Thread 96162094

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Thread Question(s): What system are you using? What is your current character like?

What's a good enemy battle ai deck/pdf I can use? I'm looking to start a Wuxia game using Mythras and I think having something like an ai deck, hex flower, or whatever would help with combat

been playing scarlet heros as prep for running osr game for game night

unfortunately I think you lose a lot of the tactical depth without a party. But I had a real blast playing the boat ambush of nights dark terror with my adjusted rules. which was keep the fray die and defy death roll, but do away with the damage mitigation. that plus having a party of 2 normal pcs without those rules.

think im ready to try and run this encounter tonight at game night.

>>96162626
>enemy combat behavior hex flower
this is a pretty sweet idea
I might make a couple

>>96163464
>unfortunately I think you lose a lot of the tactical depth without a party
what about followers/hirelings?

>>96163761
well, I guess thats what the the npc party members are.

>>96163923
also, I had 1 henchmen or whatever the term for a non combat follower is, so 4 total.

>>96162094 (OP)
>What system are you using? What is your current character like?
Getting started with Shadowdark this weekend. Going to make 2 characters and go from there. I'll update more about the characters later.

>>96163754
alright nevermind this is a dead end idea

>>96164473
what went wrong?

>>96162626
>>96164473
Seem like the trigrams and hexagrams of the classic I-Ching would be a good starting point for an AI deck. The traditional readings would be straightforward to apply to actions, and the weeb flavor is quite high compared to a Tarot deck.
The ability to separate 8 trigrams from 64 hexagrams gives loads of room for broad decisions versus granular ones.

Imagine playing this SOCIAL activity alone.

lol. That's it, not even an lmao

>>96164904
trying to populate it with enough different results to make the hexflower format worth dealing with at the table while also not dipping into discrete attack actions that hinge on a system
while I normally like handing control of things off to another entity as much as possible, I think combat in most systems is already enough slowdown that adding a specific oracle for tactics is overkill and not worth the weight. simply acting neutrally as a GM and maybe doing an adhoc "which thing does the monster do given current context" roll every once in a while more than suffices
maybe dismissing the idea outright isn't the way to go, but as much as I liked the idea at first blush it seemed like it would be difficult to put together and add a ton of clunk at the table

>>96163464
Why not just run an entire party then?

>>96165438
What manga is that from?

>>96167316
Orion. Probably the most dense of Masamune Shirow's works. It's pretty brilliant if you enjoy Chinese mythology mashed up with quantum physics.

>first encounter is 6 zombies, party handles it without effort, enter the next room feeling confident
>party gets ambushed by 3 shadows and the ranger nearly dies
>after a short rest the party fights a pack of 6 goblins
>ranger scores a critical and eliminates one goblin outright, confidence comes back
>fumble almost every other roll while goblins are scoring critical hits
>cleric burns through every spell slot to keep the party alive
>2 gobbos escape
>forced to take a long rest in the dungeon
>goblins return in force with a war party
>party forced to flee through a collapsed drainage tunnel, manage to avoid getting caught and emerge outside
>party decides to retreat back to town and recruit a new member
>cleric runs (literally) into a barbarian while resupplying
We’re venturing back into the dungeon with a new member on the team.
Hopefully this time is different.

>>96167158
seems like a lot to manage.
my main guy is a cleric and has a thief and fighter guy as combat support and a henchman for non combat support.

>>96168479
>a lot to manage
Not if you aren't infusing unnecessary RPing imo.

>>96162626
FlexAI and Cortical NPC :^)

>>96167158
Scarlet Heroes is balanced around one strong PC with a damage filter and fray die. It falls apart with multiple unless you gut those rules, after whuch you're just plating tweaked BX

>>96169093
I find scarlet heros works if only your main pc follows the hero rules, while the other in a small party dont

>>96168444
What system are you running? Also does your party have a specific reason for going in?

>>96169896
Running 5e while using the ADND 1e dmg for dungeon generation and MUNE.
They were hired by the local lord to clear the ruins beneath his family’s abandoned estate. They get as much treasure as they can carry from the vaults.
Besides, if they leave the ruins alone someone else will be hired to go die in them.
They have a plan though. The cleric and barbarian will go in the front entrance to draw out the goblins while the ranger and fighter flank through the partially collapsed tunnel. If they can kill the goblin warlord, it might make the rest scatter.

>>96169927
don't you know, you never split the party.

seriously though. I would suggest a better plan.

less
>Monty Python / yaketty sax Benny Hill show sketch
more
>Goblin Slayer.

>>96169927
>>96169970
Agreed, if your barb and cleric are gonna do that, set some traps, choke point or something so that the barb can easily keep them distracted and contained with clerical support. given 5e, depending on level, spirit guardians can work well with a choke point too.

>>96169970
>>96170035
Good point. Maybe I should keep everyone together.

>>96170473
5e spiritual weapon is non-concentration and get's you an extra weapon throwing one more attack a round. sleep got hideously nerf'd in 5e so you can't just poof them all asleep as they run out of the entrance if you smoke them out so you can walk up and bash their heads in one by one while they slumber.

>>96169970
Lol gas them out unless there's an elf that objects

>>96170613
>>96170754
It’s a fairly large dungeon with multiple exits and has only been partially explored before the party was forced to retreat.
Smoking/gassing them won’t be an option.

>>96170769
If you know/locate the other entrances you could collapse them and force a confrontation in key choke points

>>96169896
not him but base 6 persextile dice, roll under.

>>96170930
meant persextysextile dice, silly me. so 66 in base 6 or 36 in base 10.

>>96165643
Damn, yeah, that's the kind of wall I encountered making my own. Interesting to see I wasn't alone in that.

>>96169093
With the way any chat ai "breaks" on me when I use it it's not really an option I can use. I'll take a look at Cortical though

Has anyone thought of using other anons as oracles in their games?

>>96168444
>Party is returning to the ruins to finish the quest
>encounters a dryad carrying a baby on the way there
>one party member insists of taking care of the baby and finding it a home
Do I just abandon the goblin stronghold?
One party member could stay behind and watch the baby, but then we'd be back to square one with 3 party members and too many goblins.

>>96172135
other anons are too slow and retarded.

>>96172169
What's the dryad's connection to the kid?

>>96172357
Lol, could be funny though. Maybe for determining little side stories between adventures.

>>96172360
Found him after his village was razed.

>>96172405
Can you negotiate assistance from the dryad in exchange for caring for the baby? Were the local gobbos responsible for the attack?

>>96172431
Of course! The dryad can watch over the baby until the party returns.
>Were the local gobbos responsible for the attack?
That's a "Yes, and" from the oracle.

so, back in 2020 I bought a whole bunch of RPG books during lockdown thinking I would get into it. I never got around to ever playing, and I simply don't have a group of friends who are interested, and nor do I want to play with randos.

the books I got contain ready to play adventures, and I'm wondering, before I just chuck them on ebay, whether I can have a good time creating a party myself and playing through these pre-made scenarios?

