Session 34 — May 2, 2026
Summary
Locked in the official project name and tagline. The game is no longer “Chef RPG” — it’s Today’s Specials, with the tagline “Serving up the dish you need.” This shift reflects that the game is about a traveling diner crew (not just chefs) and the mysterious menu that arrives.
✅ Locked: Project Identity
Official Name: Today’s Specials
Tagline: Serving up the dish you need
Rationale:
- Removes “Chef” from the title, opening the game to any restaurant role (baker, butcher, barbaquere, brewer)
- Centers the cozy mystery: the chalkboard with self-updating specials, the recipes that appear overnight, the orders with no customer
- Double meaning in the tagline: both the literal meal and the mysterious challenge/experience the diner serves up
- Reflects the world identity locked in Session 33 (traveling diner, unknown sender, seeds as anchors)
What This Changes:
- Project branding across the site (landing page, rulebook landing, all downstream copy)
- Canonical routes are
/projects/todays-specials/*;/projects/chef-rpg/*redirects to the new paths - All “Chef RPG” references in text become “Today’s Specials”
- No changes to game mechanics — only naming and presentation
Addendum (2026-05-03): Route migration implemented — legacy chef-rpg URLs redirect to todays-specials.
Next Steps
- Update landing page and all downstream text to reflect new name/tagline
- Sketch out improved information architecture for
/projects/todays-specials/rulebook(currently a flat list) - Take inventory of existing content vs. world-building lore content needed
- Build a better flow that weaves lore and mechanics together
Captured Session 34 — May 2, 2026. Project name locked in.