I just got my deck of worlds the other day and having only scratched the surface, I've already come up with a few awesome ideas. I love using it and how easy it is to get ideas flowing, especially sharing ideas and having someone else interpret it in their own way. I'm going to have to buy everything!
So glad you're enjoying it! And yes, doing prompts with other people is so much fun and so interesting. I've learned so much from getting to see other people's creative process in action!
Yes!!!! I just got the pdf of world deck yesterday and going to get some playing cards to put the eco cards on and I have a smaller area so the smaller cards work best. I used to write and tell stories when I was a kid but I feel like my imagination has died. So something like this would really boost it and I think it would be so fun for my husband and I to create a whole world together. And maybe I'll write stories that happen in that world, or maybe do solo rpgs in my world. Or maybe a mix of both. Where I have a character and I let random events inspire the story and I'm just so excited. Need to get all the decks.
This convinced me to purchase the starter set with the fantasy and horror expansions. I've always wanted to develop story ideas for either making indie games or writting my own homebrew DnD campaigns, but never had the tools to help me organize this physically on paper. Thanks a lot for creating this!
This is so good! Thank you so much for doing this. I was one of the people requesting this type of prompt building, with you speaking out your ideas, and it's just so awesome to hear and see the juices flowing, and how your ideas pop up. After messing with the PDF I've noticed just flipping a card over can immediately throw a huge boost of inspiration into your mind. I'm looking to pick up the Deck of Worlds, as well as... well, I want everything honestly lol. It just seems like a great piece for me as someone who is a screenwriter. I can come up with endless short stories that may slowly evolve into full length motion pictures
Honestly, I am loving the heck out of the Story Engine, I used it to help me get my writing going for many RPG sessions. I cannot wait for the Deck of Worlds to come out to start combining them, and this video has shown me just the potential of the two together! Thank you for creating both of these beautiful creative tools.
I pledged for both the Story Engine & Deck of Worlds and this video was so exciting to see how they can be combined. I can see my GMing going to another level using these to write exciting new content.
this is SO COOL, thank you for showing us how the two decks work together! I'm sure you have a lot of practice, seeing as you came up with these decks and have made demos and short stories from them before, but I'm very impressed at how quickly you can draw a card and come up with an idea from the prompt. Even in sections where you haven't cut the video! I just received my Story Engine set a few days ago and I'm still getting used to it, so of course it takes me much longer to choose something off the card and conceptualize what it means for the whole. the idea of exercising my brain in a way that will eventually let me find those creative connections as quickly as you do is very exciting! thank you for creating these tools!
Thanks for the kind words, Octobelus! Interpreting the cards is definitely a skill that gets easier with practice, and I imagine you'll notice yourself picking it up fairly quickly. The biggest part is giving yourself permission to ignore or reinterpret the bits that aren't working for you. For context, the original unedited video was about 23 minutes, so I cut 9ish minutes of dead air or me going "umm... uh..." or overexplaining my choices as I put the prompt together, so it looks a lot smoother when it's all cut together.
I think they really pair quite naturally together! As with the guidebook to The Story Engine Deck, I am likely going to refine an easy-to-follow set of guidelines to get users comfortable doing more improvising.
@@StoryEngineDeck I love world building, but always have a hard time devloping singular characters out of their that aren't part of local myth or legends. Your video really shows what can be done, and I'm looking forward to seeing those guidelines!
I received my base set of Story Engine today and look forward to working with it. It seems, every card only exists once, which means, I will make sure to, over time, buy several copies. Up to three copies of the base and each expansion/booster. That way, prompts from a card already used can potentially come up again
I'm glad you're looking forward to using it! Yes, every prompt on every card is unique, but the cards are meant to be shuffled and re-used so usually one copy of each is enough.
Im a new writer and this is such a cool idea! One question: are all of the cards on a more “mystical” level? I suppose I could take the card and make it fit into the “real world” though. Thank you!
