Umi’s Infinite Tales: A D&D 5E Card-Driven Adventure System

🌙 What is Umi's Infinite Tales?

🌙What is Umi's Infinite Tales?

Umi's Infinite Tales turns adventures, creatures, locations, and story ideas into modular card decks that can generate individual encounters or complete branching adventures directly at the table.

Each Adventure Deck contains 100+ cards filled with encounters, rewards, complications, and major challenges.

Draw a card when you need an instant encounter, use a complete deck for a themed adventure, or combine several decks and Node Maps to build replayable roguelike-style runs.

Designed for:

• D&D 5E system
• Solo players
• Game Masters looking for zero-prep content
• Groups looking for structured adventures
• Existing campaigns that need quick encounters and ideas
• One-shots and spontaneous sessions

One deck. Endless paths. Infinite stories.

✨ Core Features

Each Adventure Deck contains 100+ themed cards built around a specific setting, adventure, region, or style of play.

Use a single deck for a focused experience, draw cards individually whenever you need inspiration, or combine several Adventure Decks to create more unpredictable adventures. Every deck works on its own while remaining fully compatible with the wider Infinite Tales system.

Play them separately. Mix them together. Build something completely unexpected!

🎨 CARD TYPES

Adventure Decks include several different card types, each designed to create a different kind of moment during play:

• Combat for battles, ambushes, and dangerous confrontations.
• Roleplay for characters, conversations, choices, and social situations.
• Exploration for travel, discoveries, hazards, and unusual locations.
• Puzzle for riddles, mechanisms, and interactive challenges.
• Atmosphere for strange events, magical phenomena, and narrative twists.
• Boss Encounters for major climactic challenges.
• Boons & Curses that can affect the rest of your Run.

Individual cards can also include different difficulty or intensity options, helping them remain useful across a wider range of characters and adventures.

Turn your Adventure Decks into complete branching adventures using Node Maps.

Separate your cards by encounter type, shuffle each pile, and follow the paths shown on the map. Players choose their route as they progress, with different nodes determining which type of encounter comes next.

Some Node Maps also include Mystery Nodes, split encounter choices, alternate routes, optional paths, and other special spaces that make each Run less predictable. Characters can also gain and spend Fate Points, collect Boons, suffer Curses, and carry the consequences of earlier encounters into the rest of the journey.

Change the map, take another route, or reshuffle the cards and the same decks can create a very different adventure.

Dedicated Monster Decks collect ready-to-use creature stat blocks that can be used alongside Adventure Cards or during your normal campaigns.

When a Combat Encounter calls for one of these creatures, the corresponding Monster Card gives you everything needed to run it without searching through another book.

Adventure Decks also contain dedicated Boss Encounters, designed for major confrontations and the final challenges of a Run.

Monster Decks can also be used completely independently as quick-reference creature collections for your regular 5E games.

Every qualifying pledge includes the complete Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide.

The Guide explains how to prepare and use your decks, create Runs, follow Node Maps, use Fate Points, handle Boons and Curses, run Boss Encounters, combine multiple themes, and use Infinite Tales alongside an existing campaign.

It also includes:

• Solo play rules
• Game Master guidance
• Roguelike Run rules
• Example Node Maps
• Guidance for adapting the system to your own games

Everything needed to begin using Infinite Tales is included in the Guide.

Infinite Tales is designed to support several different ways to play.

• Solo Play. Build complete adventures for a single player using Adventure Cards, Node Maps, Fate, and the solo guidance included in the Guide.
• Zero-Prep Game Mastering. Need an encounter, complication, location, NPC situation, or unexpected event? Draw a card and use it immediately. Adventure Cards can be dropped into ongoing campaigns whenever you need something quickly, or used together to build an entire session.
• Group Adventures. Take a full party through a structured Run where players choose routes, reveal encounters, gain rewards, suffer setbacks, and work their way toward the final Boss.

Infinite Tales can support its own standalone adventures or slot directly into an existing campaign.

