Despite the silence on Backerkit, there's a frenzy of behind-the-scenes activity as we prepare for launch. We're finalising designs, frantically prepping graphics and, you know, trying to keep the pre-crowdfunder anxiety to a manageable level.
Two out of three ain't bad.
Wanna See Some Product?
If you came here via social media you've probably already seen a mockup of the core book, but the cover's nice, so here it is again, plus its PDF sibling.
It's a tidy little A5, looks dead smart on a shelf (well, it will when it exists in actual fact instead of a digital mockup), and it's probably about 100 pages. Bigger if we hit a couple of stretch goals.
It's not just the book, though. We're doing character sheets.
Some games do deluxe, fancy character sheets. We're shooting for convenient and disposable, like Meatbags characters.
We're also making a quickstart - rules, scenario, and horrible art by Brian Yaksha. The scenario's written, playtested, and ready to go - as soon as we drop it into layout we'll make it available for you to download.
And. And. We've got dice. Do you know how hard it is to get a set of percentile dice on their own, especially nice ones? We're just going to have to keep these under wraps for now, cos the samples aren't finished.
Pocketopia Collab!
Meatbags is part of Backerkit's Pocketopia event, where a ton of small (some not so small, actually) indie publishers come together for a festival of tabletop games. There's some excellent horror on offer (check the Pocketopia collection page on Backerkit), and we're proud to be partnering with the folks at Eerie Games.
Eerie are making Survivor Sorority, a tarot-based TTRPG about the surviving Final Girls of slasher movies coming into their power. It's squarely in the same action-horror space as Meatbags, so we reckon if you like one you'll probably like both. Which is good, because if you back both games, you'll get a free two-part scenario.
Art by Lore Evans
The first part's written for Meatbags, and you'll play a bunch of visitors to an awful carnival, plunged into the worst night of their lives. It's the first time I've ever done circus horror, and I'm loving it.
The second part is for Survivor Sorority: return to the Carnival Obscura and make sure this is its last performance.
That's quite a big update. That'll do, I think. Time to kick back until launch, right?