>>96162094 (OP)
Solo RPGS are not RPGS, just a reminder

>>96175336
Cope, seethe mald jakenstein

>>96175336
And dilate too

>>96175340
Dilate

>>96175378
FUCK GOD DAMN SHIT

YWNBAW

FUCK I WAS LATE

>>96175399
Okay loser

>>96175409
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>>96175459
*Seethe

You spelled it right the first time man, come on

>>96174868
yes. explicitly. be your own gm and create the stories of how a bunch of characters take them on.
its what I am doing with STA 1e. DnD 5e. Sworld World and GobSlay.
and as soon as battletech ACES releases their card decks for automating units, I will be fucking buying a bunch of packs to automate a bunc of stompy blokes.

>>96172370
>>96172135
there is a game style called play by mail where you mail/email/etc your turn decisions to a gm or group and they get back to you with what happens next.

>>96175972
There's a colony sci-fi game for 2 players that does this called "The Wanderers" its a tale where two friends say farewell before boarding starships charted for new colonies at the edge of space and are keeping in touch via intergalactic UPS/Fedex/USPS/Royal Mail. You write letters to each other about your lives your living and what is going on, using a deck of cards to write about what happens, then mailing a card with your letter to the player and that card acts as their situation, they write about it, then draw a card and send it to you for your next thing to write about.
It's cool to play with "companion decks" that are color coded and if you play long enough you get the opposite person's deck, which is nice because its a cool little reminder of your irl friend who lives far away and of the game you had together.

>>96165536
It would be weird to go full unhinged infront of others so solo play has its advantages.

>>96178978
How weird do you end up making things?

>>96175336
Yeah whatever. It doesn't need to be. They're still games.

https://youtu.be/q4h9Yg1UWjY?feature=shared
Has anyone tried solo microscope? (Or some variant of it?)
It seems like it could be useful for so much depending on what oracles you have to bounce ideas off of, but I never see it here.

>>96171452
Sorry for the late reply. FlexAI is not a neural network, it's a bloated autistic rulebook that has an ever-expanding set of tactics tables you could roll on, with different ranges depending on difficulty and type.

Another recommendation is Avalon Solo Adventure System, which ALSO has enemy tactics tables. The tables range from very simple "this attacks or not" to very specific maneuvers based on the enemy type. Kinda like FlexAI but not as convoluted.

>>96174868
Play them and watch your PCs from a detached perspective. Even if you know all the plot twists, the PC still needs to pass checks and win encounters, where dice gets involved.

I have discovered something about myself playing solo. I always choose human as main character. I think I think I'm comfortable with my homo-sapiens-sapiensness.

So how might one using magic or hearthstone or really any tcg cards in their solo rp. Just want to know how others have used them before and if anyone has does something like make a good fan rules for that.

>>96185156
I use a couple piles of MTG cards separated by types if I want to pull a random character (creature) or what the local scenery might look like (land). I don't really have hard rules for it besides inferring a character's archetype or how powerful they might based on the card's stats. They're a quick alternative when I don't want to roll on a bunch of tables.

How to determine the premise of your game and identify goals?

>>96186862
create your character with whatever means you normally use. "I made it up" or a lifepath system or whatever. personally I prefer more along the lines of just a background profession and some personality traits
you can then extrapolate what that character wants and then that's the premise of the game and the goal of the character boom easy done. or roll a random event through whatever GM emulator you use and treat it as a major goal-defining part of his background, and then yeah. the goal of the character is the premise of the game

>>96187126
Is picking a genre necessary?

>>96188433
Kinda, I guess, certain plot beats and narratives play better with their respective genres. Lone wander kind of stuff works well with westerns, ronins, and space westerns when compared to, say, high fantasy wizard shenanigans. Have fun if something sounds cool, roll with it, and live out whatever's bouncing inside your head at that time.

>>96186862
what I are interested in

I'm about to start a game using The Anime Hack and see how it goes for solo.

>>96190624
Game's going really good so far! Character's name is Toshi. He works as a janitor at a corporation that secretly makes experimental weapons tech. One night while looking for stuff to steal out of the trash and sell, he finds the pieces to a cybernetic gauntlet.
When pieced together later, he finds that he can absorb and summon defeated monsters with it.

Let's see how far an overweight 30yo otaku with a pokedex arm can go before he gets killed.

If a low empathy AI wanted to join your spaceship crew, what role would you assign them?
I have a pilot, an engineer and a security officer already. Do I put them on comms/sensors?
It’s primarily a salvage and rescue ship.

>>96192962
logistics management. taking stock of supplies, calculating fuel needed to reach a destination, completing orders and handling finances, etc

>>96192999
>have superhuman intellect
>be turned into a glorified accountant
Lmao. On the other hand, it would be able to expertly predict market trends if we decided to do some trade commissions.
Thanks, anon. I think I’ll assign it to logistics.
After spending 12 years on a derelict ship it’s better than counting stars all day.

>>96191527
>>96190624
My game fell apart. The story was interesting, but the system doesn't really hold up once combat starts. These Black Hack games are good for quick character generation and content generation, but they don't always make a lot of sense when the mechanics are put under scrutiny.
>Now that he has this monster summoning gauntlet, it's time to test it out
>The back of the book lists how random encounters should work and how frequent they should be, but expects you to make the random encounter tables from scratch...
>It lists enemies in the back, but some of them are written in a way that suggests you're supposed to reference a sub-table that doesn't exist.
...
>Okay, well this isn't my first rodeo. I make up some random encounters with monsters.
>My character needs to stock up on supplies
>As he goes to a store, he's suddenly attacked by a "Demon Hunter"
>Do some interesting dialogue generation, find out that there are other demon hunters in town and they'll be looking for me as long as I have this gauntlet
>Problem though
>When he attacks me I'm not sure how NPCs attacking one another should work
>does my pet use my stats to defend and attack? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense
>Things crawl to a standstill as I keep referencing the book to try and make heads or tails of if

Currently running Tianxia blood and silk, and I'm getting chewed out by a tavern girl who just stopped the initial plot beat of Samurai Champloo by smacking people with her broom, going full asian mom mode on me, her dad, and the wannabe gangsters.

>>96193898
Don't like how the system works anon? Switch systems. Who'd stop you?

GURPS is quite fun. Currently running a gritty space setting as the struggling captain of a salvage ship. Failed to make a profit off my last run due to moral concerns and ended up betting my last chance on a rumor from an anonymous message board.
Currently chasing a post-war ghost ship (allegedly) laden with experimental tech. It’s make or break, either I turn a profit or lose the ship to creditors.

What's your favorite way of experiencing your adventures? Personally I just use the games as imagination and creativity work, without any intentions of producing anything long term, but I know some insane motherfuckers write it all down.

>>96193898
>>96191527
>When he attacks me I'm not sure how NPCs attacking one another should work
Maybe focus more on reading the system you're using instead of blogging your progress on /SRPGG/? It's also fine to raw-dog it, but if you do you have to be either prepared to do some fudging and improvisation, or you must be willing to go through rules as they come up. I don't know what you expected.

