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Something Is Wrong With The Chickens
A downloadable game
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Bryson Foods, Inc has taken everything from us.
We are Chickens.
We are Eldritch Horrors.
Make. Bryson. Pay.
One day, a portal opened to The Other, an indescribable dimension of Horror. Each of us began manifesting the traits of distant cosmic entities.
What is this?
Something Is Wrong With The Chickens is a one-page, rules-lite TTRPG of Chickens, Eldritch Horror, and Revenge for 2+ players, including 1 Chicken Master (CM).
SIWWTC Includes:
- Quick and easy character creation
- 6 Chicken Types - From Chicken to Turkey to the enigmatic Nugget.
- 6 Eldritch Traits - Powers gifted from The Other. Which will we start with? How many will manifest in us?
- An original easy-to-learn 3d6 system where success comes from the combination of our Chicken and Eldritch natures.
- Random tables that allow the CM to start a game in minutes. Crucially, this includes a rollable table of puns.
My First Dungeon Podcast Feature
Episode 1 - Learn to Play/Interview with Elliot Davis
Episode 2 - The Poultry of Prophecy - Actual Play
Episode 3 - Talkback episode with Elliot Davis
Inspired by the wonderful world of one-page RPGs and, in particular, Honey Heist by Grant Howitt.
Print Copies Available Now!
You can now purchase in brochure format from Indie Press Revolution
Introducing: Powered by Poultry
If you want to make a supplement for or hack of Something Is Wrong With The Chickens, feel free to use the free PbP logos on your game and share it with me!
Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (12 total ratings) |
Author | Elliot Davis |
Genre | Action, Role Playing |
Tags | Chicken, Comedy, d6, Dice, no-prep, One-shot, rules-lite, Tabletop role-playing game |
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Development log
- NYC - In-Person Event for SIWWTCMar 22, 2023
- Print Copies!Sep 07, 2022
- My First Dungeon Actual Play & V2 Rules TweakJul 19, 2022
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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.