Free RPG Day Actual Play Livestream

Join The Story Engine crew and special guests from 1-7:30pm ET on Free RPG Day as we create and perform an entire tabletop RPG one-shot using nothing but prompts!

No session prep. No character sheets. No campaign book. We start our session with nothing but The Story Engine and its companion decks and take your votes in the chat to create an entire adventure—which we'll play on the spot!

STORYTELLER
Peter Chiykowski https://storyenginedeck.com

WORLDBUILDERS
Janet Forbes and Dimitris Havlidis https://www.worldanvil.com

PLAYERS
Raven John https://www.ravenjohn.com/
Brandon Crilly https://brandoncrilly.com/
Eric Weiss https://x.com/harry_houdini

Learn more about The Story Engine Deck at https://storyenginedeck.com

0:00 Countdown
5:00 Introduction
16:34 Creating the one-shot story hook
36:18 Introducing World Anvil
41:24 Creating our one-shot setting
1:11:44 Creating gods for Lore Master's Deck
1:25:20 Introducing the cast
1:32:10 Character creation ft. Backstories Expansion
1:59:06 Deck of Worlds video (10 min break)
2:10:01 Introducing the Roll for Shoes system
2:13:08 Meeting Lady Charlotte
2:30:30 OH NO who gave Euphemia a cursed harpoon gun?
2:47:14 Landing the boat (Bruce goes into beast mode)
3:11:26 OH NO who gave Donathan a bomb?
2:28:56 Arriving at the Stadium of Hunters
3:34:59 Makin' up some vampires!
3:41:10 SHIT GOES DOWN (BBEG boss fight begins!)
3:55:25 Rapid-fire plot-twists + a bomb timer begin
4:10:07 The 5th (???) plot twist of the one-shot
4:30:54 Bruce suplexes a vampire child to the moon
4:46:36 Everything explodes
4:49:39 Character codas