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Build Fictional Worlds with Depth and Imagination
The Deck of Worlds is a creative world-building deck designed for both writers and game masters. Whether mapping out a fantasy kingdom, building immersive fictional worlds for your novel, or designing rich settings and locations for your RPG campaign, this intuitive system helps you create vibrant worlds full of complexity, lore, and story potential.
With 240 worldbuilding cards and billions of combinations, it’s a flexible worldbuilding tool you can use solo or alongside friends and fellow creators to bring your ideas to life.
For Writers and Game Masters Alike
Writers can use the deck to:
- Develop locations and cultures to enrich your story’s world and spark new themes
- Create stories with richer environmental context and narrative potential
- Break out of worldbuilding ruts and explore magic, society, and cultural influences in a fresh way
Game Masters can use the deck to:
- Draw prompts to inspire villages, ruins, and regions unique to your world
- Prep campaigns with intuitive prompts and setting elements
- Build fantasy or sci-fi backdrops that feel lived-in and player-driven
Features of Deck of Worlds
- 240 world building cards broken into six intuitive categories
- Billions of combinations for limitless worldbuilding possibilities
- Built for collaborative worldbuilding or solo ideation
- Includes prompts that spark ideas in areas like ecology, politics, and trade to add depth to your settings
- Premium design with sturdy 350 gsm art paper and treasure-chest style box
- Works with any genre: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and beyond
- Pairs with The Story Engine for deeper story and character development
How It Works
- Draw cards from each category to spark setting details
- Combine prompts to create unique microsettings like towns, forests, routes, ruins, and more
- Explore your world by expanding, remixing prompts, and building relationships between locations
- Use it as a creative warmup, as a tool for writing or campaign planning, or live at the table during gameplay
Whether you're crafting cultures, shaping social tensions, or evolving a region’s lore, this tool brings structure, energy, and depth to your creativity.
Why Writers Love It
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Craft immersive settings with ease
Develop rich locations, cultures, and themes that support your story’s arc.
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Break through creative blocks
Use cards to spark new ideas for short stories, novels, or anthologies.
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Go beyond first drafts
Expand flat scenes or underdeveloped settings with prompts that help you explore history, culture, and conflict.
Why Game Masters Rely on It
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Prep campaigns or improvise on the fly
Develop believable worlds, geography, and lore without relying on generic sourcebooks.
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Create immersive settings that engage players
Draw cards to spark ideas for locations that feel alive, mysterious, and worth exploring
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Make worldbuilding part of the fun
Turn exploration and lore-building into an engaging, collaborative part of your sessions.
Become a master worldbuilder
Create your next setting in seconds
Combine cards into microsettings.
Each microsetting has a distinct past, present, and future rich in lore, culture, politics, ecology, and more.
Combine microsettings into immersive worlds.
Then dive in and watch your players get hooked in by your lore and worldbuilding.
Writers and tabletop RPG creators who use our decks
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C.L. Clark
Multi-award-winning author of The Unbroken, The Faithless and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf.
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George Strayton
Award-winning screenwriter/producer (Transformers, Xena, Hercules) and game writer (Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars RPG, Lord of the Rings RPG)
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Grace Fong
Worldbuilder and narrative designer for Magic: The Gathering (2021-2022) and quest designer for Palia.
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"Truly, hands down, one of the best writing and world building tools I have in my tool belt now. "
Christian Wordell
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FAQ: World Building with Deck of Worlds
What is the purpose of the world building deck?
Deck of Worlds is a tool for generating worldbuilding prompts that help creators develop fictional settings rich in history, culture, geography, and lore. Rather than providing pre-made content, the deck sparks your imagination by offering flexible, genre-neutral prompts that can be combined in billions of ways.
It’s designed to support:
- Writers who want to build immersive environments for stories, novels, or creative writing projects
- Game Masters who need ideas for settings, factions, locations, and backstory elements to use in TTRPG campaigns
- Collaborators or solo creators looking for a creative warm-up, brainstorming tool, or ideation system
You can use it to:
- Quickly generate ideas for towns, ruins, landmarks, and regions
- Develop microsettings with layered histories and evolving dynamics
- Build interconnected worlds by expanding or remixing your card combinations
- Make worldbuilding part of your play sessions or writing process
The deck’s purpose is not to deliver complete, ready-to-play campaigns or setting books — it empowers you to create your own worlds using structured creativity.
What’s the difference between this and The Story Engine?
The Story Engine Deck focuses on characters, themes, and plot hooks that drive your narrative forward. Deck of Worlds specializes in settings and world functions that make your fictional environments feel alive and authentic.
The Story Engine creates compelling people with motivations and dramatic tension, while Deck of Worlds builds the locations where those stories unfold.
They work great alone, but together they become a storytelling powerhouse. Think of it this way: Deck of Worlds builds the stage, and The Story Engine populates it with characters who have reasons to be there.
Can I use this for collaborative worldbuilding?
Yes! Deck of Worlds is designed to support collaborative worldbuilding, whether you're co-creating with friends, using it in a writing group, or playing with your TTRPG party. It’s intuitive, flexible, and fun to share.
Does it work solo, too?
Definitely. You can use it on your own to brainstorm, outline, or explore. Many writers and GMs say it’s their favorite creative tool.
Can I use this deck for genres other than fantasy?
Absolutely. While it's ideal for fantasy world creation, the deck is designed to be genre-flexible. Create sci-fi colonies, post-apocalyptic zones, surreal dreamscapes, or even historical worlds with ease.
What is an example of world building in a story?
Worldbuilding is the process of creating the systems, settings, and histories that shape your story’s world.
For example, using Deck of Worlds, you might imagine a society built around mining a rare ore beneath a sacred maze. After a peace treaty ends a long conflict over the land, the maze is demolished and replaced by a peaceful plaza. But as the story unfolds, the characters begin to uncover the dark truth the so-called peacemaker is hiding about the maze’s destruction.
That’s worldbuilding: weaving together setting, culture, conflict, and mystery into a dynamic, evolving world.
