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Captivating characters should keep your audience engaged from start to finish. StoryTricks provides tools to align inner and outer attributes, allowing conflict to arise naturally.
The Characters deck offers a practical approach to developing complex characters with depth, drive, and maturation. It helps you craft relatable characters that are essential for driving the plot and engaging the audience.
Leverage the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience to create authentic, multidimensional characters that resonate with your audience.
Allow the plot to unfold naturally from your characters’ nuances, enabling the audience to experience the story from their unique perspectives.
Create memorable characters by blending contradictions, flaws, and traits reflecting the universal challenges a of the human experience.
The Characters Deck contains 50 tutorial cards designed to help you build relatable protagonists and antagonists by developing their opacity, behavior, personality, and subconscious depth.
1. CHARACTER OPACITY
Say goodbye to cardboard characters. Add substance with contradictions, psychological flaws, quirks, love languages, flexible beliefs, and more.
Tutorial Cards (20): Goodness Scale, Outer Attributes, Inner Nature, Initial Beliefs Oneself, Initial Beliefs Others, Initial Beliefs World, Final Beliefs Oneself, Final Beliefs Others, Final Beliefs World, The Master Lie, Want vs Need, The Haunting Ghost, The Temple, Fatal Flaw, Contradictions, Framing & Genres, Love Language, Vulnerability Armor, Conflict Sources, Transformation Arc
2. SCARF MODEL
Suit your characters for conflict! The SCARF model is a neuroscientific framework that identifies five social factors impacting emotional responses and acting as natural conflict-generating triggers.
Tutorial Cards (5) : Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness
3. PERSONALITY
Ensure consistent character’s behaviour by leveraging the sixteen personality archetypes, grounded in decades of research inspired by Carl Jung’s work.
Tutorial Cards (13) : Personality, Extraversion/Introversion, Sensing/Intuition, Thinking/Feeling, Judging/Perceiving, The Facilitator, The Protector, The Supervisor, The Inspector, The Entertainer, The Composer, The Entrepreneur, The Crafter, The Innovator, The Idealist, The Educator, The Counselor, The Inventor, The Architect, The Mobilizer, The Mastermind
4. INNER CALLING
Callings are inner drivers and adversaries emerging from traumas. These subconscious forces shape fictional characters, empowering or weakening them in believable ways.
Tutorial Cards (10) : Calling Enneagram, The Reformer, The Helper, The Achiever, The Individualist, The Investigator, The Questioner, The Energizer, The Controller, The Mediator
5. ANTAGONIST ARGUMENTS
Antagonists are the protagonists of their own story. They use flawed arguments to justify their actions, such as utilitarianism, cognitive dissonance, and twisted comparisons.
Tutorial Cards (1) : Twisted Point of View, Next In Line, Vicious Circle, Utilitarism, Cognitive Dissonance, Naturalism, Fair Retribution, Protection of a Kind, Responsibility Discharge, Nihilism, Freeze Effect, Mental Sickness, Binary Reduction, Fair Retaliation, Amalgam
5. MAIN PROTAGONIST DETECTOR
Single out the main protagonist among an extended cast of characters with these tools, inspired by the work of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Carol S. Pearson.
Tutorial Cards (1) : The Five Stage of Grief, Four Archetypal Steps
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The dimensions of the cards are 126 mm x 89 mm, or 5 in x 3.5 in. Closer to tarot cards than playing cards, they allow you to put sticky notes on them.
The cards are numbered to be followed in order and to reference specific ones when needed. There are no more than 52 cards per deck. We add hundreds to differentiate the cards between each deck. Framing cards are numbered 1xx and 2xx, Genres cards are 3xx, Characters cards are 4xx, Structure cards are 5xx and 6xx, and Empathy cards are 7xx.
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