🃏 Adventure Card Anatomy

Every Infinite Tales card follows a clear, consistent layout:

• Card Type: Combat, Roleplay, Exploration, Puzzle, Atmosphere, Boss, Boon, or Curse.
• Type Icon: Quickly identifies the card category at a glance.
• Theme: Shows which Adventure Deck or setting the card belongs to.
• Card Title: The name of the encounter, event, or effect.
• Encounter Text: All narrative information and rules needed to use the card.
• Difficulty Tiers: Where applicable, cards include Tier I, II, and III options for different character levels.
• Checks & Consequences: Relevant DCs, choices, effects, rewards, or penalties are included directly on the card.
• Set Symbol: Identifies the deck or expansion the card comes from.

All combat cards use the 5E system!

⚙️ How does it work?!

How Does It Work?

1. Choose Your Deck. Pick the theme you want to explore.

2. Choose Your Node Map. Choose the structure of your adventure.

3. Draw & Explore. Reveal encounters as you follow your chosen path.

4. Gain Fate & Rewards. Earn Fate Points, gain Boons, suffer Curses, and collect rewards.

5. Face the Boss. Reach the final challenge and discover how your tale ends.

Shuffle. Rebuild. Begin again!

🎁Try Infinite Tales for FREE!

Available for free during the live crowdfunding campaign.

Download a free Umi's Infinite Tales Starter Run and experience the system at your own table.

The free pack includes:

• 12 Adventure Cards
• 2 Combat
• 2 Roleplay
• 2 Exploration
• 2 Puzzle
• 2 Atmosphere
• 2 additional Adventure Cards
• 1 Boss Encounter
• Free Node Map Pack

Use the cards and Node Maps to build a short branching run, experience the different encounter types, and get a proper taste of how Infinite Tales plays before choosing your pledge.

🛒 How to Pledge

• Want the core Starlight Arcana experience? → Choose The Essentials for First Steps and all three Starlight Arcana Adventure Decks.
• Want every Adventure Deck? → Choose The Chronicler for the complete collection of Adventure Decks in the campaign.
• Want all the Adventure and Monster Decks? → Choose The Curator for the complete Infinite Tales card collection.
• Want the biggest bundle? → Choose Astral Sibling for every deck above plus the Digital All-In collections for our featured settings and projects.

Every tier also includes the Umi’s Infinite Tales Booklet and Digital versions of all included decks.

🎁 Kickstarter Exclusive Bonus

All POD Adventure Decks and POD Monster Decks include their corresponding Digital versions FREE during the campaign.

That means you can enjoy the physical deck at your table while still having the full digital version ready for online play, reference, or travel.

After the campaign ends, Print-on-Demand and Digital editions will be sold separately. This special offer is exclusive to Kickstarter backers of this campaign.

💰 Pledge Tiers

🧩 Build Your Own. €2 / $2

Create your own bundle using individual Adventure Decks, Monster Decks, and other add-ons.

Add at least one Adventure Deck or Monster Deck and receive the Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide for free.

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🌙 The Essentials. €45/$50 (Save €7/$8.)

A compact starting collection focused on Starlight Arcana.

Includes:

• 4 Adventure Decks
• Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide
• Digital versions of all included decks

Includes First Steps and all three Starlight Arcana Adventure Decks.

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📖 The Chronicler. €110/$124 (Save €20/$23.)

Get every Adventure Deck included in the campaign.

Includes:

• 10 Adventure Decks
• Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide
• Digital versions of all included decks

Perfect for anyone who wants the complete Infinite Tales adventure collection.

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🗃️ The Curator. €165/$186 (Save €35/$40.)

Get the complete Infinite Tales card collection included in the campaign.

Includes:

• 10 Adventure Decks
• 6 Monster Decks
• Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide
• Digital versions of all included decks

Perfect for anyone who wants the full Adventure and Monster Deck collection in one pledge.

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🌌 Umi’s Infinite Trove. €320/$360 (Save €100/$113.)

Get the complete Infinite Tales collection alongside our previous crowdfunding Digital All-Ins.

Includes:

• All Adventure Decks
• All Monster Decks
• All featured Digital All-Ins
• Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide
• Digital versions of all included decks

📋 Pledge Table

🧩 Build Your Own

The $2 Build Your Own pledge is intended for backers who want to create their own bundle through add-ons.

