So... Wendy's has a TTRPG now.

[Vogie]

It seems to be based on a 5e/Darksun Variant style of play (rolling 4d4 for stats)

Always Fresh, Never Frozen... Strawberry Lemonade Heals 1d12 HP, and if you're eating Wendy's Fries while playing, you have +1 INT for some reason.

3 Classes, 14 subclasses, but nothing past level 5.

The 97-page PDF Also includes a 5 chapter adventure.

https://www.feastoflegends.com/image...Of_Legends.pdf

Thoughts?

[ngilop]

If you take away the food based stuff and slap in standard fantasy names for things.

Also ignore the whole *do something in real life get in game bonus for it* the rules are actually good.

I can see getting my friends to play this and having a blast.

[Celestia]

First a KFC dating sim, and now a Wendy's RPG. What is this timeline?

[Afghanistan]

Running a game of it for me and my friends tomorrow night. Pretty hype. But instead of actually getting Wendy's we're also going to try and cook some of the food from Wendy's at home for an extra bit of fun.

[Willie the Duck]

Yeah, who would think that food companies would sponsor games as advertising?

[Imbalance]

First a KFC dating sim, and now a Wendy's RPG. What is this timeline?

Surely that wrought in payment by those culinary Faustians, Sanders and Thomas.

[oxybe]

First a KFC dating sim, and now a Wendy's RPG. What is this timeline?

Ever since Sans Undertale got into Smash, more and more I've been thinking we're in the good timeline. I think this news is confirmation.

[Scripten]

Yeah, who would think that food companies would sponsor games as advertising?

Between this and Cool Spot and Chex Quest, a lot of these marketing games are surprisingly good. With a few small touch ups and a better adventure, this would be a fairly awesome TTRPG.

[weckar]

Not familiar with the company, but the game looks pretty solid.

[Feddlefew]

I'm just mad there's no mechanical benefit for bringing the GM food.

[The Glyphstone]

Between this and Cool Spot and Chex Quest, a lot of these marketing games are surprisingly good. With a few small touch ups and a better adventure, this would be a fairly awesome TTRPG.

Chex Quest remains the best Doom game ever made.

[LudicSavant]

Ever since Sans Undertale got into Smash, more and more I've been thinking we're in the good timeline. I think this news is confirmation.

In the good timeline he has a unique moveset.

[Archpaladin Zousha]

They're hoping that the glitzy rules and jokes will distract you from their opposition to universal workers' rights and the fact that they pay their employees less than McDonald's does.

[FaerieGodfather]

They're hoping that the glitzy rules and jokes will distract you from their opposition to universal workers' rights and the fact that they pay their employees less than McDonald's does.

Well, that certainly backfired. I never heard about any of that until after Feast of Legends was announced.

I enjoy Wendy's, and I'm enjoying the glow of this marketing stunt, but their labor practices are something I have to think about now... that I never had to think about before.

[RedMage125]

I'd give it a shot, i heard about it yesterday, and the review said that while it's not robust enough for a long running campaign, it is very fun, and worth playing with some friends.

I'm just mad there's no mechanical benefit for bringing the GM food.

In college, that was worth XP. People who bring me food get some XP. 100 if they order pizza that I get to eat but do not have to pay for. And carrying my (rather heavy) bag of books was worth "pack mule XP". And while some scoffed at it, the guy who did it every session eventually levelled up a whole session before everyone else.

[GrayDeath]

I'm just mad there's no mechanical benefit for bringing the GM food.

Bribing the DM with his favourite Food doesnt need a rule benefit, as it already has the benefit of the God(s) of the World you play in smiling upon you ^^

[weckar]

In the good timeline he has a unique moveset.

Also got Goemon, still good timeline.

And while some scoffed at it, the guy who did it every session eventually levelled up a whole session before everyone else.

That eventuality may be exactly why they scoffed.

[Luccan]

Seems like it could be interesting, if it weren't a giant ad. As is, I don't know if I would play it. If it were subtler that'd be nice

[Max_Killjoy]

They're hoping that the glitzy rules and jokes will distract you from their opposition to universal workers' rights and the fact that they pay their employees less than McDonald's does.

Well, that certainly backfired. I never heard about any of that until after Feast of Legends was announced.

I enjoy Wendy's, and I'm enjoying the glow of this marketing stunt, but their labor practices are something I have to think about now... that I never had to think about before.

I don't think Wendy's not being brow-beaten into joining a program regarding field-grown tomatoes when they get all their tomatoes from hydroponic growers is worth injecting politics into a gaming thread.

It seems to be based on a 5e/Darksun Variant style of play (rolling 4d4 for stats)

Always Fresh, Never Frozen... Strawberry Lemonade Heals 1d12 HP, and if you're eating Wendy's Fries while playing, you have +1 INT for some reason.

3 Classes, 14 subclasses, but nothing past level 5.

The 97-page PDF Also includes a 5 chapter adventure.

https://www.feastoflegends.com/image...Of_Legends.pdf

Thoughts?