>>96197610
I keep a text file with all of my rolls, encounters, etc. I record them as I play.

I'm gonna try to mix pthe Adventure Crafter with this Space Patrol game from the 70s. See what happens.

>>96198562
Don't do it anon!

>>96197793
Care to post a couple lines so we can get an idea?

>>96198601
For some reason, I love how old the game is, the way it candidly talks about this new thing called Star Wars. Looks fun.

>>96198610
>dungeon crawl
The party descends into a 20x30 chamber with two exits, one leading east and one leading west. The party travels west. The western passage turns south before opening into a 40x60 chamber.
[Room contents: Monster and treasure. Treasure = 300 gp, monster = 6 goblins.]
[Goblin stealth roll = 10, Ilya passive perception = 13.]
Ilya calls a halt to party.
“I hear something ahead.” She says.
[Ilya’s perception check: 18]
“I hear five, no six creatures up ahead.”
>Narrative
Jane feels a gradual weightlessness as the airlock cycles and the grav generators release their hold on him.
[Free fall: 9, success.]
[Vacc suit: 10, success.]
Jane floats into the void beyond the airlock with ease, the maneuvering jets on his vacc suit propelling him towards the hatch of the Javelin. His magboots make contact with the hull.
[Is the ship pressurized? Oracle: Yes.]
Jane activates the hatch’s manual release. the hatch blows away into the black as the airlock decompresses.

Pretty boring and simple stuff. I’ll leave out combat because it’s just rolls and description of attacks.

Hey anons, got a question.
I'm looking into playing Wrath and Glory as a solo rpg, but I was wondering if anyone knows the best way to play it with only one playable character, or should I just bite the bullet and build a team?
Playing a single character would invariably mess with battle initiative seeing as how it' would go Me > NPC > Me > NPC etc but I can resolve that problem later. The plan is to start play as a Crimson Fists Scout who's gonna work his way up to his Black Carapace at which point I'll level up to Astartes then eventually level up to Primaris (reluctantly) as the game goes on.
Input would be appreciated if anyone else has done something like this before.

I also posted this in /40KRPG/ but I'm here covering my bases.

>>96199082
Most games are balanced around more than one hero, and compensating for that is hard without experience. Even one extra dude gives a lot more slack when it comes to a few bad rolls, chances to run if shit goes badly, and spread of non-combat skills. Henchmen can cover that in some games, but it doesn't sound like it'd fit your game.
Maybe try out some simple combats as basic training and see how it goes.

>>96199326
I'm thinking combat might be something easily tackled in the starting games by using the games Mobs rules wherein every enemy only gets 1 wound, making them easier to deal with en masse. I'm not necessarily against having team mates, I'm just not a big fan of the would-be Space Marine and his squishy mortal team of followers. Wrath and Glory RAW has the Absolvers Chapter Scouts earning their black carapace by competently leading a team of mortals in combat. That's how they explain away Scouts and Marines being in teams where they usually wouldn't be present. I was just hoping to buck that one convention.

>>96199326
>>96199546
Forgot the image

>>96197610
>Maybe focus more on reading the system you're using instead of blogging your progress on /SRPGG/?
Look at the timestamps. You don't think I went and played then came back to give an update afterwards? Do we not want play reports in this general?

Also, if you don't know the system, then you don't know the circumstances of what I'm talking about. The system is a small ruleslite system that looks like it's mechanically sound at first, but then once combat starts some things that aren't immediately apparent pop up.

>>96200183
Alright, chill, Jesus anon.

Sheeeesh

Finally back to star trek.

My crew have Bullshittium'd their way past the admiral being livid with their -'breaking'- the prime directive.
Hiding wildly behind space lawyering, technicalities and federation science not being able to even understand the situation...

>>96199082
>>96199326
see if doing the scarlet heros method works. If there are weak creatures around you, you can deal an extra whatever of damage to them alongside your primary action, then also have a system to mitigate incoming pressure. having an additional character does something like triple your combat effectiveness since it adds to your overall "meatpoints" as well as your teams number of actions. So do something that mitigates incoming effects and increases outgoing effects is the go to for running lesser amounts of people in a game meant for larger parties.

scarlet heros does 3 things:
1. enemies of equal or less then your hit dice can be hit with an additional damage die outright regardless of action that turn (increase effective number of actions)
2. Damage is reduced, every die of damamge can only deal between 0-4 hp of damage (decrease fragility)
3. Damage can be taken in leu of negative side effects that could otherwise be mitigated by having more of a party

>>96201774
going off this, I have been using a modified version of scarlet heros for a small party. Scarlet heros proper is ment for really just 1 solo pc and maybe the occasional backup, and gets overpowered if you use multiple pc's wih rules. so I took the first and third rule for solo play, but let damage effect me as normal, since I could use the damage in leu of negative side effect for excessive damage as well, while the other normal characters also soak up a good deal of the damage received. Its 1 special rule main pc, 2 normal rules side pcs, and 1 helper non primary combatant.

>>96197610
>>96199032
Short hand notes of events a la pic related. A days worth of scenarios and a main encounter usually being recorded over 2-3 pages.

I have 2 or three of these pamphlets of adventures and I find them an effective format.

>>96201585
I have the Captain's Log solo game but I haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
I just remember skimming the PDF and getting annoyed that the author uses a bunch of 2d20 tables, with the results sorted in alphabetical order. Not realizing that using two dice creates a bell curve. I know that's a pretty autistic nitpick and if it was a free pdf I wouldn't mind, but this is a product they're selling for money

>>96201922
Yes! More images of notes please.

REEEEEEEE

I roll so many 1s creating this character for the Space Patrol thingy I'm trying to run. Off to a.great start.

>>96202534
>>96202456
Now. As I was saying. You may find it best to prepare a 'cheat sheet' for the standard tasks or actions, with the best person on your crew to attempt them.

Now, let's have Vyssia make a torpedo shot. We will say torvarion took his turn for an evasive action task.
So we roll vs Difficulty 4.
Thats fairly hard. The ship gets 1 d20 to roll 14 or less, scoring one bonus momentum and another success on an 8 or less (because it is SO built for combat).
Vyssia rolls 2d20 and wants less than or equal to 15 on both rolls, with less than or equal to 8 scoring an additional success and a bonus momentum. However. Even if each d20 'succeeds' that is still only a possible 3 successes v difficulty 4, unless one d20 scores an extra success...

So lets have her spend -6 momentum from the groups pool to roll her atrack with three extra dice.
Now she is rolling 5d20's to try for
Since she is buying dice, we will also go ahead and SALVO mode those quantums. +1 d for 5d.
So on 6 d20's she wants less than 15 or equal to.

And all of this I, the human, never have to remember, because I wrote out the cheat sheet ahead of time.

