Powers and Perils
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Powers & Perils (P&P) is a role-playing game written by Richard Snider and published by Avalon Hill in 1983 as a boxed set. It consisted of four main rule books ("The Character Book", "Combat and Magic", "The Creature Book", and "Treasure and Human Encounters") and a fifth book describing an adventure set in Mordara County. A second boxed set contained information on the world, named Perilous Lands, in the form of three books: "The Map Book", "Sites of Power", and "The Culture Book". Subsequent expansions were printed in Heroes magazine and an adventure for high level characters, Tower of the Dead, was released in 1984. Unfortunately Avalon Hill had no previous experience with role-playing games, being primarily a producer of strategy and war games such as Tactics II, Blitzkrieg and Squad Leader, and Powers & Perils died before its time. Overpricing and strong competition from first edition Dungeons & Dragons saw P&P on store shelves at 2 to 3 times the price being asked for its contemporaries. The game was discontinued after 1984 and all support for it dropped.
