Stuffed Fables

Stuffed FablesStuffed Fables, by Jerry Hawthorne and Plaid Hat Games, is an adventure book, co operative, dungeon crawler, campaign game that is great for all the family. It has a wonderful theme and great miniatures, whilst the artwork and storytelling throughout is just amazing. Players take on the role of a small band of stuffed animals. Yes that's right, you get to play as a group of teddy bears. You come to life at night to protect the little girl who is

Stuffed Fables, by Jerry Hawthorne and Plaid Hat Games, is an adventure book, co-operative, dungeon crawler, campaign game that is great for all the family. It has a wonderful theme and great miniatures, whilst the artwork and storytelling throughout is just amazing.

Players take on the role of a small band of stuffed animals. Yes that's right, you get to play as a group of teddy bears. You come to life at night to protect the little girl who is moving into her big girl bed. You have to protect her against evil creatures that come out of the shadows. These are all based on other toys and similar and fit the theme perfectly.

Stuffed Fables plays out on a series of beautifully designed and different shaped play boards, each another page in the adventure book. There are seven main chapters but each has a number of pages to work through, each with their own challenges to overcome, different events that can be triggered and, depending on your choices and your luck, you can choose your own way through the story that unfolds and twists and turns over each separate page.

Players choose their character, mini and player boards. Choose a starting item that acts as a ranged or melee weapon including rubber bands, or a pair of scissors. You lay out five life tokens (pieces of stuffing) on your player board. Place any minions on the board and set out the item, story, adventure, minion and sleep decks around the book.
At the start of the turn players randomly pick five dice from the bag. Each of the different coloured dice are used for different actions. Players choose whether to move, attack minions, search for items and discover story text around the board, depending on the dice they pick and subsequently roll. As the game is co-operative, you can also choose to gift stuffing to others in an act of encouragement.
Beware the black minion dice as these will allow the minions to activate and attack, which could cause your stuffy to lose stuffing. If you run out, you are temporarily stopped but as soon as you pick a white stuffing dice from the bag you are revived.

Certain actions during the game will require a sleep card to be drawn. The sleep deck represents time, as the girl you are protecting is a light sleeper. Draw a restless card and additional actions will take place, if you don't complete the objectives before she wakes your story gains a different ending.

Stuffed Fables is great for adults and children alike and the story is well written so as not to be condescending but covers a number of the challenges of growing up. The cards, minis and artwork are beautiful and as the game can be saved at any point, allows you to work through the stories at your own pace.
So, pick your stuffy and prepare for a real adventure against those things that go bump in the night.
Player Count: 2-4
Time: 60-90 Minutes
Age: 7+