Backstory Cards: Expansion #1 for Foundry VTT

The Immaterial Plane presents Ryan Macklin's Backstory Cards: Expansion #1 for Foundry Virtual Tabletop, officially licensed from Galileo Games!

Backstory Cards: Expansion #1 is a 45-card expansion containing three themed decks (15 cards each) for Backstory Cards for Foundry VTT.

Distant Worlds contains prompts that touch on vast travel, legends of lost civilizations, advanced technology, and other themes that fit hard sci-fi and fantastical space opera narratives.

Unseen Threats contains prompts for horror and investigation separately—you can incorporate just the horror cards for survival or action horror, the investigative cards for conspiracy or detective narratives, and of course blend them together for full investigative horror.

Wicked Shadows gets into themes of cyberpunk, something modern noir, and stories from the classic film noir era, as different expressions of the same core ideas: lawlessness, desperation, vigilantism, loose morality, and so on.

For a more enhanced experience with your Backstory Cards sessions, we highly recommend downloading the free Backstory Cards Techniques Guide which contains tips on how to workshop answers to prompts and flesh out your setting elements and elaborates further on the basic instructions included with this purchase.

About Backstory Cards

Backstory Cards help you and your friends create vibrant backstories for roleplaying games, no matter the system or genre.

Backstory Cards blend your characters and setting concept into an intriguing set of relationships and history. It’s tailor-made for games where the player-characters already know each other—from fantasy adventurers to star marines, from supernatural beings who share the same city to global-hopping troubleshooters.

This deck of cards works well with most roleplaying games, including GM-less ones. It also includes how to directly integrate Backstory Cards into Fate Core and Fate Accelerated’s character creation.

About the Module

This module can be used with any game system for Foundry Virtual Tabletop, which is required to use this software. Foundry VTT requires a Foundry VTT license.

The module includes:

• A Card Stack from which you can draw text-based prompt cards with selectable text and expandable tag definitions.
• Journal Entries containing List of Tags, Player Tips, GM Tips, Arrow Diagram, Prompt Card Anatomy, and the complete Backstory Cards Techniques Guide.
• The ability to create a mixed deck to combine your core deck and expansions into one.
• Settings for automatically excluding cards with unwanted tags.
• Light and dark mode versions of fillable setting grid Scenes that include a virtual table for arranging PC tokens to use with the Arrow Diagram when determining intraparty connections.
• Journal Entries linked to imported setting grids with each page linked to each setting element and labels syncing between the setting grid and Journal Entry.
• Macros for drawing prompt cards and rolling a Backstory Die to randomly select another PC from around the table or a setting element in the scene.

Get the Core Deck

Start creating rich backstories and deep connections with the original Backstory Cards!

Expand Your Collection

Want more Backstory Cards to add to your deck?

Expansion #2: Even More

Expansion #2 gives you Even More (literally), which expands on the core deck and the themes presented in Expansion #1.

Expansion #3: Setting Elements

Expansion #3 contains Setting Elements, a set of 40 cards providing inspiration for defining unique Individuals, Groups, Places, and Events as well as Motivations! Each card includes randomly selectable Traits or Roles to help you enrich your setting elements.