Haminal: Tastes Like Slabbit

[andygates]

Boing Boing Gadgets just posted the Haminal, "a plushie that comes in its own meat tin" - a deliciously daft idea that reminded me of the dear departed slabbit (slabbitus tastyus).

Back in the LARP days, we mused over what kept the ecosystem of monsters going.  It had to be slow, dim-sighted and dim-witted, breed like crazy, reach eating weight in a matter of weeks and be delicious.  Kinda like a rabbit with no legs or eyes, or pesky backbone... and thus we begat the slabbit: a slab of tasty meat whose sole purpose is to prop up a voracious food chain all the way from wolves and goblins right up to dragons.

I can't remember if we ever actually made any slabbit props: I have a memory of an A4 slab of orangey-brown fur scampering across a Mendip path on a length of monofilament, but that may be the past playing tricks.  I'm damn sure there was an entry for it in our monster manual.  One hit, no armour, no resistances, no powers.  No chance.

Thank you, Haminal, for dredging up the exceptionally silly bits of the past.

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[katebush.livejournal.com]

/Back in the LARP days, we mused over what kept the ecosystem of monsters going. It had to be slow, dim-sighted and dim-witted, breed like crazy, reach eating weight in a matter of weeks and be delicious/

This is the basis for the Rolemaster 'monster' the Gabbit. I think the Slabbit came later from some left over funfur. There were props, though I don't remember the monofilament version.