Cozy Omens

The world doesn’t need to end. It needs time to make tea.

Cozy Omens is a system-agnostic tool for fantasy roleplaying. It treats cozy fantasy not as retreat, but as resistance through gentleness. This is a genre where danger exists, but doesn’t always win. Where stories find strength in habit, hope in community, and magic in the spaces people choose to protect. The goal isn’t to avoid hardship. It’s to survive it with grace, humor, and something warm in your hands.

This book equips you to treat cozy fantasy as meaningful narrative structure. Use it in any setting where comfort matters, where kindness rewrites rules, and where daily life holds as much story as prophecy or peril. The focus is on care, continuity, and the way people carry each other through quiet magic.

This Book Contains

Each section gives you modular tools to frame cozy fantasy as a living genre. Together, they create a storytelling approach grounded in emotional stakes, personal rituals, and the belief that soft things can still shape the world. These aren’t escape stories. They’re what you build when you stay.

Narrative Framing: A suite of tools to help you define cozy fantasy in your story. It explores what safety looks like, what people choose to tend, and how magic becomes part of the ordinary. This framing gives the genre purpose and depth, without sacrificing gentleness.

Scene Tools: Practical methods for portraying comfort without removing tension. These tools help you describe resilience in the mundane, warmth in the wake of fear, and wonder as something you grow rather than chase.

Character Archetypes: Ten character ideas built around belonging, balance, and chosen purpose. They include caretakers, wanderers who stayed, and those who quietly changed everything by refusing to leave anyone behind.

Story Complications: A collection of gentle tensions that create motion without harm. Each one presents a decision, a disruption, or a need for care, because peace isn’t passive, and it doesn’t hold without effort.

Worldbuilding Prompts: Define how your setting honors small joys, remembers what mattered, and makes room for healing. These prompts help define routine, resilience, and the stories people tell around the hearth.

Adventure Hooks: Ten story seeds that begin with something familiar. Each one leads into change, discovery, or a deeper understanding of what the characters choose to protect. They start small, and stay important.

The world doesn’t ask for heroes. It asks who remembered to bring extra mugs.