The Retreat

A nuclear-powered luxury supertrain hurtles between LA and NY, filled with glamorous stars and gripping human drama! Kingdom Story Seed It’s 1978. The supertrain Kolossus runs at more than 200mph, is powered by an active atomic pile and ranks of steam turbines, and makes a run between LA is NY in 36 hours, filled with glamorous stars, everyday joes who’ve saved their whole lives for this vacation, and a crew of misfits and weirdos who’re just doing their best to keep things on track! But with a job this big, that’s quite the handful! Whether it be the attempted political assassination due to mistaken identity, the cops hunting for mob big-wigs, representatives of the Kolossus holding company with a stake in having the train never stop, or just the mess on the lit disco floor, something is always going down. The Kingdom is the train and everyone on board, passengers (generally stars from the 70’s; feel free to just refer to them by their name and not their character’s name, we ...

This story seed is intended to be used with Kingdom as a means of quickly assembling a game session setup for 3 - 5 players. Times of sorcery and intrigue always have at least one extended family whose dabbling into things unspeakable, either magical or social -- and frequently both -- become the stuff of legends. The House de Calmar is one such, an extended family of depravity and indolence, propped up with sorceries, cunning political intrigues, and simply enough gall to both shock and fascinate those outside the House. The necessity of "keeping things in the family" is never lost, and much time is spent managing the affairs of the outside world to maintain the mirror-finish that those without the blessing of being accepted as insiders see from their vantage. Families often find that their members are both their best friends and worst enemies, sometimes within the same conflict. Likewise, blood is thought thicker than water, leaving those who might wish to intervene...

Story Seed – DarkRun This story seed is intended to be used with Kingdom as a means of quickly assembling a game session setup for 3 - 5 players. The future has arrived in a long black limousine with windows so deeply shaded that you can see the reflection of the nothingness over the city. Cybernetics are old hat; you can go out to grab a cheap Chinese dinner and get the colour of your eyes changed as easily as a crappy tattoo. Behind the dirt and the hustle, the old dance between corporations, governments, and the individual still turns, as brittle and stately as a retired debutante. The chrome and plastic and clean concrete hide something altogether different that only a few see but everyone feels. Some go just a little bit mad and rip open tiny holes between worlds to let their madness out. Some ignore the lure of implanted steel for grafts from creatures no one has ever seen walking the Earth. A few make deals with alien gods and demons, trading a little bit of blood, a hand...

Story Seed This story seed is intended to be used with Kingdom as a means of quickly assembling a game session setup for 3 - 5 players. The Two Flowers Coiled Nigh For tens of thousands of years, the kingdom of úða berjum was ruled by a succession of bold leaders, some Kings, some Queens, some Princess and Princesses of the most noble, all worshiping the gods of order and light, the ákveðinn . Now, the end of the gods comes slowly, creeping in the night, and the source of that threat remains unrevealed. Uoa Berjum is assaulted within and without, and none in the halls of power know who can be trusted. Now stands arrayed outwards to the weapons of the Enemy: the Knights, Paladin, and Staves, swordsmen, warriors, and soldiers roused only partially from their internecine struggles. And inward slither the restless, empty eyes of the foe which demands only pain, not form, or shape, nor even power, only that others serve and die so they may suffer ever longer this vale of tears. ...