Partycraft lore
Party roles that create choices
Use defenders, scouts, faces, healers, and wildcards as story responsibilities rather than rigid classes.
Beginner
Valor and Oaths
A useful party role answers two questions: what can this hero reliably notice or protect, and what decisions become harder when that hero is absent?
What you should be able to do
- Describe five flexible party roles.
- Balance spotlight without flattening personality.
- Create a missing-role complication.
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Related lore
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Hero bonds and earned trust
Build relationship progress through remembered choices, gifts, callbacks, and honest disagreement.
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Safe roleplay boundaries
Set tone, intensity, exclusions, and pause options before a scene becomes uncomfortable.
Storycraft
Meaningful quest choices
Design choices where each option protects something and risks something else.
Encounters
Cinematic, non-graphic combat
Keep action readable and exciting through objectives, terrain, momentum, and clear safety boundaries.