And since we have free subsystem targeting from the ship's downright EVIL 'fast resolution sensors' trait. We will have those torpedoes slam right into the enemy engines.
No engines, no power.
No power, no shields and more importantly...
No weapons.

Or, lets have our guys make our shields tougher against an enemy attack.
Oh noes! A romulan warbird is decloakingnto take pot shots at us with their fucking disruptors!
Lets stack up some modulate shields actions while they are cloaked and we cannot attack.

Because if our resistance gets around the 9-12 mark, they literally cannot hurt us. And considering our warship has res 7 already, and our VERSATILE 2 phasers generate so much bullshit free momentum to spend...

I made my PC for the Space Patrol game. Carter Donovan, a human from Earth, member of the Stellar Order (those who have read Thorkent's space opera books will know about them, they are like G.U.N but competent). He was a simple earthling boy who caught between a Galactic gangland war, the Order rescued him and he was so impressed that he vowed to become a member of the organization, and he did, he is now in the rapid response duty, always ready for trouble. Strength: 9 Dexterity: 9 Constitution: 11 Mentality: 14 Charisma: 15 Luck: 8 Training: Craftsman
He is a weird, lovable, jock-nerd hybrid. He is also kinda Psionic, he can use telekinesis only under great stress.

All I need now is to make some adventure for our dashing hero.

>>96203062
Besides the Space Patrol rulebook I'm using another oracle table and my PC's mission is to destroy the hideout the Star Raiders are using to terrorize the merchant vessels of the neighbor planetary system. Easy, right? The planet is Earth like, with more dry land than water, filled with hilly terrain, plains and tropical forests.

>>96203230
Oh that's cool, his latent telekinetic ability is sure to grow more powerful over the course of his adventures. Maybe one day he'll be able to crush people or fly.

I just found out about this sub
where to start other than Resource pasta? any trendy shit happening right now?

>>96203691
>where to start
A game you're already familiar with (preferably as a GM), playing a straightforward adventure like a dungeon crawl. Keep it as straightforward and familiar as possible while you practise handling both sides of the game.
Alternatively, there are several "basically board games" you can play without much creative input to get easy games in and exercise your imagination. Notequest, 4 Against Darkness, 2D6 Dungeon, D100 Dungeon, and more.
Other alternative: Ironsworn is well liked as a more narrative "write your own adventure" game but that's not what I personally want so I can't say much beyond it didn't work for me. Likewise Thousand Year Old Vampire is basically a gameified series of writing prompts.

>>96203815
exactly the kind of input I was hoping for cheers my fellow Wizurd.

>>96203873
Also, prep is play: it's okay to enjoy reading rulebooks, world building, character creation, and the like all as part of playing solo.
Conversely: don't get so wrapped up in trying to find or make a perfect game or setting that you don't actually play.

>>96203691
Dragonbane core set.

Cheap (for how much you get)
The loot cards are great for solo
The rules are simple enough to bend if you want to house rule anything
Fantasy is easy for soloing: no need for overly realistic characters, just be an angry duck and hit monsters

Most importantly it comes with some pretty great solo rules: they might not be the best rules ever but I think they are amazing for "teaching" people who have never played solo how to do it. The solo adventure included is pretty basic dungeon crawling where you get started with the basic quest as written, but with enough openings for you to work your random tables and interpretations into it

Does anyone have experience running AD&D 2e solo?

>>96202712
I would not be as confident with pen.

Post your character sheet.

>>96202456
Where does one get these rules, and how adaptable to other settings are they?

>>96202456
thas pretty funny

>>96204515
ill look into that as well before makin a move thanks

>>96201922
Anon that isn't shorthand, shorthand is its very own distinct mode of writing, it isn't just shortening things down.

>>96203691
>this sub
>sub

>>96204889
>I hope for the best, but I don't assume it."
That's a pretty rough quote homie, workshop it next time.

>>96205518
Don't do anon like that, what the fuck. Savage

>>96205518
i meant it more as a reminder of character personality, not an attempt at Shakespeare.

>>96205493
subgenre
subthread
whatever

>>96205856
it's just a thread
you were supposed to lurk for 2 years before posting

>>96205605
>What is your current character like?
A Barbarian exiled from his village for 'corrupting' the Chief's daughter. He found a magic metal rod that can cast lightning and an Oracle helmet that makes it possible to ask questions to his god sometimes.
He just found out part of the border of the Kingdom is blocked by some kind of magical barrier.
>What system are you using?
Metamorphosis Alpha

>>96205856
Please dereddit before entering the vehicle

>>96205493
He means submarine, clearly.

What solo ttrpg for this feel?

>>96206238
Generic Dorf adventure xxx9

>>96206271
uhh that's not very helpful :(

>>96206238
Mountainholm.

>>96206238
Almost any fantasy game.

>>96206238
Just play the Warhammer fantasy rpg

>>96206238

the one ring with strider mode or moria

Can anyone tell me what's the best way to take notes on ones gaming? I would get too into the weeds and type paragraphs for simple encounters and I want to know how to pare back the information to be more easily digested.
Thanks.

>>96207057
Not sure how a "best way" could possibly exist. Do what suits you. If you want to write less, use smaller pages or larger writing.

I found a quest to test solo play in Wrath and Glory. Now to find time to play it.

>>96207267
everyone has time, what matters is if you have spirit.

>>96207057
It helps if you keep your sentences terse.

How do you fellas use knowledge/lore skills?
Maybe am playing wrong, but I mostly dump them entirely and forget that they even exist most of the time.

whats the general consensus on Loner? just had a cursory glance and might be decent but the obviously AI art is offputting to me and just makes me think its low effort. Would be intereted to know if anyone else has tried though.

>>96208007
>>96210999
This is what I've got so far. I honestly don't know if it's good or not because there's not much, but I'm changing the scenario a little so that it's just my Scout and Clauth involved in the Lictor hunt.

>>96212431
Fun. But again, I feel like I just write too much.

>>96212728
If you’re having fun that’s all that matters. No such thing as writing too much or too little.

>>96212938
I guess that, in my head, I feel as though I should be finding more ways to involve rolls in the writing so that things change more often, but I'm new to this and don't really know when to put in a test. But I am having fun, that much is true.
I'm trying to use the scenario as a bone structure for this test rather than a 1:1, I have a few more rolls that I want to include that should change it a bit more, but I'll have to do that later today. Back to work for now.

>>96213119
Don't feel strange. I personally put a tonna effort into writing scenes, often with minimal rolls. I don't even depict combat rolls, and I think it's come out pretty well.

https://infinityweavers.link/creativity/library/hr/hr012

Currently I have two campaigns, though the second one is less a campaign and more of a sitcom series. The first is a Space Opera in Savage Worlds. I current put this game on hold for now. but am using it's characters and setting for the second game.

See I am a bit weird and like fanfic stories but don't really want to read or write them much. so gaming became a good source of those stories. I made a non-canon verison of the space opera world and turned it into a meta game within a game, in this game I play not only the PCs actually going through the dungeons but also the players and DM running the game. to add even more to this clusterfuck I also used characters from different "Worlds" like Shadow from Sonic, Trixie from MLP and Toyosatomimi Miko from Touhou. I used three of my own characters to round out the roster.

