I was curious, so I claimed the community copy, and after playing the game this weekend I came back to buy it. It was such fun.
Our god was Grand Hatching, a big egg from which a new bird appears every year a marks the name of the era.
We had a martyr- holy platypus who saved the egg and was carried by the god across the lava filed (It´s quite difficult to create a platypus, when you don´t have one (or a lava filed for that matter) and it´s difficult to carry it above the lava, if you don´t have a god who makes miracles. Luckily we had trained frogs attached to the would-be-platypus. (of course he ended up in the lava)
Then there was a concert of 110 singing frogs. A fox and a weasel connceted by duct tape (a feasel). A frozen duck brought back to living. A ritual bath full of warm butter. A 20 meters high bird puppet operated from the inside by the monks. I could go on.
Fantastic fun, we laughed all the time. So much it hurt. Some of the situations will be remembered for a long time.
The annual holy festival for Our Lady Gorgonzola, She Who Nourishes the Body, tragically went awry. Our fake healing didn't convince anyone, so Sister Stout of Guinness led the Sisters of Lavender in a rebellion against Mother Violet, the Abbess, and drowned her in a vat of sacred beer.
Our shaman is wandering the mountainside, convinced that his own reflection in the ice is a new god, and our healer gorged herself on rotting sacred cheese before beginning a new life as a beggar.
Possibly the funniest game I've ever played to date; Our God was a party sun god, Dayve the Dazzling Daybreaker; we had to plan the yearly Studio 54-esque celebration to prevent everyone from catching on, I could not stop laughing throughout the entire thing.
Had a hilarious time playing this the other day. Weekend at Bernie's with a dead god is pretty much the experience. The rules are extremely simple (no more complex than, say, Honey Heist) and the result is a very freeform, wild experience with the hilarity of Fiasco and (thanks to the simple dice mechanic) the slowly rising tension of Dread.
I wrote up the session in greater detail here, but in short our characters had to keep word from getting out, falsify a divinely-generated national census, serve fortune fish at a feast, and automate a divine automaton. By the end we had individually suffered blackmail by an evil baker, birthed a schism in the faith based on an accidental heretical preaching, been frogmarched to the royal dungeons, fled the nation, and let the faith and kingdom alike collapse into ruin.
Played this at PAX Unplugged 2024! Our servants of a prankster god knew something was wrong when this month's annual Feast of Divine Pancakes went off without a hitch: It wasn't funny at all! So instead of our god making the holy day funny by divine sabotage, we had to do it ourselves! But since nobody gets the jokes in the Book of Divine Stand-Up anymore, we were kind of in the dark about what's "funny." Our fake Transubstantiation of Maple Syrup to Baked Beans went poorly when the Sacred Serpents got into the pipes and blocked the switcheroo. And our grand finale of introducing the New Holy Cannon Canon literally blew up in our faces... showering the congregation with poisoned bignets. I haven't laughed so hard at a convention. Two thumbs up!
My group played this as "Santa Claus is Dead," some cosmic horror got mixed in there somehow, and the result was probably the funniest one-shot I've ever been in. Highly recommended.
Super fun game!! Our congregation was a group of black honeybee worshippers who were trying to suck all the color and joy of the world to sustain an evil hive for our queen bee. We were justly defeated, our wardrobes expanded, it was a really hilarious playthrough. My character was the town exorcist.
Played this last night with a group of three other religious studies scholars - easily one of my top five ever TTRPG sessions. By the end we had sparked a full schismatic uprising and incited the apocalyptic ravings of a mad prophet. The mechanics supported the chaos beautifully, with every plot point being an opportunity for collaborative one-upmanship and failing forward. At least two of us are considering running a session of this in our college classes...
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I was curious, so I claimed the community copy, and after playing the game this weekend I came back to buy it. It was such fun.
Our god was Grand Hatching, a big egg from which a new bird appears every year a marks the name of the era.
