MeatCastle GameWare Annual #2

!!! PRINT COPIES are available for PRE-ORDER at the MCGW store !!!

MeatCastle Annual #2 is a 44-page, full-color A5 zine collecting the second year of TTRPG supplements originally released in Missives from the MeatCastle, the monthly MeatCastle GameWare newsletter.

This year's collection features 7 different pieces including a standalone solo game of reflective recollection (Memory Manifest), a microgame attempting to create true fear in its players (Twelve Damned Coins), part one of a system-free dungeon intended to make use of the other books on your shelf during play (Five Chambers in the Hill Beyond the Vale), and new options for Mothership 1e (Goblin class, Party Development Procedure), plus the 2023 Meaties - the annual MCGW TTRPG award zine (also available in the print edition, for the first time), and the two most popular articles from the newsletter itself.

In honor of the original "TTRPG Freebie" releases of each of these components as part of Missives from the MeatCastle, this complete zine is available on a Pay-What-You-Want basis (which, of course, includes FREE)! That said, any support ($$$, reviews, or spreading the word) is extremely appreciated and will go straight back into making more fun stuff in the future.

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MeatCastle GameWare Annual #2 includes:

• FULL GAMES
  • Manifest Memory: A solo game of items out of time
  • Twelve Damned Coins: Do not play this game
• SYSTEM-FREE
  • Five Chambers in the Hill Beyond the Vale - Part One: An experimental five-room dungeon built to bring your other TTRPG books off the shelf and into play (system-free)
• MOTHERSHIP 1E
  • Goblin: Be a green little freak in a scary human universe (Mothership 1e)
  • Party Development Procedure: Backstory seeds for your crew (Mothership 1e)
• ARTICLES
  • 2023 Meaties Awards: My favorite TTRPG things of last year
  • Thinking about Feedback: When engagement can hurt and hinder
  • In Defense of Fiction: Good games deserve good fiction

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Credits (in order of appearance):

WRITING: Christian Sorrell
EDITING: Christian Sorrell
LAYOUT: Christian Sorrell
ART: Perplexing Ruins, Dyson Logos, Evelyn Moreau, Jared Stanley
TEXTURES: TextureLabs.org
FONT: Not Jam