Pilgrims of Misfortune

28 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" saddle stitched zine, color cover, black & white interior. New.

Pilgrims of Misfortune is an open world dice game in the folk gaming tradition. One player is the Comptroller who presents an imaginary world to the other players who control Player Characters that interact with it. It takes inspiration from games such as Cairn, The Black Hack, and Dungeons & Dragons: Forbidden Edition. As tradition dictates, it uses random character generation and simple guidelines for adjudicating any uncertainties that arise during otherworldly explorations.

This tome contains the rules for creating characters and playing the game but that is not all! It will also include a mapped portion of another world for these characters to explore, with holy shrines, ancient tombs, and powerful relics to find! But all is not sunshine and smiles, pilgrim! For also in this tome are dangers that await you, things that creep in the dark, things that hunger for blood, things that should not be considered lightly. There are friends and foes to be met in the otherworlds, and they are rarely what they appear to be.