I plan to run 5E's LMoP adventure to try out 5E solo as I mostly played it in a group before.

I also made a tumblr blog for my Solo RPG stuff so I plan on making an actual play complete with screenshots of Foundry VTT to boot, I could make a video but I prefer the low effort text style, besides am not going to voice act a MLP character in my redneck family that's just asking for trouble.

But hopefully soon I'll have a good game to share next time.

>>96213579
I really like your writing, there's a nice flavour to the details you included like the compound optics and antennae-like sensors.
I hadn't thought of making a blog though... There's an idea for another time for sure.

>>96213797
>I also used characters from different "Worlds" like Shadow from Sonic, Trixie from MLP and Toyosatomimi Miko from Touhou.
You do you I guess.

Did another page.

>>96208007
I find it hard to get into the right headspace

>>96216212
I like setting up thematic music to help get me in the zone for writing out my stories

>>96216312
this.

I may have overtuned my guys excelsior class battleship.

The vulcan captain might have talked some shit about the other star fleet ships assigned to Narendra station...
Being all logical and shit (he is correct but still)

So the captain of the USS Venture (galaxy class) get a little miffed.

So they had a 'tactical exercise'...

And my guys assraped them them. Hard. My dudes shot them to ass so hard and fast. The galaxy class basically spent the whole fight trying not to die.

Protip, dont send a diplomatic cruise liner full of civilians and retards to fight a lean mean combat machine.

Protip, dont send a 'normal' star fleet crew up against hardened combat vets.

It was an embarassing ass raping.

Free subs sytem targeting from
"Fast resolution sensors" trait is fucking evil.

>gee Captain M'Beke, it would be a shame if someone pumped 5 quantum torpedoes into your warp core, nacelles and impulse deck.
>can you spell warp core breach?

Or the

>oh you have no shields? It would be a REAL shame if I beamed over my 750 security troopers with phasers

>because MY ship is built the OLD way and is over twice the size of a connie class with 400+ people aboard.

>oh? Your ship's full of diplomats and scientists. Geee, what a shame.

Yep. Galaxy class U.S.S. Venture was super salty and thoroughly embarassed by the even-newer, and freshly refit Excelsior - B class U.S.S. Indefatigable.

Helmsman/Tactical officer Torvarion was MVP, pumping a giant ampunt of damage and breaches into the Venture's Engines and Structure, utterly destroying both, leaving it a crippled wreck... and triggering a warp core breach that detonated the core. Killing wveryone aboard.

Good thing it was Merely a Tactical Exercise and not Real. Torvarion, told to 'indulge himself' was uncharacteristically merciful, targeting the engines for the hard , fast, kill, instead of the usual starfleet
>target weapons and shields and then engines to leave them sitting their utterly powerless, dissasembling them piece by piece...

Whoch makes me think. Just how much of a total fuck fest would it be to actually go up against starfleet?

>first they dont even try and kill you. They fight with both hands tied behind their back and merely seek to totally humiliate and abuse you by stripping your shields and weapons then soft kill your engines etc.
>so you cant run away, as if you would!
>then they BOARD you to arrest you and put you in prison for breaking 'their' laws...

>and if you ever manage to actually get the upper hand, some human retard 'scientist' bangs some magic rocks together and does a fuxking Dance and then DEFLECTOR MAGIC's your entire power grid Dead in space or some BULLSHIT.
>So even when you win, you fucking lose.

It really makes it clear why the OTHER powers HATE starfleet and the federation.

It makes you realise.
>the romulans use black holes they BUILT, and cloaking devices, plasma torpedoes and fucking disruptors because they're just trying to maintain PARITY with all the SPESS MAGIK bullshit their intelligence services report.

>oh yeah their homeworld got eaten by borg so they went back in time and un-ate the planet...
What the fuck would YOU do against an opposingnpower that casually ignored the laws of fucking physics and reality as if they were mere suggestions?

>that fucking human in charge of that cardassian space station magically found a stable fucking wormhole to the other side of the galaxy that has godlike aliens living in it and he's FRIENDS with them.

>he also punched that OTHER super-powerful godlike being/s, the Q, in the face.

>so of course the federation put him in charge of that whole region! for fucks sakes. because OF COURSE THEY WOULD.

>who just goes around punching god in the fucking face? AND LIVES.
>we get killed if we think nasty thoughts about the prae- URK!

Solo rp can be an interesting look inside your mind since it requires you to associate when using an oracle. You'll have fun seeing what you can come up with at each step of the process of playing.

>>96216212
1. Music that fits the atmosphere of whatever setting you're using. Instrumental or at least without lyrics
2. Start rolling on oracles (I find stuff starts happening as soon as my mind starts to create things from whatever appears on the oracle)
3. Start writing. Doesn't have to be fancy, but I feel that when I start writing things down, no matter how small, I instantly get more immersed.

>>96213579
Wanted to leave you a comment but I can't do so anonymously and fuck signing up to yet another service.
Just wanted to say that the website is kino and, much like the guy who replied to you first, I never thought of hosting my own campaigns and making them look nice like that.
Thanks for the idea.

>>96213579
Fuck, that's a really cool way of presenting your solo plays. How did you set it up?

>>96206238
Delve

anyone have a good 6x6 (36) adjective chart?
would apreciate a good variety of descriptions.

>>96162094 (OP)
I have to say, after years of solo play, this chart, or something like it has far and away been my most used resource.

Instead of a yes/no question, you come up with a probable outcome given a scenario then roll a die. the further it is away from 1 the further it deviates from your initial assumption. on a d20 1-10 follows your assumption, 11-15 a distinct but likely alternative occurs, 16-18 something unexpected occurs, and 19-20 something very unexpected.

This really cuts down on follow up questions and directs you to think how things flow together. “im in an orc cave, so they next entrence probably has orcs laying about” roll a 16 “you find no orcs, but you have entered one of thier worg pits!”

it functionally is a yes/yes but/ no but/ no table, but I find it a lot more intuitive narritively speaking.

>>96220108
NTA, but it looks like a static-site blog you could make with Hugo or Jekyll.
Looks like it has some custom css to turn her formatted notes into that slick writeup.
It wouldn't be too hard to do something similar and just pop it onto github pages, could be fun if a few of us did it and linked ourselves together like old webcomics did.

I'm gonna solo so fucking hard tonight after I do some book keeping and prep for other games I'm running. I'm going to keep working on my homebrew solo RPG that's loosely based on the pathfinder card game and OSE kind of merged. My goal is to build my own collection of dungeons, adventures, npcs, monsters, etc that I can explore using adventure card game mechanics mixed with random tables and standard character sheets, and then having world exploration and stuff where I have physical tiles and wooden icons and stuff for representing towns and cities and stuff. Eventually I'll probably build into mass combat realm management and battles where I rip off stuff like risk and simple miniature wargames to do mass battles and stuff using custom battalion tiles etc.

