Share Your World!
Grown With Arium celebrates creators from around the planet who use Arium's worldbuilding tools to craft original work. Build a setting with our tools, then make something amazing: a game, a story, a short film, or any format you love.
Licensing & Logo Guidelines
Using the "Grown With Arium" Logo
You may display the "Grown With Arium" logo below on projects that use worlds you've created using Arium: Create or other Arium worldbuilding tools as the foundation for your original content.
When using the logo, you must include this attribution text:
"Arium and Arium: The Worldbuilding RPG are trademarks of Adept Icarus. The Grown With Arium logo is © Adept Icarus and is used with permission"
What You Can Make
Create and share original content based on worlds you build using Arium! Including:
- Original tabletop roleplaying games
- Board games and card games
- Fiction (novels, short stories, serialized fiction)
- Visual media (comics, graphic novels, artwork)
- Audio content (podcasts, audio dramas)
- Video content (short films, web series, actual plays)
- Video games and interactive fiction
What Restrictions Apply?
Worlds and settings you create using Arium belong to you. However:
- You may not reproduce or redistribute Arium's core game mechanics, rules text, or system reference documents (SRD)
- You may not use Adept Icarus or Arium published settings, characters, locations, or story elements
Questions? Contact us via the Adept Icarus Discord community and ask in the Grown With Arium channel.
Worldbuilding with Arium (SRD)
This closed System Reference Document (SRD) contains a simplified version of the critically-acclaimed, best-selling rules for worldbuilding the Arium way. Usage rights are outlined in the Licensing & Logo Guidelines section of this page.
The Storm
An Arium Storm is the name for a series of actions that two or more people will take seven times over the course of creating a world with Arium.
- Timed Ideating: Silently write individual ideas on a physical or virtual sticky note relating to the current step. ONE IDEA PER NOTE. Use a live timer set for 1 to 5 minutes (phone, watch, or online).
- Collaborating: Review all produced ideas together and group like items. Players may also propose grouping any two or more ideas because they are better together than apart. The people who wrote the ideas must agree to this grouping.
- Voting: Using a unique mark, each player votes for their favorite groupings of ideas. Players receive one vote per every three idea groups.
The group decides how many votes are required to move ideas to canon for the world. The rest are discarded.
The Steps
Players will perform a Storm for each of the following Arium Steps:
- Lacunae: What does not belong in this world? Use this step for safety and also for creative exclusions.
- Universal: Vibes, mainly. Genre and tone. Nothing concrete.
- Big Picture: How does it all work? Is there magic? What's the tech level?
- Culture & Organizations: What types of people live here and what is their history? What types of organizations have they created?
- Landmarks: Specific instances of a place you could point to on a city map. Buildings, monuments, and natural features.
- People: Who inhabits this world? What are their personalities, looks, and names?
- Goodies: What unique items, artifacts, or resources exist in this world? Must be narratively relevant, and vehicle sized or smaller.
What Next?
Take the final ideas (and any notes from your discussions) and use them as the basis for your creations!
Game Jam Information
Adept Icarus is planning a community game jam hosted on itch.io to inspire and promote creators using Arium!
What to Expect
- Theme: Build a world with Arium, then create a game, story, or other content set in that world
- Duration/Dates: To be announced
- Submissions: Human-made games, interactive fiction, TTRPG content, stories, art collections, and more
- Community: Share your worlds, get feedback, and discover what others are creating
- Awards: Crowdfunding coaching, mentorship, and advertising support
Announcing soon! Stay tuned to Adept Icarus on socials or join our Discord community for details about the launch.
What's Growing
Discover original works created by the community using Arium's worldbuilding tools.
Arcadia: P.A.R.K.
Planetwide Amusement & Recreation Kingdom
"No one remembers when Arcadia became the go-to planet for family fun."
Thesystem: A Travel Guide
"What did the creation of our universe sound like? We now know, unequivocally, the sound of creation was a roaring, babbling, mish-mash of voices trying to talk over each other in a crowded convention center ballroom."
Coming Soon
Projects will be featured here as they launch. Have something to share? Contact us at grown@adepticarus.com.
