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Help us choose our next game: Draw Steel! or Wilderfeast Draw Steel!: A new game for a new age! Draw Steel is the breathtaking new, action-oriented, fantasy RPG from MCDM that’s both fun to play and fun to run!

Whether you’re a group of local heroes sent to investigate mysterious goings-on in the nearby haunted wood, or famous mercenaries plotting and scheming in the big city, the MCDM RPG makes building adventures and fighting monsters fun.

Wilderfeast: Wilderfeast™ is a RPG about becoming part of the natural world by making it part of you!

In Wilderfeast™, players assume the role of “wilders”: monster hunters / chefs who wield gargantuan kitchen implements and gain powerful mutations from each monster they eat.

By Horrible Guild / KC Shi

Take up the role of the monster-hunting, food-cooking, wildlife-conserving Wilder as you explore the world. Gather ingredients to give you strength to wield oversized cooking utensils in combat against frenzied monsters that disturb the harmony of nature, then cook them to mutate and take on their abilities as your own.

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Tell me about TTRPGs that you don't often get to talk about.

I've got two from my bookshelf that I hardly see any presence on tumblr here for you. Double Creature Feature for you, brave warrior.

HIS MAJESTY THE WORM

is a dungeon crawler focused around exploring and surviving in The Underworld, a vast megadungeon beneath The City.

Who out here is gonna pretend that name doesn't fuck hard?

There are lots of mechanics centered around the importants of mundane actions, like light, rations, and my beloved inventory management. The art and description may make it look too crunchy for some, but don't let it fool you, it's extremely accessible and created with whimsy in mind!

Your characters, adventurers, are all weirdos because what kind of weirdo goes exploring dungeons? A key part of character creation is defining events in your past that makes you a weirdo! Bonds between adventurers also play a key role in the game. No one here is the main character, and you would be nothing without your party. Everyone has a role, and everyone gets to advocate for why they get the bigger share of the gold.

Crawl into The Underworld, explore, loot, navigate challenges, complete your own personal quests, and then return to The City to cash in on your gold and experience.

I will always holler about the fact that this game uses a tarot deck as it's randomization element. Cast aside your d20s and your pools of d6s and draw your fate!

Fans of things like Dungeon Meshi, pulp fantasy, the lighting system Dark Souls 2 could have had, and old dungeon crawler videogames should definitely check this out.

You can find out more online here!

Second up is

WILDERFEAST

A game about hunting monsters, cooking monsters, and maintaining the environment.

Set in a post-post-apocalypse on a faraway world, you play as a Wilder of The One Land; and in The One Land, there is One Law:

You are what you eat.

This game is absolutely brimming with creativity; the weapons your Wilders use are massive kitchen utensils, made from a fantastic metal left behind by a long-gone race that once brought humanity here.

As you eat monsters, your character will slowly mutate, taking on the traits of your meals.

Contend against the frenzy, a dire plague that threatens the balance of life throughout the One Land; as well as The Charter, a trade conglomerate of giants that live in a sequestered city, deep in the frozen tundra of the arctic.

Your characters will be defined by their cooking techniques, their favorite meals, and the massive kitchen tools they wield. Each character will also have the opportunity to choose or create a specific monster that helped define them through formative experiences.

If you're interested in things like Monster Hunter, Princess Mononoke, and Zelda; this is absolutely one to check out.