The Night Market

The Night Market is a stand alone adventure/setting from the creators of Perils & Princesses.  I backed the Kickstarter and got my copy.  Its about 40 (small) pages long with some excellent writing and illustration. My copy was $15.00 is a fair price though I had hopped to get a bit more. (inflation sigh)  

Still its a cool setting sort of a Fairy Realm (or maybe pocket dimension) that serves a a market area were all sort of people can gather.  There are a few catches... no one can leave until the sparrows sing a full song to welcome the sun If someone interrupts them then the night just goes on an on until they can finish singing 

and that the adventure... you got to solve someone's problem to get them to let the birds finish so you can leave.   The other issue is the place is filled with Fairies and other sorts who don't play by the same rules as mortals... The setting could work with minor modifications with D&D, Pathfinder, the White Wolf system or even something like Frostgrave. I've enjoyed playing P&P with my daughter and this will be a fun little adventure   

Perils and Princesses: the Rat King of Fairyland.

 Saturday Evie, Connie, Nicole (Connie's mom) met for another game of Perils and Princesses. We had been asked to clear out the "Rat King" and some cursed bees. Bees are key to the Fairy village's economy so we tried to keep casualties to a minimum.  My character Beleg has an enchanting voice and can sometimes sing enemies to sleep so we used that to our advantage... unfortunately we had to kill the queen (hopefully they have a royal larva).

Eventually we made our way below the storage areas (and the hive that had taken it over) and made our way into the lair of the Rat King (it turns out that Rat Kings are real things check this out if you aren't eating anything) Beleg used his musical ability to inspire her troops.  

I also tried to get the Rat king to case me... but it went after the girls who managed to doge it's attack and after multiple attacks with spear, sword and staff we took it down.  This gave us one of the artifacts (the Rat King's tail, ewe)  we need to break the Candy Curse. 

Perils and Princess: Candy Curse

 My daughter's adventuring party gathered once more.  Our simple forest village had been troubled by strange happening. Creatures that seemed normal but were made of candy, a marshmallow squirrel among others were spotted.  

We were tasked to journey to Deerhollow a town deeper inside the forest. We joined with little trouble until we had almost reached the village where we found a boy being attacked by a bear... A bear that seemed to be partly made of gumdrops 

We were able kill the bear with a quick crossbow shot and a couple of sword slashes. And the boy Roary lead us to the village where we discovered the boy was part Gingerbread... And most of rest of the villages were also in various stages of turning into candy or confections. We spent the rest of the day getting to know the village and looking for a solution to the curse (before it hits us) 

Perils and Princesses the Rosewood crown

 Evie and I played our second game Sunday with Connie and her mom Nicole.  Once again Nicole was the GM guiding us through the passages under a great tree. 

We found a set of double doors blocked by tree roots. The hall was lined with an intricate mosaic. Shatana (Evie's character) noticed the Rosewood Crown in the mosaic and decided to try touching it. The crown fell into her hands and the tree roots moved out of the way as if by magic.

Entering the room we saw the heart of the trees magic and a skeleton with the crown and a sword...

Shatana 's animal companion tried to grab the crown but couldn't before the skeleton (a wight) awoken and attacked. He tried to use fear magic on Shatana but she resisted. 

Lily (Connie's character) used her elemental magic to hurl a stone at the Wight while Shatana flailed at him with her staff.  I was having bad luck with my sword as I was still suffering from the effects of spider poison and took a bad hit. 

It was looking grim but I got lucky making a grab for the crown and to my surprise it worked.  My plan has been to just grab it then run... But to my surprise without the crown the Wight crumbled into dust. 

We returned the crown and got visits from our fairy godmothers (everyone has one) telling us we had done well and granting us some new abilities.

It was a lot of fun and I hope to introduce miniatures the next go round.

Perils and Princess

This was a great weekend of game I'm going to start with Sunday because it was a very special day.  We have become close with a family at our church who have a daughter (Connie) the same age as Evie. Connie's parents are active D&D players and they mentioned a game called Perils & Princess a fairytale inspired RPG and asked if Evie and I would like to play. We both agreed enthusiastically and we played for the first time Sunday.

Character creation is a mix of asking questions and rolling dice and you get some interesting results.  Everyone has a different "Fairy Godmother" that effects your special abilities.  My character "Beleg" is good at singing, reciting poetry and a acting.  I can inspire friends and maybe put enemies to sleep. (Yes I kinda a Bard) 

Evie Character "Shatana" is good at making friends and has an animal sidekick. Connie's character Lily is about to shape earth and stone and and speak with stones and trees.  

Well we are exploring an cave complex under a giant tree at the heart of the forest.  Our first encounter was with a giant spider.  Evie decided to try and make the spider her friend.  

Shatana walked right up to the spider gave it a big hug and said " Let's be friends. " Beleg and Lily looked on in amazement as the spider spoke "You seem nice but I'm really hungry " and the then the spider jump on Lily.  I tried attacking with my sword but got bitten and poisoned... Shatana then got angry with the Spider for attacking an beat it to death with her staff. ( It was a proud gaming Dad moment). 

We were more successful making friends with a mischievous bumblebee fairy who gave us magical mushrooms. It was a fun day and both Evie and I are looking forward to our next session. 

Sorry the wall of text but we didn't use miniatures so there isn't much to take pictures of.