Smalltown Tales

Unleash your creativity with Smalltown Tales, the storytelling card game where imagination drives the adventure. Set in rural Smalltown, players collaborate to craft epic stories filled with fascinating characters, captivating plots, and vibrant settings.

Every game is set in Smalltown where you and fellow players cook up scenes packed with imagination and creativity, weaving them into one epic tale. It's all about putting your heads together and seeing where your storytelling skills take you.

What sets Smalltown Tales apart is its mentoring guidance on creating scenes and weaving them into a cohesive story. Instead of dictating specific words or dialog, every Story Card includes valuable advice from master storytellers on how to apply a story-crafting technique to a scene you and other players create. Five card categories, symbolizing characters, plots, settings, and collaboration elevate everyone’s storytelling by offering mentoring advice that nurtures the creative process.

How To Play
New players start by reviewing the Player’s Guide, becoming familiar with Smalltown’s citizens and their favorite haunts. Everyone decides if the game will be cooperative or competitively played. Then they choose the versatile standard game or pick one of the curated episodes tailored to a particular theme and genre like comedy, mystery, drama, horror, or romance.

Next, players pick a character, its actions, and a setting to create their opening scene. They also organize and develop their story’s plot by reviewing recommended techniques for creating a cohesive narrative from opening to the closing scene. At each turn, everyone develops a new scene that charts the course of the overall story.

Along the way, you’ll collaborate with fellow players, embellishing and expanding their plots to earn favor. In the epilogue round, everyone concludes their plots, marveling at the fun imaginative journey they created together.