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Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Warder on September 09, 2019, 02:04:24 PM
Hello all,

so as the title states a new paperback rpg has appeared. The author is a satirical gay R-rated writer person that has a somewhat mysterious persona(holistic medicine doctor martial arstist instructor) Chuck Tingle. The setting is about a small town where weird stuff happens. '' This rulebook contains everything a group of buckaroos will need, including four playable types (bigfoot, dinosaur, human, and unicorn), five trots (bad boy, charmer, sneak, true buckaroo, and wizard), several unique ways, as well as hundreds of cool moves that are specially crafted for each unique play style.''
So, whatddya think? Playable or too much out there?
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Brad on September 09, 2019, 02:07:28 PM
A quick Google search leads to the Chuck Tingle wikipedia page, which states:

"In August 2016, Zoë Quinn announced that they were developing an erotic adventure game with the working title Project Tingler, in collaboration with Tingle"

And links here:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wdjxzz/zoe-quinn-on-life-since-gamergate-and-her-erotic-new-video-game
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Ratman_tf on September 09, 2019, 02:20:19 PM
So is this a video game or table top RPG?
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Warder on September 09, 2019, 02:37:16 PM
Its an Rpg in form of a paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1689960671?fbclid=IwAR2bSybctuJE3qo3asZANvJNRwoFYqynTkMY3I1W2A2btvwXiWs85wvY_gA

''The Tingleverse: The Official Chuck Tingle Role-Playing Game''
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Shawn Driscoll on September 09, 2019, 02:42:36 PM
Sounds like DeviantArt bleed-thru.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Ratman_tf on September 09, 2019, 02:53:56 PM
Looks dumb. Whatever.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Arkansan on September 09, 2019, 10:21:22 PM
This going to be one of those things that people will only buy for the shock value or the hipster cred. Meh.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: GeekyBugle on September 09, 2019, 10:52:21 PM
Quote from: Arkansan;1103200
This going to be one of those things that people will only buy for the shock value or the hipster cred. Meh.

I wouldn't even pirate it. Much less buy it for any reason. Hell I wouldn't accept it for free with the author's autograph on it!
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: danskmacabre on September 09, 2019, 10:55:26 PM
I saw the name "Zoë Quinn" and lost interest.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: JeremyR on September 10, 2019, 12:46:04 AM
So basically Pathfinder 2?
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Snowman0147 on September 10, 2019, 01:51:11 AM
Quote from: danskmacabre;1103207
I saw the name "Zoë Quinn" and lost interest.

You too?  She has that ability and it is quite a curse.  I wonder why...  *Cough* Murderous Bitch *Cough*  I guess somethings are a mystery that will never be solved.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: jhkim on September 10, 2019, 02:15:41 AM
I can't see anything in the way of a real review of it. An RPGnet poster said this:

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I've only browsed through it a little bit so far. The layout leaves a bit to be desired-- it's just plain text on a white background. Some actual chart-boxes would be nice. And I've already spotted at least one typo just in leafing through it.

System-wise, it seems to be a kind of D&D-alike, but I haven't read too much into it. "Cool Moves" are equivalent to various spells, obviously-- though that there's a 2nd Level cool move called "Find Keys" makes me laugh entirely too much.

Honestly, the best parts are at the beginning and the end of the book, where things are the Tingliest-- the beginning of the book lists various locations in Billings, Montana (including Ted Cobbler's House), and towards the end of the book is the monster manual, with various beasties like the Not Basketball, The Man With No Eyes and Wieners for Hair, Void Crabs, and so on. The monster bit also has crude but charming illustrations, which the rest of the book really could have benefited from.

And the description is mostly empty, except this:
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This rulebook contains everything a group of buckaroos will need, including four playable types (bigfoot, dinosaur, human, and unicorn), five trots (bad boy, charmer, sneak, true buckaroo, and wizard), several unique ways, as well as hundreds of cool moves that are specially crafted for each unique play style.
Within these 270+ pages you will also find various magical items and a menagerie of monsters, ranging from pesky Void crabs to this villainous Ted Cobbler himself.

