Session Zero: World Building Edition
Session Zero: World Building Edition is a deck based, world building game. Using a standard deck of cards or the deck of Session Zero World Building cards, draw a hand and answer the prompts to create a new world setting, or expand upon an existing setting. It is a system agnostic game, and the prompts could easily build a world for any number of TTRPG systems.
It contains 5 suits of prompts - with questions to help build locations, lore, and history of your world.
The downloadable content includes a pdf of the game rules as well as the prompt list if the game is being played with a standard deck of cards, as well as a printable copies of the deck of prompt cards.
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I'm curious as to whether this is usable as a writer's inspiration (which I think it is) and whether it is adapted to using it in a sci-fi environment ?
I definitely think it is usable for both writer's inspiration and for sci-fi. It is designed to work with any type of setting, and though it may take a bit of massaging to apply the prompts to a sci-fi setting, it is definitely doable.
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Apart of that: Great inspiration can be found in those cards, thank you! ❤
If you are a builder of worlds, you NEED Session Zero: Worldbuilding Edition. It is a simple and streamlined way to get your creativity flowing and wireframe your world so you can flesh it out through role-play.
It includes 65 prompts divided equally across 5 themes: Physical Features, World Locations, Local Locations, Notable Figures, and Life/Lore.
There are two great ways to use it, and you may as well do both. First, before starting a one shot or a new campaign, draw a number of cards to frame up your world with just enough detail to give you fertile creative ground. Then during play, you can generate world details and flavor on the fly when you need them.
If you ever feel stuck, draw a card at random and refer to the prompts in this, and use the context to quickly create an adventure seed that bonds the characters into the world.
Don't forget to grab the original Session Zero for character creation, and the Bond Building edition to create rich relationships between characters in the party, or NPCs.
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Thank you so much for your kind words about Session Zero! I appreciate it so much and I hope the games help you create wonderful characters, bonds, and worlds!