StoriesRPG - Power Ups!

Welcome!

This is a two-page, printable tool for tying character advancement to writing stories!  By encouraging players to contribute to the world of the game with stories, celebrating them, and distributing Story Points with which to buy new abilities and re-rolls, this Boost makes TTRPGs a joyous way to link a difficult skill - writing - with the greatest reward: peer support.  

As a certified teacher, I designed this approach for my TTRPG writing classes, but it can be applied to any role-playing game to help make writing rewarding and collaborative.

Though designed to work with the StoriesRPG core rules, it works with any tabletop RPG, walking you through how to ...

• Create Prompts: Use what happened in your game to discuss what everyone is curious or excited to write about!
• Celebrate!  Read aloud and cheer for each other's work - every story adds to the world we create together!
• Story Points: Discuss and decide how many Story Points each story should receive - but remember, the author gets the last say in how much they feel they've earned!     
• Challenges: Gain a bonus point for a writing challenge - read aloud, get descriptive, work on dialogue - and celebrate the win!
• Level Up: Spend Story Points to buy new Lines for your Story, Special abilities, or re-rolls.  If you're playing another game, hand out experience points, feats, skills, levels - whatever works!

This makes advancement about writing, and writing about peer recognition, giving everyone in the group a chance to be cheered for their stories and excited to share!  It also empowers their abilities in the game and lets the story become truly collaborative.

Here's a quick link library for all the StoriesRPG resources:

THE GAME ...

• Core Rules: A one page RPG focused on helping players tell stories of drama, excitement, and adventure together.  All you need is four 6-sided dice, paper, stuff to write with, and at least two people!
• Scenes: A tool for outlining scenes for stories or games that's easy, collaborative, and intuitive.
• Drama Clocks: Epic, spine-tingling, edge-of-your seat scenes where every Move counts - but without the violence!
• Power Ups: An approach to "powering up" where writing becomes joyous - a source of character growth and peer support!

ADVENTURES ...

• Starsworn: A monthly set of print and play, play to learn adventures with read-aloud passages, coloring book illustrations, maps, and even a set of podcast stories from StoriesPodcast that follow a group of heroes on a parallel quest!  At 40 pages each, these play-at-home books are a steal!
• Chapter 1: Legends say magic came when the stars fell.  At this year's Starfall fair, a group of everyday people will rise to become heroes when they fall again - and be swept up in grand and heroic events!  Best of all?  Chapter 1 is pay what you want - go grab a copy now!
• Chapter 2: The heroes must journey to the Far Swamp to seek the Frog Witch, the only sage wise enough to help them unlock their powers. But strange forces are at work, and the stars have caused great chaos across the land ...
• Chapter 3: The heroes are summoned on a great quest ... to go to school! The Celestial Conservatory promises to train them in the use of their Starsworn powers - but what secrets does it hide?

COMING SOON ...

• World Building: How to help kids build their own worlds, with their own lore and internal logic.
• Teller Moves: Different strategies Tellers can use to help the story move smoothly - and how to help kids run the game for each other.
• Mathemagic: A math practice mechanic for helping kids practice arithmetic.
• Educator's Guide: This will be a longer work, and explain, step-by-step, strategies for using StoriesRPG to teach academic content in classrooms, including Common Core Standards, assessments, pacing guides, grouping strategies, and more!

Feel free to reach out with any questions, and hope this supplement boosts your stories to the next level!