Storytellers Forge

Official account of Storytellers Forge on tumblr! Welcome to a creator focused studio making TTRPG's, novels, and all sorts of beautiful chaos! contact: [email protected] website: https://www.storytellersforge.com/

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LAST FIVE HOURS

Now THAT is a beautiful sight to behold! We have five hours left before the Backerkit closes and all those lovely special edition pretties are laid claim to....think we can get to the 80k stretch goal?? Thank you everyone who got us to this point, we're super stoked that we've not only made our goal but we've made stretch goals, including the most important one, making sure our creators get raises!! That's right we pay our artists and make sure they're taken care of <3

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Dark Carnival TTRPG time!!!

The Festival of the Forgotten is coming to your kingdom, and you are invited to attend! To witness the spectacle of your freaks and outcasts when they were nurtured and allowed to thrive. Come see the wonders beyond your high walls and try your skill at unearthly games for prizes that your peers will covet. For the party who never fit in, welcome to the Dark Carnival! Written by the Eldritch Author and Storyteller's Forge, this book is a glorious option for interrupting your current campaign....or joining a new one. Join us on backerkit here, we're *so close* to being funded, and we have some wonderful stretch goals, including minis to add some proper flair to the table with your own Eldritch Ringmaster

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just about 500 bucks away from funded! Which breaks down to either two loot boxes worth or seven hardcovers.... Lets GOOOOO!!!

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FULLY FUNDED YEAHH BABY! But we're not over yet! We still have stretch goals! Let's get us some soundtracks, minis, extra bestiaries and extra art into this!!!!!

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1100 shy of our first stretch goal!!! WOO! Looks like more gorgeous art is headed our way folks! Up next to aim for, added chapter on the cosmology of the Dark Carnival! Learn the Dark Ringmaster's origins, explore the Threefold Realms!

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Dark Carnival TTRPG time!!!

The Festival of the Forgotten is coming to your kingdom, and you are invited to attend! To witness the spectacle of your freaks and outcasts when they were nurtured and allowed to thrive. Come see the wonders beyond your high walls and try your skill at unearthly games for prizes that your peers will covet. For the party who never fit in, welcome to the Dark Carnival! Written by the Eldritch Author and Storyteller's Forge, this book is a glorious option for interrupting your current campaign....or joining a new one. Join us on backerkit here, we're *so close* to being funded, and we have some wonderful stretch goals, including minis to add some proper flair to the table with your own Eldritch Ringmaster

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just about 500 bucks away from funded! Which breaks down to either two loot boxes worth or seven hardcovers.... Lets GOOOOO!!!

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FULLY FUNDED YEAHH BABY! But we're not over yet! We still have stretch goals! Let's get us some soundtracks, minis, extra bestiaries and extra art into this!!!!!

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Dark Carnival TTRPG time!!!

The Festival of the Forgotten is coming to your kingdom, and you are invited to attend! To witness the spectacle of your freaks and outcasts when they were nurtured and allowed to thrive. Come see the wonders beyond your high walls and try your skill at unearthly games for prizes that your peers will covet. For the party who never fit in, welcome to the Dark Carnival! Written by the Eldritch Author and Storyteller's Forge, this book is a glorious option for interrupting your current campaign....or joining a new one. Join us on backerkit here, we're *so close* to being funded, and we have some wonderful stretch goals, including minis to add some proper flair to the table with your own Eldritch Ringmaster

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just about 500 bucks away from funded! Which breaks down to either two loot boxes worth or seven hardcovers.... Lets GOOOOO!!!

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Dark Carnival TTRPG time!!!

The Festival of the Forgotten is coming to your kingdom, and you are invited to attend! To witness the spectacle of your freaks and outcasts when they were nurtured and allowed to thrive. Come see the wonders beyond your high walls and try your skill at unearthly games for prizes that your peers will covet. For the party who never fit in, welcome to the Dark Carnival! Written by the Eldritch Author and Storyteller's Forge, this book is a glorious option for interrupting your current campaign....or joining a new one. Join us on backerkit here, we're *so close* to being funded, and we have some wonderful stretch goals, including minis to add some proper flair to the table with your own Eldritch Ringmaster

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It ain't easy making it as a TTRPG design studio when it takes a baseline amount of effort just to convince a lot of people that your profession is even real. Like, those rules and numbers, we didn't just fill the pages up with a bunch of random nonsense, we put those in the rulebook for a reason, so that following them would result in particular challenges and experiences.

Game design is real! It is possible to play a TTRPG wrong, because the TTRPG's rulebook exists solely to tell you how to play this particular TTRPG right, and in a well-designed game, that will lead to a particular experience that the authors are trying to sell you.

