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