Soooo… who DID write/lay out the Wendy’s tabletop RPG Feast of Legends?

I got this pointed out to me on Twitter, and when I looked around for stuff on Wendy’s ‘Feast of Legends’ RPG it became pretty clear that there wasn’t much information if any on who actually wrote the blessed thing, or did the layouts. Having actually read through it, a little — and more importantly, despite having read some of the responses from certain reviewers who have mostly gotten over their foaming and writhing on the floor* — I do think that Wendy’s missed a trick, here. It really is rude not to credit the writers and layout people and so forth. I mean, I’m sure they got paid, but they still need the credits for their resume.

Moe Lane

*Whether or not you approve of a fast-food restaurant chain releasing its own original-mechanic tabletop RPG — I do approve, in fact — it seems petulant to turn your response into a bitter diatribe on corporate practices and/or labor relations. The game itself is free, and there is literally no way that one can overlook the fact that Wendy’s has explicitly created it to sell more hamburgers and chicken nuggets. You don’t have to have an opinion on everything, you know.

Besides: maybe somebody will play the game, decide that the idea sounds interesting, and then… well, go on to play Dungeons & Dragons. But the larger that pool gets, then the larger the potential pool of buyers for the more, um, selective-appeal stuff.

6 thoughts on “Soooo… who DID write/lay out the Wendy’s tabletop RPG Feast of Legends?”

  1. I think Wendy’s must have some hard-core gamers on their advertising staff, or at lest people who appreciate the market. They have also released a send-up of Anime-dating-sims (which is a whole genre now, I guess?) called I Love You, Colonel Sanders.

    1. They’ve been a genre long enough that parodies of them are themselves a genre.
      Being essentially just a series of “if-then” statements, they’re fast and easy to program.
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      (Speaking of parodies of the genre, Doki Doki Literature Club is something special. It’s definitely not for kids, though. Not because of sex, I hasten to add. Avoid spoilers.)

    2. If you’ve seen Arby’s Twitter stream, they’ll often have papercraft on there of Geeksih stuff.

  2. I’ll note that I did see someone on Twitter yesterday say that they wrote it. I’ll see if I can track it down.

  3. And now I’ll add a different note- On Thursday, Critical Role did a one shot of this, sponsored by Wendy’s. And today they issued a press release basically saying “We’re sorry. We didn’t know what we were doing. We’ll give all our salary for this away” because apparently in some areas of the internet Wendy’s is evil incarnate for … reasons. I won’t go further because I don’t want to invoke the old life.

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