Fund (IMF)
Infernal Revenue Service (IRS)
Intellectuals
Intemperate Dictators
International Drug Cartels
Juggalos

LGBTTIQQ2SA
Libertarians
Local Police Departments
Madison Avenue
MegaGame-O-RamaCon
Men in Black
Moral Minority
Multinational Oil Companies
Neo-liberal Commissions
Neo-Nazis
Nihilists
Obsolete Media Protection Attorneys
    Association (O-MPAA)
Office of the United Nations High
    Commissar for Refugees (UNHCR)
Offshore Banks
Orbital Mind Control Lasers (OMCL's)
Parent/Teacher Agglomerations (PTA’s)
Pentagon
People’s Republic of China
Population of the Third World
Prisons"R"Us
Psychiatrists
Public Radio
Rabid Recyclers
Republidemocrans
Science Fiction Fans
SNOOD
Spamsters
Street Gangs & Cycle Clubs
Survivalists
Tech Support
Telcos & ISP's
The Domed City of Dubai
The Former Yugoslavia
The Holy C
The Homey Security State
The Internet
The Mafia
The Pirate Bay
The Taliban

Tobacco & Liquor Companies
Trekkies
Unit 61398
Wall St
Web 2.0
Well Dressed Rappers
World of Video Games (WoV)
Worried Health Organization (WHO)

The Academy
The Bavarian Illuminati
The Bermuda Triangle
The Church of the SubGenius
The Discordian Society
The Gnomes of Zurich
The Guardians of Shangri-La
The Intergovernmental Panel on
    Climate Change (IPCC)
The Network
The Servants of Cthulhu
The Society of Assassins
The UFO's

Assassination
Bird Flu
Bribery
Computer Espionage
Deep Agent
Interference  X  2
Market Manipulation
Media Campaign
Murphy's Law
Secrets Man Was Not Meant to Know
Senate Investigating Committee
Slush Fund
Swiss Bank Account
Whispering Campaign
White Collar Crime
Zombies

^Eve of Destruction: Set-Up

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^Eve of Destruction: Rules

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Eve of Destruction: The Illuminati

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Eve of Destruction: Card Samples

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Eve of Destruction: Modifications

None / Slight

Big Media
Boy Sprouts
Central Interrogation Agency (CIA)
CFL-AIO
Comic Books
Congressional Wives
Convenience Stores
Deprogrammers *none
Evil Geniuses For a Better
    Tomorrow *
Fast Food Franchisers
Feminists
Fiendish Fluoridators *
Fnord Motor Companies
Fraternal Orders
Goldfish Fanciers *
Gun Lobby
Hollywood
Infernal Revenue Service (IRS)
Intellectuals
International Drug Cartels
Libertarians
Local Police Departments *
Madison Avenue *
Men in Black
Moral Minority
Multinational Oil Companies
Orbital Mind Control Lasers *
Parent/Teacher Agglomerations
Pentagon
Psychiatrists
Rabid Recyclers
Science Fiction Fans *
Street Gangs & Cycle Clubs
Survivalists *
The Mafia
Tobacco & Liquor Companies
Trekkies
World of Video Games (WoV)
The Church of the SubGenius
The Guardians of Shangri-La

Contemporized / Globalized

Anonymous  (Hackers)
Big Box Stores  (All Martz)
Blogs  (Tabloids)
Book Clubs  (Antiwar Activists)
Celebrity Sweat Shops  (Loan Sharks)
Climate Change Deniers  (Flat Earthers)
Eco-Warriors  (Eco-Guerrillas)
High-End Supermarkets  (Health Food
    Stores)

Indebtedness Management Fund (IMF)
    (Federal Reserve)
Intemperate Dictators  (South American Nazis)
MegaGame-O-RamaCon  (S.M.O.F.)
Neo-liberal Commissions  (Triliberal
    Commission)

Neo-Nazis  (Militia)
Nihilists  (Society for Creative Anarchism)
Obsolete Media Protection Attorneys
    Association (O-MPAA)  (Empty Vee)
Office of the United Nations High
    Commissar for Refugees  (Post Office)
People’s Republic of China  (International
    Communist Conspiracy)

