Originally released in Japan as Yuuyake Koyake, Golden Sky Stories is a heartwarming, non-violent role-playing game that’s great fun for all ages. It takes place in a small town in rural Japan, and players take on the role of henge (pronounced hen-gay, like a chicken that’s happy), animals with just a little magical power, including the ability to temporarily take human form. They do not fight great battles or unearth valuable treasures though; Golden Sky Stories adventures are all about helping others and becoming friends. Recommended for 3-5 players (including one Narrator). Average play time is 1-2 hours.
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Golden Sky stories is also available at many local game stores. If you’re interested in buying the game, ask your local game store about it!
Supplements
Twilight Tales
Twilight Tales is a supplement for Golden Sky Stories, translated from Japanese. It introduces the mononoke, creatures of mystery who also live in the town. It has five new character types (michinoke, oni, kappa, ghosts, and visitors), each of which can represent a variety of creatures. In these pages you’ll also four scenarios and an introductory comic.
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The Colors of the Sky
This is a PDF-only collection of bonus material for Golden Sky Stories, including 5 new character types (mouse, wolf, pony, fish, and witch), two scenarios, two prose stories, and more.
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The Colors of the Sky Volume 2: Kappa and Oni’s Excellent Adventure
Coming Soon! This is a PDF-only collection of bonus material for Golden Sky Stories, from the Twilight Tales Kickstarter.
Faerie Skies
Faerie Skies is an alternate setting for Golden Sky Stories that moves the action to a small town in the English countryside, where there are fairies about. It introduces six types of fae: brownies, elves, gnomes, nymphs, pixies and pucas. You’ll also find some new characters for your stories, people with connections to the fae, animals of Britain, creatures of Faerie, and the Old Gods. To round out the book, there is the town of Westwick, some story seeds, and some suggestions for using other kinds of Golden Sky Stories characters in your Faerie Skies stories.
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Fantasy Friends
Fantasy Friends is an alternate setting for Golden Sky Stories that takes place in a small village in a high fantasy world. While great heroes are fighting the Dark Lord in distant lands, your village is peaceful, and although it won’t always be easy, in this place unlikely friendships can happen.
This book adds six new character types: aberrations, constructs, dragons, elementals, shapeshifters, and slimes. Each one has a full set of powers and weaknesses, and each can be reskinned as various types of specific monsters, allowing for dozens of different sorts of creatures. You can also use other Golden Sky Stories character types in the Fantasy Friends setting, and the book includes some suggestions for using those as-is or to represent various types of monsters.
You’ll also find rules for 36 different magic items to include in your stories, plus fantasy-themed NPCs to populate the town, the peaceful but quirky town of Grassdale, and some ideas for stories. All together, these let you use the rules of Golden Sky Stories to spin heartwarming tales in a fantastical world.
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Accessories
Deck of Dreams
This is a simple, colorful deck of 54 cards that you can use as Dream tokens when playing Golden Sky Stories. Just set the cards in the middle of the table, and as you play, take one from the deck and and it to another participant to represent Dreams. Each card has a little compliment on it and one of four watercolor designs.
Free Downloads
- Golden Sky Stories Character Sheet
- Golden Sky Stories Reference Sheet
- The Broken Window: This free replay shows you an actual session of Golden Sky Stories game session, and a story about how a broken window created new friendships.
- Tabletop Day 2013 Demo: This free demo has everything you need to play a simplified version of GSS through the provided sample scenario.
