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Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles

  • Jun 2, 2025
  • 4 min read

Design your TTRPG maps in the BOOK and bring them to life on the game TILES. Write, build, and unleash epic D&D adventures in seconds.

For Game Masters (GMs), Dungeon Masters (DMs), and tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) enthusiasts, building a compelling fantasy world is a rewarding but often time-consuming endeavor. Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles is a comprehensive, modular system designed to be the ultimate world-building forge, allowing you to design, manage, and bring your TTRPG campaigns to life with unprecedented speed and flexibility. Launched on Kickstarter by GAME START, this system is a game-changer for GMs who want to spend more time playing and less time prepping.


Project Overview

  • Name and Creator: Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles by GAME START (a team based in Forlì, Italy, with a history of successful crowdfunding campaigns).

  • What It Is: A highly modular and reusable system consisting of a Master's Codex (a campaign management book), dry-erase game tiles, and reusable sticker tokens. The system allows GMs to quickly design and visualize their adventure maps, manage campaign details, and adapt to player actions in real-time, all in a grimdark art style.


Key Features

  • Modular "Puzzle" Game Tiles: The core of the system is a set of thick, laminated cardboard tiles with a "puzzle" system that allows for total reversibility and compatibility. This means you can snap them together to create dungeons, cities, forests, and caves of any size or shape on the fly. Each tile is wet and dry-erase marker friendly, allowing you to draw on traps, secret doors, hidden paths, and shifting enemies directly on the map.

  • The Master's Codex: Your World-Building Command Center: This isn't just a book—it's a living diary of your campaign. The modular book uses scaled-down, removable sticker tiles that correspond to the physical game tiles. You can build your adventure map page by page inside the Codex for planning and quick reference.

    • Campaign Management: The Codex features customizable pages for organizing creatures, allies, enemies, stats, behaviors, equipment, and quest tables, putting all the information you need at your fingertips during a session.

    • Seamless Planning to Play: The system allows for a smooth workflow from planning your scenario in the book to deploying it on the physical tabletop, with a detailed legend for all available tiles and tokens.

  • Dynamic, Reusable Tokens: To make your world react to player actions, the system includes dozens of dry-erase tokens that can be placed on the map. These include doors that open or close, walls that collapse, chests that can be marked as full or empty, and traps that can be activated or disarmed.

  • Dual-Layer Tile System for Immersive Exploration: The large tiles feature an innovative dual-layer system. A top frame locks an interchangeable environment underneath, offering complete modularity. For example, city tiles have a "rooftop" side and a detailed "room" side. Players can explore the rooftops, and only when they enter a building do you reveal the interior, creating a sense of discovery and mystery.

  • Grimdark Art Style: All the maps, cards, and tokens are illustrated in a cohesive and atmospheric grimdark art style, perfect for creating a gritty, immersive, and visually striking fantasy world for your adventures.

  • Compatible with All TTRPG Systems: While perfect for games like D&D and Pathfinder with its battle-grid included, the modular nature and reusable design make it adaptable to any tabletop RPG system.


Rewards

  • Master's Codex: $46

    • Includes: One (1) Master's Codex and one (1) Digital Writing Pad.

    • This is a pledge level for GMs who want the campaign management book without the physical tiles.

  • Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles: $94

    • Includes: One (1) Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles Core Box and one (1) Digital Writing Pad.

  • Chronicle Edition: $101

    • Includes: One (1) Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles Core Box, one (1) Master's Codex, and one (1) Digital Writing Pad.

  • Keeper's Vault: $164

    • Includes: One (1) Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles Core Box, one (1) Master's Codex, one (1) 3D Realms Pack (likely additional 3D environment tiles), one (1) Mires & Depths (an expansion tile pack), and one (1) Digital Writing Pad.

    • This tier often offers a significant discount over MSRP.

  • Complete Edition: $207

    • Includes: One (1) Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles Core Box, one (1) Master's Codex, one (1) 3D Realms Pack, one (1) Mires & Depths, one (1) Heroes & Worlds (likely a token or miniature pack), one (1) Dice Set, and one (1) Digital Writing Pad.

    • This is the all-in-one pledge level.

  • Pricing is in Euro, so the US dollar figure may appear random


The Idea

  • Concept: To provide a highly flexible, reusable, and visually stunning TTRPG tool that reduces GM prep time and enables spontaneous, dynamic gameplay.

  • Inspiration: GAME START recognized that many GMs struggle with the time and effort required to create detailed maps and manage campaign notes. They wanted to build upon the success of their previous products to create a unified system that connects map-building and campaign management in a seamless, intuitive way. Fantasy World Creator: Chronicles is born from their vision to empower GMs to unleash epic adventures in seconds, focusing on collaborative storytelling and creative improvisation rather than tedious pre-planning.





 
 
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