Stars Are Right: Core Rulebook
A Twisting Tarot Game of Horror and Discovery!
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Hello and welcome to Stars Are Right!
A diceless TTRPG that uses the Tarot deck to push the story forward.
In this game the experience of performing a Tarot reading, where you gain knowledge of yourself and your surroundings, is used to tell the story of the characters. You draw and gain cards by taking risks and actions beyond the humdrum of your normal existence. Through readings you may have revelations about your inner self, or gain great harm to your body and mind. Delve too deep and who knows what secrets you may uncover lurking in the gloom behind the stars.
Stars are Right is, first and foremost, a horror game. Flexible and able to be set in any era, Stars Are Right fits right in with any story focused on character and atmosphere. Not just by using the cards of the Tarot deck, but by using the reading of the cards as their own story telling mechanism. Adding depth and danger to every obstacle. Every difficult task you perform gives you more cards to work with. These provide, not just a way of interpreting the cost and effect of overcoming and obstacle, but also a way of adding it all up. The inevitable culmination of your cards, the Reading.
Reading lets you and the Game Master determine what all your current cards mean for your character. Do they become bolstered, discovering inner strengths? Do they become driven to insanity, consumed by the cosmos? Every reading is a chance for growth, and death.
Each character has their own unique way to interact and interpret their cards, derived from their personal astrological Star Chart. A combination of Sun, Moon, and Rising Signs give characters special ways to manipulate the fate of the cards and recover from harms both mental and physical, while your chosen Planet gives you power over some of the more unwieldy cosmic forces. The Major Arcana.
The Major Arcana of the tarot deck are controlled by the Game Master (GM). As you continue to play, the GM will slowly add more and more of the Major Arcana to the deck. Where they wait, like ticking cosmic bombs. Once drawn, their power is unleashed! Changing the state of the game, the health of the character's, and the direction of the story. The characters in turn, can use the power of their Planet to defy the odds. Changing bad to good, from harm to health.
While the system is simple, and runs intuitively. It has more than enough variety in each Star Sign, Planet, and Major Arcana, that no two stories or characters will be the same!
Details
- Publication Date
- Nov 25, 2025
- Language
- English
- Category
- Games
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Seamus Copland
Specifications
- Pages
- 34
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- Digest (5.5 x 8.5 in / 140 x 216 mm)