From the introduction:
The book you are now reading represents the end result of years reading comics and books, playing video games, watching television and movies, and playing RPGs with friends. I’ve spent a long time on Arcana, combating the corporate soldiers of the Sugar Consortium, exploring the tea party forests of the Purple Realm, and outwitting the mad God Manitous.
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Tales of Arcana Roleplaying Card Game first began as a roleplaying card game (RPCG) that was funded through Kickstarter in January 2016. A follow-up second set was funded in August 2018, also through Kickstarter. An RPCG uses cards to randomly generate characters. The game was designed for one-time, single-session campaigns where players randomly generate their characters from cards. Its tagline was "Go Outside the Sandbox."
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Within this guide, players are meant to find races that are expected (elves, dwarves, humans), unexpected (puppets, robots), weird (clowns, cards), and original (storytellers, incgouts, manos). This book strives to continue the spirit of the ToA card game and give players more racial options than any roleplaying book in history.