I like What ifs. As a creator of universes, I like to mix settings, universes. That's how creativity emerges. I've been wanting to play the next setting for a long time: What if Steeve Austin, the 6 billion dollar man, came to Hawkins in the Strangers Things setting?
Hello and welcome to my blog if you don't know it.
You may have arrived here by accident or by clicking on the link on the SRD. If that's the case, let me introduce myself. My name is Gin Lunar and I create minimalist role-playing games and content for solo play.
Last week, we created the map of the Braix'Thana region in a few minutes. In this post, we'll see how this little background can evolve - again in minutes!Last week, we created the map of the Braix'Thana region in a few minutes. In this post, we'll see how this little background can evolve - again in minutes!
Today we are discussing a topic of world building. Because we want to play and not spend hours creating an inspiring map !
Since May 2021, I have been involved in writing the DUNGEONS SOLO series published by Doppelgänger Publishing. DUNGEONS SOLO is a series of "dungeon crawler" type game books designed for a single player without a game master.
Last week, I posted about another way to approach rpg solo gaming by simulating the characters rather than the game master.
The topic led to an interesting discussion on reddit that you can find here: reddit link
Today I'm sharing my thoughts on how to build this kind of game.
Since the beginning of the solo rpg we have seen a whole range of game master generators. The most famous being of course Mythic Role Playing.
In a previous article How to play solo rpg in FIVE minutes only? Example #2 , I explained how to play in 5 minutes. The result was satisfactory but incomplete. Since I liked the adventure, I wanted to take some time to rethink all these adventures and rewrite the adventure
I'm not going to completely distort what I've written in the past. I'm filling in the blanks
Insurgent, Mazerunner, Narnia... I love these movies. I'm not talking about the teen movie aspect or the rotten clichés that force these films to the rank of B movies.
No, what I like is the way the author mistreats his background.
Play in 5 minutes: Example part2
Continuation of the adventures of our interstellar smuggler. You can find part 1 where I used Tod Zircher's oracle here. This time, I'll use my favorite oracle generator, the icon-based generator.
Being a subscriber to the Diary of an Indie Game Developer Youtube channel, I recently discovered on Solo Cutz, an oracle generator made by Todd Zircher from Tangent Zero (links at the end of the article).
One of the big problems in the solo rpg is to finish your adventures. It's very easy to start, but sometimes you get lost along the way. The technique I suggest below will force you to create an adventure in 5 minutes flat.
It's also a great way to practice and stimulate your imagination
Recently, I got kicked out of the free web hosting company 000webhostapp.com.
This platform was hosting my very first creation, Icons Oracles, an unpretentious site that allowed to generate random icons.
The site also allowed to write paragraphs of text and titles.
For no particular reason, Webhost decided to close the site. Being a free hebrgeur, I don't particularly blame them. It had to happen one day!
So I decided to recreate the system and host it directly on a page of my blog.
I have removed everything that seemed unnecessary. At each page refresh, the generator:
displays 3 random icons taken from https://game-icons.net/
(version 04/30/2021) with its description below
displays some random dice rolls (because we still need dices)
For the purpose of The Wandering Knight solo rpg, I wanted to add an icon interpreter (object, magic, npc, unexpected event...) and if it's good, neutral or bad
To access the generator click on the link in the sidebar
Feel free to use this tool as you want! And don't hesitate to send me your comments (even if I know very well that 99% of the users are mute).
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Recently I published a Ghosts of the Lantern Path solo module compatible with The Wandering Knight solo rpg.
The module came in two A5 booklets or pocketmod format, but was presented without explanations. Here is a series of posts in which I demonstrate a sample session.
In recent role-playing games such as The Wandering Knight, the use of the concept of "degree of success" is common. While total success/failure is easy enough to interpret, the partial success degree, the "yes/no but", the "success but add a complication" is often open to interpretation.
What is this "complication"? You succeeded, but there is another problem. You have failed, but not completely.
The Wandering Knight solo RPG is my new super production in the world of SOLO RPG!
Pirates of vanishing waters, a business card rpg
Did you know that there is even more minimalist than a one-page rpg? It's the business card rpg!
Here we go again for the second session of the challenge.
Here I decide to take a break. I' m hype about this part and I want to bring more depth to the story.
Continuation of the adventures of Herman Fatflower. A little dungeonering for a change... you may recognize the codes of John Four's 5 room-dungeons
Here is the beginning of my solo campaign in an ultra-minimalist mode. For this series of articles, I will use my blog as a notebook. Also, the speech may seem quite choppy. The idea is to share my experience as I lived it in order to look for ways to improve.
Hello everyone!
I'm inaugurating here a small series of posts to keep track of my solo play, my successes and my failures. I hope that these few thoughts will help improve the Game.