It looks to me like a cheap marketing gimmick, which seems true to form from what I know of the author.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Jason Coplen on September 10, 2019, 04:00:02 AM
Oh bother. This does, as some have stated already, look dumb as fuck.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: nope on September 10, 2019, 10:31:56 AM
This beats out FATAL for me as "#1 RPG I'm least likely to purchase."
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: ThatChrisGuy on September 11, 2019, 02:43:29 PM
Quote from: Antiquation!;1103277
This beats out FATAL for me as "#1 RPG I'm least likely to purchase."

They're near the bottom of my list but not the #1.  I think Wraeththu the RPG beats them for me.  A game about "Gay Rapist David Bowie Lookalikes Whose Jizz is Acid."  No, thank you.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: nope on September 11, 2019, 03:13:23 PM
Quote from: ThatChrisGuy;1103488
They're near the bottom of my list but not the #1.  I think Wraeththu the RPG beats them for me.  A game about "Gay Rapist David Bowie Lookalikes Whose Jizz is Acid."  No, thank you.

Ah, pardon me, I had forgotten about Wraeththu. Decisions, decisions...
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Snowman0147 on September 11, 2019, 03:41:39 PM
Quote from: ThatChrisGuy;1103488
They're near the bottom of my list but not the #1.  I think Wraeththu the RPG beats them for me.  A game about "Gay Rapist David Bowie Lookalikes Whose Jizz is Acid."  No, thank you.

I will count my blessings for not knowing this and will gladly keep my ignorance of the matter.  I feel that is the wisest of moves.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: remial on September 14, 2019, 06:52:38 AM
Quote from: ThatChrisGuy;1103488
They're near the bottom of my list but not the #1.  I think Wraeththu the RPG beats them for me.  A game about "Gay Rapist David Bowie Lookalikes Whose Jizz is Acid."  No, thank you.

yeah, you don't want Wraeththu.  trust me.  if I ever find out who sent me a copy of the book, I will do things to them with a blow torch, pliers, and wire.  things that will get me tried at the Hague.  I have tried several times to read the RPG, and every time I do, it makes me so mad that my vision goes out.  This game makes FATAL look good.  The art is horrible.  the only good thing about the book is that it does have clip art of the 6 standard dice with various results in the upper right hand corner of every right hand page, for those people who have the book, but no dice.  that is the only nice thing I can think of to say about the game.  (the paper quality is nice, I guess)

and by the way, in case the rapist bit isn't nightmarish enough for you, once they run out of men to rape into becoming Wraeththu, they gain the ability to lay eggs.  You see when one Wraeththu loves another Wraeththu very much (and because they are all cooler than humans, and magic, their love is even more special) the, what used to be the penis and is now something else, will open on one to accommodate the used to be the penis of the other.  Then the one that opened receives a load of jizz acid (which doesn't eat through a Wraeththu, just humans), and several months later they lay an egg, that will eventually hatch into a baby Wraeththu.

Human women, on the other hand, all die out. only men can become Wraeththu.

there now I'm not the only one suffering because of that knowledge.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: BrokenCounsel on September 14, 2019, 08:23:44 AM
Quote from: remial;1103975
yeah, you don't want Wraeththu.  trust me.  if I ever find out who sent me a copy of the book, I will do things to them with a blow torch, pliers, and wire.  things that will get me tried at the Hague.  I have tried several times to read the RPG, and every time I do, it makes me so mad that my vision goes out.  This game makes FATAL look good.  The art is horrible.  the only good thing about the book is that it does have clip art of the 6 standard dice with various results in the upper right hand corner of every right hand page, for those people who have the book, but no dice.  that is the only nice thing I can think of to say about the game.  (the paper quality is nice, I guess)

and by the way, in case the rapist bit isn't nightmarish enough for you, once they run out of men to rape into becoming Wraeththu, they gain the ability to lay eggs.  You see when one Wraeththu loves another Wraeththu very much (and because they are all cooler than humans, and magic, their love is even more special) the, what used to be the penis and is now something else, will open on one to accommodate the used to be the penis of the other.  Then the one that opened receives a load of jizz acid (which doesn't eat through a Wraeththu, just humans), and several months later they lay an egg, that will eventually hatch into a baby Wraeththu.

Human women, on the other hand, all die out. only men can become Wraeththu.

there now I'm not the only one suffering because of that knowledge.