I basically really like mixing board games and war games and ttrpgs and focusing on adventure party management and realm management aspects. It's starting to feel like when I was a kid building armies with leaves and pinecones and making them fight and telling stories of that sort of stuff.

>>96213831
I do appreciate the feedback. It means a lot, especially from another player.

>>96220069
Surprisingly, it's an old idea. I got some inspo from this guy, who's been updating his homebrew fantasy setting since 1990. The Links lead to even more.

https://www.khoras.net/

>>96220108
>>96221403
I used to use Obsidian Publish, but any SSG could work wonders. I've spoken to Tayruh, and he's pretty happy with GitHub Pages.

Me, I wanted the personal touch. Grabbed this Neocities template and started tweaking it to my liking. It's even mobile-friendly.

https://eggramen.neocities.org/code/css_testpages#fake-wp-2

If you got any questions, drop me a line at gentlemoonlight@pm.me. I'm still lookin' for cool places to hang.

>>96221902
>I do appreciate the feedback. It means a lot, especially from another player.
nta but as the guy who occasionally throws Veiled up on here in pdf format?
That's such a tidy site, I'm envious.

little excerpt from a game of scarlet hero's. some classic dungeon crawling.

>>96221902
Am self-hosting my own email server so if you see a watery fountain in your junk box that's me.
Honestly, very inspiring, I will probably do the same for my own campaigns too.

think im going to stop here for the session. finind a magical garden seems like a nice resting point for now.

>>96223202
>>96223529
I like your handwriting.

>>96223756
thanks! its nothing fancy, but I like to be relatively legible

>>96223202
>>96223529
dot ruled paper is goated. I'm using it for AATDW right now.
>>96221365
you'd probably like the A/E table in Usurper
>>96213579
speaking of Usurper, I've been making an effort to write out my current game as I go. I'm hoping it'll be fun enough to go back through and polish up for posting online sometime

>>96224842
>dot ruled paper is goated
yah, I was really happy when i connected the DOTS (lol) and figured out that this calligraphy paper was good for both hex crawls and dungeon crawls with minimal intrusion compared to graph paper (not that graph paper is much intrusive, but still)

>>96224842
>you'd probably like the A/E table in Usurper
Ill have to check it out. what does A/E stand for?

>>96223202
>2nd-person notes
disturbing...

>>96224894
action/event table. In usurper it's the main method of resolution and it works really really good for driving a story forward. basically, when you want to do something, you roll on this table. it has results like unforseeen failure, marginal success, no progress - change approach, etc. It's really a neat system that I enjoy using when I'm at work or something

>>96224915
>If everything doesn't autistically fit how I would do something its insanity
Autism/1

I write up the sessions as transcripts from the captain's / officer's logs. red pen for the mechanics. black pen for short descriptions of what is done, as if the computer is making a summary of the recorded footage etc. and blue pen for dialogue.

I no longer have the energy required for first-person prose (and due to subject matter I think it was negatively affecting my psyche) and started doing 3rd person, but it was such a huge departure from doing it 1st person for so long that I was really struggling to get words on the page in a way that didn't make me feel foolish. My dumbass brain also wasn't ok with just leaving it as is, and I don't like the "play out a scene and then journal it" approach, I HAVE to journal as I play. Especially for combat. It's by far more edge-of-my-seat fun to play out and journal a combat concurrently. And doubly so for first person. It's just that the format demands my brain do actual writing and not just logging.

>>96224915
>thinking 2nd-person perspective is possible
disturbing...

>>96228025
>and due to subject matter I think it was negatively affecting my psyche
What kind of games you running nigga

>>96228144
rape abortion clinic 12

>>96228025
have you tried second person then?
I find it has a nice balance of removal and intimacy
>>96224915
if you look at the second note I actually slip into 1st person for a bit

>>96228457
Is that the prequel to Space Station 13? Also I didn't know there was a Space Station 14 on a new engine either, I wonder if its good or made by the same devs?

>>96228682
SS13 has a lot more content, and the one thing that a new engine offers is new completely different mechanics, but only one server (as far as I know) fully embraces that, Frontier.
I advise you to try it, and to especially check out Frontier, but I often think back to SS13 and all the things it still has that just aren't in 14 when playing that.

Now, why am I playing SS14? Because Fuck running 13 on linux when 14 runs natively.

next session. that armor construct really fucked up my cleric, good thing blessed weapons hit HARD.

Does anyone have advice for actually committing to a plot/game?
I feel like there are so many games to try and stories to tell, I try to do too much and end up doing nothing at all.

>>96230211
Set goals, like a particular thing you want to see done, and stick to it for a while.

>Combining the facts: The Swansong is a prison for the devolved Morien Precursor civilization and the spirit aspect of Tiamat. The 'Wings' of the structure are part suppressor, part archive, intended to keep the history and civilization of the Precursors intact until they can be helped, or at least to warn others of the danger that awaits them on the world below. However the wings are no longer entirely functional for some reason allowing the aspect to corrupt the warning signal/beacon song. Now it lures people in to try and get someone to free the spirit aspect from an old research base below. Unfortunately for it, the devolutionary virus that is the reason the Precursors secluded themselves in the first place has run rampant and those who arrive, drawn by the song, are reduced to beasts, often before they even reach the world below.

What's the worst place in your setting so far?

>>96182843
I tried, but it lacks the fun part of Microscope of seeing how batshit crazy the settings can be when playing with your friends. I felt like I was railroading myself half the time, even when using oracles. I think there's a limit on how much I can surprise myself.

>>96213797
>I also used characters from different "Worlds" like Shadow from Sonic, Trixie from MLP and Toyosatomimi Miko from Touhou
Soul. Being able to have your dosis of unfiltered autism is one of the perks of playing solo.

>>96231752
Use AI, but you'd also have to work to flesh out 2 or 3 separate distinct personalities.

>>96213797
So basically Elin or Elona but with pen, paper, and autism rather than mouse keyboard and autism?

>>96231752
There are multiple ways to play Microscope, that's just one of many. I understand you like that aspect, but don't try to replicate it solo. That's like trying to replicate a whole 5 person dnd campaign by yourself.

Just use it as a creative writing exercise and stop being so self-critical.

Today I shall remember to take my meds and commit to a solo RPG.

>>96169093
Does anyone know where I can find Cortical NPC by Fictosocial, for solo NPC behavior generation? I looked through the entire archive and also the OP documents and couldn't find it, not even in the solo troves...
Cross-posting for visibility.
>>96234483

>>96234498
TNW has it

>>96234532
Thanks, I found it there indeed.

Any tips for starting the first session?

Anyone familiar with Honor + Intrigue, in general or for solo? I've been skimming the book a little, but I have very little experience with BoL and H+I. But I have been wanting something with fencing, and something not dnd/osr

apparently there's going to be a solo supplement for Cyberpunk Red. might be cool. I've tried to get a solo CP2020 game going a couple times but didn't get far past chargen for some reason.

