Bug Dish: Amuse Bouche
A downloadable game
Bugfolk from every reach come to Tower Lake at least once. You might be here to see the port city of Tower Point, or the golden hives of Honeyflow. Perhaps you’ve come to wander the paths of woven roots in Banyan Cradle, or to circle the lake on the Gossamer Rail.
But you are certainly here to taste the foods of Tower Lake’s Mobile Kitchens. Restaurant crews who travel around the lake creating culinary experiences. Fusing flavours, textures, and aromas with vision to create delectables no bugfolk has tasted before. Whether it’s a traditional dish perfectly executed, or a meal that changes how you think about food, these chefs are masters of their craft.
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Bug Dish is a tabletop roleplaying game about bug chefs who travel the world and compete in culinary competitions. Using a bespoke push-your-luck mechanic, spend time to learn about the local cuisine, find out what your rivals are up to, and create meals to wow the judges.
Amuse Bouche Edition: this is just a taste of what is to come for Bug Dish. Tell the stories of the bug chefs working together in their travelling restaurant the Wandering Whisk. Explore Tower Point, and compete in the Flavours of the Lake competition. Amuse Bouche contains all the rules you need to play one session with a GM and up to 4 chefs.
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Purchase the PDF and you get access to the full version when it releases summer of 2024. A plain text version is also freely available.
The full version includes:
- Full chef creation and advancement rules
- Campaign rules to grow your kitchen and reputation
- Expanded rules for rivals and judges
- A complete travel guide for locations around Tower Lake
- Different types of festivals and judging procedures
- More art from Earth to Elize
Online playsheets are available here!
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Follow this page for updates on the project and for information about the full release.
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Original art by Earth to Elize: https://www.instagram.com/earthtoelize/
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $12 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Amuse Bouche Complete!51 days ago
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Have you ever seen A Bug's Life and thought "why do those seeds look so SCRUMPTIOUS!?" Then you'll be delighted to know that Bug Dish will make good on your desires to eat whatever those silly little bugs be eat. If you aren't interested in insects, play Bug Dish for its wacky, co-operitve simulation of a Reality-TV cooking competition. Can you and your friends work together to win over Gordon Rams-fly? WHO KNOWS! Bug Dish is hilarious, heartfelt, hexapodal fun. 5 Stars
Great game or greatest game?
Bug Dish has such an excellent handle on what it is. It's a celebration of the aesthetics of cooking reframed with the diminutive perspective of traveling insectoid wonder. "Narrative Crunch" is the name of the game, sending players awash in an ocean of sensory adjectives to collaboratively build your fictitious creations. It is cozy, certainly, but it is also a grand adventure. It is epic but personal. Strange but familiar. There is so much to discover. So much to make for yourself.
Bug Dish gets why TTRPGs are special and how to use them to build new and delightful worlds owned and invested in by the players at the table.