Showing posts with label Role Playing Games. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Wendy's RPG and the Critical Role Backlash

Wendy's recently released Feast of Legends, a tongue-in-cheek role playing game (RPG) set in a Wendy's-inspired fantasy world.  Appropriately, most gamers were simply amused and dismissive. Yet, some others in the gaming community could not pass up an opportunity to express serious concerns about a game sponsored by a fast food restaurant....

Enter the folks at Critical Role, a popular RPG gaming group.  Critical Role suffered an uproar from within their own community over how Wendy's does not treat their farm workers fairly, (in addition to a number of other things troubling to their fanbase).  The RPG session that Critical Role recorded for the game has now disappeared from their Twitch channel and all mention of it totally erased, just as if the sponsorship had never happened.

Apparently, RPG gamers want their free fast food role playing games to be served with a side of social justice....