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Trash to Treasure

Save the day from pollution and evil as trash goblin magical girls in this modern fantasy short-shot roleplaying game. · By Bright Bard Games

Amazingly cute use of the Havoc Engine

A topic by snowkeep created Nov 01, 2025 Views: 102 Replies: 1
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I bought this game at Gamehole Con when the cover caught my eye and chatted briefly with Jon.  I recognized it because Grant Howitt gave it a shout-out in an interview a few weeks ago.  When a game sticks in my head, I'll subject friends on Discord to my thoughts (and save them for posterity).  Here's my thoughts on Trash to Treasure:  https://www.legendkeeper.com/app/clwkrgqux0d8s0jp7546i9y04/x6ggoae9/

I have one request for clarification.  On page 50: 

For Chapters 1 and 4, you can play scenes in any order. For Chapters 2 and 3, start at a or c and follow the dotted route lines until you reach the star ( ), then play chapters in any order you choose.

There is a definite story arc through the chapters, so I don't think that reads as it should.  Should that read ", then continue to the next chapter"?  "play the remaining locations in any order you choose"?  The second one doesn't really make sense, either, because in Chapters 2 and 3, the a-b or c-d locations belong narratively in order.

As I said in the link, this is such a clever take on the game - I love the even-more-giant GM dice pool.

Developer

Ope, I think this is a minor typo! The latter sentence should say "Then play chapters  scenes in any order you choose." I'll add it to our list of stuff to fix in the reprint.  

In short: 

  • Play the chapters in order, 1, then 2, then 3, and so on. 
  • Chapters 1 & 4 do not require you to play the scenes within them in order (You could, for instance, play scene A, then scene C, then scene B)
  • Chapters 2 and 3 require their component scenes to be navigated in a more specific order for narrative continuity (unless you modify their contents). The path is A->B->Star or C->D->Star. After reaching the star, you can choose to play the other path to complete every scene in the chapter or go straight to the boss of that chapter. 
  • Chapter 5 scenes are played in order because [REDACTED] is [REDACTED] and you'll have to deal with [REDACTED].

Also, thanks for the review and it was lovely to see you at Gamehole Con! I'm really glad the Saturday morning cartoons energy really shines through. I had a blast in playtesting rolling giant piles of dice as the GM, it really adds a lot a ton of gravitas to the big bad guys or to large swarms of baddies. I hope you can get it to the table soon, and I'd love to hear how it goes!