The rich drained the world of its resources, and when the world woke up to what was happening, they chose to build dungeons and fortresses to hide away rather than face the consequences of their greed. The centuries have worn down these once-impervious strongholds, and the desperate inhabitants of the barren world are more desperate than ever to breach these strongholds and claim the resources inside for themselves.

You are the bravest, most capable, or the most foolhardy of these people. You want to break down these fortresses to help those that you love, and to bring vengeance to those that starved you.

This game is designed to be easy to learn with simple but flexible rules. If anything doesn't make sense, contact me and I will fix it! I can't afford an editor so mistakes happen.


Requires: at least two players (one to GM and one or more to play as characters), multiple six-sided dice

Contains: The core mechanics for playing this game, guidelines for creating a character, five pre-built characters, a town with five original locations, a dungeon with five perilous rooms

This book leaves lots of room for you to fill in your own details about the world and characters. There is enough to run your own adventure, but making your own using these rules is also strongly encouraged. The game is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, so please hack this game if you want to, and please sell your hacks if you want to!

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Perils and Parasites Singles 1.1.pdf 90 kB
Perils and Parasites Spreads.pdf 69 kB

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