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Fish Out of Water - the RPG of mermaid field trips

Created by Bardic Armadillo

A lighthearted RPG about discovering culture and dry land. Join your mermaid friends to explore new cultures and have adventures in human cities. You have three days to achieve your goals, learn new skills, and get back to the water in time.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Tails and heads
28 days ago – Fri, Aug 21, 2026 at 01:24:19 AM

Hello Mermaid fans!

The sample of the coins has arrived and we are so excited! They look amazing! Don't believe me? See for yourself!

We've also got approval from BackerKit to start split shipping. So items will be leaving our warehouse to their distribution hubs this week. The game itself is moving through final editing and layout and we are confident that we'll have it off to the printer in the next three weeks. Thanks for your patience on this, we want to make sure it's as close to perfect as it can be.

Want to see it at Spiel? Visit the Bardic Armadillo booth 2A-100. Or how about stopping by the Burning Wheel booth at PAX Unplugged to chat with Jared?

Talk again soon!
Cheers

Cover, Coins, and Gen Con
2 months ago – Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 05:47:35 PM

Hello Fish Out of Water folks,

A quick update on where we are with the project and some art stuff we wanted to share.

First, Jared has been working hard on the layout and design. A computer failure and replacement slowed things down a bit, but he's back up and running and we are moving ahead. But our front cover is here and looking fun!
 

We have some spots available at our Gen Con game tables still available, look for "Big Convention, Little Mermaids - an Out of Water Body Experience" by Bardic Armadillo. We're also sending a Quick Rules guide and Pre-made characters sheets out to players. If you named a mermaid, you might recognize someone you know in those sheets :) .

Wanna see? They are available in this Dropbox file (click here).

We've also thought long and hard about your rewards, and so many of you snagged extra items and additional games, and those are already ready that making you wait any longer for that seems silly. So we're going to do a two part shipment, with everything except the Fish Out of Water materials coming just after Gen Con and then the Fish Out of Water materials shipping as soon as they are ready. We hope you approve.

Cheers!
Bardic Armadillo 

Fish Out of Water at UKGE, GenCon
4 months ago – Sat, May 23, 2026 at 11:29:31 PM

Hi FooW fans!

The good news: The coin design has been approved and is being cast by our vendor now. The cover design is being approved this week.

The less good news: We are working hard on the layout of FooW, it's moving forward and looking super cute. We do need to admit that the layout is taking a bit longer than we had hoped. We've had to go back to one of our artists to get some extra page elements to increase the cuteness level. 

What this means for you? We probably won't have the games delivered before GenCon. We know this is disappointing (for you and for us). BUT the game itself is ready, so we'll be running it at GenCon. There are seats available at these tables. They can be found in the GenCon Events Catalog.

If you want to chat with us about this or anything else, Bardic Armadillo will be at UKGE this coming week, Booth 3-301. Memento Mori Theatricks will be at GenCon at the Burning Wheel booth. Bardic Armadillo is running the game tables at GenCon.

Thanks and we'll keep you up to date as we move forward.

Cheers.

The Finish Line!
6 months ago – Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 02:43:12 AM

We are only a few hours from the end of this campaign, and I have to say a huge thanks for all the support and mermaid love we've received.  

And! Our coin artist has sent over the final design for the coins. We want you to be the first to see them.


Don't forget, the Ask a Mermaid Anything is still up, so if you have any questions for our resident mermaid be sure to send those over right away. Some of them will make their way into the book, but only those that we receive soon.

Thank you for you support. We are very grateful and are moving forward with the layout and designs stages now.

Oh, and we're going to add a new sticker option. Our fab main art team has finished the designs for our little crab character, Kani. So we're going to make a sticker sheet for him and some other mermaid stuff.  And we've got the final mermaid character art, too. So we're going to make art prints of these characters available. You'll be able to order these items on the final Add-On menu when you get your survey.

Wanna see Kani? Of course you do, he’s adorable!


Surveys are coming out at the end of this week.

Cheers,
Lindsey B.

AMA - Ask a Mermaid Anything
6 months ago – Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 10:35:58 PM

Hi!

We'd love to hear from you. So we're opening an AMA - Ask a Mermaid Anything! We'll be selecting some of the questions submitted and including them in the Fish Out of Water book, answered by our resident mermaid.

So what would you like to know about mermaid life, society, adventures, habits, or anything else in the Fish Out of Water mermaid world? 

Only Backers are eligible for the AMA, so if you haven't backed yet, what's holding you back?