Powered by the Apocalypse RPG by Honeybat Designs
You don’t remember dying.
Your last memories are of placing the scanning headset over your head, hearing the clicks and whirs as it compiled a model of neurons and hormone patterns, memories and impulses, everything that made up you.
Still, you expected to feel it. Surely your death should have left some kind of mark? But it didn’t, and you’re stumbling out of a tube factory-fresh, and have far worse surprises to deal with.
This isn’t where you expected to be. You thought you’d be resleeved after an accidental death, reborn once a spaceship completed its journey, kept as a digital archive whose wisdom would benefit future generations.
Instead: scratched gunmetal walls. The sounds of distant gunfire and explosions. Other tubes cracking open, birthing other confused revenants – or staying closed, stillborn.
And don’t the others look hungry? And don’t those corpses floating in infertile nanites look delicious? And what’s that uncoiling within your guts, promising to reforge you if only you would feed its fires?
Welcome to the first day of the rest of your death.
Flesh and Hunger at the End of the World
Revenant Banquet is a roleplaying game about people brought back after violent deaths to walk a violent world. Walk the wastes. Bring down prey as a pack. Feast on their flesh. Blossom into new shapes.
It’s a Powered by the Apocalypse game – specifically based on Girl Frame by Isabelle M. Ruebsaat. It’s simple, lean, hungry – you’ll define the world through your hopes and fears, face down terrible enemies, and chew their corpses.
Content note: This is a game about cannibalism, body horror, desperate survival and the end of the world. Expect gore and brutal violence; sex, intimacy and flesh-eating, both consensual and coercive; bigotry and marginalization, revived in the wasteland by zealots and matriarchs; hunger and deprivation and wasteland survival; cosmic horror, and the struggle to comprehend a cruel and alien world.
In Development
Revenant Banquet is still very much in development. At the moment, it has:
- Basic moves – mechanics for interacting with other revenants, fighting as a pack against terrible foes, journeying across the wasteland, and eating flesh in order to heal and evolve.
- A guided introduction to play through, going from your pack’s confused birth in an alien megastructure to their first journey across the wasteland.
- Seven different death playbooks setting out how your revenant died and the strengths that’s given them.
- Two example playbooks each for the hope that keeps revenants going, and the blossoming that twists their flesh – with many more to come.
- Advice for how to run the game through the lenses of the three gods of the wasteland, alongside example dangers and places your revenants might encounter.
It’s playable as-is for a one-shot or a few sessions of play – the levers that will allow for campaign play are still to come. Buy it now and you’ll support development, get something cool to read, get future updates.
Revenant Banquet is available through DriveThruRPG in PDF.
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