Yeah, I’ve often thought about running a BE game that’s a very small, intimate family drama – the outcome of which is symbolically represented in the Infection. I love the idea of the Infection as strictly a backdrop to what’s going on among these brothers and cousins and in-laws who are all at each other’s throats about melodramatic stuff.
To the OP, maybe some clarification is in order: Do the players not want to play world leaders, or do they not want to participate in the Infection mechanics?
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