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PDF "All-Story" Bundle

PDF "All-Story" Bundle

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Dive right into your next adventure with a complete set of storytelling prompts! This digital bundle gives you instant access to the print-and-play PDF versions of the 180-card Story Engine Deck, along with all 9 Expansions and 12 Boosters that have been physically released to date.

The files include high-quality (6 cards per page) and eco-friendly (12 cards per page) versions of the decks, along with the guidebook and instructions for printing and assembling your copy of the full Story Engine Deck collection.

Features & Benefits

⭐ TRILLIONS OF PROMPT COMBINATIONS
➡️ Never run out of new ideas

⭐ INSTANT INSPIRATION
➡️ Generate new stories in as little as 60 seconds

⭐ MASTER YOUR CRAFT
➡️ Create intriguing characters and captivating artifacts

⭐ FASHIONABLE AND FUNCTIONAL
➡️ Print beautiful full-color cards, or save ink and paper with eco-friendly options
➡️ Fantasy and Unique Items Expansions feature stunning original artwork from the EMBERWIND TTRPG

⭐ CARDS ON DEMAND
➡️ Make your own replacement if cards are lost or damaged

⭐ COMBINES WITH OTHER DECKS
➡️ Pair with Deck of Worlds to create sprawling settings from the ground up

Contents (All PDFs)

  • The Story Engine Deck
  • 9 x Story Engine Expansions
    • Fantasy
    • Horror
    • Science Fiction
    • Mystery
    • Backstory
    • Unique Items
    • Romance
    • Relationships
    • Character Questions
  • 12 x Story Engine Boosters
    • Fairy Tales
    • Mythology
    • Eldritch Horror
    • Gothic Horror
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Steampunk
    • Cyberpunk
    • Western
    • Dystopian
    • Post-apocalyptic
    • Military Sci-fi
    • Superheroes
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Included in this bundle⬇️

The Story Engine Deck

PDF Story Engine Deck

The Story Engine Deck is your ultimate tool for creating compelling narratives. This deck of 180 storytelling cards features prompts and artwork to ignite your imagination.

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High-quality PDFs delivered instantly.

The PDFs you receive are the same size as the real deck and include crop marks and assembly instructions.

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Save on ink and paper.

Every PDF purchase includes an eco variant with 2.75" cards that are printer-friendly.

  • 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.

  • Promotional graphic for 'The Story Engine' with text 'Fairy Trails & Grim Tales' and a fairy figure.

    Fairy Tale Booster

    These everlasting prompts turn to pages filled with enchanted flowers, evil monarchs, and small animal friends.

  • Promotional graphic for 'The Story Engine' featuring mystical character and the text 'Mythwalkers & Eternals'.

    Mythology Booster

    These legendary prompts take you back to the dawn of time with ancient gods, primordial prophecies, and otherworldly beings.

  • Cover image of tentacles and night sky for Dark Crafts & Ancient Horror Eldritch Horror Booster

    Eldritch Horror Booster

    These unspeakable prompts induce nightmares with cults, catacombs, and dark arcane rituals.

  • Gothic Booster

    These spectral prompts chill the bones with tales of drowned ghosts, crumbling estates, and bloody family secrets.

  • Pulp Fiction Booster

    These swashbuckling prompts revive the penny dreadful with accounts of daring thieves, mad scientists, and pirates on high seas.

  • Promotional graphic for 'The Story Engine' with steampunk theme and gold robot figure.

    Steampunk Booster

    These mech-and-tech prompts launch an industrial era of soaring airships, clockwork engines, and unstable gadgets.

  • Person with cybernetic design and 'The Story Engine' branding on a colorful background

    Cyberpunk Booster

    These high-speed prompts plug you into a world of cyborgs, cyberspace junkies, corporate overlords, and black market information brokers.

  • Promotional graphic for 'Outlaws & Gunslingers' by The Story Engine with a cowboy and horse against a darkening sky

    Western Booster

    These rustic prompts take you back to the frontier days of bounty hunters, dusty saloons, and pistols at high noon.

  • Promotional graphic for 'The Story Engine' with text 'Jackboots & Chainlink' and a dystopian theme.

    Dystopian Booster

    These contraband prompts push back against the propaganda with riots, espionage, and back-alley bargains.

  • Promotional graphic for 'Wastelands & Wanderers' post-apocalyptic booster set against a brick wall with graffiti.

    Post-Apocalyptic Booster

    These atomic prompts erase the old world in a nuclear haze of ruthless warlords, thirsty scavengers, and radiated mutants.

  • Cover image for the Dropships & Warhawks: Military Sci-Fi Booster

    Military Sci-Fi Booster

    These martial prompts chronicle pitched battles fought over mineral refineries, asteroid bases, and planetary invasions.

  • Cover art for the Superpowers & Sidekicks Superhero Booster featuring a superhero in a futuristic visor

    Superhero Booster

    These invincible prompts bring back the golden age with classic tales of cape-clad champions and scheming supervillains.

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.