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rpgsandbox · 9 months

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Wilderfeast is an RPG about becoming part of the natural world by making it part of you.

Players assume the role of “wilders”: monster hunters/chefs who wield gargantuan kitchen implements and gain powerful mutations from each monster they eat. Using those powers, they seek harmony between humanity and the wild.

All creatures, be they humans or monsters, obey the One Law of the One Land…

In Wilderfeast, players take on the role of the mutated rangers who roam the land trying to stop the frenzy, an eldritch virus which makes kaiju-esque monsters violent and self-destructive before leaping to stronger hosts.

Gameplay alternates between Journeys (high-intensity, travel and combat) and Downtime (low-intensity, rest and roleplay). In both phases, you resolve conflicts with a simple but flexible dice pool system, built around a central idea…

Wilders are both, so they can choose which of their sides to embrace when taking Tests: will you focus up, and stay true to your human side, or go wild, and unleash the monster in you?

The world of Wilderfeast is the One Land - a post-post-apocalyptic supercontinent, both familiar and fantastic, beautiful and harsh, where food is magic.

The One Land is vast, wild, and old. It’s populated by humans and monsters, extraordinary creatures who take inspiration from paleontology, cryptozoology, and works like Monster Hunter and Godzilla.

The One Land is also vulnerable. Humans, relative newcomers here, have unleashed the frenzy, an eldritch virus which makes coexistence between humanity and the creatures everyday more difficult.

The One Land is not an easy place to live. It is littered with both the bones of extinct species and the ruins of fallen civilizations. But after each apocalypse, something new and green grows from the ashes.

Wilderfeast’s system is fast, customizable and easy to learn.

All creatures, both humans and monsters, have these attributes:

When something’s at stake, you roll a Test. Every Test combines a Style with a Skill, such as a Mighty Call to intimidate a monster into backing away or a Swift Search to follow tracks in the undergrowth.

Wilderfeast has a simple but flexible dice pool system. The mechanics are built around a central idea: humans use d8s and monsters use d20s. Wilders are both human and monstrous, and they can switch between these dice sizes.

To build your dice pool, gather a number of d6s equal to your level in the Test’s Style (such as “Mighty”, “Precise”, “Swift” or Tricky”). These are called your Style Dice. Every 5+ on your Style dice grants you a Success on the Test.

Then, add your Action Dice, which determines the quality of the Success you eventually achieved. Humans use a d8 for their Action Die, while monsters use a d20. However, wilders are both. During this step, you choose which side of yourself to embrace.

If you focus up, you stay true to your human side: add a d8 Action Die to your dice pool. This option is consistent and reliable.

If you go wild, you embrace your monster side: choose one of your Traits and describe how it helps you in this situation. Then, remove 1 Style Die and replace it with a d20 Action Die. This is risky, as it lowers your overall chance of success, but it could make your action an order of magnitude more effective. Now, roll your dice pool for a Test.

Tests create a spectrum of results beyond binary success and failure. The range of choices when making Tests also accommodates different playstyles. You can aim for big numbers, deep strategies, and tactical play. Or you can get creative and add details to the fiction.

Wilders are the ones most capable of stopping the spiral of fear and death that’s consuming the One Land. They’re not a formal order: some look like cavemen, others like wandering knights. Each is free to decide how to take on the job, but they all share some common attributes:

Each wilder has a Tool, enormous kitchen implements to produce mind-boggling amounts of food. Wilders repurposed those artifacts as weapons, though they still come in handy as cooking aids. There are 6 Tools in total (Cleaver, Pan, Mitts, Spit, Torch and Twine), and they define a wilder’s “class”: your training, disposition, and approach to being a wilder.

Each wilder has a Specialty, which corresponds to one of the monstrous lineages. Your choice of Specialty indicates your character’s expertise in both hunting and caring for members of that lineage. There are eight Specialties in total, like Roaster, Fisher, Butcher or Gardener.

Each wilder has a three-course Background. Your backstory, initiation and drive, framed through food: what meal defined your childhood? What meal made you a wilder? What meal do you crave the most?

These mutated rangers work in packs and have taken on the duty to stop the frenzy. Packs are free to decide both what harmony with nature means and how they hope to achieve it. For example, bounty-packs resemble the grizzled mercenaries of The Witcher, while free-packs evoke the wolf-raised warrior of Princess Mononoke.

As a wilder, what path will you walk?

