Serial Killer collector and game creator
This is an original and 1/1 pencil drawing signed Tobias Allen. In the early 1990’s it wasn’t the right time for making such game without a mass critics.
So Allen, 25, thought it only natural that his passion for art and his fascination with criminals would come together in a serial-killer board game with heavy doses of black humor.
Little did he realize the game, "Serial Killer," would cause a protest in Canada that has prompted a move to change laws there governing free expression.
Many of those up in arms across the border haven't even seen the game. But a description in a distributors' catalog of its "bag of babies" and body-bag packaging caused an uproar several months ago.
Now, with Allen preparing to ship 200 orders to distributors and stores in the U.S., some Canadians are trying anew to keep it from crossing the border.
The $49.95 game features a giant board with a silk-screened map of the United States criss-crossed by highways. (States without the death penalty are colored orange.)
Players - "killers" - travel from one end of the country to the other, picking cards that describe various types of murders:
"An old woman walking home with her groceries is almost too good to pass up."
"Hitchhiking is dangerous! Someone should have told this girl!"
"A quiet dorm could turn into a house of horrors when you visit! This campus is crawling with cops, though; beware."
"Outcome" cards tell the player whether he pulled off the crime. A high-risk murder earns three plastic-baby tokens, medium-risk two, and low-risk one. The object is to amass more such "victims" than anyone else.
Tobias Allen was also seen in the documentary collector with Rick Staton made in 2000 , he not too long after commited suicide by jumping out of the golden gates bridge.