Zhenya's Wonder Tales Now Crowdfunding!
Play a prince, a werewolf, an orphan, a monster hunter, and more to make difficult choices that drive characters towards uncertain endings.
Your perfectly innocent and kind-hearted host, Zhenya, will guide you into a dark world of Slavic- and Baltic-inspired fairy stories with this set of no-prep GMless tabletop roleplaying games from Bully Pulpit Games and designer Jason Morningstar (Fiasco, Night Witches, and Desperation) crowdfunding on BackerKit now!
Zhenya’s Wonder Tales is a set of 6 re-playable card games retelling dark, Slavic-inspired fairy stories for 1-6 players in 1-2 hours.
Incorporate elements of Slavic and Baltic folklore to tell new, hair-raising tales about magical adventures in an eastern Europe that never was, with beautifully bold art by Momatoes. The only choice you'll need to make before you play is which of the 6 different wonder tales you will play.
Wondering what magic Zhenya's Wonder Tales contains? In these games, you might:
- Fall in love with a bear in a moonlit forest
- Bow before the King of Snakes in his underground kingdom
- Marry a shape-changing fairy—or fight one to the death
- Search for your stolen sealskin, high above Devil’s Bridge
- Attend the funeral of Night and console their children, Dawn and Dusk
Each wonder tale includes a set of 22 cards that serve as illumination, inspiration, and grim predestination. As you play, you and your friends will be asked to make choices that will shape the direction of the tale toward happiness—or ruin. A single tale takes about an hour to reach its often surprising, but always satisfying, conclusion.
"Jason's bottled lightning yet again. Zhenya's Wonder Tales is a sleek, lush, and immensely rewarding game. Meticulously researched to capture the dark, sprawling spirit of Eastern European folklore yet written and designed with calculated elegance, all you need is a few friends, a spare hour, and one deck of cards that contains everything you need to play: characters, relationship tensions, conflicting desires, and the various paths to their shared fate. Bully Pulpit doesn't miss!"– Jeeyon Shim, game designer
"Zhenya's is a blast to play and I was impressed at how well it supports a fun and compelling story in under an hour. The card based approach is beginner friendly and the specificity of the content generates strong narratives while still being highly replayable. It's an incredibly impressive game and I look forward to playing all of the stories once when it's released." – Randy Lubin, game designer
Old Zhenya is waiting for you! Won’t you come in, have a hot glass of fireweed tea, and tell a wonder tale together? The BackerKit campaign runs until April 3rd.