The One Land’s ecosystems are original, but not alien. All monsters celebrate and exaggerate the features of real animals, from dinosaurs to dogs. Their supernatural abilities are grounded in the struggles they face to survive. A breath-taking variety of creatures that share this world with humans and wilders: 30+ different creatures, each with its own Traits, body Parts and Behavior that make every hunt different.

Wilderfeast features a modern and versatile style of combat that blends puzzle-solving thrills and fast-paced action strategy. Every pack of Wilders can take a different approach to the Hunt: will you split in groups and attract the monster’s fury to expose its weak spots, or will you growl at its face and go full frontal?

Each creature gains 3 Actions at the start of their turn during combat, which they can spend on the following Activities, each with a variable cost:

Combat orbits around the Monster, so you measure all distance in combat using Strides. Wilders spend combat between 0 Strides, where you’re right on top of the Monster, and 4 Strides, where you just barely register as a threat.

This number represents the distance you’re maintaining, not your static position. At all times during a hunt, you’re circling the Monster, chasing after it, or driving it toward more favorable terrain. Two wilders who are the same number of Strides from the Monster could either be right next to each other or on opposite sides of it, but that’s intentional. Moving around or with the Monster is automatic; moving towards or away from it takes effort.

The iconic meals of the wilders combine the roughness of campfire cooking with the ceremony of a holiday festival. These wilderfeasts are celebration and mourning, all wrapped up in one. During this phase, you clean, prepare, and cook the Monster where it fell, turning it into a meal that honors its legacy and gives you strength. In doing so, you learn about it. The more you know about the Monster, the better informed your decision when you choose what mutation to inherit: after you eat The Feast, choose a Style, Skill, or Trait in which the Monster has more levels than you do, or which you don’t have at all. You permanently gain a level in that Style, Skill, or Trait.

Not every meal gives such dramatic mutations as a wilderfeast, but food is always magic in the One Land, even the most casual of snacks. Before setting out on the road, a merchant eats a meal full of hardy greens to give them the endurance for a day of travel; a guard, beginning their shift in a watchtower, chews on raptor jerky to sharpen their eyesight; a student brews tea with a night-blooming flower so they can stay up late studying. The changes caused by these meals are subtle and temporary, and they're woven into the fabric of everyday life.

When you have a cooking opportunity, such as when you Camp during your Journeys, you and your packmates can make a meal. To cook, you select Ingredients, determine how much Stamina the meal restores (typically 1 for each Ingredient used), and determine the meal’s effect, choosing among those of the Ingredients you used.

These meals can either be served fresh or saved for later and turned into Snacks (so that you can consume a portion when you need to restore Stamina or trigger other effects but you don’t have the time to stop and cook). Once you’ve cooked the meal, be sure to describe it! Tell everyone enough about the dish’s flavor, textures, or appearance that they can taste it in their head.

Wilderfeast is a letter-sized, hardcover book of 250+ pages, with full-color art throughout. It includes:

Fast and robust character creation, with 6 Tools (each with their own set of unlockable Traits), 8 Specialties, and suggestions for your three-course backstory. No matter how you build your character, you start with connections to the One Land and your fellow players.

Streamlined and accessible rules for each phase of the game.

A Bestiary with 30+ monsters, each with their own art, stats, and ecological information.

A travel guide, exploring the One Land and the Sen Coast, with detailed maps and extensive tables of cooking ingredients.

The Last Chamig, a set of four standalone scenarios also playable as an overarching campaign. These accessible and easy to set up scenarios are designed to introduce Guides and Wilders to the game system and come with full-detailed maps, stat blocks, pregenerated characters, an a set-list of events. The pitches for each chapter of The Last Chamig will be revealed over the course of the Kickstarter campaign!

Essential advice for running the game, including recommended safety tools, tips for creating your own monsters and regions, and player-empowering mechanics to help the group define the adventures they want to have. Do you want to steward the wild, get stronger, protect your community, or explore ruins from the ancient past?

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Kickstarter campaign ends: Tue, September 26 2023 10:59 PM BST

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#RPG #kickstarter #Wilderfeast #Horrible Guild

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a-wa-c · 3 months

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Over the weekend I ran the quickstart adventure for Wilderfeast, which quickly summarised is 'Monster Hunter X Delicious in Dungeon' and encountered the delight of the game's two main mechanics: cooking and fighting.

In the first style of cooking, the players combine Ingredients together to make a meal for their party. Different attributes allow each character to collect different ingredients, then come together to contribute to the meal itself. Watching my players name their creation after building its effects was great.

