The Secret of the Night Market

Get ready for a shopping spree from beyond your wildest dreams! 

The Secret of the Night Market is the first adventure zine for Perils & Princesses. Whisk away your party of Princesses to a fairy marketplace packed with weird and wonderful merchants and their fantastical merchandise.

The mysterious Masked Lords preside over the Night Market, where vendors are always eager to cut a deal in stranger currency than coin. They say you can find anything there if you know where to look—and this adventure puts that to the test! Will the Princesses uncover the market’s mysteries to ensure everyone leaves a satisfied customer? Or be trapped in the Night Market forever?

Secret of the Night Market is a zine-length adventure scenario playable by Princesses of any level. It functions as a standalone adventure, or slots easily into an ongoing campaign—it even fits perfectly into the Sweet Revenge module. Thanks to Perils & Princesses’ rules-light, gritty and pretty approach, Night Market can also easily adapt to the game system of your choice with minimal conversion.

Inspired by Christina Rosetti’s narrative poem Goblin Market, William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the fairy otherworlds of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth, and fantastical creatures from Celtic and Slavic myth, Secret of the Night Market provides an unforgettable location and scenario for a one- to three-session adventure.

Get Perils & Princesses and companion adventures Sweet Revenge and The Secret of the Night Market together for a special price in the exclusive Perils & Princess Bundle

Includes:

• Eight fully detailed fantastical market stalls, complete with unique NPC merchants and their wares, PLUS a secret hidden location Princesses have to find in play!
• Dozens of whimsical items, magical effects, books, potions, and experiences to shop around for
• A memorable cast of characters with strong personalities and compelling motivations for Princesses to meet
• Tons of inspiring tables, filled with juicy encounters, tempting side quests, quick NPCs, strange goods and stranger prices
• Hooks for running the adventure as a one-shot or tying it into your campaign
• A self-contained quest that only unfolds as players explore the Night Market
• An irresistible mystery around which the entire market revolves
• Maps, characters, and items lavishly illustrated in signature storybook style by Perils & Princesses artist Ryan Lynch

This book is full to the brim with 36 pages of hand-drawn illustrations of maps, magic, and monsters.

The zine will be digest sized (5.5in  x 8.5in) and saddle bound. Cover stock is uncoated with a soft paper vintage feel.

36 page, 5.5 x 8.5 inch, two-color, saddle-bound booklet

Includes access to digital version