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the body farm

Welcome to the body farm. Body farms are places of research, from entomological to forensic to the more transmundane, focusing on cadaver decomposition in natural environment.

Something is amiss at your body farm, and it’s up to your team of scientific and paranormal researchers to figure it out. Whether the answer is biological or spiritual in nature is up to you and the story you tell.

For 4-6 players + 1 GM

Requires one six-sided die, pen and paper/word processor

Download includes PDFs of game in both layout and simplified text formatting.

Content warning: Death, decay, corpses, body horror, gore, bugs, spirits and ghosts, possessions, necrophagy

The Body Farm is a hack of John Harper’s Lasers & Feelings This game is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA license

Price:
$0.00
Rating:
5.00 (from 1 reviews)
Published:
19 May 2024 @ 15:06 UTC
Updated:
01 June 2024 @ 02:58 UTC
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