✧ Backers who add at least one Adventure Deck or Monster Deck will also receive the Umi's Infinite Tales Guide for free.

🌌 The Astral Sibling Pledge

This pledge tier is a heavily discounted mega-bundle containing everything from Umi's Infinite Tales and everything we have created for all of our previous crowdfunding campaigns!

➕Add-Ons

➕Add-ons Text Explanation

Pick individual decks and extras to build the version of Umi’s Infinite Tales you want.

• 🎴 Adventure Decks

Each Adventure Deck contains 100+ cards based on a specific setting, adventure, or part of the Starlight Chronicles.

First Steps
A broad introduction to Latakar, with encounters spread across several regions and a strong focus on the Southern Valleys and the Swamplands. A good starting deck for grounded adventures before venturing farther across the setting.

Latakar Expanded #1
Push beyond the regions covered in First Steps and explore more of Latakar, including the Frozen Tundra in the north alongside encounters from other distant parts of the continent.

Starlight Arcana #1
Explore Nitania, Enus, Er’ia, and the Neather, with encounters built around the strange cultures, environments, creatures, and dangers of the first Ring.

Starlight Arcana #2
Travel through Fruno, Zitune, Tobanus, Melion, and Aviea, covering fungal worlds, deserts, horror, molten landscapes, frozen environments, and the creatures that inhabit them.

Starlight Arcana #3
Journey through Dehavis, Cralast, Arus, and the Woven Planet, bringing the later reaches of Starlight Arcana into Infinite Tales.

Soulfrost Reliquary
Explore the frozen north of Latakar through haunted ruins, Soulfrost magic, undead, spirits, ice, and the strange experiments hidden within the Reliquary.

Sirensong
Descend into the Glowing Trench, with underwater exploration, Nalar society, psionic magic, abyssal creatures, political conflict, ancient ruins, and the struggle surrounding the Drowned God.

Crystal Chaos
Follow the spread of the Crystal Blight through frozen landscapes, abandoned outposts, magical grottoes, corrupted creatures, elemental guardians, and encounters inspired by Allyna and Pandora.

Rordon Gamsay’s Extraordinary Cookbook
Enter a world of forbidden culinary magic filled with living food, unstable recipes, magical kitchens, strange ingredients, Cheeseborn, and the increasingly disastrous experiments of Rordon Gamsay.

Sailing the Stars
Take Infinite Tales into the Sea of Stars with astral ships, space phenomena, strange travelers, asteroid settlements, ship encounters, cosmic discoveries, and creatures roaming between worlds.

• 👹 Monster Decks

Monster Decks collect the creatures from their corresponding books as ready-to-use reference cards for Infinite Tales or regular 5E games.

Latakar Monster Deck
A collection of original creatures commonly encountered across Latakar. These monsters support the Combat cards found in First Steps and Latakar Expanded #1, giving you quick access to the creatures those decks regularly call upon. 

✧ This monster deck is being offered for the first time in a project!

Starlight Arcana Monster Deck
Creatures from across Starlight Arcana, covering Latakar, the planetary Rings, the Sea of Stars, and the many factions and strange beings encountered throughout the campaign.

✧ This monster deck is being offered for the first time in a project! All the monsters have been reworked and updated in preparation for the relaunch of Starlight Arcana through a new campaign in the future!

Soulfrost Reliquary Monster Deck
The undead, spirits, frozen horrors, magical experiments, and major threats found throughout the Soulfrost Reliquary.

✧ This is the same monster deck that was offered during the book's original campaign.

Sirensong Monster Deck
Nalar warriors and spellcasters alongside the predators, abyssal creatures, strange marine beings, and other threats of the Glowing Trench.

✧ This is the same monster deck that was offered during the book's original campaign.

Crystal Chaos Monster Deck
Crystalline creatures that serve Pandora, magical guardians, Blight-touched threats, and the major monsters encountered throughout Crystal Chaos. (This deck comes with the Crystal Chaos spells as well!)

✧ This is the same monster deck that was offered during the book's original campaign.

