
MEATHEADS
A downloadable adventure game
Scrawny roleplaying games just not cutting it for you? Had enough of pipsqueak rogues and egghead wizards? Want to be strong enough to bend the rules? Well now you can with the mighty Meatheads tabletop role-playing game!

Linked by Chainmail, tempered by OD&D and hammered with inspiration from Whitehack, Wolves Upon the Coast, and Troika! Meatheads is a dungeon crawler through and through - all buff, no fluff.
Fans of Conan the Barbarian, Masters of the Universe, Hercules, Bodybuilding and Wrestling will feel right at home.
With easy to read stats that can be converted for use in other old-school adjacent tabletop role-playing games, Meatheads can adventure into nearly any compatible old school adventure with a little hacking. Meatheads beats any system!
The 28 page zine includes:
- Character Creation and How to Play.
- Guidelines for Referees.
- Ready to play pregens.
- B/W and printer friendly
- A very exciting adventure Wrestling the Muscle Cult. Smoke out the brawny cult that has nested in a hillside temple, all while the crypt below it stirs…
Feel free to Join the Meatheads Discord, and talk gains with other Meatheads! We're friends now!
Check out the Meatheads Collection!

Happening December 12th to February 26th!
The very exciting Meatheads Jam!

Meatheads is created by:
- Written by Mark Conway!
- Edited & Developed by Matt K!
- Graphic Design & Development by Eric Hill!
Appendix M: Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, Beastmaster, The Barbarians, Pumping Iron, Brock Samson, Baki, Hercules, Beowulf, The Iliad, Predator, Ator the Fighting Eagle, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Conquest, Red Sonja, Action Movie Stars (Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, etc), Body builders (Ronnie Coleman, Sally McNeil, Eugen Sandow, etc), Arnold Schawrzenegger, Carl Weathers, Action Boyz Podcast, The Dumbbells Podcast.

Meatheads is coming to print in 2024! Fully illustrated, full color.
Including a 200+ room Mega-Dungeon.
| Updated | 18 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Category | Physical game |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (22 total ratings) |
| Author | blark |
| Tags | Action RPG, dnd, meatheads, OSR, Tabletop role-playing game |
| Average session | A few hours |
| Languages | English |
| Accessibility | High-contrast |
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What do I even say??
Some things are too great to be shared with this world.
Thanks for doing it anyways!
One of thee freshest OD&D/Chainmail hacks I've seen in ages. Can we get a single pages version of the ashcan version for home booklet printing though?
I will whip Eric into shape!
I LOVE MEATHEADS
FUCK WIZARDS
fuck wizards
Yes! Looking forward to getting stuck into this.
Save some talent for the rest of us, man. This absolutely blew me out of the park. This is so pure.
I love it. I'm gonna go live my best Meathead life, now.
you're too kind big man ๐