Microscope Explorer

Winner of the Indie RPG Award for Best Supplement

An expansion for Microscope, the fractal role-playing game of epic histories, loaded with tools and strategies to get the most out of your games.

New step-by-step SEEDS get you started playing more quickly, or roll up a random ORACLE seed to spark your imagination. Techniques for using Microscope for WORLD-BUILDING, rules experiments, and more.

Explorer also lets you play Microscope in entirely new ways, with three spin-off games based on the core principles of Microscope:

UNION transforms the normal Microscope history into a family tree. You go back and fill in the blanks to explore the lives of the ancestors whose unions brought each new generation into existence.
CHRONICLE focuses and streamlines Microscope, narrowing the history to the story of a single thing, such as a building, a city or a ring of power. It also brings individuals to the forefront of the story with anchor characters whose lives are intertwined with each chapter of the history.
ECHO lets you travel back in time and change individual moments and see how those changes would echo forward, reshaping your history or utterly destroying it.
Microscope Explorer is a supplement for Microscope, so you need the original rules to play.