Great question, Marci! For The Story Engine Deck, the main deck cards are all non-genre-specific things that connect to the real world and can be used for just about any sort of fiction. For the Deck of Worlds, the main deck does not have explicit "magic" in the cues and it's technically also non-genre-specific, but many of cards have a mythical/fantasy vibe (especially the Namesake deck). If you like, you can DL the free demo decks from our website to see if they fit your writing style.
How I see using the decks together, either a deck of world setting take the place of an anchor card, a story engine prompt replace an advent card, or any deck of worlds element or set the story engine prompt in a world using the deck of worlds.
All of those ideas work! We also have official Bridge Expansions available for pre-order through our Lore Master's Deck campaign! www.storyenginedeck.com/lore
My biggest problem is that I create some amazing ideas and want to share them with everyone. But then I get excited about putting that idea into my d&d campaign, and suddenly I can't tell anyone around me because they are all my players. I recently formed the core of an adventure plot into an ancient pyramid where an astral healer wants to gather some sort of resource. But what is an astral healer? I'm thinking about just making it up and seeing what my players guess an astral healer is :)
Alright, hear me out: run two D&D groups with separate friend groups who don't overlap. Then you can share spoilers for one campaign with the other group, and vice versa! Also, TWICE AS MUCH D&D! No downside.
Combining the decks is totally optional and definitely a bit advanced, so don't feel bad if it feels challenging at first. Each of the decks is fairly simple to use on its own, and you may find that as you become more familiar with them individually, it gets easier to combine them and use them in new ways.
I just got my deck of worlds the other day and having only scratched the surface, I've already come up with a few awesome ideas. I love using it and how easy it is to get ideas flowing, especially sharing ideas and having someone else interpret it in their own way. I'm going to have to buy everything!
So glad you're enjoying it! And yes, doing prompts with other people is so much fun and so interesting. I've learned so much from getting to see other people's creative process in action!
Yes!!!! I just got the pdf of world deck yesterday and going to get some playing cards to put the eco cards on and I have a smaller area so the smaller cards work best. I used to write and tell stories when I was a kid but I feel like my imagination has died. So something like this would really boost it and I think it would be so fun for my husband and I to create a whole world together. And maybe I'll write stories that happen in that world, or maybe do solo rpgs in my world. Or maybe a mix of both. Where I have a character and I let random events inspire the story and I'm just so excited. Need to get all the decks.
I hopefully will be ordering both decks and some boosters on Friday August 30, 2024. I can't wait to use them.😀🌍
This convinced me to purchase the starter set with the fantasy and horror expansions. I've always wanted to develop story ideas for either making indie games or writting my own homebrew DnD campaigns, but never had the tools to help me organize this physically on paper. Thanks a lot for creating this!
Thanks so much for checking it out!
This is so good! Thank you so much for doing this. I was one of the people requesting this type of prompt building, with you speaking out your ideas, and it's just so awesome to hear and see the juices flowing, and how your ideas pop up.
After messing with the PDF I've noticed just flipping a card over can immediately throw a huge boost of inspiration into your mind.
I'm looking to pick up the Deck of Worlds, as well as... well, I want everything honestly lol. It just seems like a great piece for me as someone who is a screenwriter. I can come up with endless short stories that may slowly evolve into full length motion pictures
These two decks will be so helpful in creating my new homebrew world for my next D&D campaign
This is so cool. I wish I had this year's ago
We hope it brings you some inspiration for new projects!
Honestly, I am loving the heck out of the Story Engine, I used it to help me get my writing going for many RPG sessions. I cannot wait for the Deck of Worlds to come out to start combining them, and this video has shown me just the potential of the two together!
Thank you for creating both of these beautiful creative tools.
Thanks so much, and I'm so glad the deck is helping with your DMing!
I pledged for both the Story Engine & Deck of Worlds and this video was so exciting to see how they can be combined.
I can see my GMing going to another level using these to write exciting new content.
I'm so excited for you to try it out!
Enjoying these videos, can't wait for the release!
Thanks Pete! I plan to do one every few weeks so folks can have ideas to play with in the meantime!
I love it! next month I will purchase both!
Yay! Thank you!
I can’t wait for the deck of worlds, it’s going to be so much fun!
