Imagine Queer Worlds (Cards)

Worldbuilding usually stops at the map. This deck asks who people are allowed to love on it.

Imagine Queer Worlds is a modular worldbuilding supplement by Jaclyn Lewis and contributors, for inventing societies, cultures and environments and working out their norms around sex, gender and attraction, then seeing how those norms shape the people who live there. This is the illustrated card deck. It works on its own or alongside the Imagine Queer Worlds zine.

The 56 suit cards are split into four realms: Swords for Bodies & Biology, Pentacles for Gender & Expression, Cups for Relationships & Attraction and Wands for Sex & Sexuality. They double as Minor Arcana or as ordinary playing cards. Extra cards cover how to use the deck, a Pause card for safety, a note for facilitators and further worldbuilding and storybuilding tools. It scales to the size of your group, how deep you want to go and how familiar everyone is with the terminology.

Perfect for: The GM whose fantasy kingdoms have elaborate tax systems and trade routes but have never once considered who gets married.

Worldbuilding supplement | Card deck | Use alone or with the zine