Wraeththu questions, all pertinent to this thread.

1. Is it the case that this game/setting, because it's about becoming a sort of androgyne kinky sex hermaphrodite with deep special feelings, is perfect for the SJW crowd? I mean, does it tick their boxes, because its straight white men getting acid jizzed to death? Or is it on their Shudder Spectrum?
2. The original books were by Storm Constantine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Constantine), who seems to be ticking all the right SJW Danger Hair Weirdy Sex Mania boxes. Is she a doyen of the Pronoun Crowd, or does the rapey bit of Wraeththu put her on the Pitchfork Spectrum?
3. Seems to me that Wraeththu and this Chuck Tingler game are perfect companions for the Monty Cook 'Consent in Gaming' checklist; or is it the case that because both games really concern Gay/Hermaphroditic/Weirdy sex (ie, none of that nasty straight man/woman sex, which is bad), that if you're LGBTQ+WZ$@, then it gets a pass, because reasons?

Asking for a friend.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Armchair Gamer on September 14, 2019, 10:35:55 AM
I still remain deeply disturbed that Wraeththu somehow made it into Barnes & Noble distribution channels. I saw a copy on the shelves of one back when it was new. Best-case scenario was that it was an exchanged copy or an abandoned special order ...
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: remial on September 14, 2019, 09:13:59 PM
Quote from: BrokenCounsel;1103982
Wraeththu questions, all pertinent to this thread.

1. Is it the case that this game/setting, because it's about becoming a sort of androgyne kinky sex hermaphrodite with deep special feelings, is perfect for the SJW crowd? I mean, does it tick their boxes, because its straight white men getting acid jizzed to death? Or is it on their Shudder Spectrum?
2. The original books were by Storm Constantine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Constantine), who seems to be ticking all the right SJW Danger Hair Weirdy Sex Mania boxes. Is she a doyen of the Pronoun Crowd, or does the rapey bit of Wraeththu put her on the Pitchfork Spectrum?
3. Seems to me that Wraeththu and this Chuck Tingler game are perfect companions for the Monty Cook 'Consent in Gaming' checklist; or is it the case that because both games really concern Gay/Hermaphroditic/Weirdy sex (ie, none of that nasty straight man/woman sex, which is bad), that if you're LGBTQ+WZ$@, then it gets a pass, because reasons?

Asking for a friend.

I'm not 100% sure how to answer these questions, as the game really doesn't get much into the why's and hows of the biology, as it is all presented as a mystery. The game is set during the time period where the Wraeththu (goddamn that is a bitch to type out I'm just gonna call them "Wu" from this point on) don't really know what all is going on. and it has been like 20 years since I read the novels the game is based on.

From what I remember, once upon a time, there was born a mutant hermaphrodite, he was the first Wu. (I use he because in the books he self identifies more as male) He grew up knowing there was something different about him. Initially he just thought he was gay, and when he was a young man he went looking for love, and being taller, and prettier than your average male, he had a lot of luck.  Unfortunately for him, he discovered that his bodily secretions were highly toxic, and about 1 in 10 of his partners would dissolve into goo.  (personally I'd freak out and either swallow a shotgun or turn myself into the cops, but hey whatever) The lucky person who didn't turn to goo would then enter a chrysalis, and after an undetermined time, would emerge as a Wu.
These Wu, and the ones that followed, were the ones who decided that humanity as it currently existed, had to die. By raping all the men to further reproduction.  Occasionally one would try this with a woman, but the women all would just turn to goo.
The first 3 novels in the series tell the story of a young bi-curious man, initially he has a girlfriend, but he sees this Wu in a bar, and goes home with him, and undergoes the transformation. It was written more like a rape than a consensual encounter, with a great deal of fear on the main character's part.
When he woke up he discovered that a lot of time had passed, his family thought he had died, and they wanted nothing to do with their, now mutant, child.  The MC goes off, has adventures, becomes king of the Wu, re-encounters his rapist, falls in love and knocks the rapist up, and they live happily ever after.

The game is written in the era where the Wu are a persecuted minority, but they have the advantages of fast healing, being stronger, smarter, tougher, and having magic. As well as being able to turn their enemies into them through violation.  If you have seen the game Bellum Maga (a game where feminist witches battle patriarchy and satan) it is basically the same game only with homosexuals instead of feminists.

