Assemblage: A TTRPG of World Building & World Breaking

Assemblage is a card-based eco-fantasy storytelling game for 2-6 players where each player portrays an entire species—and collaborates in crafting an interdependent ecosystem on the verge of collapse. You'll begin by collectively choosing a strange and mysterious habitat. Then you will draw prompt cards and take turns describing the assemblage of species living there: history, relationships, adaptations, and myths. Then you'll encounter an epic environmental disaster—and explore what it means to survive. 

Together, become a weird ecology. When the world shatters, how will we survive? 

In this game, you will:

• Use cards and a guidebook to imagine your own unique and fantastic creatures
• Craft the story of an ecological assemblage: a group of species tossed together in a strange habitat
• Encounter an environmental disaster, and play to find out how (and if) you survive

This card-based, GM-less story game can be played in as little as 90 minutes — with flexibility to tell a longer story if you choose.

For fans of reflective story & worldbuilding games like Dialect and Microscope, Assemblage is the perfect addition to any TTRPG table seeking revolutionary, expansive play.

DESIGN: Nat Mesnard
LAYOUT: Andrew Klein
EDITING: Brigitte Winter

5"x8" portable box that contains:

• Guidebook containing rules of play, safety tools, and help with facilitating a GM-less game for the first time 
• Habitat cards to inspire fantastical habitats
• Ecological relationship cards to establish species interdependence and conflict 
  Event cards to inspire scenes and roleplay, and let you tell the story of your assemblage over time
• Cataclysm cards to outline the depth and extent of the crisis your assemblage will face
• Keystone species and Extinct species role cards that define player species who shape the story in special ways
• A pad of tear-off species placards so you can name (and illustrate!) your species