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Games for beginners

This page lists all “games for beginners,” with the ones currently accepting new players shown first. These games are run by “Mentors” — volunteers who are generously offering their time and expertise to help new users learn how Storium works.

If you're new around here, joining one of these games is a great way to learn the ropes. There’s no pressure or expectations, nor is there any long-term commitment. Just join up and play for as long as you need to!

Note: if you’re a free Storium user, these games do not count against your 3-game limit. So dive in!

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Games listed below this spot are full and are not currently accepting new players. They may open up again in the future, so keep an eye out.

Sweet Emporium.

Colton Herbert Fizz was famous for his ground-breaking confectionary.

His sweet factory was legendary. But he wanted to share the magic!

He opened a competition which would enable lucky contestants to visit his factory, try out his latest creations, and make their own design a reality. All they had to do is submit an idea for a new kind of sweet - and hope he judged it one of the winners!


If you think you can guess what this story is based on - yep, you are probably on about the right track. You have the general idea.

Hosted and narrated by: Bexja (Bexja)

Started 02/10/22. Scenes played: 3

Target number of characters: 5
Current number of characters: 4
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: Latte1, Bexja, silversheep, Mellon_Choly

License: Community License

Dimensional Freefall --- a Dr Who game

A sci/fi time travel adventure loosely based on the British TV series Doctor Who, without a need for canon knowledge.


This game is nearing the end, but I have the lobby open so newcomers can make contact and get signposted to a suitable game.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETK7aQhc_E

This is a fast paced game, played in a welcoming way to meet the needs of each player.

If you think you might like to play, better to try out than miss out…


Leaders from across the galaxy are planning to build a taskforce to take the fight to the daleks for once and for all.

Peace at any cost? Is any price worth paying for peace? What is going to far? And if you create a force that can drive out the greatest threat, how do you prevent that becoming the threat once the evil it was designed to counter is gone?

Even as these decisions are grappled with, democracy is under threat in unexpected ways, and there are other troubling developments….

Hosted by: Bexja (Bexja)

Rotating narration

Started 04/16/21. Scenes played: 15

Target number of characters: 5
Current number of characters: 6
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: Crystalz_xoxo, Bexja, MrScript, Jaspericorn

License: Community License

A legion of superheroes flies out from the skyline to do battle with a a titanic, helmeted foe.

The City Needs You! [Beginner Game]

The world has plenty of superheroes looking to defend it from the likes of Mechanon and the Slug. You’ve chosen to focus your heroic efforts on this one city. It’s your home, and you want to protect it from street scum, corrupt officials, supervillains, natural disasters, weird menaces, and other dangers.

{This is a “Beginner Game”. Please only apply if you are new to Storium or feel you still need to learn more about how Storium games work.}

Hosted and narrated by: StoryShtick

Started 02/10/21. Scenes played: 3

Target number of characters: 6
Current number of characters: 6
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: ProxyBlack, AnnieChan, Atlas29, Grimstooth, 7Mia7, Jaspericorn

License: Community License w/ Creative Commons

image source: Hero Games

Lent

It is Lent.

This game explores the world in the run up to the crucifixion of Christ, and the events and characters of that time still remembered today.
They had no idea that they were making history, and their lives would be the subject of discussion, disagreement and wonder for centuries to come.

I would want any player to tell me if I need to adjust to increase their access. I think in particular of those with sight impairment and the use of art, but I include anything I have not thought of.

Hosted and narrated by: Bexja (Bexja)

Started 02/20/24. Scenes played: 5

Target number of characters: 6
Current number of characters: 5
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: Depechefloyd, Tacronicus, Bexja, dancingcrane, Zinzerena

License: Community License

Legions of superheroes and supervillians fly towards each other, an epic battle in the making.

The Z-Listers: A Storium Beginners game with 3 scenes.

A Massive cosmic entity threatens the east coast, bringing a threat completely unlike anything the world has ever seen. Furthermore, the world’s most devious villains and most fiendish masterminds have joined this unfathomable being of evil.

But this story is not about that conflict and you are not those legendary heroes. who have joined the fight against it.