I've been using Cities Without Number but I've got perma-DM brain real bad, I spend more time adding worldbuilding details than actually playing. Thinking about trying The Sprawl instead, I've heard it was more improvisational so maybe it'll help me get out of the planning stage and actually play

>>96234532
TNW?

>>96234598
>make character
>give them a goal
>generate some resistance
>play to resolve
For your first game I suggest something familiar and straightforward like a dungeon crawl.

Do you guys have a world map? If you do, how big is it?

>>96234843
Oh nice. I've been playing Red this year with ME2
It'll be cool to get dedicated solo rules.

I have been running a sort of ancient magus bride meets stardew solo game for myself where the MC inherits a cottage/workshop near some fae woods(heavily pulling from English/Scottish/Irish folk lore)
He ends up encountering a Dulahan and makes a deal with her to spare his life if he can craft something that she likes within a years time.
I'm having the days mainly split up with exploring the fae woods to gather supplies(whether that is herbs/minerals), crafting, and balancing human social connections with encounters with the strange.
It's going well so far. During an event roll my character found his name carved in a tree dated well into the future.

>>96236302
I like to focus on regional maps and adventures.

Does the solo mode of Star Trek Adventures work with the normal supplements? Or does it have it's own?

>>96237014
captain's log is its own simplified thing. i would try it for a few test 'missions' like a shakedown cruise. and if you like it well enough, it is piss easy to leapfrog from there to running full STA solo with a ship and crew. 1 e though. 2e has nothing yet. just the core. so do 1e and shackleton expanse campaign book.

ive been trying out the behavior tables from rangers of shadowdeep and 5 parsecs/leagues. are there others recommended specifically for solo play (without digital tools)?

>>96237084
please don't use a trip dude it's cringe we know it's you

>>96237084
Please don't use a trip. It's cringe and we know it's you already.

Sup anons, I want to show you the results of my unfiltered 'tism
https://youtu.be/Ot1gStpxMqk
The original story was made with a mix of solo rpg + AI Storytelling, and then I thought "okay why not"

>really, really want to enjoy solo RP
>have more fun reading rules and making characters than I do journaling and playing
Pain.

>>96237899
Preparation is play, dont sweat it so much. you'll get into the swing of things. perhaps try preping a party of characters and see if that helps. maybe youll find play more intresting if you have to manage a group

>>96237886
First dont be so hard on yourself, it might be "strange" but you are being creative and thats good, Second i think the concept is intresting however i think maybe some more narative explaning your actions and whats happening while including the videos and pictures would be more helpful. and may you can also explain what you are rolling and doing and then shift too the "movie" part. either way i usally dont like Ai slop but i mean its not like i think you are bad for using it. Keep it up and dont be so self conscious.

>>96238099
>and may you can also explain what you are rolling and doing and then shift too the "movie" part
Actually that's exactly what I want to do when creating the next scenes. Well not shift between rolling and movie, but add, while the scene is playing, what was exactly I asked and the oracle's answer, and my rolls in the system I'm using.

>>96234631
Haven't played H+I yet, (Going to start a game actually) but I think BoL is pretty good for solo play. Rather simple rules, so games tend to move pretty quick. Less time checking procedures and more time playing the game. No oracles for solo play, but you can substitute one of the game-agnostic ones. I actually used the Ironsworn oracle for my BoL game.

>>96237899
Just start playing the game playa

>>96238161
Also was there any reason specifically you used Ai and not just try to type it in a blog or maybe do some kind of voice over podcast or etc? I can understand not feeling like having the ability to make something professional looking but amature things often have a lot more charm than anything "Professional. But was typing out your Solo game or etc. not something that interested you:? I think you mentioned wanting to make it a "Movie" or something. like how it explains in the Mythic Gm magazine you mentioned in your video description

man I wish AI wasn't such useless ugly dogshit. Like I don't even care about whatever ethical qualms people complain about, I just want the quality to be better

>>96238781
>Also was there any reason specifically you used Ai and not just try to type it in a blog or maybe do some kind of voice over podcast or etc?
I've already done blogs and stuff, actually, and in fact, this actual play was typed as well, the only thing I did was turn what I wrote into a script. Dunno, ever since image AIs came out, the first thing I wanted to do was create visuals based on things from both my multiplayer and solo RPG games.

>>96238898
Do you have a place you post your write ups or you just keep em for yourself mainly?

>>96238842
AI can only hope to be good as the data it's trained on.

>>96238842
I like to use it to help visualize scenes, even if the prompt comes with mutated monstrosities.

>>96240469
Don't worry: it's trained on the internet.

Anyone tried the "SoloDark" rules for ShadowDark? I'm about to try it out. I think the system will work well for solo games, but I have Scarlet Heroes and Mythic GME on standby for anything it can't cover.

>>96239304
I keep em to myself. Unless it's something I'm explicitly doing to share, as was the case here.
https://rentry.org/EgretOmori

>>96241335
I have it, it just changes the rules slightly to help make it easier for the player to help keep track of things, the important one being light. Otherwise, the oracle is pretty simple and you could just use the Mythic GME instead.

>>96241445
Does ShadowDark lend itself well to solo games, the way I think it will?

>>96241534
Oh yeah, you can find multiple people on YouTube playing it solo. I myself am currently building the 10x10 hex map, settlements and dungeons but I plan on starting with several 0 level characters and have them run through the gauntlet so I'm expecting pain and suffering.

>>96238088
>>96238688
It was just my method of journaling. Changed it to much shorter descriptions and I'm about 4 scenes in to a new game now.
Playing as a schizophrenic primitive human evicted from her tribe. Just encountered my first NPC, a saurian imperial scout with a peculiar interest in humans.

When using mythic and your chaos factor starts to dip, how would you get it to rise again?

>>96241795
Change the questions. I forget if it was part of one of the zines, someones videos or from the rules themselves but you can change the wording of the questions to have the CF lean towards more interesting/eventful outcomes.
The difference of "Are there monsters" vs "Do we get through without encounters?"

>>96241795
Generally the more control your character has the less the chaos factor is, the less control your character has the higher the chaos factor is. Essentially it comes down to success and failures of your rolls as your character tries to navigate situations.

>>96241795
My general rule is 'The more I know about the bullshit I'm going into, the lower it is'
Meaning big twists or 'Oh shit' moments raise it naturally.

>>96241795
One way to deal with it is to use it as a "Cool down" meter. When it starts to dip too low, use that as a signal that your character should take some downtime or head to objectives that have less lethal stakes.

>>96238229
Found about when I was reading about BoL, and BoL seems like a great system for something not DnD. And I am a fencerfag, so H+I seemed great. But not sure if all the fencing moves will drag out the combat.