Can't wait to send out the beta files later this year!
this is SO COOL, thank you for showing us how the two decks work together!
I'm sure you have a lot of practice, seeing as you came up with these decks and have made demos and short stories from them before, but I'm very impressed at how quickly you can draw a card and come up with an idea from the prompt. Even in sections where you haven't cut the video! I just received my Story Engine set a few days ago and I'm still getting used to it, so of course it takes me much longer to choose something off the card and conceptualize what it means for the whole. the idea of exercising my brain in a way that will eventually let me find those creative connections as quickly as you do is very exciting! thank you for creating these tools!
Thanks for the kind words, Octobelus! Interpreting the cards is definitely a skill that gets easier with practice, and I imagine you'll notice yourself picking it up fairly quickly. The biggest part is giving yourself permission to ignore or reinterpret the bits that aren't working for you.
For context, the original unedited video was about 23 minutes, so I cut 9ish minutes of dead air or me going "umm... uh..." or overexplaining my choices as I put the prompt together, so it looks a lot smoother when it's all cut together.
Thanks heaps for this video. It’s great to see these systems together. I purchased both in the Kickstarter, so excited for it
Awesome, I think they provide a ton of mileage and storytelling opportunity when you combine them!
@@StoryEngineDeck really excited to see what comes from it.
Been wondering about this. I'm so excited to use both!!!
I think they really pair quite naturally together! As with the guidebook to The Story Engine Deck, I am likely going to refine an easy-to-follow set of guidelines to get users comfortable doing more improvising.
@@StoryEngineDeck I love world building, but always have a hard time devloping singular characters out of their that aren't part of local myth or legends.
Your video really shows what can be done, and I'm looking forward to seeing those guidelines!
Combination of two decks may be a synergy.
For sure!
I received my base set of Story Engine today and look forward to working with it. It seems, every card only exists once, which means, I will make sure to, over time, buy several copies. Up to three copies of the base and each expansion/booster. That way, prompts from a card already used can potentially come up again
I'm glad you're looking forward to using it! Yes, every prompt on every card is unique, but the cards are meant to be shuffled and re-used so usually one copy of each is enough.
The alternative backs also look good.
Im a new writer and this is such a cool idea! One question: are all of the cards on a more “mystical” level? I suppose I could take the card and make it fit into the “real world” though. Thank you!
Great question, Marci! For The Story Engine Deck, the main deck cards are all non-genre-specific things that connect to the real world and can be used for just about any sort of fiction. For the Deck of Worlds, the main deck does not have explicit "magic" in the cues and it's technically also non-genre-specific, but many of cards have a mythical/fantasy vibe (especially the Namesake deck). If you like, you can DL the free demo decks from our website to see if they fit your writing style.
@@StoryEngineDeck thanks for replying so quickly and I will check out your site! Thanks so much!
How I see using the decks together, either a deck of world setting take the place of an anchor card, a story engine prompt replace an advent card, or any deck of worlds element or set the story engine prompt in a world using the deck of worlds.
All of those ideas work! We also have official Bridge Expansions available for pre-order through our Lore Master's Deck campaign! www.storyenginedeck.com/lore
My biggest problem is that I create some amazing ideas and want to share them with everyone. But then I get excited about putting that idea into my d&d campaign, and suddenly I can't tell anyone around me because they are all my players. I recently formed the core of an adventure plot into an ancient pyramid where an astral healer wants to gather some sort of resource. But what is an astral healer? I'm thinking about just making it up and seeing what my players guess an astral healer is :)
Alright, hear me out: run two D&D groups with separate friend groups who don't overlap. Then you can share spoilers for one campaign with the other group, and vice versa! Also, TWICE AS MUCH D&D! No downside.
i feel like this is too advanced for me.
Combining the decks is totally optional and definitely a bit advanced, so don't feel bad if it feels challenging at first. Each of the decks is fairly simple to use on its own, and you may find that as you become more familiar with them individually, it gets easier to combine them and use them in new ways.
Alpha and omega🫶🏼
ALL OF THE CARDS!