Public Radio  (Underground Newspapers)
Republidemocrans  (Republicans, Democrats)
SNOOD  (Yuppies)
Spamsters  (Junk Mail)
Telcos & ISP’s  (The Phone Company)
The Domed City of Dubai  (L-4 Society)
The Former Yugoslavia  (Professional
    Sports)

The Internet  (Girlie Magazines)
The Pirate Bay  (Clone Arrangers)
The Taliban  (Semiconscious Liberation Army)
Unit 61398  (KGB)
Well Dressed Rappers  (Punk Rockers)

New (Repurposed)

4:20  (Anti-Nuclear Activists)
Defence Contractors  (Texas)
Environmental Promotion Agency
    (The United Nations)
Food & Drug Amalgamation  (F.B.I.)
G1 through 20  (Morticians)
Juggalos  (The Men in Black)
Offshore Banks  (KKK)
Prisons”R”Us  (California)
The Homey Security State  (Nuclear
    Power Companies)

Worried Health Organization  
   (Chinese Campaign Donors)

Brand Spanking New

Aristocrats
Artists (Baristas)
Big Farma
Goths & Street Kids
Hipsters
LGBTTIQQ2SA
Population of the Third World
Tech Support
The Holy C
Wall St
Web 2.0
The Academy
The Intergovernmental Panel on
    Climate Change (IPCC)
Bird Flu
Zombies

Eve of Destruction: Disclaimer

Eve of Destruction is not for sale. It is a pet project and labour of love I undertook to share with my gaming friends. The original Illuminati is one of my favourite games. It is elegant in design, simple to learn, devious to play, and difficult to master. Fun, fun, fun. I encourage you to get a copy and try it if you haven't already.

Eve of Destruction is satire. The representations made in the game are all in good fun. No criticism of actual groups or people should be inferred. This satire is intrinsic to Illuminati. The genius of the game and the books that inspired it is to fold the psychology of conspiracy culture back onto itself. To believe that ancient, powerful, secret groups shape world events is to surrender history and political analysis to preposterousness, and preposterousness is the heart of satire. Illuminati takes this preposterousness as its gospel to make fun of the ways of power. The best political and social satire is topical of course, hence the update to Cold War-era Illuminati. EoD also extends its satire into its gameplay by structuring a scenario that models a world caught between the forces of greed and environmental disaster.

Eve of Destruction is IMHO IANAL YMMV fair use. First of all... Satire! Second, the roots of the game elements run deep into popular culture. The inclusion of famous, familiar and found images is a celebration of pop culture; a riff on, not a rip-off of, it. As they say, pop will eat itself. Third, most of the images used in EoD have been heavily modified or are montages of previous art. The one exception to this is the game's cover image. While modified, it still reads as an integral work of art. The original photograph was taken by landscape photographer Mitch Dobrowner. Please visit his Web site to see more of his striking work.

Eve of Destruction: Printing Instructions

If you would like to play Eve of Destruction, you can use the following files to print your own deck of cards. My local copy shop (Power 1, Resistance 3, Income 4 in Deluxe Illuminati) was able to print straight from these PDF's onto 100lb, glossy card stock for a reasonable price and with great results.

Rule Booklet
print these files double-sided with each other and fold:

EoD-01-outerleaf.pdf
EoD-01r-innerleaf.pdf

Player Reference
print these files double-sided with each other twice on card stock
and cut to make four cards:

EoD-02-setup.pdf
EoD-02r-rules.pdf

Illuminati Cards
print these files double-sided with each other on a piece of card stock
and cut along crop marks:

EoD-03-illuminati.pdf
EoD-03r-illuminati-backs.pdf

Group/Special Cards
print this file double-sided with each of the following files on card stock
and cut along crop marks:

EoD-04r-card-backs.pdf

EoD-04-cards-1.pdf
EoD-05-cards-2.pdf
EoD-06-cards-3.pdf
EoD-07-cards-4.pdf
EoD-08-cards-5.pdf
EoD-09-cards-6.pdf
EoD-10-cards-7.pdf
EoD-11-cards-8.pdf
EoD-12-cards-9.pdf

Money
print this file on a piece of card stock and cut along crop marks:

EoD-13-money.pdf

Card Lists (optional)
print these files double-sided with each other and cut to make two lists:

EoD-00-card-list.pdf
EoD-00r-card-summary.pdf