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  • Storycaster is a card game that you play during Session Zero (or pre-campaign prep) to create fantasy settings, characters, factions, and events. Draw and combine illustrated prompt cards, organize your ideas into a storyboard using our fun; easy to learn rules, and take your ideas to your RPG campaign. Infinitely replayable solo or with friends. Compatible with any TTRPG system.

  • Session Zero is a meeting held before a normal tabletop role playing game session. It is typically meant to lay out table and safety rules for the players and GM, flesh out the world you’ll be exploring during the campaign, create characters and establish their backstories, and handle all other pre-campaign prep.

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Intros

Start by getting to know the players at the table. This phase sets the tone, helps spark creativity, and loosens everyone up.

Safety Rules

Before you begin, take time to establish safety tools and boundaries. This phase ensures everyone feels respected, heard, and comfortable.

The Setting

Storycaster provides guidelines to help GMs give a short overview of the world—covering key themes, magic, technology, and the kinds of stories you’ll tell.

World Building
Character Backstories

Players build the setting together using Storycaster cards. Create regions, places, factions, and characters that are the foundation for your campaign.

Let's Roll - Dice in circle

Create characters that feel like they belong in the world—shaped by its settings and conflicts. Start the campaign with a party that share history and purpose.

With a world built and a party united, you’re ready to roll up your characters and set off on the right foot toward adventure!

Heading - Expansions

  • Realm of the Fae is a Session Zero Expansion designed for players who want to add a flavor of Fairies, Ancient Forests, and Deep Magic to their campaigns. Fey themed story elements and Intrigue cards come in this expansion pack, ready for you and your party to chart a path in a shifting, ethereal wood of your own creation.

  • Storycaster Expansions are designed to work as a stand alone version of Storycaster if you are planning a specific themed campaign. Or, you can mix and match story elements and intrigue cards with the base version of Storycaster: Session Zero cards, or other expansions, to create settings and characters with a magical twist.

  • Ice & Stone is a Session Zero Expansion designed for players who want to add a flavor of dwarven cities, glittering caves, and treacherous mountains to their campaigns. Master-crafted story elements and Intrigue cards come in this expansion pack, ready for you and your party to mine greedily and deeply into the depths.

  • Storycaster Expansions are designed to work as a stand alone version of Storycaster if you are planning a specific themed campaign. Or, you can mix and match story elements and intrigue cards with the base version of Storycaster: Session Zero cards, or other expansions, to create settings and characters with a bejeweled twist.

  • Into the Dark is a Session Zero Expansion designed for players who want to add a flavor of endless caverns, eldritch monsters, and sadistic denizens to their campaigns. Subterranean story elements and Intrigue cards come in this expansion pack, ready for you and your party to chart a path in an underground network of your own creation.

  • Storycaster Expansions are designed to work as a stand alone version of Storycaster if you are planning a specific themed campaign. Or, you can mix and match story elements and intrigue cards with the base version of Storycaster: Session Zero cards, or other expansions, to create settings and characters with a dark twist.