Thread by @FreyjaErlings

Alright let's review this beast, Feast of Legends, also known as "the Wendys RPG." Doing it live.

Immediate problem number one: these are all the worker credits in the PDF. No writer, editor, playtester, layout or any work of any other kind receives a credit in the product.

This violates what is called the "right of paternity", a so called moral right in publishing regarding authorship and attribution, so we are off to a strong as fuck corporate start

So let's talk about politics, because wow.

Wendy is a queen and you are explicitly a knight in her service, a member of one of a number of food themed orders. Our Yas "Queen of Clapbacks"- direct quote- us basically fighting the physical embodiment of cold and frost. Yeah yeah.

"Nailed it." D4 based stats and system so despite some uh, *heavily referential* Dungeons and Dragons trade dress in the formatting we aren't talking about a clone. This is an original design.

Because the game itself declines to credit authors, here you go.

https://twitter.com/TheRiverTrix/status/1180075744057151490?s=19

The core resolution uses a d20 which is the cowards way out imo after no less than two separate 4 for 4$ jokes

The theming is a thing but it you know how DnD works be prepared for zero surprises aside from the inclusion of a critical failure mechanic

Some writer has space to fill on a table

I haven't seen an equipment section this idiosyncratic since the late nineties

Anyway the consumption of product- and indeed, overconsumption- is baked into the core mechanic. If you don't eat, you are at a fairly hefty disadvantage.

I like the idea if it wasn't corporate really but you work with what you're given

Where it enters the realm of pure self parody is the debuffs you get for eating competing product. Amazingly, if you run out of other food and have to rest this can become mechanically relevant if you want your hit points back.

I'm just saying that if WotC wants it can probably sue for infringment based on trade dress alone. Anyway the bulk of the game is character options. Shockingly detailed. This Order of the Chicken has like six varieties- oh goddamnit that's the joke isn't it

"The order of the beef"

Credit goes to the artist and even Wendy's realized that

And that's... that's the player facing side of the game really. Skills aren't really things like cooking or climbing, they're special abilities.

The GM section is meatier (HEH I can do it too) and includes basically a complete campaign. I'm sad that it is not in fact named "against the frozen beef"

Funky as fuck politics; for some reason the main villain of the campaign is a cheap shot at the United Nations. Then you remember, oh, right, it opposes international worker rights

Just in case you thought this was just an ad. No. There is for serious real-ass anti union, anti-regulatory propaganda in this thing.

But hey the kid who got a year worth of free nuggets is a prince! Huggy capitalism goodfeels buy our product!

They ran out of themed riddles lmao

It's standard adventure fare but I'm sad that the layout person has no credit because it is quite readable. *don't sign over your inalienable authorial rights to corporations people.*

Anyway Here's a big shot at mcdonalds accompanying a creepy call-and-response ceremony

Because capitalism actually loves fascism is the thing they adore that shit

I'm sure this is intended as self-aware winking to a savvy millennial crowd but do take it at face value and tell me how hilariously creepy it immediately becomes

Just to drive it home; this becomes quickly about a paramilitary force being sent to destroy equipment and kill people at Mcdonalds restaurants

That's. That's the gameplay. That's what the combat is for

Apparently it's bad to be colourful and entertain children

Making the McDs menu sound way more badass here

You assassinate the clown himself by the way

Honestly most of the non other-corporation enemies are just like, hunger elementals and frost monsters. They could have stuck to that. But they wanted you to feel militant against another brand specifically and so they did that.

~propaganda~

Aside from a Stranger Things reference in the monster bit (the "freezagorgon") that's just about the shape of it.

Verdict? I'd steal the food and hunger mechanics for something else. The rest is ads, pap and straight up propaganda from Good Queen Sassy Wendy.

The PDF itself represent a violation of inalienable authorial rights which makes the painting of McDs as the United Nations - and don't doubt that's intentional - particularly galling. Don't play as a joke. The end.

Critical role went ahead and donated the sponsorship they got to a charity relating to farmers *which is something of a move* given Wendy's history

A critical misread of their audience that they accepted at all, but a decent recovery from the misstep

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