Rordon Gamsay’s Extraordinary Cookbook Monster Deck
Living dishes, food elementals, Cheeseborn, culinary experiments, and other creatures created through Rordon’s increasingly unstable magic.

✧ This is the same monster deck that was offered during the book's original campaign.

• 🗺️ Node Maps Bundle

Expand your Runs with 30 completely new Node Maps, each featuring different routes, branches, encounter combinations, and special nodes. 

✧ The Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide booklet already includes x10 unique Node Maps to get you started. This bundle adds 30 additional layouts for even more variety.

• 🔮 Tarot Decks

Starlight Arcana Tarot Deck. The original illustrated tarot deck created for Starlight Arcana.

Sirensong Tarot Deck
An illustrated tarot deck inspired by the characters, creatures, and underwater world of Sirensong.

✧ Returning backers should check their previous rewards before adding either deck.

• 📚 Previous Project All-Ins

Missed one of our earlier campaigns? Their complete Digital All-In bundles return as discounted add-ons:

• Starlight Arcana
• Soulfrost Reliquary
• Sirensong
• Crystal Chaos
• Rordon Gamsay’s Extraordinary Cookbook
• Sailing the Stars

These contain the digital rewards from their corresponding crowdfunding campaigns and will be among the earliest rewards delivered, since the content is already completed.

• Kelfecil's Tales - Adventure Bundle

Explore the Starlight Chronicles setting through a lot more stories and adventures. These adventures have all been crafted over the years with the purpose of exploring different themes and situations so there is something to please every kind of player and adventurer out there.

• Dusky Cat's Token Collection

Created by the talented Dusky Cat, this collection features a wide range of vibrant tokens ready for use in any virtual tabletop environment. Whether you're running homebrew or a Kelfecil’s Tales adventure, these tokens add style and personality to every encounter.

• Digital Artwork Collection

Do you like the artwork you see in the various projects by Kelfecil's Tales? Then this is the bundle for you! High Definition artworks to use as wallpapers, in your own games and more. We are going all out and sharing x20 handpicked pieces that we think you will enjoy a lot.

Artworks have been handpicked from the following projects: Starlight Arcana, Soulfrost Reliquary, Crystal Chaos, Sirensong

🖥️ VTT Support

Because the project includes multiple Adventure Decks, Monster Decks, Node Maps, and other components, we want to find a format that feels practical and fairly priced for everyone.

We are still considering how individual decks, larger bundles, and the wider Infinite Tales system could be offered on VTT before locking anything in.

Expect more news as we prepare dedicated Roll20 and Foundry VTT modules for Infinite Tales. 

🖨️ We Are Using Print-on-Demand!

The project is fulfilled through DriveThruRPG's Print-on-Demand services.

Physical rewards will be printed and fulfilled by DriveThruRPG.

Each backer receiving physical rewards will receive a special code to use on DriveThruRPG's platform in order to claim their rewards.

Print-on-Demand allows us to offer a large collection of physical decks without maintaining warehouse stock or depending on limited print runs.

For more information, check the Printing & Shipping section further below.

🚀 Why Back Now?

Backing Umi's Infinite Tales during the Kickstarter campaign comes with several advantages.

• Free Digital Copies with POD Decks. Every Print-on-Demand Adventure Deck and Monster Deck includes its Digital version at no additional cost during Kickstarter. After the campaign, these formats will be available separately. No installments, get them at fantastic prices, print them whenever you want.
• Shape Infinite Tales. Several stretch goals allow backers to vote directly on new cards that will become part of the system. Your ideas can become part of Infinite Tales.
• Unlock More Content. Campaign funding expands the project with new Node Maps, additional rules, community cards, physical upgrades, and other tools.
• The Guide Is Included. Even if you only choose a single deck, you still receive the complete Umi's Infinite Tales Guide.
• First Access. Backers receive digital rewards before their wider public release.

🌟 Stretch Goals

🗺️ €1,100: Advanced Node Maps 🔓

Unlock additional Node Maps featuring new branching structures, routes, choices, and special nodes. More maps means even more ways to play the same Adventure Decks.