The west Coast city of Emerald City Oregon used to be a hotbed of super-powered activity, but now, only the most pathetic and inept heroes and villains remain.

The players take on the incompetent or pathetically weak Z-list heroes, and must defend Emerald city from equally inept and powerless villains.

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This game is meant to be a comedy superhero game in the style of Saturday morning cartoons. and it is meant to help teach beginners how to play Storium in a simple 3-scene short game.

each scene will be narrated by a different member of the Storium Arc podcast.

Hosted by: Zachary Ruffing (Rattannah)

Rotating narration

Started 02/21/20. Scenes played: 3

Target number of characters: 9
Current number of characters: 8
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: Rattannah, docwho2100, Ceekayell, CrystalWings, sunnyhenon, stesla, Scribblingsquirrel, Earthworm

License: Community License

image source: Green Ronin Publishing

What I did in the holidays.

This game is for those who like to tell short stories.

It consists of little stories within a story. Modern day.


Use this game to learn the ropes and meet other players - you can put in one mini-story and go if you wish!


The usual assignments are filed as with every other year.
However, not quite as usual.
The first submitted is a rather impressive yarn.
So one by one, the students seek to out-do one another, as each successive submission becomes more embellished than the last.
By the time it comes to show-and-tell, imagination has totally run riot…

Hosted and narrated by: Bexja (Bexja)

Started 04/11/22. Scenes played: 2

Target number of characters: 4
Current number of characters: 8
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: Bexja, IdkThrowThisAway, strontium, UMHI, not_notabilia, AlexCorner, mauve, Bardpook

License: Host License

Under stormy, ominous skies, a brilliant sunset frames a jagged cliff topped by a lighthouse. Nearer by, a rocky beach shelters an abandoned rowboat. Further out to see, a tall masted ship sets out for the horizon.

Semester Fun at Easterbrook College

The Village by the Sea is too beautiful not to fall in love with, too magnetic to be anything but a tourist trap. Over the decades, the struggling colony became a town of wealth and industry.

Now, Easterbrook College pulls in more out of town students to its vaunted halls than locals. The descendants of the Founding families seek to maintain the picturesque reputation, the “small town charm,” and the quiet obedience to the weight of custom. But underneath, the Village struggles with itself and the secrets contained within it. Its growth into a bustling community of size conceals a horrible truth: it was built on the darkest magic imaginable.


For those new to Storium, this is a beginner game (players/writers with no or limited previous game activity.). We will focus on learning how to use Storium. Each Scene will have Challenges that are designed to help you learn different aspects of the awesome Storium Universe and we will complete about 3 scenes for this Storium game (a shortened story for a beginning game).

Hosted and narrated by: Jojo s (docwho2100)

Started 04/26/19. Scenes played: 4

Target number of characters: 6
Current number of characters: 8
Submissions pending: 6

Players so far: routheboat, JPHR, NyxAyvella, ForbiddenDesires, mackenzieb, linlou999, Alex1983, diggity

License: Community License

18+

image source: Diego Rodriguez
A propsector's spacecraft, framed by the bright sun, lands on a rocky outcropping overlooking an endless desert.

Welcome to Quantum Flux Gulch

Mulysa (means dirty dump in the native tongue) was a dead-end world on the edge of human space, given the formal name of Everlorn even as the few souls to stumble across its wasteland and make it home stuck to the native name. It was destined to skip through space as a forgotten lump of rock — until the day a prospector stumbled out of the desert with a million credits’ worth of hyperdrive crystals in his hands. Now spaceships thunder through the skies above the planet’s boomtowns, and fortune hunters fill the dusty streets. Strap on a blaster or pick up a digger and stake your claim in this space western. You may find yourself exploring alien ruins and risking the wrath of the desert tribes, or riding a howling hoverbike and living the life of an outlaw. You might be a farmer trying to help feed the masses or perhaps you just want to open a nice little shop in town.

