I am generally a fan of Ben Wheatley’s horror films, especially the mushroom-centric folk horror of A Field in England and In the Earth. Those films, with feature lots of strobes and psychedelic imagery, aren’t for everyone, but Chris Bissette (Loot the Room) is fan. How do I know? Because those films of the key inspirations for Feast (2021), a system agnostic adventure zine.

The set-up is simple (but not straight forward). The PCs (and a lot of other people) have been “called” to the hexes of the forest. In the center of the wood is a stone monolith. Under that is a system of cave. Beneath that, something sleeps and wishes to wake, but to do so requires a ritual and the titular, ambiguous feast. The entity dreams, and uses (or maybe IS) the mycorrhizal network of plants and mushrooms and fungus to interact with human agents, compelling them through visions to complete the ritual. Everyone in the forest wants to be the one to do it, even though the cost is unclear.

And that’s it. From there, the adventure pretty much writes itself. The PCs are competing with all the other questionably sane people in the forest to complete the ritual (and get free of the entity’s influence). Nasty random encounters, hostile fungus and earthy horrors await. And that’s not even mentioning the necromancer. A grand old time.