Combat for the game is aggressive. Rolls are made up to 3d6, looking for at least one 5+ to perform the desired action, followed by a roll of a d8 or a d20 to determine how effective an action is. Want to forage for food like a truffle pig, drop a d6 and upgrade that d8 to a d20 for a huge increase in results should you succeed. Monsters always use the d20 so attacks HURT. Additionally, the monster entry gives a lot of good information about how to behave as the monster, and how to target opponents. It's excellent.

Finally, once you've hunted your monster, you get to do the second style of cooking. Let me tell you, it's a lovely experience. Your players have a feast as a ritual to mourn the loss/celebrate the hunting of their quarry. As the players establish more details about how they prepare the monster, what main/side dishes they will make, how it ties to their personal history, or how they will remember the meal, they get to ask questions about the monster's statblock and then select an ability or trait of the monster to add to themselves.

All in all, it's fantastic and I can't wait until I have the proper book in my hands.

#tabletop roleplaying #wilderfeast #non-d&d #monster hunter #cooking

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lostinthefrigginwoods-art · 3 months

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Finished another sketchbook! Last page is all my ttrpg characters that I remembered and could fit including my Tav <3

#sams art #art #artists on tumblr #traditional art #dnd #dungeons and dragons #ttrpg #wilderfeast #monster of the week #baldur's gate 3 #my tav is jan fireblight i love them and everyday i apologise for naming them #also I realise Amaris' name is like impossible to read because i fuxked up the s but that's fiiiineeee

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arsene-inc · 4 months

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Let's look at this list from Dicebreaker

Bad Start with the Dragon Games, to the dungeon with you

Then Pendragon 6E, not my type of fantasy, a pass

Daggerheart : The cards with the character sheets may be interesting, waiting to know more

Stormlight Archive RPG :I should read the books first. a D20 system ? hope they are doing something more. If I remember correctly, the magic system is based on promises and bonds, that is interesting and I will wait to see more

Wilderfeast : Okay so I was part of the wrowdfunding. I like cooking monsters... and there was an apron! I can't say no to an apron! Also the Monster Hunter thing.

Break : Also funded. I wanna be a murder princess

Triangle Agency : Another game funded. Do I have good taste ? A mix of Control, X files and SCP. Honestly I listened to the AP on Party of One @partyofonepod and immediately went to the KS page. A little love for the D4

Through The Hedgerow : Did I miss this ? Usually, the words Neil Gaiman in the description are enough to get my money. Well i'll wit for the release and see then. The illustrations looks great

Eat the reich : Already played actually, but not against another go it was so fun. (maybe with the speedrun system added to it). I love exploding fash.

Shadow Scar : First time hearing about this. Yokais ? tell me more. The guy from Witcher Rpg ? meh.... didn't enjoyed this game and its system.

The Hidden Isle : Have you seen the artwork !? Tarot ? Of course i helped fund this.

Jukebox : The karaoke Musical ?!?

Stonetop : Building a fantasy village ? hmmmm.... Pbta you say ?... let's see for chill sessions.

Shadow of the Weird Wizard : Like D&D with a d20 system ? meh.

#ttrpg #tabletop rpg #tabletop roleplaying #ttrpg stuff #ttrpgs #indie ttrpg #dicebreaker #triangle agency #wilderfeast #eat the reich #ttrpg books

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modi-favorite-list · 8 months

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ダンジョン飯

#★★★★☆#2023 comics #2023 #comics #Wilderfeast

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rushman96 · 6 months

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This was a while back, but a friend of mine had the stuff from the Wilderfeast kickstarter, and we played the given one-shot. I was a character named bug, a hyperactive guy with oven mitt boxing gloves and I loved that little goober so much I made this meme after we finished the one-shot. I feel it captured the session pretty well!

#ttrpg memes #wilderfeast #memes #ttrpg

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danceontheceiling · 8 months

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i keep finding so many different tabletop rpg systems that i want to try out and it makes me so sad that my ttrpg group doesn't meet anymore

i keep thinking about going to the local game shop and putting something in the looking for group section but you really never know the kind of nerds you are gonna get there, it would not be the first time i have met a group and played a couple sessions before figuring out "oh you are just not a good person"

#was just thinking this while looking over the wilderfeast quickstart #still have the pdfs sitting on my harddrive for stewpot #boy problems #tales from the loop #and thirsty sword lesbians #amongst so many others #ttrpg

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theresattrpgforthat · 7 months

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Any RPGs (/settings / supplements) that you know of that have a set of mechanics based on harvesting parts of slain monsters for various effects? I just think that would be a neat system to throw into an OSR type game :)

THEME: Monster Recycling

Hello friend! I had a lot of fun putting together game recommendations for this, I've seen a few games inspired by Monster Hunter and I definitely see the appeal!

