Emily Greymoore is a British Iraqi woman who moved to the States. You might know her from award-winning actual plays.
The designer’s Kickstarter, The Cunning Folk, is a rules-lite of mischief. Players are trickster spirits. The campaign has hit its funding target, and it runs until April 30th. You can follow the project online.
The approach The Cunning Folk takes is to use a bunch of d6s, each with a 50/50 chance of success, and when failure is merely a complication.
Characters have Luck and Magick, which are used to shape revenge, sometimes hilarious revenge, against the Offender.
The GM gets to call out, “It’s time for Mischief!” before asking players to roll the dice.
The Cunning Folk lurk just outside of our perception. They play tricks on us by hiding our socks when we’re already running late or swapping sugar for salt and spoiling our cups of tea. Sure, the odd individual may run afoul of the Folk and end up eaten. But it was probably their fault for neglecting to leave a bowl of milk by their front door on the night of the spring equinox, anyway.
Backers who pledge $15 or more get a PDF copy of The Cunning Folk.
At, $25, there’s also a perfect-bound softcover added to the rewards. The PDF is slated for May, but the printed edition is due in October.
A bonus limited edition art print by RossyDoesDrawings is added for those at the $35 mark.
The same deal plus a digital community copy for someone else, is nearly as popular and available at $50.
The final tier, $500, gets your name in the book and a signed book, plus the previous rewards.
