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Explore Genre Storytelling from Pulp Adventure to Horror to Cyber-Noir
Backstory Cards Expansion #1 contains three 15-card themed expansions for Backstory Cards.
Distant Worlds contains prompts that touch on vast travel, legends of lost civilizations, advanced technology, and other themes that fit hard sci-fi and fantastical space opera narratives.
Unseen Threats contains prompts for horror and investigation separately—you can incorporate just the horror cards for survival or action horror, the investigative cards for conspiracy or detective narratives, and of course blend them together for full investigative horror.
Wicked Shadows gets into themes of cyberpunk, something modern noir, and stories from the classic film noir era, as different expressions of the same core ideas: lawlessness, desperation, vigilantism, loose morality, and so on.
About Backstory Cards
Backstory Cards help you and your friends create vibrant backstories for roleplaying games, no matter the system or genre.
Backstory Cards blend your characters and setting concept into an intriguing set of relationships and history. It’s tailor-made for games where the player-characters already know each other—from fantasy adventurers to star marines, from supernatural beings who share the same city to global-hopping troubleshooters.
This deck of cards works well with most roleplaying games, including GM-less ones. It also includes how to directly integrate Backstory Cards into Fate Core and Fate Accelerated ’s character creation.
About the Module
This module can be used with any game system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop, which is required to use this software. Foundry VTT requires a Foundry VTT license.
The module includes interactive Journal Entries for prompt cards as well as New Tags.
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A Card Stack from which you can draw text-based prompt cards with selectable text and expandable tag definitions.
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Journal Entries containing List of Tags, Player Tips, GM Tips, Arrow Diagram, Prompt Card Anatomy, and the complete Backstory Cards Techniques Guide .
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The ability to create a mixed deck to combine your core deck and expansions into one.
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Settings for automatically excluding cards with unwanted tags.
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Light and dark mode versions of fillable setting grid Scenes that include a virtual table for arranging PC tokens to use with the Arrow Diagram when determining intraparty connections.
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Journal Entries linked to imported setting grids with each page linked to each setting element and labels syncing between the setting grid and Journal Entry.
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Macros for drawing prompt cards and rolling a Backstory Die to randomly select another PC from around the table or a setting element in the scene.
Get to the Core of Your Lore
Start creating rich backstories and deep connections with the Backstory Cards core deck!
Expand Your Story
Expansion #2: Even More
Expand the connections between your characters and the world with even more Backstory Cards prompts. Even More expands on the themes presented in the core deck and Expansion #1 with 60 new prompt cards.
Expansion #3: Setting Elements
Setting Elements contains a set of 40 cards providing inspiration for defining unique Individuals, Groups, Places, and Events as well as Motivations! Each card includes multiple suggestions for Traits or Roles as well as prompts to help you enrich your setting elements.
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