Imagining Games

Save Room for Dinner!

By Pete Petrusha, Creative Director at Imagining Games

The award-winning Image comic book series and New York Times Best Seller, CHEW, is coming to a game table near you! Take a bite out of crime in this foodie, dark-comedy tabletop role-playing game about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals, and clairvoyants in a clucked-up world. We like to think of it as a foodie crime drama.

Set in a world where chicken is illegal after a catastrophic outbreak of the bird flu killed over 100 million people, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is now the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet. The poultry prohibition changes crime as we know it. Drug dealers turn to egg dealing. The mob begins chicken trafficking. Underground chicken speakeasies sprout up.

As a member of the Special Crimes Division, it’s your job to investigate food crimes, enforce the poultry prohibition, and put food-powered criminals behind bars. Yeah, that’s right! Food. Powered. Criminals. Maybe you cook, eat, or draw food, but when YOU do, something supernatural happens. You have a unique experience with a particular food not many can relate with.

“CHEW is the serialized TV show you wish you were binging every time you give up and throw on Parks and Rec reruns. The formula of a few parts gross cannibals-against-crime, a few parts absorbed memories, and a cast of zany lovable characters is pure CHEW.” - Dave Buesing - Comic Book Herald

The comics of CHEW are hilariously absurd, dramatic, and at times, grim. They blend screwball comedy with gut-wrenching emotion. Every issue feels action-packed and complete. Even with looming conspiracy story arcs in the background, the pacing never slows, the authors fearlessly charge forward. It’s a story about imperfect people doing the best they can with unlikely family and friends thrust into odd situations. Each character is flawed with some ridiculous inescapable personal trouble ripped out of movies like Burn After Reading, Fargo, or Tropic Thunder. All the while, we learn that no one is safe and that doom and dismemberment may be behind any kitchen door. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll probably get pretty hungry.

We’re building off the popular fiction-first game mechanics of Forged in the Dark to bring the action-packed comic series of food crimes, over-the-top characters, and out-of-this-world conspiracies to life.

Can you balance the demands of your job and the needs of your family against the fate of the world?

Grab a seat, dig in, and find out!

Don’t miss out on our Pre-Order Exclusive Special Edition Sets signed by CHEW Creators John Layman and Rob Guillory on Gamefound! Just scan the bar code to the right. This is the last chance to order them or hardcovers of either of the RPG books. Once they enter distribution, we’re only serving up trade paperbacks that’ll sit pretty with your twelve volumes of CHEW.

Available for pre-order at ACD, Diamond, Universal, and direct to retailers for Spring 2023 fulfillment. For inquiries, email Pete@ImaginingGames.com