It’s the wild west meets future space age (ok yeah it’s a lot like Firefly :)


For those new to Storium, this is a beginner game (players/writers with no or limited previous game activity.). We will be focusing on learning how to use Storium. Each Scene will have Challenges that are designed to help you learn different aspects of the awesome Storium Universe. Stay and play to learn and then when ready you can “leave town” and retire or hand-off your character, ready to ride off into the Storium Sunset to face new adventures ;)

Please Note - the structure of this game is different than many Storium games. Each week I will post a new scene whether the challenges are complete or not. This Storium will run for the course of four weeks. The ideal is to post once or twice a week and make sure you can play for the full four weeks. If a player misses a week, that is ok, the Narrator will just weave the story to include any missing player posts.

Hosted and narrated by: Jojo s (docwho2100)

Started 07/10/18. Scenes played: 6

Target number of characters: 8
Current number of characters: 7
Submissions pending: 3

Players so far: docwho2100, HelplessBystander, Niblickspoon, _Anna_, Gogoli, Cross, Perrine

License: Community License

image source: Marisa Erven

InSpectres: Ghost Hunting for Beginners

You’ve seen the commercials. You’ve heard the radio ads. You’ve read the testimonials. You’ve even watched the documentary TV show. You know the InSpectres.

In a world rife with ghosts, ghouls, and goblins, the Inspectres are the (privatized) front line of defense. When you’ve got werewolves on your property, vampires in your attic, or just a ghost that won’t stop stacking your chairs when you plan on using them, these are the people you call.

And it just so happens that a new franchise is opening in your area. That 9-5 grind isn’t quite the highlight of your life. The days are long and far from enjoyable. Maybe this is the perfect place to start fresh.


Welcome to InSpectres, a game inspired by the tabletop RPG by Momento Mori Games. In this heavily structured beginner game, you play as employees of the newly opened InSpectres franchise as they set up shop and go out on their first mission.

In this game, beginners will learn:
-How to make a character
-How the various types of cards work, including neutral cards
-How challenges work, including special rules a narrator might add to challenges
-How to strategize and work challenges using the game and card rules of Storium
-How to ignore the game and let this be a collaborative writing experience.

Hosted and narrated by: eliasswift

Started 05/05/18. Scenes played: 6

Target number of characters: 6
Current number of characters: 5
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: victoriasilverwolf, Luna3391, Luts, fairybull, eliasswift

License: Community License

Amtal Rule

Amtal Rule

After the siege and capture of the Atreides enclave in Arrakeen, the household members and soldiers who survived were scattered to the winds. Some were able to arrange their way off planet but many joined the Fremen, mercenary groups or went on as freelance soldiers including Gurney Halleck, the valorous and well-known swordmaster.

Gurney was captured by a Sardaukar capture or kill team (after significant losses) and taken to an unknown site to await interrogation, leverage against the other members of the household and eventual execution. The word is, that he is kept in a perpetual drugged state to reduce his resistance and to prevent him from killing himself just yet.

Muad’dib has asked a team of Fedaykin to recapture Halleck and put him back into circulation, fighting the Harkonnens but without bringing Muad’dibs name or part in the rescue. Halleck still has a part to play.

As far as player dynamics, I am looking for an all Fremen cast unless a good case can be made for a Mentat, a Face Dancer or other interested party. Keep in mind that among Fremen, women are valued as highly as men for fighting and survival skills. If you choose NOT to be a Fremen, weaknesses will likely include Lack of Water Discipline.

I welcome custom cards of all kinds; card art is less important but would like to see at least an attempt for the character portrait. Same goes for the character name. That being said, the idea is for this to be an environment to have fun and be creative without judgement or criticism.

This is not “first come, first accepted” but I will only leave invites open generally for a short time. If there is not enough interest, I will not run the story. If you have already applied and been accepted but there are no further applications, please understand that this game will not go on.

I expect to take up to 6 players and am looking for players that are committed, know the background of Dune at least historically (I do not expect you to reread the novel before being allowed in). Also, as much as I like the work of David Lynch, I will try to stay true to the original work rather than the film.

Hosted and narrated by: Mike Hill (Talionis)

Started 12/16/20. Scenes played: 7

Target number of characters: 6
Current number of characters: 5
Submissions pending: 0

Players so far: BigBadBear, Flowerking, VivalaHell, sheltk, TempusFugit

License: Community License

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