We had a martyr- holy platypus who saved the egg and was carried by the god across the lava filed (It´s quite difficult to create a platypus, when you don´t have one (or a lava filed for that matter) and it´s difficult to carry it above the lava, if you don´t have a god who makes miracles. Luckily we had trained frogs attached to the would-be-platypus. (of course he ended up in the lava)
Then there was a concert of 110 singing frogs. A fox and a weasel connceted by duct tape (a feasel). A frozen duck brought back to living. A ritual bath full of warm butter. A 20 meters high bird puppet operated from the inside by the monks. I could go on.
Fantastic fun, we laughed all the time. So much it hurt. Some of the situations will be remembered for a long time.
Thank you for an excellent product!
The annual holy festival for Our Lady Gorgonzola, She Who Nourishes the Body, tragically went awry. Our fake healing didn't convince anyone, so Sister Stout of Guinness led the Sisters of Lavender in a rebellion against Mother Violet, the Abbess, and drowned her in a vat of sacred beer.
Our shaman is wandering the mountainside, convinced that his own reflection in the ice is a new god, and our healer gorged herself on rotting sacred cheese before beginning a new life as a beggar.
Possibly the funniest game I've ever played to date; Our God was a party sun god, Dayve the Dazzling Daybreaker; we had to plan the yearly Studio 54-esque celebration to prevent everyone from catching on, I could not stop laughing throughout the entire thing.
Had a hilarious time playing this the other day. Weekend at Bernie's with a dead god is pretty much the experience. The rules are extremely simple (no more complex than, say, Honey Heist) and the result is a very freeform, wild experience with the hilarity of Fiasco and (thanks to the simple dice mechanic) the slowly rising tension of Dread.
I wrote up the session in greater detail here, but in short our characters had to keep word from getting out, falsify a divinely-generated national census, serve fortune fish at a feast, and automate a divine automaton. By the end we had individually suffered blackmail by an evil baker, birthed a schism in the faith based on an accidental heretical preaching, been frogmarched to the royal dungeons, fled the nation, and let the faith and kingdom alike collapse into ruin.
Good times!
Played this at PAX Unplugged 2024! Our servants of a prankster god knew something was wrong when this month's annual Feast of Divine Pancakes went off without a hitch: It wasn't funny at all! So instead of our god making the holy day funny by divine sabotage, we had to do it ourselves! But since nobody gets the jokes in the Book of Divine Stand-Up anymore, we were kind of in the dark about what's "funny." Our fake Transubstantiation of Maple Syrup to Baked Beans went poorly when the Sacred Serpents got into the pipes and blocked the switcheroo. And our grand finale of introducing the New Holy Cannon Canon literally blew up in our faces... showering the congregation with poisoned bignets. I haven't laughed so hard at a convention. Two thumbs up!
My group played this as "Santa Claus is Dead," some cosmic horror got mixed in there somehow, and the result was probably the funniest one-shot I've ever been in. Highly recommended.
I was in this game!
Krampus ate all the cookies.
The robot running the toy factory got overthrown by an Luddite elf rebellion.
The friendly worker elf impersonating Saint Nick was assassinated (by a penguin?).
The eldritch entity known as Rudolph escaped from his cyclopean cryo-tomb.
Comet's understudy took over Christmas and rebranded it to be entirely reindeer themed.
10/10 would kill Santa again.
Super fun game!! Our congregation was a group of black honeybee worshippers who were trying to suck all the color and joy of the world to sustain an evil hive for our queen bee. We were justly defeated, our wardrobes expanded, it was a really hilarious playthrough. My character was the town exorcist.
Would def recommend this one!
DAMN! How did I miss all of this art, I love it!
My friends and I cried laughing, RIP Lord-Pope Ratticus VIII (10/10 would recommend)
Played this last night with a group of three other religious studies scholars - easily one of my top five ever TTRPG sessions. By the end we had sparked a full schismatic uprising and incited the apocalyptic ravings of a mad prophet. The mechanics supported the chaos beautifully, with every plot point being an opportunity for collaborative one-upmanship and failing forward. At least two of us are considering running a session of this in our college classes...
Hell yeah! Glad you had fun!
A+ fun, easy to learn, easy to play, almost no prep time. Have played this hilariously with very different types of gaming folks.
Weekend at Odin's