Coming Soon! StoryGuider, colorable adventures for ages 2-7!
This Summer/Fall 2025, TTRPGkids is launching a crowdfunding campaign for art and physical printing for StoryGuider! This set of 36 coloring book adventures will allow players to interact with the story by choosing their paths and coloring how they want! It will be available in both digital print-and-play and physical print-on-demand formats, with POD copies printing and shipping from two locations (US and Europe).
Find out more below, and make sure to sign up for both the Backerkit campaign and the TTRPGkids newsletter to get a special discout link at launch!
Story interaction versus just listening
When it comes to helping your kid learn to love books later in life, we all know that reading to them at an early age and exposing them to all kinds of different stories is extremely important.
The same is true for fostering creativity and encouranging them to be a storytellers themselves.
StoryGuider combines elements from early reader books for kids and tabletop RPGs, draws on inspiration from Choose-Your-Own Adventure games, and stems from work with pre-K social emotional learning curricula to create an experience for your kid that will help them:
- love reading
- think critically about stories
- develop social and emotional skills
- enjoy screen-free fun
Easy for families and teachers
In addition to all the benefits that this provides for kids, it provides something very beneficial to the storyguide (you, their reader) as well… it is easy to jump into and is an engaging bonding opportunity for both you and your kid.
There’s no prep work or planning involved, unless you want to add some of the extra, very optional, enrichment activities that come with each adventure. All you need to do is open the book, and it walks you through running a full story game with your kid(s).
Art team goals
The original StoryGuider series began releasing in 2021 as a la carte downloadable games with art from the writer, Steph from TTRPGkids. While this art served the needs of the material at that time, they have wanted to update it ever since.
They are bringing on a team of artists including known community members, like Leo Assis, who illustrated “Making a Tabletop RPG for YOUR Particular Kid”, and upcoming teen artists, Amelia and Julia, who are looking to break into the world of TTRPG illustration and start their careers. Each artist will be in charge of illustrating at least one trilogy for a different character so each set of stories will have it’s own special feel.
New book compatible format
When StoryGuider was initially released, it was for a pre-K classroom and had decision trees that required interpretation by the facilitator and printing of separate coloring sheets for kids.
Based on feedback and lessons learned both from those using the game these past few years and from reviewing over 100 kid-friendly TTRPG projects via the TTRPGkids website mission, StoryGuider is being reformated for easy use and accessibility!
While the original version will still be digitally available, the new version will follow a guided book format with the decision tree integrated into the story (i.e. “choice A, go to page 7” and “choice B, go to page 12”) and will have art pages alongside the reading material for players to color on or interact with as the story unfolds.
Printed a la carte and compilation books
This big update will also come with options to choose stories in sets of 3 (trilogies), 12 (big books), or all 36 (big bundle). Backing a book tier of the project will, at the price of the digital version of the book, get you both the digital version and a print-on-demand key that lets you choose if you want to print at-cost or not. This saves you cost and reduces time to ship by giving you direct control of when you want to apply your code!
As a parent and educator myself, I know how budgets and purchase decisions work, so I wanted to make sure you would have the flexibility to work with your particular needs and have a sliding scale for picking the content you want to try with your kid(s).
Sign up today!
Follow along with the project to get updates and some sneak peeks of digital content as we get closer to launch AND, sign up both here and on the TTRPGkids newsletter (check out this page) to get access to a secret teir on campaign launch that will grant you a $5 discount on the BIG BUNDLE!
Your support is much appreciated, and I look forward to getting these stories out to more kids, families, and classrooms soon!