In the Horrible Guild’s innovative tabletop RPG, player characters are mutants called Wilders who try to balance humanity and the wild. They do this by eating monsters.
There’s a virus, the frenzy, which creates kaiju berserkers and then finds a new and more powerful host. Eating the monsters is the cure, apparently. Curious? One and a half thousand gamers are driving the Kickstarter through €100,000 in funding, and with over a week on the clock, you can join the Wilderfeast hunt.
Wilderfeast uses two game modes: Journeys for the high-intensity moments of travel and combat and Downtime for the low-intensity stuff.
The RPG engine has monsters rolling one dice type, and humans are others. As wilders and mutants, PCs are both human and monsters and choose their dice.
The Horrible Guild has made a free-to-download Wilderfeast Quickstart available as a free download. It’s chunky at 85-pages long.
If flesh-eating mutants sound a bit apocalyptic to you, even if it’s odd for the PCs to be the mutants, then you’re spot on. The game’s setting is One Land, and that’s post-post-apocalyptic, and a supercontinent. The Guild says it’ll be most familiar and different. In Wilderfeast, food is magic.
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.
Backers pledging €22, which is about £19, are rewarded with the digital stretch goals and a PDF copy of the core rules. There are plenty of add-ons at that level.
Wilderfeast supporters who can offer €50 in support also get the physical book, an Adventurer’s Cookbook and an One Land map poster. A GM screen, special Style, Human and Monster Action dice are added at €65.
Monster cards, Area, Technique and Condition cards are added at €95 and the usual shipping restrictions of Russia, Brazil, Afghanistan and a few others are still in force, though.
The €125 tier adds a cotton apron, 6 journal albums, a cloth bag, the clever combat tracker and a monster timer.
Horrible Guild figures that they can ship Wilderfeast for September 2024
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