The tabletop roleplaying game for people who love boardgames

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A Thousand Faces of Adventure is a narrative board game about gathering at a table with your friends and creating an improvisational story, where one of you plays the GM, who has narrative authority over the world and events, and the rest of you play characters being challenged by and exploring this world, even creating parts of it!


The players' goal is to build their characters from scrappy adventurers into heroes with the courage to trigger world-saving change, while the GM earns points by walking the story through each step of The Hero's Journey.

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A Role-Playing Game That's a Board Game

A Thousand Faces of Adventure takes the deck-building and set-collection mechanisms of modern board games like Gloomhaven and marries them with the innovation blossoming in indie role-playing games like Fate and Dungeon World.

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A Board Game That's a Role-Playing Game

Are you a fan of RPGs and your friends are all board gamers? Looking for the right RPG to introduce them to the world of play-to-find-out-what-happens? A Thousand Faces of Adventure was designed for you.

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When new players sit down to play, there's no hundred-page tome they're expected to navigate, just familiar-looking board game components. The GM can walk the players through a well-tested ten-step process that creates the characters and their world in 45 minutes.

Furthermore, all the math is baked-in. The probability curves are carefully designed and distributed into a 20-card deck, so players only need to flip a card and see the result on the face.

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