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Story Engine + Deck of Worlds

"Alpha & Omega" Bundle

"Alpha & Omega" Bundle

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Generate endless stories and explore limitless horizons with the ultimate storytelling and worldbuilding bundle. This 1,548-card collection comes with The Story Engine Deck, Deck of Worlds, and every single booster and expansion we’ve released for both systems. Kick off your next story with a compelling character from The Story Engine, then set them loose in a dynamic setting created with Deck of Worlds

Features and Benefits

  • 1,548 cards and more unique prompt combinations than we can count

  • Generate new story hooks and fictional locations in seconds

  • Mix and match cards from 15 expansions and 12 boosters to tell stories in any genre

  • Endless card combinations mean you'll never run out of ways to captivate your players

  • Printed on durable 350gsm artpaper card stock 
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Included in this bundle ⬇️

The Story Engine Deck

Our Best-Selling 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Deck of Worlds

Our Best-Selling Deck of Worlds

Deck of Worlds contains 240 worldbuilding cards and quadrillions of possible settings for novels or D&D campaigns. It’s a flexible worldbuilding tool you can use solo or collaboratively.

  • Cover art of 'Deck of Worlds: Worlds of Myth & Magic' fantasy expansion by The Story Engine, featuring a flaming book on a dark background

    Fantasy Expansion

    Fill your novel or campaign setting with towering ramparts, forbidden forests, and ancient lairs filled with unsolved mysteries.

  • Cover of 'Deck of Worlds: Worlds of Blight & Shadow' expansion with forest background

    Horror Expansion

    These unspeakable prompts summon sealed tombs, whispering wastelands, and ancient necropolises.

  • Cover of 'Deck of Worlds: Worlds of Chrome & Starlight' by The Story Engine with geometric patterns and text.

    Science Fiction Expansion

    These futuristic prompts cover your world with seedy spaceports, alien hives, and mysterious space-time anomalies.

  • Cover art for Worlds of Tide & Tidings Coastlines Expansion

    Coastlines Expansion

    Chart a course for adventure, filling the seas of your world map with bustling ports, undiscovered islands, and ferocious sea monsters.

  • Cover of 'Deck of Worlds: Worlds of Sand & Story' expansion with desert landscape design.

    Deserts Expansion

    Create novels or homebrew TTRPG worlds with winding canyons, towering mesas, and hidden oases where life thrives.

  • Cover of 'Deck of Worlds: Worlds of Frost & Fable' expansion with icy landscape and pier.

    Arctic Expansion

    Fill your setting with barren tundra, windswept glaciers, and remote villages where each day is a battle against the elements.

  • Cover image for Sacred Hearts & Common Creeds: Culture Keyholes Expansion

    Culture Keyholes Expansion

    Develop the cultures that live in your world, exploring everything funeral practices and family structures, to local pastries and fashion.

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  • Cover art for Adventure Prompts Expansion featuring a hero in a fantasy landscape

    Adventure Prompts Expansion

    Create instant quests you can customize with plot details from your world or random card draws from The Story Engine.

  • Cover art for Lore Fragments Expansion featuring fantasy art of a steampunk automaton scribe

    Lore Fragments Expansion

    Draw cards to prompt real legends, poems, art, and masterpieces for your fantasy world. Create myths, drinking songs, local idioms, graffiti, plaques, and more.

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However you tell stories, the deck can help.

For D&D and TTRPG players.

Make your game sessions more dynamic. Captivate your players with new stories, 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 writers.

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

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

Enjoy the time you spend writing. The decks relieve creative paralysis and help you enjoy the creative process through a balance of story structure and open-ended play.

For teachers.

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

Introduce the fundamentals of story and setting. Card types introduce essential story concepts like character, motivation, setting, conflict, and description and world concepts like geography, ecology, culture, and more.

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

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