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Fast-food hamburger chain Wendy's has released their very own tabletop role-playing game called Feast of Legends. No, you are not having a stroke. No, I am not having a stroke either. Yes, they actually made a Wendy's RPG.
Source: https://techraptor.net/tabletop/news/feast-of-legends-is-new-tabletop-game-from-wendys
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 08 2019, @03:05PM (2 children)
First, it's not a board game at all, it's an RPG. (Back in Ye Olde Days a "tabletop" game meant that it was board based, i.e. you needed a Table to play it; I guess the young whippersnappers now mean tabletop as "not online"? Oh well, old Lawn.)
Interestingly, it does use polyhedral dice (specifically d4's and d20's), and their website has a free dice roller (https://www.feastoflegends.com/roll-the-dice.html ) for single rolls. It uses 4d4 for skill generation, for example.
Just off the top the rulebook looks a lot like I remember old school D&D Basic to be. Base skills are Strength, Intelligence, Charm (charisma), Arcana (magic), Grace (dexterity). Hit Points are separate and I don't see Wisdom automatically. They have skill mods.
Overall very clever - I saved the PDF. But why not go for the free D&D Basic [dndbeyond.com], or the free Tunnels & Trolls [drivethrurpg.com]?
Still and all, very cool that people were apparently (?) paid to develop this and it might be fun for a night's distraction play to try it out. The sheer ridiculousness vaguely has me thinking it's D&D meets Paranoia! [wikipedia.org]
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday October 08 2019, @04:54PM
Yeah, but the all time champion of "Corporation puts out cheap game as marketing gimmick" is Chex Quest, and that's a big hill to climb.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @01:20PM
It's a nice promotion that might get a few people into Wendy's, and then act as a gateway to other tabletop RPGs. The actual staying power can't be that great. Who wants to be seen playing it 5 years from now?