Powered By Sparkles Tabletop Roleplaying Game
Powered By Sparkles Tabletop Roleplaying Game
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Find your inner sparkle and become the hero you always knew you could be with the Powered By Sparkles TTRPG system. The Powered By Sparkles system is an easy to use card based RPG without the crunch of other roleplaying games.
- Grow your Sparkle with 15 magnitudes (levels) to take your hero from a gifted newb to ULTRA LEGEND.
- Simple card based abilities and skills ensure you never forget about that badass move.
- For 2 or more players (1 DM and 1 or more heroes).
- 12 Origin backgrounds that you can mix and match .
- 4 Core fields for skill checks: Oddity, Resolve, Capability, Strength (ORCS).
- Keep track of your hero's abilities using your ARCompass.
- Optional side-quests/flashbacks/mini-challenges built in to address the true BBEG of game scheduling.
- Robust system to address character death and other major quest moments.
- A cast of characters with unique personal side-quests that you can recruit/romance.
- A sandbox of pocket dimensions to explore with your squad.
- 12 episodes of core adventures that will take you across the sparkle orc universe!
We are currently developing this system with the goal for play-testing in late 2026. Sign up for more information using the notification button above.
About The System
About The System
FAQS
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions About Powered By Sparkles and The Sparkle Orc Saga (TSOS)
What is It?
The Sparkle Orc Saga (TSOS) is the universe our heroes live in.
What Does it Do?
It powers all of our lore and world building. It will be the sandbox that you can play in once we release the full system to the public.
When Will it Come Out?
We will be play testing a streamlined version of our game mechanics with our card game Heart/Beat: An Orc Dating & Duelling Game starting in 2026.
How Many People Can Play?
The minimum you need is 1 DM and 1 player. We will include a cast of characters you can recruit and romance for smaller parties. These characters will have specific quest lines you can optionally pursue to gain favour with them.
How Will it be Licensed?
TBD we are currently looking at our options so that the system can be used by homebrewers easily.
What Does it Include?
Everything you need to play a streamlined adventure. We are designing a full arc (magnitudes 5-20) to take roughly a year with weekly play. This includes:
- 12 major episodes where you follow your hero from level 5-20. These episodes are more linear and structured.
- Optional flashbacks/side-quests/goals and mini-challenges you can complete when you don't have a full party or when a player is missing for an extended period of time. These optional bonus features are designed to deal with scheduling challenges while rewarding you with special loot, relationships and abilities.
- Easy to use ability cards that keep track of your skills.
- A universe of worlds to explore in freeplay directed by your DM.
What Do You Mean by Queer-First?
Mechanically our universe is built by queer people for queer people. We welcome all to come play in our little corner of the multiverse but this place was built to reflect our lives and values first and foremost. Lore wise, it takes someone on the periphery of society, someone who has been marginalized, someone who has seen what most others do not to enter the outer plane. To make the journey you have to see beyond what you are taught by the majority and access that inner-magic that connects all outsiders to escape the trappings of the material plane we live in.
All of the characters in our official content are queer/trans/nonbinary and a good amount of them are neurodivergent. That is because Grunk is queer/nonbinary/ neurodivergent. You are free to create your own characters outside of this pretty pink triangle but be aware that you are a guest here. Here the monsters, outcasts and outliers are the heroes of the story. We don't offer humans as a potential background origin because we want you to embrace the strange, the different and the unique.
What Do You Mean by Anti-Fascist & Anti-Capitalist?
The universe we have created has learned some of the hard lessons about the horrors of capital control, religious fundamentalism and how deeply intertwined both of them are with xenophobic fascism. Most of the societies in this place value education, freedom of thought and freedom of expression. These are the values our heroes fight for.
Our villains are represented by the last vestiges of these great evils. These evils of the human soul show us the dark parts inside of us that we must be ever-vigilant against both in fantasy and reality.
Orc.Style has always been a commentary on the corporate commercialization of queer culture. Cutting off the bits of us they didn't like to make us more palatable for the masses. This is about embracing what makes us unique while celebrating what brings us together and how we can overcome the horrors that we face. This is a setting and a story about how we are going win together in spite of these horrors.
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