This game was so much fun! My group really enjoyed this. I preempted the game by saying I wanted to encourage creativity and ridiculous ideas.
In case anyone is looking for plot ideas, here's what I came up with: the kingdom was in the midst of a famine, but none of the townsfolk realized it because the royal family had paid a band of adventuring wizards to turn villagers into various farm animals to cover it up as best as they could.
The first scene was them being transformed into chickens by one of the wizards and falling asleep until they made it into the castle, where they could learn about the cover-up by finding partially transformed humans and dissenters in the dungeon.
Thank you for making chickens playable! It's a great concept and definitely leads to mayhem; a welcome addition to no-prep games.
Our story started off fairly sedately. It's unclear why there were shotgun and laser traps for the chickens, or why the hoomans were breeding nazi geese (other than wanting them to literally goosestep). However these were pretty mild compared to what followed.
After a variety of setbacks, all the chickens managed to make the escape and hit all their goals. Revenge was had, the children were flown to safety (miraculously) and the whole place went up in flames (with the power of curry poop). And majestically, from the flames rose the phoenix chicken, to be roasted no more.
I recommend only tracking failed rolls. The drama it creates as the chickens get close to 6 is magnificent.
so far, this game has been the most popular with the teens i run games for; they really enjoy being magical chickens and i enjoy really leaning into the ridiculous with it. we were in space the last time we played and there were many discussions on being the first chickens on mars. just get a copy of this game. you will not regret it, and you might discover just how many great chicken gifs discord has.
I played Masak Ayam with three friends as a sort of introduction to TTRPGs - a couple of them had never played before and I had never been the DM. This game is a really great one for beginners who want to mess around and have some silly fun! The instructions are really simple to follow and leave lots of room for creativity, acting more as prompts for your own imagination than hard-and-fast rules. We played it as a one-shot which lasted between 90 and 120 minutes and had a blast! Definitely recommended.
You are a chicken, about to be killed and cooked for a feast.
But suddenly power blazes within you, a supernatural ability based on the meal you were going to be cooked into.
Were you going to be roasted? Chicken pyromancy. Were you going to be fried? Crispy golden armor. Were you going to be stewed? You can imbue your body with physics based on the spices that were flavoring the water.
And you'll need these powers to escape the cadre of chefs who are still aiming to set you on their table.
The dice are simple (1d6, roll under, with two possible skills,) but Masak Ayam really does not need more than a simple dice system. Its strength is its concept and writing, both of which are wonderfully strong.
I'm pretty sure I'd recommend this game to anyone, but especially to GMs that like freewheeling cinematic mayhem.
It's real good. Play it if you've got it. Buy a copy if you haven't.
Minor Issues:
-Page 3, "On a failed Action Roll, roll an additional d6." This bit is a little confusing when read along with the next paragraph. When you fail an Action Roll, do you get cooked by a point, and then if the roll involved your Power, you roll a d6 to see if you got cooked further? If so, the text is not clear about that.
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This game is so much fun! Learned how to play and finished a game in just a few hours! I will definitely play it again
This game was so much fun! My group really enjoyed this. I preempted the game by saying I wanted to encourage creativity and ridiculous ideas.
In case anyone is looking for plot ideas, here's what I came up with: the kingdom was in the midst of a famine, but none of the townsfolk realized it because the royal family had paid a band of adventuring wizards to turn villagers into various farm animals to cover it up as best as they could.
The first scene was them being transformed into chickens by one of the wizards and falling asleep until they made it into the castle, where they could learn about the cover-up by finding partially transformed humans and dissenters in the dungeon.
Thank you for making chickens playable! It's a great concept and definitely leads to mayhem; a welcome addition to no-prep games.
Our story started off fairly sedately. It's unclear why there were shotgun and laser traps for the chickens, or why the hoomans were breeding nazi geese (other than wanting them to literally goosestep). However these were pretty mild compared to what followed.
After a variety of setbacks, all the chickens managed to make the escape and hit all their goals. Revenge was had, the children were flown to safety (miraculously) and the whole place went up in flames (with the power of curry poop). And majestically, from the flames rose the phoenix chicken, to be roasted no more.
I recommend only tracking failed rolls. The drama it creates as the chickens get close to 6 is magnificent.
so far, this game has been the most popular with the teens i run games for; they really enjoy being magical chickens and i enjoy really leaning into the ridiculous with it. we were in space the last time we played and there were many discussions on being the first chickens on mars. just get a copy of this game. you will not regret it, and you might discover just how many great chicken gifs discord has.
I played Masak Ayam with three friends as a sort of introduction to TTRPGs - a couple of them had never played before and I had never been the DM. This game is a really great one for beginners who want to mess around and have some silly fun! The instructions are really simple to follow and leave lots of room for creativity, acting more as prompts for your own imagination than hard-and-fast rules. We played it as a one-shot which lasted between 90 and 120 minutes and had a blast! Definitely recommended.
Masak Ayam is the good stuff.
You are a chicken, about to be killed and cooked for a feast.
But suddenly power blazes within you, a supernatural ability based on the meal you were going to be cooked into.
Were you going to be roasted? Chicken pyromancy. Were you going to be fried? Crispy golden armor. Were you going to be stewed? You can imbue your body with physics based on the spices that were flavoring the water.
And you'll need these powers to escape the cadre of chefs who are still aiming to set you on their table.
The dice are simple (1d6, roll under, with two possible skills,) but Masak Ayam really does not need more than a simple dice system. Its strength is its concept and writing, both of which are wonderfully strong.
I'm pretty sure I'd recommend this game to anyone, but especially to GMs that like freewheeling cinematic mayhem.
It's real good. Play it if you've got it. Buy a copy if you haven't.
Minor Issues:
-Page 3, "On a failed Action Roll, roll an additional d6." This bit is a little confusing when read along with the next paragraph. When you fail an Action Roll, do you get cooked by a point, and then if the roll involved your Power, you roll a d6 to see if you got cooked further? If so, the text is not clear about that.