A downloadable queer beat-em-up

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You are a Transgender Deathmatch Legend! You built your legend with a tapestry of broken glass, bloody fists and banging slams. You put the HRT in hurt and put the hurt on anyone who tries you. Tonight you’re going to smash your way across Slamchester cause someone owes you some fucking money! You went through two burning tables for a promoter and they’ve been ducking your calls for months, it’s time to settle things hands on. They heard you’re coming and will try and stack the deck, stop you from getting where you need to be, but just remember who you are, remember what you can to, and go get your fucking money.

Transgender Deathmatch Legend is a hexcrawl beat-em-up designed for two players. You’ll need a deck of cards to play, with combat resolved through a trick-taking game, and this book. The game is aggressively queer, overflowing with trans rage, and inspired by wrestling and fighting games.

By default this is a two player game, one player plays the Protagonist, they say what they do in any scene and play cards to try and win in combat. The other player will play the Facilitator, playing every other character, in and out of combat.

Actual Play

Transgender Deathmatch Legend was featured on Party of One. Kayla, one of the games creators, joins Jeff Stormer tell the story of the Death Clown Pain-liachi.

What People Are Saying About Transgender Deathmatch Legend

“Transgender Deathmatch Legend is another quality game from [Kayla] Dice, with excellent writing and layout. It is a queer hexcrawl beat-em-up RPG inspired by wrestling that is action packed and easy to learn. Would totally recommend!” - W.H. Arthur (The Sol Survivor, Superhero Cinematic Universe TTRPG)

"Bursting with flavor and genuine heart, Transgender Deathmatch Legend had me smiling and laughing all the way through the book. [Kayla] Dice [has] put together a charming and evocative duet game that’s sure to get you itching to bust some heads." - Clove Fulminata, Vagabond Pen and Paper (Revenant World, Our Minerva, CHOKE.)

"TDL is a bloody, schlocky mess of jagged angles and sweaty crawling. It's as immediate as a light tube to the face and I can't wait to take it for a spin." - Taylor LaBresh, Riverhouse Games (This is a Game About Fishing, Break Up on Re-Entry, host of the Game Closet)

“A brutal, passionate love affair with the joy and rage of the squared circle. I don’t think I’ve ever felt so seen by a game before.” - Alyssa, Biscuit Fund Games (Goblin Country, Tournament Arc, Skirmish)

"Transgender Deathmatch Legend will piledrive you into a good time. Rip and tear into its cast of bloody characters with the finishing combos of your dreams. It's loud, it's vulgar, it's queer, and it's coming to clean house." - Sam Leigh, Blinking Burch Games (Anamnesis)

WINNER - SPG Award - Best Queer Beat-em-up

Purchase Contains

  • A PDF edition of the game
  • An ePub of the game (if you're looking for reader recommendations on laptop we recommend Freda or Calibre, on our phone we've found the standard PDF Reader also serve ePubs)
  • A version of the ePub that works with Kindle apps
  • A plain text version of the game rules
  • A playingcards.io template to facilitate online play

Physical Copies

You can purchase physical copies of Transgender Deathmatch Legend via Indie Press Revolution.


Updated 10 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
AuthorRat Wave Game House
GenreCard Game, Fighting, Role Playing
TagsAction RPG, Beat 'em up, Hexcrawl, Queer, Transgender, Tabletop role-playing game, wrestling

Purchase

Buy Now$15.00 USD or more

In order to download this queer beat-em-up you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $15 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Transgender Deathmatch Legend.pdf 19 MB
Transgender Deathmatch Legend, epub.epub 1.9 MB
Transgender Deathmatch Legend, mobi.mobi 1.5 MB
Transgender Deathmatch Legend, plaintext.txt 28 kB
PCIO Template.pcio 379 kB

Community Copies and Price Reductions

Support this queer beat-em-up at or above a special price point to receive something exclusive.

Community Copy

If you're from a marginalised community or otherwise unable to afford the game feel free to claim a community copy on us.

For every rating or comment we'll add additional community copies

Comments

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Hey!  Just snagged a community copy of the sequel, and looked this up on the backlog.  For full disclosure, I’m not trans, but I’m a sucker for fighting game/beat-em-up flavored RPGs, so I may buy outright when I check over the rules, get a feel for the system, and have a bit more money.

Currently, I have a couple of questions:

1) Is there anything in TDL 1 that’s not in TDL 2?  I definitely see there’s photograph cosplay visuals in the second one, but are there any substantial rule changes or characters/scenarios that makes the first different?

2) What’s the “something exclusive”, and what price point is it?  Shoot me a DM if you can’t answer in the public comments.

There are slight rules difference between 1 and 2 (the non-Fight mechanics were overhauled for 2, there's only a single moveset in 1 and there's clarity around ties introduced in 2) and Character Creation and the scenario were refreshed in 2. If you have Transgender Deathmatch Legend II I'd say the original game isn't a necessary purpose unless you're interested in seeing how things developed.

The something exclusive is just in Itch's phrasing for Rewards, which is where community copies are implemented, there's nothing extra from claiming a copy.

Heyo, I'd really love to get a copy of this! I'm unfortunately unable to afford it at the moment, I'm a black trans nonbinary man who is also full of trans rage and would love to play with my trans buddies <3

Hey! Sorry for taking a bit to get back to you. Here''s a download key you can claim (https://ratwavegamehouse.itch.io/transgender-deathmatch-legend/download/54PjBIa0...) Enjoy!

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We've upgraded the description to include the link to the Party of One episode we did. 
You can also find it here: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/2022/06/02/329-transgender-deathmatch-legend-w... 

It was such a blast to record, was super fun and I think really shows of what I love about this game.