Tarot Based Character Creation

The Fate Deck and the Book of Fates are a beautiful set of open-source designer-made print and digital products designed to be used for role playing games, writing, or whatever delights you.Coming this June to Kickstarter.

Discover your next character

Fate Cards

Fate Cards helps you build deep, fully-realised characters fast. Randomly generate backgrounds, motivations and more using four decks of hand-designed tarot cards. Consider insightful questions that help you get to know who your character is and how they think.Whether you're looking for a new character for your next adventure or just need an NPC fast, Fate Cards are on hand.Hand-designed and written by Kaiser, and sealed in a premium foil box.

  • 10 x Origin Tarot

  • 10 x Twist Tarot

  • 10 x Motivation Tarot

  • 10 x Complication Tarot

  • 2 x Instruction & Info Cards

Each card comes published under Creative Commons Non-Commercial 4.0, meaning you're free to dream up, draw, write, and publish any stories you like. For commercial info, see below.

Get to know your character

The Book of Fates

The Book of Fates is an 84-page fully illustrated manual for generating backgrounds for your characters. Inside, you'll find expanded versions of every background from the Fate Cards, all presented as rollable tables.Every background features beautiful bespoke illustrations from one of 10 independent artists - perfect for sparking your imagination.Each background is setting-agnostic - so whether you're filling a tavern with richly-realised NPCs or crewing a spaceship, the Book of Fates has you covered.Discover the artists featured in the Book of Fates below.

Where can I get them?

Kickstarter coming June 2025!

Subscribe below to make sure you don't miss the upcoming Kickstarter! Email subscribers have the chance to receive personalised illustrations and tarot cards and will be the first to know when new products launch.

Where will you be next?

Upcoming Conventions

The Deck of Fates is currently sold out, but following the Kickstarter print run, you'll have the chance to see it in action at conventions across the UK - watch this space for further updates!

UPCOMING DATES

  • None at the moment

PREVIOUS DATES

  • UK Games Expo - 2-5 June
    Birmingham, UK

  • Norwich Games Con - 26th Aug
    Norwich, UK

About the Project

What's The Chronodex

Hi there, I'm Kaiser!Throughout my life, RPGs have been an effective ward against hard times. The Chronodex is a way to try and pass on that kindness to others - and empower their creative pursuits.It combines my passions for UX, RPGs, tech, illustration, print and writing and I maintain the project in my spare time.I sell the printed products at conventions to help support the project and pay for the time of any guest illustrators, but I also publish these materials under Creative Commons so that people can use their created stories and characters however they like.That said, I'm not much of a publisher or distributor. If you are and would like to help produce or sell the printed versions of this project - please reach out.

In Plain english

What's Creative Commons?

All text within this project is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 4.0 license. This means that any characters you pick up are yours to keep, play with, draw pictures of or write stories about and even publish for others to read and enjoy.You do not have to consult The Chronodex Project to share your work, and this license is non-revocable, meaning your creative pursuits are protected.

Get in Touch

Have a question? Want a retail pack? Are you a publisher interested in publishing beautifully crafted RPG tools? Reach out!

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