Zhenyas Wonder Tales + complimentary PDF
Zhenya’s Wonder Tales is a set of 6 card games retelling dark, Slavic-inspired fairy stories in 1-2 hours.
It is a game that incorporates elements of Slavic and Baltic folklore to tell new, hair-raising tales about magical adventures in an eastern Europe that never was. The art firmly situates the players in this fairy tale realm that is similar, but not quite the same, as what they are probably used to and expecting.
Enter a dark world of Slavic- and Baltic-inspired fairy stories. Your perfectly innocent and kind-hearted host, Zhenya, will guide you. Fall in love with a bear. Bow before the King of the Snakes. Marry a shape-changing fairy —or fight one to the death. Search for your stolen skin, high above Devil’s Bridge. Attend the funeral of Night and console their children, Dawn and Dusk.
Enter a dark world of Slavic- and Baltic-inspired fairy stories. Your perfectly innocent and kind-hearted host, Zhenya, will guide you. Fall in love with a bear. Bow before the King of the Snakes. Marry a shape-changing fairy —or fight one to the death. Search for your stolen skin, 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.
Old Zhenya is waiting for you! Won’t you come in, have a hot glass of fireweed tea, and tell a wonder tale together?
What’s in the Box?
Zhenya’s Wonder Tales comes with a deck of 135 full-color playing cards in a lovely, compact, magnetic-closure box (similar to the one we used for Desperation).
The deck includes six replayable one-shot games of 22 cards each, with glorious, evocative illustrations by award-winning artist Momatoes, and includes the cards you need to tell a story weirder than anything the Brothers Grimm ever cooked up, in about an hour.
Together with a clear set of instructions, including advice for solo and large group play, Zhenya’s Wonder Tales packs a lot of fun into the box.
In addition, we'll be including a custom 8.5 x 11" canvas map of Zorovna in each box, illustrated by Sovanny Vorn and featuring all the locations from the Wonder Tales!
The deck includes six replayable one-shot games of 22 cards each, with glorious, evocative illustrations by award-winning artist Momatoes, and includes the cards you need to tell a story weirder than anything the Brothers Grimm ever cooked up, in about an hour.
Together with a clear set of instructions, including advice for solo and large group play, Zhenya’s Wonder Tales packs a lot of fun into the box.
In addition, we'll be including a custom 8.5 x 11" canvas map of Zorovna in each box, illustrated by Sovanny Vorn and featuring all the locations from the Wonder Tales!