Shows how different the public perception of RPGs is now.

There was a time when a mass market company like Wendy's wouldn't have touched anything resembling an RPG with a 20-foot-poll.

[Slipperychicken]

Does anyone actually eat that trash? Their PR is on point, but putting that stuff in my mouth always feels like a mistake.

I have an instinctive aversion to ads, so I'm really trying to not read it. Maybe if some enterprising soul adapted it to a generic fast-food-themed rpg.

[FaerieGodfather]

Does anyone actually eat that trash? Their PR is on point, but putting that stuff in my mouth always feels like a mistake.

I have an instinctive aversion to ads, so I'm really trying to not read it. Maybe if some enterprising soul adapted it to a generic fast-food-themed rpg.

On a regular basis. They're my third-favorite burger joint, and my top two don't have locations within a hundred miles of my home.

[Max_Killjoy]

I don't eat a ton of fast food, but if I'm in a hurry I'd much rather have Wendy's than McD or BK. They've always been a stop up from most other fast food burger joints.

[Cluedrew]

Wendy's was one of the last fast food places I stopped eating at. Still whatever questionable (to keep things polite) practices that multi-national corporation might have I think the most interesting thing about this is someone made a table-top role-playing game as an advertisement. I think that speaks of acceptance and broader appeal now.

[oxybe]

I actually like how blatant they are on the advertising.

from the world map refrencing Carl Jr's, Long John Silver, Jack-in-the-box and Panda Express to mention of a creepy king in a paper crown and the fight against an ice clown they could only be more blatant by calling things outright.

the 12 classes (orders) that draw directly from wendy's menu is just a tip of the iceberg.

they are revelling in how they are making no attempt at hiding the marketing, and went all out. This has actual production values.

the "iconics" look cool, the Frysta monster wouldn't be out of place in a D&D monster manual (it looks like a cross between an illithid and ice elemental) and the Jester is, visually, a suitably menacing villain.

Yes this is blatant marketing, but it's free, it's campy and it's all in good fun.

[Kane0]

I’m Australian so I wont be needing to worry about the food based nerfs and buffs. Looks fun, especially for free

[Sir Chuckles]

There're are a few hiccups in undefined terminology and references to keywords that don't exist, but it's a shockingly playable system with more production value than some official RPGs out there.

The little module that comes with it is surprisingly thought out, with side quests and an old-fashioned quest involving a mystery item at the start of the campaign that eventually turns into high-end tools later on.

[Anonymouswizard]

Also ignore the whole *do something in real life get in game bonus for it* the rules are actually good.

I can see getting my friends to play this and having a blast.

Yeah, those rules are always the worst. I didn't get into Warhammer: Age of Sigmar when I realised that to use a competitive Empire army I'd have to spend months growing a mustache (oh, and I just didn't like the system or setting).

But seeing that they wouldn't matter to me, I'd probably be all for a comedic food-based fantasy RPG if I could understand the references. Sure I can likely get some of it, but me and my friends are probably going to hey a bigger laugh if I take 5e and homebrew it into something we'd understand.

[Incorrect]

Its nice to see the hobby become popular enough to be used as a marketing gimmic.

But wake me up when there is an ttrpg based on workouts or healthy food.

[Feddlefew]

Its nice to see the hobby become popular enough to be used as a marketing gimmic.

But wake me up when there is an ttrpg based on workouts or healthy food.

Trust me when I say 1) it probably exists and 2) it's probably very badly made.

Or it's someone's class project which will never see a broader audience than their classmates and instructor.

But let's say we want to make one. Like, how would we go about making a TTRPG about healthy living habits that doesn't come across as moralizing? Or acknowledges that healthy lifestyles are very dependent on local culture and climate.

Or, more importantly, how do we write one which is factually correct? I mean we could probably make something decent about long term community-level health in a pre-industrial setting with the information we have now, but on an individual level? I've basically given up on trying to create an evidence based healthy diet and that is my field of study.* But the big problem is that every few years we learn that a popular healthy eating habit actually causes specific health problems, or the process of obtaining that food item in the quantities needed for everyone to enjoy it is unspeakably bad for the environment.

So we could make an entire game about keeping an adventuring party healthy on a long expedition, but I'm not certain what the target audience would be. Or we could make a village management board game, where you draw random map tiles and have to decide how to use the resources available to create a happy, healthy village. Basically I think a D&D style TTRPG would be a terrible way to go about this.

Edit: TL;DR: Making a fun TTG about playing as fast food items is easy, making a fun TTG about healthy eating is hard and requires a lot of research.


*If I'm being honest here I'm actually a biochemist looking at the social and environmental impacts on the food production/preparation end of things, not really the individual human health effects. So every time I see a new health food trend, I die a little inside as I ponder what level of environmental / social / economic damage is about to be unleashed into the world.

[Imbalance]

But wake me up when there is an ttrpg based on workouts or healthy food.

While not a RPG, there exists both a board game and Wii video game adaptation of The Biggest Loser.