Urban Faerie: Pocket Edition (PRINT)

THE LITTLE PEOPLE HAVE MOVED IN

They live beneath the floorboards, behind the plaster and inside the walls.

They steal your food, break your appliances, torment your pets and hold bitter territorial disputes in the airing cupboard.

You call them vermin.

They call you filthy humans.

Urban Faerie: Pocket Edition is a complete comedy roleplaying game about tiny, magical troublemakers struggling to survive in the enormous, filthy and baffling world of modern humanity.

The faeries of legend have not vanished. They have adapted.

They live like rats in the walls of houses, shops, pubs, offices and tower blocks, scavenging human rubbish, stealing useful objects and attempting to preserve some vestige of ancient faerie dignity while sheltering inside discarded crisp packets.

To a faerie, an ordinary home is an entire fantasy kingdom. The kitchen is a treasure-filled wilderness. The bathroom is a lethal swamp. The garden contains monsters. The local supermarket offers riches beyond imagination—provided you can cross the car park without being flattened.

Create your own urban faerie, gather your companions and venture into a world where almost everything is bigger, stronger and less observant than you are.

Inside you’ll find:

• Complete rules for creating and playing modern faeries.

• A quick and accessible Beer & Crisps game system.

• Faerie abilities, magic and assorted miniature mischief.

• Rules for navigating and surviving the human world.

• Advice for creating adventures from an entirely different perspective.

• Human beings, animals and environmental hazards rendered appropriately enormous.

• Opportunities for theft, sabotage, exploration and completely disproportionate revenge.

• The complete introductory adventure “Gives You Wings”.

• Everything required for one-off games, convention sessions or longer campaigns of diminutive chaos.

Urban Faerie turns the familiar modern world into a dangerous fantasy landscape.

A discarded mobile telephone becomes an arcane artefact. A journey across the living-room carpet becomes an expedition. A drunken human stumbling home at midnight becomes an unpredictable natural disaster.

This is not a game about graceful immortals holding court beneath the moonlight.

These faeries are grubby, vindictive, opportunistic little bastards who have learned to survive among humanity through stealth, cunning and the occasional carefully arranged household accident.

Humans have poisoned the rivers, paved over the wild places and filled the air with smoke.

The faeries intend to respond by hiding your keys.

POCKET EDITION

• Complete standalone roleplaying game

• 71 pages

• A5 paperback: 148 × 210 mm

• Black-and-white interior

• Perfect-bound

• Uses the Beer & Crisps system

• Includes the adventure “Gives You Wings”

• Written by James “Grim” Desborough

A fast, silly and surprisingly vicious game for players who enjoy urban fantasy, miniature mayhem and discovering just how hostile an ordinary kitchen becomes when you are six inches tall.

The old magic is still alive.

It is nesting behind the fridge.