Monster Guts, by Wheels Within Wheels Publishing.

Welcome to MONSTER GUTS, a tabletop roleplaying game, Illuminated by LUMEN, that draws from your favorite monster-hunting video games.

This book has rules to build your scavenger, pick a starting weapon and friendly companion critter, and then go out hunting giant monsters!

Set in a post-capitalism world where monsters bio-engineered to extract resources have destroyed much of the world, you must hunt these creatures to sustain your village, one of the few settlements in the Pacific Northwest to have survived. You'll also harvest tags that you can slot into your weapons and garb to power up your scavenger.

Monster Guts is LUMEN, so expect cinematic action with effective moves that feel more and more powerful as you level up. It’s made a bit of a splash on Itch.io due to its ability to replicate the feeling of the Monster Hunter video game. Your character classes take the form of weapons, with different stats and special abilities. There are also tags that can be added on to them as you slay monsters for their parts. When it comes to the backstory, the lore focuses on a small village, trying to survive in a world of monsters that they once created. Once again, the enemy is capitalism.

Butchers & Beasties, by Kerobuki.

A Monster Hunter-like TTRPG hacked from a mixture of Emiel Boven's DURF and the creator’s own projects.

Butchers & Beasties is a bare-bones, rules-only draft of a monster-hunting game. It uses dice pools of d6’s and staggered successes for basic conflict resolution. Inventory is important in this game - you have limited inventory slots and you also have to choose where you’re going to store your equipment - will you keep your lantern in your pack, and have to dig it out every time you use it, or will you store it on your belt for easy access? You also choose a role for your character, which grants you with base items. There’s rules for traps. weapons, ailments and elements, which gives the play group a broad set of possible combinations to factor in when hunting beasts. Overall, if you’re looking for an OSR-friendly game this is probably a great place to start, as everything in here looks like a tool set that you’ll need to pick up with an play around with a bit to see just how much it can do.

After the Great Beast, by Harper Jay.

You are a Hunter, and great beasts are threatening your village. Gather your weapon and your friends, and defend your home. Along the way, you will gather materials, craft traps and potions, and maintain your weapon, all while following the great beast's tracks.

After The Great Beast is a Breathless game inspired by the Monster Hunter franchise.

I am so so excited about this game. After the Great Beast is Breathless, which means that it provides you with a limited number of resources, which deplete as you play. You can stop to refresh your resources, but in the process you let time get away from you - and that means your problems get bigger. I think it has a lot of potential for a satisfying loop of play, and I’m impressed at the size of this game. A lot of the Breathless games I’ve looked at in the past are under 10 pages, but After The Great Beast is over 20! This is because of the extra tools differentiating weapons, special effects, world details and beast rules. There’s even a little bestiary and advice on how to set up an adventure for this kind of game. If you want lots of different pieces to play with and a setting that’s already laid out for you a little bit, then I’d recommend checking out After The Great Beast.

Wilderfeast, by Horrible Guild.

Wilderfeast is an RPG about becoming part of the natural world by making it part of you.

All creatures, be they humans or monsters, obey the One Law of the One Land…

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT.

Wilderfeast is a game about hunting and cooking monsters, with tactical game mechanics for the hunting portion of the game, and narrative prompts for the cooking portions. This is a game in which an eldritch virus has made kaiju-like monsters frenzied and dangerous. Your characters have discovered that killing and feeding on these monsters gives them interesting mutations. I think this game has a lot of promise, because it gives you both the chance to puzzle through combat and feel competent when you fight, while also giving you tools that give the in-between scenes narrative weight - you even partake in a ritual before eating that allows you to thank the monster for its gift!

If you want to take a deeper look at Wilderfeast, you can check out their Quickstart for free, and listen to Dave Thaumvore’s review.

#tabletop games #indie ttrpgs #dnd #game recommendations #asks #monster hunter

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twiggies-draws · 2 months

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I want to look at more TTRPGs. What other ones do yall enjoy? Sell me on them. Bonus if they have a nice pretty book to read through. bonus bonus if they're easy to GM for (ie in Pathfinder 2e the CR rules actually work. This is more relevant in ones with more stats like pathfinder and DnD as examples).

