The Space·Time Deck is a card deck designed to be used as an improv tool, both for storytelling and role-playing games.

  • The Excuse.
  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • IV.
  • V.
  • VI.
  • VII.
  • VIII.
  • IX.
  • X.
  • XI.
  • XII.
  • XIII.
  • XIV.
  • XV.
  • XVI.
  • XVII.
  • XVIII.
  • XIX.
  • XX.
  • XXI.
  • Back.
  • Blank 1
  • Blank 2
  • Blank 3
  • Blank 4
  • Blank 5
  • Cheatsheet Front
  • Cheatsheet Back

More about this deck in future posts.

Note that the oddly large margins are there by design. The idea is to offer this deck for on-demand printing, and such margins are required by printers.

Credits
  • Space·Time Deck itself: David Teller. Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0.
  • 0: Edward Burne-Jones, Tile Design - Theseus and the Minotaur in the Labyrinth. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • I: No image.
  • II: Hyeronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights [detail]. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • III: Publicity photo of American actress Fay Wray promoting the 1933 feature film King Kong. Believed to be Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • IV: Peter Brueghel, The Tower of Babel. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • V: Gustave Moreau, Oedipus and the Sphinx. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia, Metropolitan Museum of Art).
  • VI: Grigory Goldstein, Lenin gave a famous speech to a crowd of Soviet troops in Sverdlov Square, Moscow, in 1919. In the foreground was Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev. During Joseph Stalin’s government, the photograph was edited. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • VII: English: Mushroom cloud of ‘Gadget’ over Trinity, seconds after detonation. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • VIII: Eugène Delacroix — Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives via artsy.net. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • IX: Bartolo di Fredi – Collegiate Church of San Gimignano, Italy. from the Old Testament cycle: The Israelites safely cross the Red Sea, but Pharaoh and his troops are drowned. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • X: Le voyage dans la Lune, George Méliès. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • XI: Uncertain, either Levy & Fils or Kuhn. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia)
  • XII: editor Austen Henry Layard , drawing by L. Gruner, ‘Monuments of Nineveh, Second Series’ plate 5, London, J. Murray, 1853. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • XIII: RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle - International Photographer, Volume XII, Number 12, January 1941 (front cover). Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • XIV: “Le Veau d’or” (allégorie du scandale de Panama), par Henri Meyer. Public Domain (source: Gallica / Wikipedia).
  • XV: Netherlandish (possibly Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen) Laughing Fool ca. 1500 - Oil on panel, 13 13⁄16 x 9 in Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • XVI: Unable to find authorship or copyright information. Believed to be Public Domain.
  • XVII: Terra Cotta Army replica at the Forbidden Gardens in Katy, Texas. Picture: Wikipedia user Vybr8. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. (source: Wikipedia).
  • XVIII: Mignon Nevada as “Ophelia”, glass negative photograph, circa 1910. Public Domain (source: Library of Congress, Wikipedia).
  • XIX: Eduard von Grützner, Falstaff mit großer Weinkanne und Becher. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • XX: Copper engraving of Doctor Schnabel [i.e Dr. Beak], a plague doctor in seventeenth-century Rome, with a satirical macaronic poem (‘Vos Creditis, als eine Fabel, / quod scribitur vom Doctor Schnabel’) in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • XXI: No image.
  • Amigurimi Cthulhu: Wikipedia user Bastique, Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0 (source: Wikipedia).
  • Tardis: Wikipedia user Zir Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 (source: Wikipedia).
  • 5-legged demon: Illustration du Dictionnaire infernal de Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy par Louis Le Breton, 6eme édition, 1863. Public Domain (source: Wikipedia).
  • Clock hand: Re digitized vintage public domain illustration of a black and white human hand with a clock, made available by Dawn Hudson.

Thanks

Many thanks to jlorenzo, pnkfelix, nickwedig, Alamantus, mxfraud, GiantKumquat for their help!