Talecraft

What is Talecraft?

As a game, Talecraft aims to promote creative thinking through story creation. As a story-creation tool, Talecraft aims to help writers generate ideas for stories, and help combat Mental Block.

Talecraft provides the different Genres and Archetypes as cards. Since the setting is dependent on the genre of the story, Talecraft leaves the creation of the time and place to the imagination of the player. For the plot, Talecraft uses the Key cards, where a player may either be given plots, or keywords that would govern the story. Players may be required to add more characters to his cards. In this event, the player’s story would be more character-driven than plot-driven.

A player of Talecraft has to create a story using the cards he had picked. The limit the picked cards set to a player prompts the use of the player’s resourcefulness; and the need to fit all the cards into a story stretches his imagination.

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The Talecraft Boosters

After playing Talecraft for a while, it's not surprising to find yourself in need of new cards. Booster packs contain new Talecraft cards that you can add to your current deck. Talecraft currently has two types of Booster packs out in the market: The Talecraft Fantasy Booster, and the Talecraft General Booster.

The Fantasy Booster contains new Talecraft cards related to fantasy including fantasy subgenres like High Fantasy and Dark Fantasy, and fantasy-related archetypes like the Black Knight and the Wise Old Man.

The General Booster contains genres, archetypes and keywords that are not necessarily related to any existing genre of the original Talecraft deck. Some of the cards included in the General Booster are the Comedy genre card, the Inspirational genre card, and the Shadow Jungian archetype card.

Note: Each booster contains ten (10) new Talecraft cards. Once you buy the boosters, there is no need to buy them again as all packs contain the same set of cards. The Talecraft Fantasy Booster is now available at all branches of Powerbooks and selected National Bookstore branches. The General Booster is only currently available through conventions.

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The Talecraft Character Builder

Character-making is arguably the most interesting, most important, yet most difficult part of making stories. When characters are well-defined, the story unfolds, seemingly by itself, before our very eyes. But when characters are not well-developed, they tend to look unrealistic and very two-dimensional.

The Talecraft Character Builder is a specially designed notebook that helps users come up with characters with depth, direction and growth. It is a template that is filled-up like an autograph book with information about the characteristics, habits, and growth of the character.

The Character Builder contains template sheets for fifty (50) characters. It is now available at all branches of Powerbooks.

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		What is Talecraft? As a game, Talecraft aims to promote creative thinking through story creation. As a story-creation tool, Talecraft aims to help writers generate ideas for stories, and help combat Mental Block. Talecraft provides the different Genres and Archetypes as cards. Since the setting is dependent on the genre of the story, Talecraft leaves the creation of the time and place to the imagination of the player. For the plot, Talecraft uses the Key cards, where a player may either be given plots, or keywords that would govern the story. Players may be required to add more characters to his cards. In this event, the player’s story would be more character-driven than plot-driven. A player of Talecraft has to create a story using the cards he had picked. The limit the picked cards set to a player prompts the use of the player’s resourcefulness; and the need to fit all the cards into a story stretches his imagination. Top The Talecraft Boosters After playing Talecraft for a while, it's not surprising to find yourself in need of new cards. Booster packs contain new Talecraft cards that you can add to your current deck. Talecraft currently has two types of Booster packs out in the market: The Talecraft Fantasy Booster, and the Talecraft General Booster. The Fantasy Booster contains new Talecraft cards related to fantasy including fantasy subgenres like High Fantasy and Dark Fantasy, and fantasy-related archetypes like the Black Knight and the Wise Old Man. The General Booster contains genres, archetypes and keywords that are not necessarily related to any existing genre of the original Talecraft deck. Some of the cards included in the General Booster are the Comedy genre card, the Inspirational genre card, and the Shadow Jungian archetype card. Note: Each booster contains ten (10) new Talecraft cards. Once you buy the boosters, there is no need to buy them again as all packs contain the same set of cards. The Talecraft Fantasy Booster is now available at all branches of Powerbooks and selected National Bookstore branches. The General Booster is only currently available through conventions. Top The Talecraft Character Builder Character-making is arguably the most interesting, most important, yet most difficult part of making stories. When characters are well-defined, the story unfolds, seemingly by itself, before our very eyes. But when characters are not well-developed, they tend to look unrealistic and very two-dimensional. The Talecraft Character Builder is a specially designed notebook that helps users come up with characters with depth, direction and growth. It is a template that is filled-up like an autograph book with information about the characteristics, habits, and growth of the character. The Character Builder contains template sheets for fifty (50) characters. It is now available at all branches of Powerbooks. Top








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