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I am always looking for inspiration for single hero adventures from movies and such. Found a great example series on Netflix: Frankenstein Chronicles. The system used for this is clearly Gumshoe… What do you have?
https://www.netflix.com/title/80161335
It occurs to me that Quill uses a five paragraph structure, and Untold uses five scenes… Would that be “Unwritten” or “Unspoken?”
Either way, that’d be one really quick way to generate scenarios on the fly. You just need two interpretations of a die and test to see which you use.
Using the PWYW Tiny Details (http://www.rpgnow.com/m/product/199459), Quill (http://www.rpgnow.com/m/product/170400), and Tarot results from Tangent Zero, Zero Tarot, I think this could be my next Quill module. Posting it here first in case anyone finds interest in trying it.
Word count goal: 500 not including preamble.
— KNIGHT APPARATUS —
The Order of Knights Apparatus are monastic caretakers of dying technology. After The Pulse, higher grade machinery faltered. Failed. Only a dedicated few could maintain what was left or search the country for lost tech.
Knights Apparatus have excellent penmanship, as they’re forced to rewrite discovered documents, a strong command of language, but rarely embellish their writing to avoid confusion.
Penmanship Good
Language Average
Heart Poor
Upgrade: Inspiring Words: Once per letter, gain +1 dice during a Heart test.
— BRIEFING —
This message will be delivered to Brother McConnell, the archivist in the local chapter of the Order. This is a field update regarding the discovery of some lost technology, to which you were assigned to recover.
— THE STORY —
Fool: began / embarked
Tower: brokedown / dissolved
Emperor: control / discipline
Star: peace / unity
Hanged Man: weak / vulnerable
Devil: fought / confronted
Lovers: feelings / relationship
Strength: brave / courageous
Death: changed / transformed
— THE POOL —
Chariot: enthusiastic / ambitious
Hermit: calm / patient
Hierophant: teacher / advisor
— THE MESSAGE —
A PWYW story writing game that can be played solo. I thought it was interesting in that its four simple rules could be used as a structure to build on. Since the basic unit of play is a four sentence paragraph, I think it provides a natural break for engaging RPG mechanics or inspiration tools like oracles.
http://drivethrurpg.com/product/199459/Tiny-Details
If you got a hankering for some solo sci-fi exploration, I just posted No GM’s Sky on DTRPG as a PWYW project. It’s built around Traveller/Cepheus Engine, but it should be flexible enough to support a number to game systems out there. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/238659/No-GMs-Sky
Need a hex map generator for your solo hexcrawl? This one is gorgeous…
Originally shared by Stephan Beal
Here’s a world map generator which produces hex maps in its own distinct style:
http://www.dmmuse.com/#/hexmap
It not only generates maps, but lets you edit the results. Creating an account allows one to save/restore maps.
Uplifted from a comment posted by Spencer Salyer.
Session 9 of Keep on the Shadowfell. With a Walking Dead flavored zombie bite and back to abstract and cinematic combat (no grid).
This curse might make for an interesting solo adventure seed. (explicit language)
Originally shared by Red Flanagan
Curses are interesting. Not the “you reroll all successes” type of curse, but the “star giant is going to chase you every fucking night until you die” kind can be kind of awesome. It’s a motivating factor for PCs- and I’ve found it works really well to give them a tool to fuck with NPCs and shake things up in the game.
So obviously, Underneath Orion’s Sword is a “star giant is going to chase you every fucking night until you die” kind of curse, in fact that’s EXACTLY what it does. Check it out and give it a shot in your game. It’ll mess things up less than you think and prompt some referee creativity, which is always fun.
Written in the Weird Magic style of Lamentations of the Flame Princess and compatible with all old-school type games.
http://bdsmrpg.blogspot.com/2018/04/spells-that-are-fucking-metal.html
Episode 2 and the first two scenes of “Night of a Thousand Screams.” It took longer, because I had to rewrite it a few times as my brain wrapped around FU. It’s growing on me, but it’s just different enough from Fate, it doesn’t play how I thought it would.
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