#kastle kreme

[fantasyfantasygames]

DD

The official Dunkin' RPG, author unknown, 2020

You remember the official Wendy's RPG? No? Oh you lucky person you. Anyway, yes, there was an official Wendy's RPG, followed by a Burger King RPG, a McDonalds euro-style board game, and... whatever that... thing... Arby's came up with was. A dozen other similar products appeared and disappeared over the course of 11 months. It was the apocalypse at the time; you might as well try anything.

One that I have a copy of is "DD", a game of...

Ok you need some more context here.

While Dunkin' Donuts LLC (aka Dunks aka DuDo's) has spread like a purple-and-orange fungus across every airport in the USA, it originated in Massachusetts. Specifically, it's from Quincy (where Quincy market is not located people, not located), south of Boston (where Quincy market is located). The greater Boston area has a LOT of nerds, and a high number of game designers live in the nearby area. Most of them are indie designers.

So when Dunks decided to jump on the bandwagon, and wanted to "do something different" - to stand apart from, say, the Krispy Kreme Kastle Krasher game - they hired an indie designer whom they never bothered to credit, paid them an unknown amount, and published whatever they wrote without much oversight.

The result is Divers Duties, a game of Pilgrim drama and lawmanship that runs off the Dogs in the Vineyard engine. Yes, whomever wrote this made Dunks in the Vineyard. If you own a copy of DitV, you will immediately clock this as a bizarre reskin, complete with dice pools, raises, Fallout rolls, give, and escalation. Instead of being Mormon-inspired, it's Calvinist-inspired, which... let's just say my partner has a death wish for John Calvin that she's upset she'll never be able to act on just because he's rude enough to already be dead. There's no art. The layout is nice and clean.

What does this game have to do with Dunks? Other than the extremely non-Pilgrim color scheme and a probably-contract-mandated number of references to donuts on each page, nothing whatsoever. There are no extra uses of zeroes in the rules. The city of Quincy is not even name-checked. Nothing gets dunked, except for the company itself arguably getting dunked on by this writer who was audacious enough to obey the exact letter of the contract and run off with the money.

The game ends with a land acknowledgement for the Wampanoag and Massachusett people, a touch I would love to see in more historical US games.

[perhaps-relax]

Why yes, I am the Kastle Kreme girl. Thank you for noticing.

[ghostmessenger]

Kastle Kreme

Galesburg, IL

[jessicamullen]

Birthday kastle kween (at Kastle Kreme)

[instapicsil3]

Some great scenes of spring! #ItsGreatToBeAScot ##RollScots #Repost @firstladylobie ・・・ Skies may be gray, but Spring is on the way!!! Kastle Kreme is open and jonquils are blooming by Dunlap Plaza ! #readyforspring #kastlekreme #lovejonquils http://ift.tt/2nYdPUc

[instatrack]

Some great scenes of spring! #ItsGreatToBeAScot ##RollScots #Repost @firstladylobie ・・・ Skies may be gray, but Spring is on the way!!! Kastle Kreme is open and jonquils are blooming by Dunlap Plaza ! #readyforspring #kastlekreme #lovejonquils http://ift.tt/2nYdPUc