The Cursed Kingdom - Demo Decks

Demo Decks is an introducton to The Cursed Kingdom fantasy roleplaying card game.

This set contains all of the cards you'll need to play The Cursed Kingdom with a party of pre-made heroes and a sample selection of items and monsters from the core game set, plus four new Wondrous Items exclusive to Demo Decks.

Play through the Demo Decks sample encounters, and incorporate the sample monsters into your own original encounters, all using the full rules of The Cursed Kingdom. You can download The Cursed Kingdom core rulebook for free!

All components of Demo Decks are compatible with The Cursed Kingdom - Core Set. If you upgrade to the full version of the game, you can keep playing with the Demo Decks heroes, or create your own heroes from scratch and begin a whole new adventure.

Demo Decks Includes:

• The Cursed Kingdom core rulebook (free download)
• Demo Decks supplement (download with purchase)
• cards for 4 pre-made heroes
• cards for 9 sample monsters
• 8 ready-to-play encounters
• 4 exclusive Wondrous Item Cards

You Will Need:

• 2 - 5 Players
• standard six-sided dice (not included)

(Please note that, per this site's return policy, your order cannot be cancelled once its status reaches "in production" or if you have downloaded files from the game that are available only after purchase.)

FREE Print & Play Option

Looking for a no-cost way to try out The Cursed Kingdom? Just can’t wait for your order to ship? Great news! You can get a free print & play copy of Demo Decks from the “downloads” section of this page. The print & play edition of Demo Decks includes the same sample content as the physical edition and comes with printable versions of all of the cards’ faces. All print & play cards are poker-sized and fit in standard card sleeves.

Here’s all you need to do:

1. Download The Cursed Kingdom RPG Core Rules PDF document.
2. Download the CK Demo Decks Print and Play PDF document.
3. Print all of the Demo Decks cards and record sheets.
4. Cut out and sleeve your printed cards.
5. Read the rules and start playing!

Why Demo Decks?

The Cursed Kingdom is undeniably a large and relatively expensive game. Its purpose, as a piece of game design, is to integrate card-based gameplay into a full-featured roleplaying game, and, frankly, it's not cheap to print and ship that many cards. I realize what a barrier this presents, so I want you, the potential player, to experience the game before you decide to commit. To that end, the core rulebook is free to download. But, the rules are only half of the equation. What about all those cards? That’s where Demo Decks comes in. Here is a curated set of cards, along with pre-made heroes, monsters, and encounters, priced at around what you might expect to pay for a rulebook from a conventional TTRPG. My hope is that you’ll play Demo Decks to find out what this game is all about, and then consider investing in the core game set.

That said, while Demo Decks was born out of pragmatism, it is still designed to be an entertaining product in its own right. I unabashedly love these new characters I’ve invented, and I crack a grin every time I recall the sample encounters’ silly titles and unexpected twists. I’ve spent such a long time painting this world in broad strokes, and it was a joy to color in these fine details at last. May you have as much fun playing them as I had writing them!

~ Robbie Proseus, designer & author

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