Foul Play
A downloadable goose-playing game
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Be a naughty little goose
In this pick-up-and-play roleplaying game, 2-4 mischievous geese are out to ruin someone’s day. Scratch that: everyone’s day.
- Play as one of four spite-fueled birds—Shifty, Rowdy, Phony or Chonky—each with their own unique way to wreak havoc.
- Annoy your victims and evade your rivals by misusing a measure of items: Spray people with the hose! Distract them with the radio!
- Players sneak, honk, charm, and scrap—all in their pursuit of some spiteful little goal: Steal a jar of juicy jam, or humiliate the hipster that looked at you the wrong way.
- Easy setup: play either out of the booklet, or by using the 20-card print-at-home deck.
Physical Edition
The first edition of the game is sold out! But we've got a new edition in the works. Sign up to the Foul Play newsletter to hear more about it. Get the digital editions at half price in the mean time.
Looking for more locations to ruin?
Check out the submissions to the Foul Play Location Jam!
Purchase
In order to download this goose-playing game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- “Honey Heist but better”—Playful Void reviews Foul PlayDec 19, 2024
- Relaunch: Foul Play digital zine available nowAug 01, 2023
- Off to a start!Jul 01, 2023
Comments
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Are there still plans to do another print release? I signed up for the newsletter a long time ago and don’t think I’ve ever seen any update.
Hey! Life has gotten in the way, but this is still very much something both Hendrik and I want to do. Our plans are geared more towards a new edition rather than a reprint, though, so it will take some time. We're hoping to start working on it come next year :-)
Understandable. Thanks for the update!
My two friends and I had an absolute blast playing this yesterday. They played two geese with a specific hate for businessmen who come through the community garden without appreciating it, and I made sure that at any point, there were at least two for them to haunt. The game is a lot of fun. You need 3-5 people total, one of which will be the GM, at least three d6, and a way to build little mind maps where you can move pieces around. You will also need creativity and the spite of a goose, but you will find those in your heart in no time. I would play this again in a heartbeat, it was great.
Wow! Thanks a lot, Kat 💚 I too believe that we all have a spiteful little goose inside of us.
Has anybody made Roll20 assets so we can play this online? It would save me a heck of a lot of work.
God, that would be amazing. I don't know if this is helpful to you, but I usually play online using a whiteboard app like Miro or FigJam. It's pretty easy to drop the sheets and Location in there as images.
This looks like a lot of fun. Any updates on when the physical version of it would be available again?
No dates yet, benoitt. Subscribers of the Foul Play newsletter will be the first to get an update.
I would like to translate this for my kids into Dutch... what fonts did you use?
Ha Tom, stuur ons even een mailtje op foulplayrpg [at] gmail [dot] com 😉
Hello! Question for you: There's two #3 cards for Blowback. Is it just an accidental extra duplicate or is there a #4 Blowback card?
O look at that. That's confusing. Don't mind it, it's indeed a duplicate.
Congrats on the Slugblaster shoutout!
Thanks! I'm still a little flabbergasted, but it's so cool how many people have found the game since.
Hi! I just bought the print and play, I have doubt about the cards. Are they all just one side or should I paste some of them together? And… can I buy an extra file for the card box I see in the photo for the physical version?
Hi Luciana! Thanks for asking. You only need to cut out all the cards of the print-at-home deck. No further assembly is required.
I'll look into putting up a blueprint for the box. It closed with velcro, which is not that DIY friendly—so we're hesitant.
A crackerjack premise, brilliantly executed.
Easy to learn, evocative, and fun as heck. My players really enjoyed being teribble geese.
Played an absolute blinder of a game which ended up with the horrible geese burning down the community gardens! We ended up with eighteen out of ten honks, which just goes to show how much goosery you can get up to.
The most fun you can have being a terrible goose. Yes, even more than that OTHER goose game.