Fairy Meat

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Fairy Meat is a fantasy wargame released by Kenzer & Co, authors of Knights of the Dinner Table and creators of Kingdoms of Kalamar and Hackmaster. It revolves around a version of the real world in which the fey subtly live alongside humans, escaping notice because they consist of cute little fairies smaller than squirrels. Except something has gone horribly wrong and those cute little fairies have turned into violent, bloodthirsty psychopaths who think killing is fun and who are addicted to the taste of fairy flesh. You and your buddies each control a warband of fairies, seeking to hunt down other bands of fairies and kill each other so you can feast on that sweet, sweet fairy meat.

Stats for cannibal fairies as monsters actually appear in the 4th edition bestiary for Hackmaster, just in case you ever wanted to pilfer them for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

Gameplay

Fairy Meat is essentially a warband game, where players use their band of fairies to kill and eat the other fairies until only their band or one remains over a pile of mangled meat.

Players use poker cards to determine the success and effects of different moves, such as moving, and fighting (with weapons or with their own hands), pouncing (knocking down an enemy fairy), killing, and eating their targets. Characters and tokens (who represent the characters' strength and wounds) are placed in the LIVE or MEAT boxes. MEAT boxes are where tokens are put away after they are used, and where killed characters are placed after they are defeated.

Expansion Packs

In the first expansion, Clockwork Punch, the Gnomes were bent on world domination and attempted to test their insane devices on the fairies. This included mechanized gnomes with cyborg parts and such.

In the second expansion, Sugar and Vice, the Moon Fairies, vain descendants of royalty, return from exile.

In the third expansion, Wicked Things, the title characters join in the carnage and try out their dark magic. These fairies, simply known as "Wicked Things", were corrupted by sorcerers and witches.

In the fourth expansion, WAR!, a special breed of fairy forms armies in an attempt to kill the rest of their cannibalistic kin.

Races

The sugarcoated carnage of Fairy Meat is populated by a colourful cast of pint-sized murderers.

All Fairies are female.

Base game

• Woodland Fairies - the default fairy, who is sorted into different tribes named after plants. These little buggers relish killing and eating other fairies since the day they emerge from a plant that blooms every spring. They are very primitive, using only knives and pincers as their weapons.
• Glitter Fairies - the descendants of lesser fairy nobles and sorcerers before the cannibals caused their civilisation to collapse. Although they are physically-weaker, they have stronger magic.