Faith No More fans will be able to dive into the band’s music through pen and paper.

A Faith No More TTRPG titled The Real Thing will be released this year via Accidental Cyclops. The official Kickstartter launched recently, and it earned nearly $20,000 with an original $5,000 goal. Because of this, there will be playlists for each character, two additional playbooks, and stickers for backers of the physical format.

Game designer Jason Ward said this about the game:

“The Real Thing is a self-contained, story-driven, pen-and-paper tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) inspired by the music of Faith No More. Specifically, we have drawn significant story elements and inspiration from Faith No More’s album from 1989 entitled The Real Thing. It was groundbreaking at the time and remains one of the best albums ever created, in our humble opinions. More to the point, however, is the fact that many of the songs revolve around similar themes and ideas, making it a perfect album around which to craft a concept RPG.

As fans of Faith No More and their music, we have poured our whole hearts into this project. We have received official backing from the band to use their material and to present our interpretations of their content and themes in this first-ever Faith No More role-playing game. We couldn't be more excited!

While the concept for the story is grounded in the music and words from the album of the same name, it also pulls in themes and other elements from other Faith No More titles. Song titles and lyrics from every Faith No More album are included judiciously as a gesture of fandom and respect for one of our favorite artists.

Our plan is for this to be the first of a five-part series. The subsequent releases will follow the themes from Angeldust, King for a Day Fool for a Lifetime, Album of the Year, and Sol Invictus, in that order. We anticipate, each of these zines expanding on the stories and characters presented in The Real Thing.”

The digital version is slated to be released this June while the physical version will drop in October. The Kickstarter will end on Friday, April 15.

Faith No More’s last studio album was 2015’s Sol Invictus, which peaked at number two on the Top Rock Albums chart.