Plane Sailing Games
Tail-End Charlie
Tail-End Charlie
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A tragic role-playing story game about the heroic women spies of the SOE in WW2 France.
The game starts with each of you captured by the Nazis, facing interrogation and death at their hands. Together as players you tell the lonely stories of these brave women through their deployment, missions, and eventual capture, and discover their lives through flashbacks.
Playing cards are used to determine whether the focus of each scene is love, misfortune, success, or death. Each scene involves other characters from that individual’s life — friends, enemies, and bystanders — all of whom are played by other players around the table. Characters introduced in one scene may return in future scenes, for good or ill.
The game ends with a final session where the players discover who lives, who dies, who tells their stories.
Features
- Intense character drama driven by the WW2 espionage setting.
- Playing cards are used to direct the emotional context of scenes.
- GM-less; everybody plays, telling parallel stories.
- Real-life examples are given for each card suit for each of the chapters.
- Short biographies of eight of the women who did this for real.
- Solo diary mode supported.
- Variant rules for long running campaign mode.
What you need to play
- 2-5 players
- 2-4 hours
- A deck of playing cards, pencil and index cards
Shipping
Shipping
I use Royal Mail to ship all books both domestically and internationally. Shipping is real expensive these days but I've kept my margins as low as possible and grouped the shipping costs in weight increments of 250g to hopefully make it as fair as possible!
- Within the UK: £4.50
- Within the EU: starting at £6
- Within the US: starting at £8
- The rest of the world: starting at £7.5
I drop all parcels off with Royal Mail once a week on a Friday. Domestic parcels arrive within 1-2 business days, all other parcels arrive within 4-5 business days after being dropped off with Royal Mail.
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