1. sorta both.  I'm not part of that crowd, so I don't really know how they think, back when the review of the game was done on TBP it was seen as a bad game.  Now they would probably see it as "the message is good, but the wording is problematic"
2. one of my friends from college said the books read like they were written by a heterosexual woman who didn't understand how gay sex between 2 men worked.
3. probably gets a pass because of reasons.  if they toned down, or got rid of the rape, they would probably be more in favor of it. again not part of that crowd, so I don't know how they think.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: remial on September 14, 2019, 09:16:19 PM
Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1103996
I still remain deeply disturbed that Wraeththu somehow made it into Barnes & Noble distribution channels. I saw a copy on the shelves of one back when it was new. Best-case scenario was that it was an exchanged copy or an abandoned special order ...

yeah, well so did Zweihander, in fact I even saw a copy at the local Target.  Mind you it was in with the board books that are targeted to children ages 0-3.  Which means either it was misshelved, or someone at the store has read it.  :P
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: ThatChrisGuy on September 14, 2019, 09:25:43 PM
Quote from: remial;1104041
yeah, well so did Zweihander, in fact I even saw a copy at the local Target.  Mind you it was in with the board books that are targeted to children ages 0-3.  Which means either it was misshelved, or someone at the store has read it.  :P

Put that scroll of "Summon Sockpuppet" away!
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: remial on September 15, 2019, 03:57:13 AM
Quote from: ThatChrisGuy;1104042
Put that scroll of "Summon Sockpuppet" away!

sorry, my bad.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: TheShadow on September 16, 2019, 07:33:04 AM
How the hell did Zweihander go from an uninspired clone game to a best-seller on the strength of persistent round-the-clock self-promotion? If there's a lesson in marketing there, it's a disheartening one.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Alamar on September 16, 2019, 01:07:26 PM
Is this real or some kind of troll? I guess it could've been ZQ herself using the title character as a pseudonym. Anybody know for sure though?
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: jhkim on September 16, 2019, 07:40:18 PM
Quote from: Alamar;1104252
Is this real or some kind of troll? I guess it could've been ZQ herself using the title character as a pseudonym. Anybody know for sure though?
Well, there's an argument that all of Chuck Tingle's work is some kind of troll. But as far as I can see, the RPG is as real as the rest of Chuck Tingle's work. It's promoted on his official web page alongside the rest of his books.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Spinachcat on September 17, 2019, 05:15:21 AM
Quote from: The_Shadow;1104224
How the hell did Zweihander go from an uninspired clone game to a best-seller on the strength of persistent round-the-clock self-promotion? If there's a lesson in marketing there, it's a disheartening one.

All marketing lessons are disheartening!!

Zweihander succeeded by the author being an unrelenting douche at the right time when WFRP 2e players had nothing to buy.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Warder on September 17, 2019, 03:22:51 PM
Theres a review now: https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/d4ilyd/we_reviewed_the_tingleverse_the_official_chuck/

Review starts at 20:45
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: soltakss on September 20, 2019, 02:53:12 PM
I had to google Chuck Tingle, as I had never heard of him. Hmmm, the PC types make sorta sense, based on my skim reading of the titles that google shows, not sure what trots are, as that word means something else in England, but they might be opponents. Not sure what the hundreds of moves mean, as all the book summaries I saw involved Chuck Tingle being banged by various creatures or people.

I think it might have a very limited appeal.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: RPGPundit on September 21, 2019, 10:16:40 PM
Quote from: The_Shadow;1104224
How the hell did Zweihander go from an uninspired clone game to a best-seller on the strength of persistent round-the-clock self-promotion? If there's a lesson in marketing there, it's a disheartening one.


By purchasing one's own product to get platinum status, and then gaming the ennies rules (and possibly bribing judges).

It's all a con, dudes. And sooner or later it's going to fall apart. Mark my words here and note I told you so. May or may not end up including some really horrible endgame.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: HappyDaze on September 21, 2019, 10:21:24 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1105356
By purchasing one's own product to get platinum status, and then gaming the ennies rules (and possibly bribing judges).