🌙 €1,500: Solo Play Expansion 🔓

Expand the UIT Guide with additional solo rules, prompts, tables, and guidance for running complete adventures without a GM.

🗳️ €1,800: Community Card #1 🔓

Help create a brand-new Infinite Tales card! Backers will submit ideas, vote on their favorites, and help shape a new card that becomes part of the project.

⚔️ €2,200: Hardcore Mode 🔓

Unlock an optional Hardcore Mode for players looking for tougher Runs, tighter resources, greater risks, and harsher consequences.

📝 €2,500: Printable Tracking Sheets

Unlock printable sheets for keeping track of Fate Points, Boons, Curses, Run progression, important events, and more.

🗳️ €2,900: Community Card #2

A second card will be designed together with the community and added to Infinite Tales!

🎭 €3,300: Co-op GM Mode

Unlock additional rules for rotating the Game Master role during a Run.

Take turns interpreting cards, running encounters, and helping shape the adventure together.

✨ €3,700: Signature Card Mini Deck

Unlock a special mini deck featuring powerful, famous, and iconic characters from the Starlight Chronicles, including figures such as the Astral Siblings. These rare cards introduce special encounters that can appear during your Infinite Tales Runs.

The Signature Card Mini Deck is FREE for every campaign backer!

🌟 €4,100: Signature Deck Expansion I

The free Signature Card Mini Deck gets bigger!

Unlock additional Signature Cards featuring more important characters, creatures, and figures from across the Starlight Chronicles.

🏆 €4,600: Achievement Sheet

Unlock a special printable sheet for recording completed Runs, victories, discoveries, unusual outcomes, and major achievements across your Infinite Tales adventures.

🌠 €5,000: Signature Deck Expansion II

Add even more cards to the Signature Card Mini Deck, further expanding the free bonus deck received by every backer.

👑 €5,500: Signature Boss Encounter

Unlock a special Signature Boss Encounter for the mini deck, bringing one of the setting’s major figures into Infinite Tales as a full Boss challenge.

Every Signature Deck stretch goal increases the size of the same free mini deck, so the further we go, the more every backer receives!

🚫 NO AI

🎲 5E System Compatibility

Umi's Infinite Tales uses 5E-compatible mechanics for combat encounters, creatures, checks, and other mechanical elements.

The wider system can also be adapted to other tabletop roleplaying games, especially its roleplay, exploration, puzzle, atmosphere, and narrative encounters.

Use Infinite Tales directly with 5E or adapt its cards and adventure structure to the game your group already plays.

🛠️ Meticulous Designs by Experienced Creators

Infinite Tales builds upon years of creating adventures, supplements, monsters, settings, maps, and tools for tabletop roleplaying games.

Every card is designed to provide something immediately usable at the table while still leaving space for your own characters, campaigns, and ideas.

The system focuses on quick use, replayability, flexibility, and giving players and Game Masters useful tools whenever they need them.

🌌 The Starlight Chronicles Setting

The stars guide fate and fate guides the souls within the realm. So it was and so it always will be.

Explore and experience the vast and amazing cosmos of the Starlight Chronicles Setting!

Many Infinite Tales decks are inspired by adventures and worlds from the Starlight Chronicles.

From frozen ruins and crystalline realms to cursed seas and journeys across the stars, each deck transforms existing settings into modular adventures that can be shuffled, combined, and explored again and again.

As the Starlight Chronicles continues to grow, Infinite Tales will grow alongside it.

📅 Production Milestones

We plan to release finished content gradually rather than holding everything until the entire project is complete.

Some rewards are already finished and can be delivered much earlier, while the new Infinite Tales decks will move through writing, editing, card preparation, testing, and final production over the following months.

January 2027: First Digital Fulfillment

Already completed rewards will begin going out first, including:

• Previously released Monster Decks
• Previous project Digital All-Ins
• Other campaign rewards that require little or no additional production

Months 1-6: New Deck Releases

New Adventure Decks, Monster Decks, Node Maps, and Guide content will be completed progressively.

