Original Storytelling Games

Starlight Grove offers unique and original tabletop role-playing games made with heart and magic. Our games are proudly distributed through Compose Dream Games. Through their site, you’ll be able to order physical products and digital PDF versions of all of our offerings.

Interested in physical copies in the UK and Europe? Compose Dream Games can ship from within the UK for added convenience. Visit their UK marketplace for more information.

Looking for copies for an educational program or non-profit? Interested in a game but tight on funds? Starlight Grove offers digital PDF community copies. Contact us for more information.

The Things We Become

Discover your destiny as you join the mutant hunters that have sworn to protect humanity.

  • Best played as a campaign of several 2-4 hour sessions.

  • Collaborative storytelling for 2–6 players

  • Requires no GM, with d12s rolled to resolve risky actions

  • Perfect for people who want deep character-creation and advancement with a focus on story

This 74-page game puts you in the role of hunters, humanity’s last protectors, in a verdant apocalypse where nature has taken back control of the earth. You’ll explore the shroud, a sprawling forest of mutations, poisons, and strange beasts that your village must fight against to survive. As you venture into the shroud you’ll take on mutations yourself, causing your fellow villagers to distrust you. Will you still find belonging among your old friends and family, or turn to the tradition-focused hunters lodge as a new home? Or perhaps you’ll find yourself more comfortable in the shroud itself, which is slowly changing you so that you might survive there more easily. What will you make of your dwindling humanity? Will you learn from the hunters that came before you or create a new future for your village?

The Things We Become is a full-fledged original rule system, with skills, talents, and mutations that will help you create a hunter that’s uniquely yours. You’ll play through four strange seasons each year, moving through the shroud’s bizarre cycles of life and death and watching your village grow and change. It’s a game about what it is to be human, how we find belonging, and the darker side of the natural world around us.

This City Must Burn

Stoke the flames of revolution in a game about social inequality and the complexities of violence.

  • Best played in a campaign of 4–8 sessions, 2–3 hours each

  • Collaborative storytelling for 2–6 players

  • Requires no GM, uses simple mechanics and d6 dice to resolve scenes

  • Great for players who want some randomization with a focus on story

This 20-page role-playing game takes you through a complex story of a bunch of revolutionaries from very different walks of life, trying to fight back against the oppressive forces of the city of Vestille. You’ll balance the need for protest and violence with the privileges your characters hold dear to them, constantly deciding what you’re willing to sacrifice for the revolution. After a few sessions, the city will alight in the memorable Night of Fire, and afterwards you’ll play to find out how the city recovers and who wrests control.

The Festival of the Hidden Moon

Create a once-in-a-lifetime experience at the universe’s most exclusive magical festival.

  • Best played in a single, 2–3 hour session

  • Collaborative storytelling for 2–6 players

  • Requires no GM, dice, or printouts

  • Perfect for people new to role-playing games

This 16-page game takes you through a magical adventure over the course of a few hours. The rules consist of narrative prompts and questions that guide players through a collaborative storytelling experience. The game’s simple structure gently introduces players to the concepts of working together and solo to create exciting scenes. You’ll eat delicious food from far-off lands, design and partake in mysterious rituals, and witness the telling of a grand story in a cinematic performance you’ll never forget.