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The GameMaster's Apprentice: Weird Horror

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Strange and Terrible Tales!

Sooner or later, you're going to need more story! And sometimes those stories were exclusive to Kickstarter backers, until later Kickstarter backers achieved a stretch goal to release them to the wild! Note: this deck is still being brought up to production standards, as it was originally an Easter-egg style secret deck and not fully updated. VTT cards and other file changes to the PDFs may occur shortly.

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The GameMaster's Apprentice: Weird Horror is a system-neutral deck of cards that can be used as either a supplement for traditional tabletop RPGs or as a complete game engine for GM-free solo or group RPGs. 

On each card is a set of fourteen individual randomizers, though not quite as you'd be used to from the other GMA decks; with 60 double-sided cards, you can generate literally millions of possible adventures, all without having to hunt through a book or PDF for a single table!

With these cards, you can:

  • Instantly generate NPCs with randomized names, motivations, and backgrounds.

  • Create random events or story seeds.

  • Provide sensory details or random loot for characters searching or stealing.

  • Run games without a human GameMaster!

And more--they even work brilliantly as creative writing prompt generators, and have been playtested by 9th-12th grade students of both English and Game Design.

If you want specifics, including examples of how to use the randomizers on the cards, the complete instructions are available in the downloadable PDF preview linked below the cover image/thumbnail, but you can take a look at the overview below to see the quick and dirty version of what is on each card, and you can view a video preview from the original Kickstarter that explains how to use the cards (from the original, genre-neutral deck) to run a GM-free game or generate a story for a traditional RPG. This video is the second in a series, so if you want to see the first (which details initial generation of the story), check out our website, www.LarcenousDesigns.com! 

These cards were created with the support of over 360 individuals on Kickstarter, and would not exist in their current form otherwise! Thank you!

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Laimonas P October 23, 2023 9:34 pm UTC
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So on the card 65 I found a catalyst: Intermittent synthesia. And I am not a native english speaker so maybe this is above my vocabulary, but isn't that a mystipe and instead is should say Intermittent synesthesia? Because I have no idea what synthesia means.
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Nathan R February 10, 2024 9:37 pm UTC
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Hello! Sorry for the late response--the new DriveThruRPG website apparently has a bug where it doesn't always notify creators of comments left on their work!
Yes, that is a typo. It should be fixed in the updated version if/when we make a Weird Horror version 2.0! Thanks for letting me know!
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Felix M October 04, 2023 3:30 pm UTC
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Be aware that, for the printed cards, the dice results does not have enough contrast (black on green). It is difficult to read the dice types (you have to memorize them based on their location), and the numbers are somewhat hard tp make out...
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Frederic M January 13, 2024 7:08 pm UTC
I am with you. I just dld the guide and it was really hard for me to read the numbers AND the symbols. I don't think that a B&W version will correct that problem. I think that the author should change the color of that "flower" OR chang the numbers AND the symbols to WHITE, in BOLD case (it may work better that way, isn't it??).
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Vincent "The Evil DM" F March 30, 2023 11:05 am UTC
Just asking before purchase as its not listed, do you have the cards as individual images in the download or just a sheets on a PDF? I am looking for individual images as I like to import them into my VTT and sheets on a PDF don't work..and its painfully boring to have to photoshop each one out. Thanks!
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Nathan R March 30, 2023 11:22 am UTC
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The cards are individual image files in a zip folder, for VTT purposes!
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Daniel Douglas C February 06, 2023 4:54 pm UTC
Does the content (suggestive words, etc.) differ from the older "Horror Deck"? Is it worth getting if I already own the latter?
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Nathan R February 06, 2023 9:34 pm UTC
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This deck does have some overlap with the normal Horror deck, but it also has a fairly strong set of changes—many of which are more WEIRD than Horror. All the Virtues and Vices are unique, and include things like Thews, Beardliness, and Good Hair. One card just says FOREVER in every possible field, etc. If you’re up for strangeness for surrealism’s sake, this is what you want.
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Eric D September 23, 2022 5:06 am UTC
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Hoping for an Adventure Guide for this set.
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Nathan R September 23, 2022 9:32 am UTC
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I would love to do that, but it may be a bit, since this wasn’t originally going to see the light of day and I’m currently focused on Cyberpunk. Either this summer or when we get around to doing to v2 refresh!
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Attila K November 19, 2023 7:51 pm UTC
So apparently v2 was not released. Will it be updated soon, or maybe a different one suitable for a Lovecraftian setting be released? I was thinking about getting this for a Lovecraftian setting but you mention it will be updated & that it wasn't supposed to be released yet.
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Philipp N September 13, 2022 7:20 am UTC
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Update Message: Now the Weird Horror deck includes the same Quickstart Guide, Universal Instructions, Form-Fillable Instruction Cards, and VTT image zip as any other GMA 1.0 deck! Enjoy!

Woot! I just wanted to ask :-)
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Nathan R September 13, 2022 11:16 am UTC
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Glad to have them available for you! Enjoy!
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Kris S September 11, 2022 11:21 pm UTC
I'm still using the other decks! I suggest adding the icons to these as with the Fantasy deck, if you can.
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Nathan R September 11, 2022 11:44 pm UTC
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We definitely are! The Kickstarter for the upcoming Cyberpunk deck just finished, but if you want to see what the changes we’ve already added look like, or what we might continue to change in the Beta, you can go check out the Kickstarter page and the first update! (I’d link it for you but I don’t think I’m allowed to link off site here).
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Nathan R September 11, 2022 11:46 pm UTC
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Oh, and to be clear, the hope is to eventually redo all the old decks with the new improvements!
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Luis Henrique F September 11, 2022 2:50 pm UTC
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Are there any chances of us getting the VTT version for this like the other decks?
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Nathan R September 11, 2022 3:38 pm UTC
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You bet! As it says in the description, I will be getting that done today or tomorrow; I just wanted to roll it out to the public ASAP now that I’ve sent it to the Kickstarter backers.
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