Perilous Tales

Perilous Tales is a solo or cooperative tabletop miniatures game in which you play ripping pulp adventures from 1890 to 1990. You create a band of heroes using a simple but flexible character creation system, generate an episode, and play it to its thrilling conclusion!

• Solo or fully cooperative miniatures game.
• 2-foot square playing area.
• Flexible and simple character creation system.
• Generate an episode and play it to its thrilling conclusion!
• Challenging and menacing villain AI.
• Hidden movement and jump scares!
• The play area is beset with hidden threat markets, which may be perilous events, or the terrible beasts that are hunting you.

Fend off unknown beasts in an Arctic camp... Uncover evil doings in an abandoned church... Hunt the wild beast of the Hemwich moors... Ghosts, vampires, fiends from beyond the stars... You are only limited by your collection of miniatures and your imagination.

In each episode, the master and its minions are controlled by the game, using a simple system that determines their behaviour.

Each episode has several objectives that your characters will be striving to complete before time runs out or our plucky heroes are slain. The emphasis is not always on violence, often you are trying to take a critical photograph, recover a crucial artefact, or escape to achieve fame, fortune, or simply to live another day.

Perilous Tales takes its inspiration from HP Lovecraft, The X-Files, John Carpenter, John Landis, Nigel Kneale, Stuart Gordon, Sam Raimi, Doctor Who, Quatermass, Indiana Jones, Universal and Hammer Horror.