Description

Use the Fearful Ends Stress Deck to track both mental and physical stress your players endure while exploring the horrific landscapes of the Fearful Ends role playing game. Contains 36 mental stress cards and 18 physical stress cards.

Augment your game to handle more players, or more mayhem, with an extra deck of Stress Cards. They can also easily be added to other RPGs to replace troublesome sanity mechanics, or augment games that lack a system for mental duress.

Mental Stress Cards

Fearful Ends includes a unique take on tracking and roleplaying the effects of mental stress. Mental Stress cards give players control over the direction and pacing of their characters’ mental collapse.

Easy to read roleplay prompts use plain language and avoid clinical terms to guide players to behave in ways any individual would react to severe mental stress. These cards allow your players to react to the disturbing supernatural events of your game without falling into the trap of cliché.

Giving each player a satisfying story arc for their character can be a difficult task for any GM to monitor, especially with a full table of players. Putting this power into the player’s hand distributes the load and ensures each individual character will meet a satisfying, though likely unpleasant end. One player may even find a way to maintain their grip on reality and make it through the game unscathed, though it will take a great deal of luck and skill to pull that off in a game of Fearful Ends.

Physical Stress Cards

Physical stress cards use the same mechanic as mental stress, but are far more deadly! With only three locations and three severities, death and mayhem come quickly in a game of Fearful Ends.

Sensitivity

Crafting narratives that delve into the darkest corners of the human psyche while maintaining a safe and inclusive play environment is no easy task. That’s why we’ve gone the extra mile by engaging sensitivity readers who are experts in mental health and emotional well-being. These dedicated individuals have meticulously combed through every aspect of our system to ensure that characters’ experiences of mental and emotional collapse are portrayed with empathy and understanding.

Cards Only

This is a physical print copy of the Fearful Ends Stress Deck. It includes a single deck of 36 cards. No rules are included with these cards, they require a copy of the Fearful Ends Core Set or the Fearful Ends Digital Core Set (PDF) to use.