PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING
A downloadable game
PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. The Cement Factory Fire claimed the lives of eleven young adults, teenagers tragically lost to the flames of their betrayal, as a twelfth scattered cigarette ashes which lit the fumes and burned the old building down. Yet the next day, all eleven were asleep in their beds and returned to their lives on Monday. How could this be?
PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. For in their moment of death, He offered His children a second chance, transforming them into His deathless souls in a dying land, His lanterns in a starless sea, His blade against the unyielding flesh of a carrion-world.
PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. But oh my dear children, we must praise the Hawkmoth King with knives between our hands, for once He has given you the burden of life-anew, you can never again see the world as it was before. There is a devil crawling behind the walls of reality, and he wants to fucking kill you.
PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING is a dark erotic TTRPG using the Powered by the Apocalypse (PBTA) Engine to tell the story of a group of teenagers, transformed into monstrous undead, tasked with an impossible mission requiring them to seduce and manipulate devils to uncover their true forms, and then kill them by any methods necessary.
PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING contains the following materials built into its rules: Nonconsensual sex, sexual violence, teenagers having sex, age-gap relationships, bugs, voyeurism, oviposition, BDSM, master/slave dynamics, petplay, stalking, musk, nausea/vomiting, intoxication, tentacle rape, vore, hypnosis, and mindbreak. This is both a list of content warnings and tantalizing promises.
PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING: CHAPTER ONE is composed of the following:
- Rules for Play
- Basic Plays
- Six Roles (Pious Daughter, Beautiful Daughter, Reject Daughter, Champion Son, Proper Son, Neglected Son)
- Six Blessings (Cicada-Shell Girl, Orb-Weaver Girl, Moss-Step Girl, Wolf-Pet Boy, Hemlock Boy, Peregrine Boy)
- Rules and principles for running the game
- Rules for NPC Mortals and Devils
- 5 Devil Perversions
Chapter Zero is a Quickstart, to help you get a taste for PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING. It only contains four Roles and four Blessings, and doesn't have rules for Devils themselves.
"Why You Should F**K With Horny Tabletop Roleplaying Games" in THEM Magazine
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- CHAPTER ONE: LIMINAL ABATTOIR FUCKZONE41 days ago
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I'm absolutely fucking obsessed with this game. Chapter 2 when!
i'm working on it !!!! i have BIG PLANS
the physical in-person bodywriting as a central game mechanic is rewiring my brain thanks for the everything this game rules
I haven't even played a game of this yet with the friend group I intend to run it for, and just the discussion that has resulted from everyone reading through it makes it worth the price of admission. More than one of my friends have said that it enables an evocation of certain aspects of themselves that they have had trouble expressing until now, and for that I'm eternally grateful for the existence of this game.
brilliant fucking game. it's body horror. it's kink. it's a proud declaration of rebellion against the world. it's a howl of rage at the state of the world. it's a howl of rage at the state of the rebellion. it's hard to read, it's fun to read, and i imagine even harder and more fun to play.
i don't know if i will ever be ready to play this game. i don't know if i want to be. but it's a brilliant expression of queer hate, joy, fear, love, pain, and desperation. i'm in awe at how coldly it read me and impacted me. this game is evocative and disgusting and beautiful. definitely recommended as long as you're not put off by the trigger warnings.
felt genuinely GIDDY reading through this. need to play it ASAP
I will eventually run this beautiful transgressive queer gayme. I will do it even if it challenges me beyond every fiber of my being. And when I do, it will be glorious.
(Also are there any existing character keepers in the making?)
i use google slides right now, i may end up sharing that once the game is a bit more finalized
This goes crazy. I'm in awe.
I'm awestruck. I need to share this, I can't carry this on my own. I simply must tell someone immediately.
...
Or maybe I'll just take it to my grave. That's fine too.
I can't wait to force my friends to play this!!
GOD this fucks so incredibly hard. A clear artistic vision executed without mercy or restraint. Genuinely one of the tightest games I've seen in ages.
I could gush about this thing until I cry. It's over the top, it's crass, it's disgusting, it's violent, and every bit of that is done with so much thought. This isn't random obscenity. This is carefully constructed obscenity. It gets in, makes it's point with the subtlety of a chainsaw, then gets out before it over-complicates itself.
This book reads like a howl of unbearable pain and it genuinely dredged up some bad memories. I LOVE IT.
Dripping with flavor, leaking with brilliant ideas, filled to the brim with tantalizing horrors and brutally relatable writing.
Someone finally cracked the code on enticing social mechanics in games ~ ((Also emergent erotic bug gameplay is making my week ~))
Tragic, beautiful, raw. Love this.
This is the kind of game I could write a thesis paper on. I love it~
Incredibly fun and fucked up
holy shit
Best thing to happen to TTRPGs in a long fucking while