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To help illustrate my point to anyone who might be unfamiliar with the concept of taking a TTRPG's rules at their word, I invite anyone to share their experiences where you, like, followed the rules of a TTRPG and thus had a good experience, particularly rules that you weren't so sure about, or that you definitely would not have done in your campaign unless the rulebook insisted.

I know for sure a ton of y'all have had that experience with Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy because at least once a week somebody tells us (paraphrasing) "we thought you were fucking insane for putting [this rule] in the rulebook, but we tried it out anyway, and wow it worked so well and we had such a good time!"

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Honestly dying as mechanic in DnD. The most fun I’ve had in DnD is when my GM wasn’t pulling punches. The encounters felt so much more engaging the stakes were so much higher and it lead to better stories.

It felt bad the first time sure, it always feels a little bad if you really cared about your player character. That’s why you’re going to pay more attention to combat, be more careful around traps, take more calculated risks and take n many other measures to avoid it. Death has its place in the narrative space too! Your fellow players are probably just as sad to your character go, and their characters will probably react appropriately. A pc death can alter the course of a campaign! The stakes become more personal become more personal! It can be a character defining moment, for your soon to die pc and for others in the party! It need to always be so grand to be an interesting moment. A silly mistake leading to another pc death is just as impactful, for the player who committed it and for the character. A string of bad rolls is sometimes the most dramatic moment in rpg if death is a possibility.

Additionally, you can have the ooc comedy of having your pc Jane ask about “what kind of man was John (also your pc)?” whenever they are referenced in game. It can make for good rp too. In short, be ok with your gm killing you pc! You’ll have fun

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NDU AWARDS!

Black Ballad is up for three categories in the No Dice Unrolled Awards! We could not have gotten here without your support, we love all y'all who've supported us and this project! Now we humbly ask for your vote <3 Voting for the NDU's is here

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We're fully funded!!! Which is the good news! The better news is that we're on stretch goals now! Which even if we hit the first one is going to be awesome, as it means SUPER pretty art covers for all those awesome novels. Y'all, the novels are so good. Like.....SO good. They deserve some bangin' art to go with them. Come get some great books from some great people!

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first day and we're over halfway there! Join us on backerkit for more stories from the other side, featuring the awesome metal album by Diamorte and four new novels from the Sunless Crossing! Backerkit here

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One Day More

Chronicles of the Crossing launches tomorrow! Join us as we journey further into the Sunless Crossing and the lives (well.......deaths) of those who journey there!

Join us here on backerkit, and welcome to the afterlife!

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We're Back(erkit)!

Hello Tumblr! GM's and DM's, storytellers and story aficionados! Lovers of the Black Ballad, readers of fiction, friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears*! *please keep your ears, we don't know what to do with a pile of ears. At least two of our writers will accept teeth but we're not feeding Yasper, he knows what he did. We're Storytellers Forge! And we're about 13 days out from our new kickstarter, Chronicles of the Crossing!

What's Chronicles of the Crossing? I am glad you asked! The Chronicles tell four new tales in the setting of our TTRPG sourcebook, the Black Ballad, furthering lore and giving not only TTRPG players a wonderful window into the world of the Sunless Crossing. Backers from the Black Ballad will recognize Ashlynn's Memoir, but there's also new stories from creators whose voices you may already know from the Ballad itself, in plenty of genres. Like Roguepunk? We got roguepunk! (Memory Thief by C.D. Corrigan) Necromantic Heist more your vibe?Got that too! ( Mortal Coils by Chris Durston) Death-Torn Mystery and Romance? (Duskwalker by Crystal Wood) And of course, it woudn't be the Ballad without Metal-Infused God Wars (To Slay A God by Brian Fitzpatrick) So come join us on Backerkit! You can find it here, and if you back it in the first 48 hours, you get a secret post-Ballad sidequest for after the campaign ends.

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Y'all seem to enjoy Melete a lot, so please enjoy some more memes from our chat!

She can be your angle or your devil

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“The Black Ballad” Offers Life After Death for Your TTRPG Characters

So the DM just wiped out your whole party, but you're not ready to say goodbye. How about a campaign exploring their fate in the afterlife?

In my current Dungeons & Dragons campaign, we’ve had a few close calls. Thankfully, we’ve avoided our Dungeon Master killing our entire party. When that does happen, tabletop players can either roll up new characters or move on to another RPG format. However, what if you want to give the party one last adventure? Role-playing game studio Storytellers Forge offers just that with The Black Ballad,…

“The Black Ballad” Offers Life After Death for Your TTRPG Characters

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Ashlynn the Sovereign done for The Black Ballad - A 5e Afterlife Adventure by Storyteller's Forge.

The kickstarter drops in 12 days and I'll post the link then!