Disposable Bags of Meat - Quickstart

Disposable Bags of Meat – Meatbags to its friends – is a two-stat horror TTRPG that feels like an action horror movie (or game, if that’s more your speed).

Players create characters like the Average Joe heroes of the greatest of horror movies: college students, working class spacers, tourists, and other people who, if you were placing bets, wouldn’t stand a chance in hell of surviving a horror story. But these characters do, and in Meatbags they can.

These characters don’t have any terrific skills or edges, but what they do have is Goals, Grit, and most importantly Luck. Those are the things that allow them to face horror and come out fighting.

How Does It Work?

Meatbags runs on percentile dice. The GM sets a target number, the player reminds them of all the clever stuff they did to stack the odds – careful planning, the setting of traps, a tasty bit of teamwork – and rolls the dice. Sometimes they’ll have a relevant skill to reduce their roll. They’ll still fail pretty often: they’re trying to barricade a door while a rampaging werecreature hurls a body the size of a truck against the outside, or hide from a phantom tracking the irresistible glow of their life force. This stuff’s not easy.

That’s where Luck comes in. Every Meatbag has a pool of Luck they can spend to turn failure into success. Until they run out. A character’s life is fully in the player’s hands, and every decision on whether to buy off a failure or hold that Luck for the next desperate situation counts.

What's in the Quickstart?

The quickstart contains all the rules you'll need to play Disposable Bags of Meat, plus a pre-written scenario - fight your way out of the world's worst high school reunion - and characters. 

It's free. What have you got to lose?

More Meat?

If you like the quickstart, you'll really like the whole game. You can pre-order it here: 

https://disposable-bags-of-meat.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders