Last week, Geek Native mentioned Blood Feud a new RPG from Bläckfisk Förlag which is offering free to download playtest rules.
Blood Feud describes itself as;
A role-playing game about honor, power and toxic masculinity
Not everyone reading that summary took it to mean that Blood Feud would be a healthy exploration of the problems around these issues, and there was some worry it sounded alt-right-ish.
After all, Blood Feud is a game about manly Vikings. Bläckfisk Förlag was asked, “Is this game just a male fantasy written by two men?”
Well, no.
In an open rebuttal one of the first points made by Bläckfisk Förlag is that one of the designers is queer and non-binary.
Please avoid referring to me as a man and we’ll get along just swimmingly.
You can read the full response here;
The premise of the game is that in this Viking society someone’s power is tied to their honour, and their honour to their ability to appear to be a manly man. The result? A spiral of toxic masculinity that’s hard to get out of.
You can download the play test rules from Bläckfisk Förlag’s website.
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