


And he represents the wisdom of the parents and the adults who influence her life.Ī full set of pre-production miniatures was on display at the Plaid Hat booth. He’s an old sock puppet that’s been passed down from generation to generation. She is the one that the little girl snuggles at night so she has a special prominence. “They each represent different aspects of the little girl’s personality,” he said. Each of the two-to-four players at the table will take on the role of one of those stuffed animals, which Hawthorne says are the stars of the show. Without her magical crib to protect her, the stuffed animals in her room must come to life and fend off the monsters under her bed. Stuffed Fables will tell the story of a little girl who has to sleep in a big girl bed for the first time. And that was even greater because that adds to the charm of it.” I was going to design a separate map book and a separate storybook, but then we realized that we could just put them together into one thing.

“I needed a way to solve that problem so that I could tell a more rich story with a lot more variety and environments. Each included the full-size, 104-page gameplay manual. Multiple tables of Stuffed Fables were available to play on the Gen Con floor. “One of the problems of Mice & Mystics was that we had a series of tiles in the box that we were constantly using to tell this rich story, but I had to constantly recycle these tiles. “It was a natural evolution,” Hawthorne said. Rules are introduced slowly, and the final manual will include QR codes that direct players to short videos - less than a minute long - that describe the rules as they play. Players open to the first page, place their pieces on the map and read from a set of instructions. The StoryBoard system is a novel approach to tabletop games. Stuffed Fables: A StoryBoard Game is the culmination of that dream, and fans were lined up all weekend to play a demo at this year’s Gen Con. He’s also a parent, and one of his dreams has always been to make a dungeon crawler-style tactics game that he could play with his kids. Jerry Hawthorne is a popular tabletop game designer known for titles like Mice & Mystics.
