Storythreads

Making games with the goal of telling reflective, engaging stories and fostering fun and meaningful interactions.

Up for an angsty game about a single character?

• Squire is a solo role-playing game, for telling stories about a squire apprenticed to a knight. 
  • Squire is a game about high adventure with knights and squires even if they're not literally knights or squires
    • Also about the first crappy job you had out of high school
    • Also about being too good a kid for your own good
    • Always about struggling to figure out who you are and what you want in a world that doesn't give you many choices for either. 
  • It's made for replaying and for adapting across genres (a mech is a kind of horse). 
  • Currently Squire is available free/pay-what-you-choose for late playtesting! Please leave comments!

• Washed Out Trails is a one-page role-playing game for 1-3 people telling the story of a failed adventurer
  • You will play as an adventurer who quit their quest but can't outrun their memories, who puts their skills to use escorting people through the dangerous wilds for cash
  • You start a game in media res and fill in the backstory and future of your character as you go, until your character dies, finds enough peace to retire, or finds enough purpose to go forward
    

Looking for a fun, high-energy, rules-light game to explore with 2 or more people?

• Feint is a short 2-person role-playing game for playing out dramatic duels using a card game
  • Build the scene and characters together, then fight it out! Uses a regular deck of cards and rules similar to Cheat/B.S.
  • Laying down cards is an attack, but you can bluff about what you're laying down: your opponent can call your feint and counterattack if they catch you in a lie. 
  • Fast, rules-light, heavy on improv and lying directly to your friend's face
  • Open for playtesting!
• Ghost Train is a high-energy group role-playing game built for a one-shot at a party with friends, for playing a group of ghosts on the train to the afterlife trying to fight off obnoxious mortals and reach their final stop in peace
  • Ghosts are made of Memory and Mischief: too much Memory and they might revert to their mortal memories and forget their ghostly mission, too much Mischief and they might become a Gibbering Poltergeist. The group must work together to keep each other on track.
  • Each ghost has one last piece of Unfinished Business to try to work into the game before the end, for additional chaos.
  • Uses a deck of cards to play, simple mechanics, contains options for GM-less play
  • Open for playtesting!  Comments welcome!

Like leaving detailed comments about how your game went so it can be improved?

• Please leave a comment on the game pages or contact me @bsky at storythreads.itch.io to let me know how your game went, what kind of story you told, or if you had any confusion about rules or instructions!