Blister Critters! Rulebook
Take the reins of radiation-blasted animals known as Critters starring in an eco-apocalyptic Saturday-morning cartoon show in this goofy and exciting tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) from Odd Gob Games and the Stillfleet Studio!
Using the innovative Grit System, Blister Critters drops players into a bizarre posthuman world of Blisters (mutations), physics-bending Nonsense powers, dangerous feral Beasts, and a near-infinite amount of human Stuff.
The Blister Critters Rulebook contains 100 pages of mayhem, including player-empowering rules for exploring odd and eerily familiar locations in a vast, cruel suburbia:
- 6 Critter categories consisting of 66 different animals
- 4 Blister Paths full of dozens of mutant powers and cartoon-logic Nonsense powers
- 10 cartoon Roles to play in your party
- Mind-blowing full-color art by Anthony Grasso (Odd Gob Games)
- A unique day/night cycle that reflects the fluctuating dangers of the eco-apocalyptic Critterverse
- A new take on the Grit System, originally built to power the sci-fi game Stillfleet
- Simple narrative rules for Catchphrases, Ad-Libs, and other cartoon-show fun-all new to the Grit System
- Dozens and dozens of examples of Stuff and how a creative Critter might employ it
- Intuitive moves for the Producer (the GM)
- A full starter episode, "The Gems of Blisterbeak"
- A bonus Mausritter crossover, "The Critter of a Thousand Blisters"
- A full-color fillable character sheet as well as a fillable printer-friendly version
Find more game tools at Resources.BlisterCritters.com >
Join us on Discord and find games >
Check out 30 community-created settings with plots and encounters over at the Critter City Crawl Jam 2024 >
Curious about the game? Check out the pay-what-you-want Quickstart! >
Written, illustrated, and designed by Anthony Grasso (Odd Gob Games) with rules co-developed with Wythe Marschall (Stillfleet Studio), creator of the Grit System.
Seriously, just look at Tony's art:
Actual play
Check out actual play of Blister Critters featuring the creators, Jenn De La Vega, and Christopher Pickett:
Actual play on The Weekly Scroll featuring Logan Dean:
- Actual play on Pint of Cthulhu (Yankee Land) >
- Actual play on Pint of Cthulhu (Critter of a Thousand Blisters) >
- Actual play on Why We Roll (The Maltese Owhll) >
Press for Blister Critters
- Review in Dicebreaker >
- Interview on The Weekly Scroll YouTube >
- Interview on The Weekly Scroll podcast >
- Interview in Skeleton Code Machine, pt. 1 >
- Interview in Skeleton Code Machine, pt. 2 >
- Interview in Thaumavoria >
- Review in PC Gamer >
- Interview with Dan the GMshoe in Randomworlds >
- Review in Never Mind the Dice Rolls >
- Notice in Rascal News >
- Interview with Anthony Grasso on Why We Roll >
Praise for Blister Critters from actual players:
- "Blister Critters synthesizes so much that I love about TTRPGs. The game world is bonkers, but the cartoony/suburban tropes make it feel comfortably familiar. The mechanics are simple but also just complex enough to perfectly motivate zany Saturday morning post-apocalyptic adventures. The aesthetic is dynamic and electric, the rules are flexible, and the intersection of art and mechanics are guaranteed to supercharge your imagination." —Will Savino, Borough Bound and Music d20.
- "The Ratchet and Clank RPG for fans of Dr. Nefarious."
- "Gordon Gecko does The Culture."
- "The best game at Gen Con [2024]!"
Are you interesting in playing Blister Critters on your actual-play show? Just reach out! Email co [at symbol] stillfleet [dot] com.
Note, Blister Critters is entirely #HumanMade. No AI!
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $19 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Comments
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Oooooh, loving the art! I'll have to remember to grab this when I got the monies!
Ya know what, I couldn't resist and can totally spare $20. Congrats on making a cool game, when I play it (or if, we know how scheduling goes) I'll be sure to leave an updated review!
New question: what is Justasnake? Is that like, generic snake? Or a glass lizard kinda critter?
Just a generic snake! We looked at hundreds and hundreds of animals and realized, we can't fit them all in the Rulebook! So the Rulebook features many options, and later supplements will feature many more.
Hopefully it's clear how to build your own animals (each gets two powers and sits in one of six categories based on the type of body plan they have).
Please feel free to let us know what animals you'd like to see in future Blister Critters supplements—and thanks so much for supporting the game!
That makes sense, I just wasn’t sure if it was a toony “this is totally a snake not a lizard ha trust me :)” critter or something like you said. But otherwise yea, with the custom perk suggestions it does seem easy enough to make or modify your own!
Future animals…I know it’s easy enough to make our owN, but would be interesting to see official stuff for aquatic creatures like fish, rules for playing Bliffs (like golems, robots, etc), rules ideas for bigger critters if you miniaturize them (like horses, hippos, giraffes, etc), or even fantastical critters (chupacabra, kobold, etc).
Love these ideas! I think we aren't doing fantastical Critters ourselves, although we encourage the community to use the game however they want. I know we have more aquatic and mini-big-animal Critters. And playing as Bliffs… I can't say much more than—stay tuned! More rules are currently in development. If you want to playtest some, check out our Discord server.