It should be no surprise to anyone that's looked at a StoryCards deck that it can be used for any roleplaying game, not just the rules that were designed for it. When I decided to join a friend's Amber Diceless Roleplay campaign about two years ago, I needed inspiration for a character, and so I performed a StoryCards reading:

Past: Flock/Prosperity, Inverted - People are all gone
Present: Ox/Service, Upright - Enslaved or enthralled
Future: Fighter/Conflict, Upright - Neverending battle
Gift: Cart/Patience, U - Endurance
Curse: Waterbearer/Generosity, U - An unwanted gift
Future: Lamb/Kindness - (no interpretation)

I pondered over the reading for some time, and the neverending battle really spoke to me. I decided that my Amber character, strangely enough, was dead. He was fighting an eternal battle on the plains of Hades, and when he was slain the ravens would come feast upon him until he rose again to fight some more. With his people gone I decided he was the hero of some conquered nation, and so I made him Acton of Troy, of whom Hector of Troy was but a shadow.

Acton became a fun character. He was freed from Hades and spent his days fighting the Dark and serving the Light. The ravens followed him out of Hades and eventually came to serve him. (We even had a brief mini-campaign in which I played the ravens, one of the most fun roleplaying experiences I've ever had.) Strangely enough, Acton learned that his grandfather (a son of Oberon also named Acton) had created a new power called the Force, which Acton learned to use, becoming a sort of Amberite Jedi. He was a decent warrior, but inevitably the creatures he faced were better fighters than himself, and he mostly survived by wielding the Light and the Force and the Pattern.

Last night the campaign ended. Acton foolishly followed a demon into undershadow and died with a sword thrust through his heart. His body destroyed, he remained for a time as a Force ghost (like at the end of Return of the Jedi), staying long enough to channel the Light into a pattern-reinforced pentagram that trapped the demon so he could be slain. He then took a vessel holding some of the demon's power to the plane of the Light to have it destroyed, but having entered the light (oops!) found it too good to leave. He moved on to the next life, and was not sad, knowing someday his companions would all eventually join him there, even as he was reunited with a couple that had already gone before.

He was a good character, and I was pleased to be able to use StoryCards to create him. Without that reading, I don't think I ever would have thought to start a roleplaying campaign with a character that was already dead.