Eat God (early access)

Eat God is a game about being on the outside. It centres on the Folk: beings who stand for every small, funny-looking creature in every game that insists small, funny-looking creatures are morally okay to kill – every goblin and kobold and imp – reimagined here as members of the same impossibly varied, self-created people. Each player will take on the role of one of the Folk, different from any other, and navigate the world from their knee-high perspective.

Of course, player characters in Eat God aren't just any small, goblin-like critters. They're also God-eaters, practitioners of an esoteric discipline – part existential philosophy, part martial art – that comes with both fantastical abilities and big questions: namely, what does it mean to eat God?

Is “God” the systems of oppression we build to keep others down, and eating God means throwing off those chains?

Is “God” the culmination of an error in our understanding of reality, and eating God means finding another way to be?

Or is “God” just a great big tyrant in the sky, and eating God means exactly what you think it means?

As a God-eater, your journey to find out will lead to many places, with each destination offering potential answers, usually in the form of someone being ground under someone else's boot. Owing to your limited outsider's perspective, your interventions may not always help, at least not in the ways you intend, but they'll definitely ensure that those who benefit from the status quo are having a bad time.

Or, in less elevated terms, Eat God is a game about a bunch of gender-ambiguous muppety things with bullshit super powers wandering around causing problems on purpose. If you cause enough, you might even accomplish something.

This game is a work in progress. It's being offered for comments and playtesting. The current revision contains everything you need to play, with examples of play and additional material coming in future versions. Feedback can be provided either via the comments here, or using the Penguin King Games Discord server.

Credits

Written and edited by David J Prokopetz.

Additional writing by C.T. Kelly.

Cover art by M.C. Marcellin.

Beta reading by Jan Caltrop.

Playtesting and feedback by acorn-squash-writes, balaur-of-four-toes, baronetcoins, bobafloutist, fractalkitty, gement, hobbular, kingerslyy, lightning-and-lavender-fire, littlepinkbeast, paradoxius, pepperdoken, poisonhemloc, rcbirdy, robezpierre, scribe-awoken, whorelandoflorida, wickedsick and wings-liker.

Additional contributions by fralexion, goatsgomoo, llsilvertail, onemerlin and robjectionable-content.

License

The text of Eat God is licensed under CC BY 4.0