Some ones I've played/GMd for:

- DND 5e (severed all ties, fuck DnD and fuck WoTC and if you don't know why search up the ogl fiasco and all the layoffs. Also imbalanced, builds are shallow and looked like heck to build encounters for)

- Pathfinder 1e (fun to play but the minmaxing powergaming gets too intense after a bit and it looked like hell to gm for)

- Vampire: The Masquerade (too depressing)

- City of Mists (Seems fun but the group I played with we never really touched the mechanics much before we moved on to another system, would be nice to give it another go some time)

- Pathfinder 2e (what I'm currently actively playing and gming for. My favourite so far with actually balanced and tight numbers meaning you can't just yolo solo stuff and have to strategies and work with ur friends)

- Wilderfeast (GMd 3 one shots with the beta demos. Fun concept and I late pledged for the book and am looking forward to playing more when it's released)

I also have Monster Care Squad and the art is so pretty but I haven't dug into the rules deep yet. And eyeing up Cats of Catthulhu cuz cats funni and the 10th anniversary Kickstarter book looks pretty

#Ttrpg #tabletop #tabletop rpg #Rpg

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omophagic-beast · 9 months

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🔮 and 🌱!

hi thank u!!

🔮 One of my favorite memories playing a game by someone else.

oughh ok ok so, my friend and I were playing Our Time on Earth by Alex Roberts which is a fantastic epistolary game about being aliens who are visiting earth and telling eachother about your experiences on this weird little planet. I also highly recommend the Party Of One episode about it which is what got me to play the game.

BUT ANYWAYS my friend and I decided to play this game and amidst all the lovely marveling at the weirdness of humans we slowly started to essentially incorporate fuck-ups? Like all those little cultural things that you would get wrong if you had no context for them. Anyways tdlr we started using <3 as a butt instead of a heart. It was really cute and fun and still makes me smile.

🌱 An unreleased/not-yet-crowdfunding game I’m looking forward to.

WILDERFEAST

I WANT TO EAT MONSTERS. I WANT TO DO A DUNGEON MESHI. I AM ALSO AUTISTIC AND CAN BE TRUSTED WITH ECOLOGICAL WORLD BUILDING. LET ME IIIIIINNN.

Ask me more things, and dont be afraid to ask something that has already been asked!!

#thank u for the ask :33 #corvid caws #ask game #indie ttrpgs

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marvelousmsmolly · 4 months

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Thoughts/Reactions to the Dicebreaker 2024 list

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Thoughts / teency bit bitchy. This is purely based off vibe for the ones I didn't already know about. Be normal

Pendragon 6E: I've looked at older pendragon stuff before and glazed over it, might give this a look

Daggerheart: Spenser Starke save me, save me Spenser Starke (only reason it has a foot in the door for me, I hope I like it. it just takes a lot for me to care about a D&D-like)

Stormlight Archives: D&D-like based off a fantasy novel series screams of a specific era of OGL to me, the bar is on the floor for licenced games so hopefully it actually has some fun stuff

Wilderfeast: this looks cute and inoffensive at worst, I'll probably read it

Break!!: I've actually been looking forward to reading this for a bit, but again, any D&D proximity is a mood killer for me at this point

Triangle Agency: Really excited to read this, I might even try and do a one shot or something

Through the Hedgerow: HELLO? ok the theme fucking rocks if nothing else, haven't heard about this

Eat the Reich: Gonna read it, heard some criticisms that I'd wanna hear followed up on. Love Grant Howitt though

Tokyo: Otherscape & Legend in the Mist: Reading both of these, I've never not had a lot to say about a son of oak game, iykyk

TMNT: space intentionally left blank

Shadow Scar: I'd wanna follow up on some things about this before I say shit, lot going there /maybe pos

The Details of Our Escape: HELLO? /intrigued

Bad Bad Bad: This looks really cute

Big Grave Fashion Fantasy: oh this rules actually, this really rules

The Hidden Isle: I already have the Tarot deck for this game, very excited anytime someone uses a game system but actually fucks with it

Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical TTRPG: I need people to play this with, I need people to play this with, I need people to play this with I can be trusted with the microphone

Diablo RPG: ok so this seems like their first rpg, releasing alongside a board game, this could either be good or just be the dark souls game from steam forge again, it doesn't say shit about 5e tho so fingers crossed

Assassins Creed: again, see what happens but licensed game so whatever

Stonetop: people who's opinions I value v highly have told me it fucks, excited to dive into it

Shadow of the Weird Wizard: Couldn't care less tbh

#Youtube

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