Complete Story Prompts Expansion Set

Name: Complete Story Prompts Expansion Set
Brand: The Story Engine Deck
SKU: tse-set-sto-exp-v1

Complete Story Prompts Expansion Set

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Get all 9 expansions for The Story Engine Deck in a complete set covering core fiction genres and expansions for developing character personalities, backstories, relationships, and more.

Each expansion features 60 cards designed to help you get the most out of every writing prompt and creative session. Scroll down to see how each expansion can help unlock your creative process and start telling your most powerful stories.

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Includes all 9 Story Engine Expansions

Fantasy Expansion
Craft compelling characters, imaginative fantasy settings, and plot ideas ready to develop into fantasy novels or TTRPG campaign arcs.
Horror Expansion
Whether you're crafting a terrifying short story, outlining a horror novel, or building a creepy campaign setting, this expansion gives you a rich, unsettling foundation.
Science Fiction Expansion
These sci-fi prompts help you create stories and environments filled with alien encounters, strange planets, time travel, machine intelligence, and more.
Mystery Expansion
These prompts help you weave mystery into your storylines, covering everything from seedy detective noir to aristocratic mansion whodunnits.
Backstory Expansion
Reveal the moments that defined your characters and explore how their past may come back to haunt them in a gripping new tale.
Unique Items Expansion
Generate an endlessly unique magic items to hook your players or readers, from swords that create talking wounds to shovels that dig teleporting graves.
Romance Expansion
Developed with bestselling romance author Maggie K. Black, this is our most requested expansion ever. Write stories with motivations, conflicts, and characters that top the bestseller list.
Character Questions Expansion
Write characters that feel real using open-ended questions to flesh out details, from formative memories and core beliefs to petty grudges and personality quirks.
Relationships Expansion
Write relationships and develop character dynamics that power page-turning plots with an expansion focused on exploring motivations and conflicts that link characters.

Writer using The Story Engine Deck and starter expansions to write

"It's one of my favourite ways to get unstuck, brainstorm, and remember why I love writing."

C. L. Clark, Ignyte Award-winning author of The Unbroken

However you tell stories, the deck can help.

For writers.

Start writing faster. Jumpstart your creative process and make the most of your writing time.

Create your best ideas. Create story seeds packed with interesting characters, motivations, conflicts.

Enjoy the time you spend writing. The deck relieves creative paralysis and helps you enjoy the creative process through a balance of story structure and open-ended play.

For D&D and TTRPG players.

Make your game sessions more dynamic. Captivate your players with new stories, characters, items, settings, and more.

Pull the party into the heart of the story. Use our "locked card" mechanic to create campaign ideas and NPC motivations built around your players.

Be ready for anything your players throw at you. If your story goes off the rails, you can create new plots, NPCs, items, and settings on the fly.

For artists.

Create instant artistic ideas. Give yourself engaging ideas for scenes or character concepts within seconds.

Expand your artistic range. Break away from your usual habits and introduct new elements of story, setting, character, and motivation into your scenes and portraits.

Make each prompt your own. Every prompt contains multiple cues to choose between. Customize every prompt to fit your goals and style.

For teachers.

Engage your students. The deck introduces an element of student-led play that hooks students into writing as a creative activity.

Introduce the fundamentals of story. The five card types introduce essential story concepts like character, motivation, setting, conflict, and description.

Support your curriculum goals. We offer a free set of lesson plans for integrating the deck in your classroom.