Microscope Explorer

Winner of the Indie RPG Award for Best Supplement

An expansion for Microscope, the fractal role-playing game of epic histories, loaded with tools and strategies to get the most out of your games.

New step-by-step SEEDS get you started playing more quickly, or roll up a random ORACLE seed to spark your imagination. Techniques for using Microscope for WORLD-BUILDING, rules experiments, and more.

Explorer also lets you play Microscope in entirely new ways, with three spin-off games based on the core principles of Microscope:

• UNION transforms the normal Microscope history into a family tree. You go back and fill in the blanks to explore the lives of the ancestors whose unions brought each new generation into existence.
• CHRONICLE focuses and streamlines Microscope, narrowing the history to the story of a single thing, such as a building, a city or a ring of power. It also brings individuals to the forefront of the story with anchor characters whose lives are intertwined with each chapter of the history.
• ECHO lets you travel back in time and change individual moments and see how those changes would echo forward, reshaping your history or utterly destroying it.

Microscope Explorer is a supplement for Microscope, so you need the original rules to play.