The Basics
Introducing! The Mimic’s Morsels exchange. This is an ever-evolving prizing structure for in-store Role-Playing Games intended–like an engine–to drive activity in the local roleplaying community for new and experienced players alike.
Here is the short of it: when you play in, or “GM” (to lead the game as Game Master) an in-store roleplaying game, you collect Morsel tokens, and exchange them for free prizes or discounts.
The tokens are designed with a hole to be kept on a string, and in the future we plan to create alternate color/material variants to represent 5 tokens and 10 tokens like different colored Rupees in Zelda!).
Along the way, players can chase some meta-game achievements in a tic-tac-toe style board. 3 in a row gets an additional Morsel for a total of 8 bonus morsels if you claim every achievement! The achievements are refreshed, added to and rearranged seasonally (every 3 months).
The Details
Now, for more details – Entry to a Morsels game costs $5 if you register in advance through the our Events Calendar. Walk-in players are welcome to join the games for $7 day-of. This way, we encourage people to sign up for games well in advance so the Game Master is able to plan based on number of players, or cancel the game if we do not expect enough players will attend.
We expect games to be at least two hours and accessible to players of all experience levels, with pre-made characters available. At the end of the session, players receive a Morsel token for playing. Collect more Morsels for bigger prizes!
From the Game Masters’ perspective: GMs do not pay to attend, and are rewarded with one Morsel plus one for every attending player over 2 players – up to 5 tokens for a 6-player game. GMs can also pursue their own achievement sheet while they run the games.
We will have a community schedule for GMs to arrange their games and a form for players to submit games they are interested. That way we can help GMs run games that players will attend. See the buttons at the top of the page to be directed to these forms.
The Goodies
Now the fun stuff – Please see the list of prizes below. We will be adding and changing the prize pool continuously so please tell us what you’d like to see here!
- 1 Morsel – Any Single Die
- 3 Morsels – Any Die Hard Dice brand “Essentials” dice set
- 5 Morsels – Any Gamemasters Guild (a local Pittsburgh dice company) Acrylic Dice Set
- 5 Morsels – Free Entry into another Morsels game (does not include concessions ticket or Morsels given at the end)
- 6 Morsels – Any Kidrobot brand Dungeons & Dragons plush monster charm.
- 8 Morsels – Any tabletop Miniature under $10
- 8 Morsels – A free copy of the rotating Featured RPG Zine
- Currently “The Details of Our Escape” by local creator Tyler Crumrine
- 10 Morsels – $5 Store Credit
- 10 Morsels – $15 off any RPG Book
- 12 Morsels – Set of any 3 Character Soaps by Pure Alchemy Soaps
- 14 Morsels – $25 off any terrain set by Dirt Cheap Dungeons
- 16 Morsels – Mimic Enamel Pin Set & Matching D20 by Foam Brain Games
- EXCLUSIVE to the Morsels Exchange!
Let us know what other prizes we might include in future seasons!
Achievements Tic-Tac-Toe
We plan to refresh and reset the grid of new or shuffled up achievements every 3 months.
Please give us new ideas for future achievements! They should be decently challenging and encourage interesting role-playing experiences. They’ll be arranged in a 3×3 grid for bingo-style stamping by staff. Ideally it should take players 2-4 games to complete a line.
