hii so i want to play this game, i dont realy have experince with those kind of games, i got the general idea but im not sure about a lot, can i get any help?
Something Is Wrong With The Chickens is a fast-paced oneshot system in the broad vein of 1980s environmentally conscious monster movies. You play as a gang of weird fowl sabotaging a poultry producer.
The physical book is a trifold pamphlet with easy to read text, good visual organization, and several charming and thematic illustrations.
Mechanically, Chickens is fully random, but not especially punishing. When you attempt an action, you roll 3d6 and hope you don't get all highs or all lows. All lows makes you more chicken-like, all highs makes you more of a monster, and if you become too chickeny or too monstrous you lose the game.
Of note, because the game tracks these things purely off of your Eldritch score, and because your Eldritch score starts at 1, you can lose your character on the first roll of the game if you get all lows.
Tone-wise, there's a lot of comedy in the text (including the option to play as a chicken nugget,) and the game leans on the GM and the group willing to play fast and loose and embrace chaos. It's a solid oneshot system, and might be especially suited to games around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Overall, Something Is Wrong With The Chickens is a nice system to add to your library of oneshots. It's good for zany, all-ages play, and the illustrations and writing breathe a lot of life into it.
Thanks for this review! Love the 80s movie comparison, that’s a new one for me.
I’ll note that you can’t lose your character on the first roll. You will become too delicious if you have zero Eldritch traits and then roll another Chicken failure. So you would need to roll two Chicken Failures in a row from jump to immediately lose your character.
Ran this game with friends tonight! One of our players embodied Foghorn Leghorn if he had been exposed to the works of Karl Marx, one of our players had been cross-bred with a sheep, and the last one suffered an untimely death and had to be replaced by a horde of little chicks. The game was altogether kooky, exactly what it advertises on the tin!
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hii so i want to play this game, i dont realy have experince with those kind of games, i got the general idea but im not sure about a lot, can i get any help?
thanks so much for checking out the game! I’d recommend the series of My First Dungeon for a great look at how to play
https://open.spotify.com/episode/37xiJmieyoFjj97WYnCTQs?si=lj5EVE9_T8O_3lSySw2wTA
Hey, I'd like to translate the game to Portuguese (BR) to play with some friends, is that okay?
I really liked how simple it is to start playing and how crazy things can get!
That is 100% okay! I'm so glad you are enjoying it!
heh, I did it, idk if you'd like to see how it turned up, but I'm really enjoying this game.
Looking forward to play in parties and meetings with my friends XD
Hey! I would love to check the Portuguese version. Could you send it to me?
sure! how should i do it?
Send me an e-mail:
pedroh.programacao@gmail.com
Hi, what's up? Could you send your translation to me? Im very interested in it!
sure, send me your email!
Thanks!
Here it is:
victorbryan1705081@gmail.com
can you send me the translated files as well? I’ll DM this at an event in Brazil at the end of the month and I bought the original game.
My email is ladeira.ana@gmail.com
Hey!
Could you send me the translated version as well?
Email: rodolfosrodrigues@hotmail.com
Thanks!
Hi there!! Do you mind sharing with me too?
This game seems to be insane hahahaha
Lisboa.augusto@gmail.com
Olá!
Mais uma querendo a versão em português. 😬
Se for ok me enviar, segue meu e-mail:
clarabibliopontes@gmail.com
Tive a ideia de traduzir, mas confesso que meu domínio de inglês não é tão bom.
De qualquer maneira, obrigada por seu trabalho e por compartilhar. 😉
Abraço!
Something Is Wrong With The Chickens is a fast-paced oneshot system in the broad vein of 1980s environmentally conscious monster movies. You play as a gang of weird fowl sabotaging a poultry producer.
The physical book is a trifold pamphlet with easy to read text, good visual organization, and several charming and thematic illustrations.
Mechanically, Chickens is fully random, but not especially punishing. When you attempt an action, you roll 3d6 and hope you don't get all highs or all lows. All lows makes you more chicken-like, all highs makes you more of a monster, and if you become too chickeny or too monstrous you lose the game.
Of note, because the game tracks these things purely off of your Eldritch score, and because your Eldritch score starts at 1, you can lose your character on the first roll of the game if you get all lows.
Tone-wise, there's a lot of comedy in the text (including the option to play as a chicken nugget,) and the game leans on the GM and the group willing to play fast and loose and embrace chaos. It's a solid oneshot system, and might be especially suited to games around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Overall, Something Is Wrong With The Chickens is a nice system to add to your library of oneshots. It's good for zany, all-ages play, and the illustrations and writing breathe a lot of life into it.
Thanks for this review! Love the 80s movie comparison, that’s a new one for me.
I’ll note that you can’t lose your character on the first roll. You will become too delicious if you have zero Eldritch traits and then roll another Chicken failure. So you would need to roll two Chicken Failures in a row from jump to immediately lose your character.
Ah, that's a misread on my part then! I understood it as at Eldritch zero you lose.
Ran this game with friends tonight! One of our players embodied Foghorn Leghorn if he had been exposed to the works of Karl Marx, one of our players had been cross-bred with a sheep, and the last one suffered an untimely death and had to be replaced by a horde of little chicks. The game was altogether kooky, exactly what it advertises on the tin!
Love this! Thanks for playing!
Fantastic game! Weird and wild and so much fun.
I can't wait to pull this out next time we need a quick and silly game.