It's all a con, dudes. And sooner or later it's going to fall apart. Mark my words here and note I told you so. May or may not end up including some really horrible endgame.

Con or not,  it got Zweihander onto the shelves of Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. That's something I've only seen a handful of small publisher games do.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: GeekyBugle on September 21, 2019, 11:06:56 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1105356
By purchasing one's own product to get platinum status, and then gaming the ennies rules (and possibly bribing judges).

It's all a con, dudes. And sooner or later it's going to fall apart. Mark my words here and note I told you so. May or may not end up including some really horrible endgame.


As a matter of fact, and I do mean fact, stuff that can be proven objectively to be true. All the awards of all the geek hobbies have been co-opted a long time ago, they started with the Hugos and Nebulas, then the Ennies and the Eisners.

Right now they all function as a clubhouse for those pure enough, granting awards based on what you are, your politics and who you know and not on the quality, sales or even relevance of your product. It's just another participation trophy but just for the woke.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Snowman0147 on September 21, 2019, 11:48:18 PM
Quote from: GeekyBugle;1105363
As a matter of fact, and I do mean fact, stuff that can be proven objectively to be true. All the awards of all the geek hobbies have been co-opted a long time ago, they started with the Hugos and Nebulas, then the Ennies and the Eisners.

Right now they all function as a clubhouse for those pure enough, granting awards based on what you are, your politics and who you know and not on the quality, sales or even relevance of your product. It's just another participation trophy but just for the woke.

So Pundit stands true once again today when he said the only thing that matters is how much money you get out of your book.  The awards and all that other stuff are just useless garbage.  Maybe we should put this in song?

Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Snowman0147 on September 22, 2019, 12:40:00 AM
Quote from: remial;1104040
From what I remember, once upon a time, there was born a mutant hermaphrodite, he was the first Wu. (I use he because in the books he self identifies more as male) He grew up knowing there was something different about him. Initially he just thought he was gay, and when he was a young man he went looking for love, and being taller, and prettier than your average male, he had a lot of luck.  Unfortunately for him, he discovered that his bodily secretions were highly toxic, and about 1 in 10 of his partners would dissolve into goo.  (personally I'd freak out and either swallow a shotgun or turn myself into the cops, but hey whatever) The lucky person who didn't turn to goo would then enter a chrysalis, and after an undetermined time, would emerge as a Wu.
These Wu, and the ones that followed, were the ones who decided that humanity as it currently existed, had to die. By raping all the men to further reproduction.  Occasionally one would try this with a woman, but the women all would just turn to goo.
The first 3 novels in the series tell the story of a young bi-curious man, initially he has a girlfriend, but he sees this Wu in a bar, and goes home with him, and undergoes the transformation. It was written more like a rape than a consensual encounter, with a great deal of fear on the main character's part.
When he woke up he discovered that a lot of time had passed, his family thought he had died, and they wanted nothing to do with their, now mutant, child.  The MC goes off, has adventures, becomes king of the Wu, re-encounters his rapist, falls in love and knocks the rapist up, and they live happily ever after.


WHAT THE FUCK!?!  That made my porn parody rpg ideas look family friendly.  At least no one suffers murder sex/rape in those.  Just attractive people having sex with full consent.  Everyone gets out of it alive and satisfied yet I am the villain?
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: RPGPundit on September 25, 2019, 10:27:21 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1105358
Con or not,  it got Zweihander onto the shelves of Barnes & Noble and Books-a-Million. That's something I've only seen a handful of small publisher games do.


Yes, as we've noted in this thread, an 'honor' it shares with Wraeththu. How popular is that game?
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Spinachcat on September 26, 2019, 01:07:47 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1105356
By purchasing one's own product to get platinum status, and then gaming the ennies rules (and possibly bribing judges).

It's all a con, dudes. And sooner or later it's going to fall apart. Mark my words here and note I told you so. May or may not end up including some really horrible endgame.

Horrible endgames are the best!

However...explain why you think his sales are a con.

The ENNies are a joke, I have no doubt the combo of Virtue Signalling + Relentless Marketing + Not-Warhammer = Awards. However, I gotta say its a better game than most of the stuff I see getting honored by the RPG glitterati. It's far too crunchy for me, but there's some bits worth stealing for my WFRP games.