Our current goal is to release a couple of finished decks approximately every other month, allowing backers to start receiving and using new Infinite Tales content throughout development. During this period we will be working on:

• Writing and encounter design
• Editing and revisions
• Card file preparation
• Node Maps
• Umi’s Infinite Tales Guide
• Stretch Goal content
• Digital release files
• Final print-ready files

Month 7: Proof Prints

Once the physical card files are complete, we will order Print-on-Demand proof copies and inspect the finished products. Any necessary printing or layout corrections will be made before fulfillment opens.

Month 8: Print-on-Demand Fulfillment

Once the proofs are approved, Print-on-Demand fulfillment can begin for all backers receiving physical rewards. Backers will receive their DriveThruRPG redemption codes and can order their physical decks directly through the platform.

Digital rewards will continue releasing throughout production, so you will not need to wait until physical fulfillment begins to receive completed content.

Once we lock the campaign end date, we can replace “Month 1–8” with specific calendar dates.

📊 Project Status

We keep a public Project Status page where you can track the progress of all our crowdfunding projects at any time.

Writing, artwork, layout, production, and fulfillment stages are updated regularly so you always know exactly where things stand.

👥The Team

Kelfecil is a professional narrative designer and writer who started by creating adventures filled with mystery, magic, stars and of course... lots of drama! People seemed to love it, so he got to work creating a whole world filled with those things, connecting stories and bringing joy and tears to players all around the world. Now, he spends his days drinking milkshakes and imagining new stories to tell in the Starlight Chronicles setting!

For Sailing the Stars, Kelfecil wrote, designed and put together most of the things you will find inside. As usual, he is also responsible for setting up the PDF, managing all logistics and finances of the project and of course making sure it runs smoothly!

Dusky is an star-loving illustrator and art director who started her journey in the TTRPG industry through the Starlight Arcana project for which she illustrated the whole tarot deck. Since then, she has been looking at the stars, drawing them and making up magical starry content unlike any you've ever seen. She spends most of her time playing board games, watching JoJo (and cat videos) and working hard on directing all of the art designs and concepts for all current and upcoming Kelfecil's Tales projects!

For Sailing the Stars, Dusky directed the creation of all artworks that are in it, illustrated a lot herself, and helped put together every other visual piece of content around it (from promo materials on this page to the layout of the PDF). As usual, she is also responsible for preparing all print-ready files!

🎴 Creator Promo Cards

To celebrate the creators, collaborators, and friends who have supported us and worked alongside us over the years, we are creating a special collection of Creator Promo Cards for Umi’s Infinite Tales.

Each featured creator will receive their own unique card, inspired by them, their work, or the adventures we have shared together. These cards will form a separate Promo Card mini deck, included FREE with every pledge.

These Promo Cards are exclusive to this campaign.

They will only ever be offered as part of the Umi’s Infinite Tales crowdfunding campaign and will not be sold separately afterward. 

We wanted to use this project as an opportunity to celebrate some of the awesome people who have helped us along the way, while also giving every backer a fun little bonus deck to add to their Infinite Tales collection.

🙏Special Thanks

• Blair, the Australian wizard, who has helped us so much with all sorts of things that have to do with code! You continue to be the most reliable person on planet Earth (or other planes for that matter), no matter what the situation may be and wherever you may be.
• D&Demetrius, who has worked alongside our wild imagination and the insane things we come up for our collaborative work.
• All our Patrons, who have stayed with us over the years and supported us through thick and thin. We wouldn't be still doing this if it wasn't for our amazing little community!
• Kelf's parents, who although they have no idea what he's making, they still support him wholeheartedly.
• Dusky's family, for letting her doodle her way into a life of demon summoning and other wild things (such as making this book).

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🔄Refund Policy

Refund requests are accepted for up to 14 days after we receive the campaign funds from Kickstarter.

Approved refunds will be issued at 80% of the original pledge amount, with the remaining 20% covering platform fees, payment processing, transfers, currency conversion, and administrative costs.

Because campaign rewards are delivered digitally, including Print-on-Demand redemption codes, refunds can only be issued before the applicable rewards have been delivered.

Once digital files, download links, or POD codes have been sent, or once the 14-day refund period has passed, we are unable to offer full or partial refunds.

If you need to request a refund, please contact us as soon as possible within the available window.