Above is a screencap of the Rat Queens - Vengeance on Villains Rulebook! As we've talked about quite frequently, the base game design was fully completed when we took over and began our work last year. The rulebook required a major overhaul, however, as there were numerous drafts and all the art was from the unshipped version of the game, cut from old comics and a wide variety of artists.

This is a wholesale full revision, again utilizing the same game design, but with a draft on all the language and terms coming from Rat Queens writer, Kurtis Wiebe. He also put this together in Canva, and is no visual designer or artist, so this is a temporary version without the almighty powerful hand of Roc Upchurch's artistic direction. So, it is good to remember that this is not the final version, but an in-progress preview to prove we have something solid and fantastic in the works.

It was an interesting process, to take a lot of the more generic terms that were in the original rulebook (Ex: Monster Special Ability) and ignite it with Rat Queens codex. The aforementioned example became, in this pass, Dick Moves. A reminder of how important even language and word choice becomes in what might be seen as a small detail.

Overall, the promise is: We are working on the Rat Queens game it should've always been. And we hope this is only the beginning of game projects like this from us at Talespinner Games. Incredible, thematic designs, gorgeous art and strong writing.

Check out the Rulebook Now!

Edit: Thanks to designers Sen, Erica and Alara for collating all the data, revisions and rulebook breakdown with which we could not have done on our own.