Zweihander is a WFRP 2e clone being sold first when there wasn't any WFRP to buy, and now when the new edition isn't exciting much of the Warhammer fanbase. I assume he's in a similar spot as Paizo was by selling 3.75e to 3.5 fans who didn't want to go move to the new edition, but also wanted to buy something new.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: remial on September 26, 2019, 03:50:30 AM
So, the other day I was on a chat program, talking about bad RPGs with a fellow user, and this game came up as a topic.  I expressed how I was curious as to just how bad it was, when the another user sent me a PM (private message if you don't know).  "Hey," he sent, "gimme a buck."
"Huh," I replied.
"Here is my paypal info, send me a $1 for postage."
"What for?"
"Postage.  You send me a dollar and I'll give you my copy."
Curious and thinking, 'well, what is the worst that can happen, I lose a dollar?' I do so.
So, yesterday a copy, in near perfect condition, a copy of the Tingleverse RPG arrived in the mail.  the only wear on the book comes from what looks like someone photocopying the character sheet in the back.
I'm thinking that the person who sent it is either messing with me or didn't care if the book got lost in the mail, because the book was sent by one Ted Cobbler of Billings Montana, who according to the write up in the RPG is basically teenage Satan.
I haven't looked at it too much because I also received an RPG that I actually wanted and had backed on Kickstarter, so I am reading that one first, but from what I've seen by skimming it...
The book is roughly 8 inches by 10, single column 12 point Times New Roman, with a few tables.
System is based largely off of d20, but classes (or Trots as they are called in the book) each have their own XP table.
Each class has their own melee attack score, ranged attack score, defense rating, and saves that change as the character levels up.
Each class has their own spell list.
There are feats, you start with 1 at first level, and gain one at every level divisible by 3.
Races are Human, Bigfoot, Unicorn, Velociraptor (the only dinosaur honorable enough to be a PC) and sentient object.
The bog standard 9 entry alignment  listing is used, but PCs have to be good.  Velociraptors are the only smart dinos that are good, all others are neutral or evil.
There are a few pieces of art, what there is looks to be hand drawn, and is a step or 3 above stick figures.  (still better quality than I am able to produce)
Book looks to be well made, and from a PoD company, but no idea which one. There is a PoD barcode, but no identifying label.

I may do a Where I Read thread if anyone is interested, but this doesn't look like anything I'll ever use for anything other than having it sit on my shelf as a warning to my group to behave themselves or I'll run this.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: HappyDaze on September 27, 2019, 02:38:40 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;1106020
Yes, as we've noted in this thread, an 'honor' it shares with Wraeththu. How popular is that game?

Until this thread, I had never heard of Wraeththu. much less seen it on a shelf in a big chain bookstore. In contrast, I have seen multiple copies of Zweihander sitting there next to D&D, Pathfinder, and a few other assorted titles (Mutant Year Zero, Expanse RPG, TORG Eternity, Dark Eye, and Vampire 5e last I looked).
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: Armchair Gamer on September 27, 2019, 02:47:23 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1106255
Until this thread, I had never heard of Wraeththu. much less seen it on a shelf in a big chain bookstore. In contrast, I have seen multiple copies of Zweihander sitting there next to D&D, Pathfinder, and a few other assorted titles (Mutant Year Zero, Expanse RPG, TORG Eternity, Dark Eye, and Vampire 5e last I looked).

   Yes, and as the one reporting this, it should be noted that I only saw Wraeththu in Barnes & Noble once and in a store very near one of the major FLGSes of the Upper Midwest, so it could have migrated from there.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: DocJones on September 27, 2019, 06:20:08 PM
Quote from: HappyDaze;1106255
Until this thread, I had never heard of Wraeththu. much less seen it on a shelf in a big chain bookstore.

I haven't seen a big chain bookstore in years.
Title: Chuck Tingle RPG has launched
Post by: HappyDaze on September 27, 2019, 07:27:13 PM
Quote from: DocJones;1106286
I haven't seen a big chain bookstore in years.


They're not what they were 20 years ago,  but they still appear in the Core Worlds (big cities of the USA), but much less so in the backwoods of the Rim.