I've mostly soloed using swade, and the not-three musketeer book was also really good, but got some gripes with swade
Also, there is very little player things with BoL, and especially H+I. Tried listening to two actual plays, but they were... not good

sup anons
just letting you know I finally started my first solo mini-campaign in Forbidden Lands
the amount of auxiliary prep was more than I'm comfortable to admit
>read PHB and GMB
>I don't like official charsheets let's see what's the internet has to offer
>I need to get new dice in 3 different colors
>I found a charsheet I like (ironsworn-style) but now I need plenty of paperclips
>I need a finer pencil
>I need a new eraser
>now I want to print the solo rules from Book of the Beast
>now I want to print all GM tools from BoB

tldr;
I have like 6 pages worth of journal for just 2 days of travel
the sandbox nature of FL and the multitude of conflicting factions really makes coming up with hooks and arches easy

>Stuck in a shallow cave during a storm
>The cave is often used by travelers passing by
>Already determined that its completely dark, dry, and distant in here
>Ask oracle if there's anything to light a fire with
>Get "Twist" result, meaning something unexpected happens and I have to roll on a prompt to generate a random verb and noun
>Result: "Take Illumination"

...YOU MOTHER FUCKER!

This is going to be a doozy, a rather major encounter, plus treasure, plus a hazard, plus a feature!
think ill have to break out the board for this scenario instead of doing it all theater of the mind, a lot going on!

>>96244679
If your character is overwhelmed, there's always an option to retreat and hire some mercs or other adventurers at the notice board!

>>96244937
unfortunately the closest notice board is 18 miles away over a mountain. but we brave few may be ablemto take it.

pic of start of engagement.

>>96244991
>unfortunately the closest notice board is 18 miles away over a mountain
Fuuuuccck. Best of luck in your adventuring!

> play Apothecaria at work library
> get made fun of
well alright then

>>96245742
they were just laughing at you for not playing a REAL game, like Barbarian Prince

>>96245742
:(

Heroes of Cerulea is pretty neat little game inspired by classic Zeldas. Uses D4, has tight and fast rules and comes with a premade overworld and premade dungeons, with instructions to make more. Also it is free.

https://blackfiskpub.itch.io/heroes-of-cerulea

Solo play supplement: https://blackfiskpub.itch.io/hero-of-cerulea

>>96246993
this looks cool, and it's hard to argue with "free". Thanks anon

>>96246993
>Uses D4
ew

>>96245742
They were calling you a healslut.

>>96247781
this. d8 chads rise up!

>>96247973
I can get the idea behind using d6 dicepools, and even d10 since so many other games use these dice it is reasonably easy to acquire those
but you got to have a pretty good mechanical rational for using the most unsatisfying die to roll (or the second most unsatisfying die to roll in case of d8)

>>96244218
condensed version of how it went
>I'm a half-elvish rider from the grasslands of Vivend, my old time friend and teacher, an Ailander hunter has passed word with cattle drivers he will meet me in the Hollows village
I'm planning to generate a legend of the actual hook later, and I'm going to make Hollows a hub as recommended in the GMG
>First I need to cross the river to the south bank, I'm close to its mouth so it's a bit to wide here
>Travel up the stream along a road to the nearest village, an uneventful ride apart from a flock of harpies I spotted in advance and avoided by going down a ravine. Reached the village by dusk
>my purse is almost empty but I got an idea!
>ask around for courier jobs en route to Hollows
>There is a job, but it's with a complication, Raven Sisters have stolen their relic to be ritually defiled from Rust Brothers. They need me to carry it.
>This tells me two things, they are being chased by Rust Brothers, and they will not risk it and kill me so I don't live to rat them out
>Fail to negotiate a better price or any form of advance but ultimately agreed

>>96248120
I like scarlet hero’s 2d8 skill system. better then the _wn 2d6 system. 2-16 works well as a range and it just feels really good. +1 is minor but signifigant 2 is signifigant 3 is major, and 4 is very major but not overbearing. i find 2d6 to have slightly too little incrementality. 8 is still small enough to be easily remembered. things are often divided into 4ths and 8 is 2 4ths.

I find it a nice balance between enough options to feel breadthful, 4 degrees either side, but not enough to be overdrawn

eight is great!

>>96248634
cont.
>Starting out before dawn. It's light drizzle.
>I'm expecting I can get to Hollows in a day's ride, right before it gets dark.
>Shit! the bridge already has hooded figures watching it!
>I could try breaking through, but that would make my destination obvious and put a mark on my face
>Sneak out of the village in the opposite direction and start riding towards another rivercrossing ASAP
>The rain is getting worse and I had to stop about 6 miles away.
>The downpour might make following my trail harder but I'm still anxious I'm being followed.
>It was far past noon when I crossed the river
>I find my way around with not much more trouble even if these lands are mostly unfamiliar to me, but I'm getting more anxious the Rust Brothers are out to get me.
>Need to cross another river, a tributary to the one I already crossed.
>There is a ferry on the wide river and it's already getting dark
>Reach into my purse, basically have only a couple of copper pennies left.
>I'm on the other side, it's already dark, and I've made as much progress in an entire day as I planned of doing in just a couple of hours.
>It would be a good idea to find a place to camp for the night, but at this point I'm overwhelmed with paranoia of Rust Brothers catching up on me and torturing me if I stay this close to the ferry.
>I ride into the night and only could get a hold of myself by midnight
>Decide to not waste time making camp and just sleep by some old burial mound
>This backfires and I can't get any sleep until the very morning, when I finally pass out and oversleep into the afternoon

>>96248833
basically everything in this story was driven by the core rules and solo rules from a supplement
it works fantastically for a solo play

let's see how the systems will hold up once I get to the village and have a lot of social interactions and have to come up with hooks and motivations

>>96244991
rolled what the feature was, an ogre from an opposing faction smashes into the confessional, now its a 3 way fight!

the gimick for this fight i believe will be that each confessional will have something random in it that i will roll for when it is opened, good bad or completely innane!

>playing a GURPS space adventure solo
>end up just traveling from one port to the next carrying freight
>realize I’m just playing a lightweight business simulator
It’s strangely fun even if it’s just making a profit margin grow. Eventually I’ll have enough to pull into drydock and refit the ship or do some speculative trading. Currently flying a government subsidized, financed, very cheap shitbox with -4 HT.
It’s not much, but it’s mine.
I also have an obsession with a white space whale, but there’s been no sign of the beast.

>>96249144
That's Starsector on paper anon stop it

>>96249144
I've been wanting to do something similar, but with old school Traveller

>>96249144
if you think about it its just journaling with some random elements.

>>96249111
wow, very happy with how this scenario played out.

basicly both us and the ogre smashed the goblins real hard, and the head orc headed to his potion closet only to get a fire breath potion to the face from the earth shaking of the ogre. only the worg held on in combat. there was some chip damage to our party and the ogre.
The lead orc saw where the wind was going, guzzled down a health potion and bolted out of there. leaving only the worg which bravely held its ground. our party decided to retrest sovthey could soften each other up
the worg kept fighting and somehow survived with 1 hp, we felt bad, so we sprung out and fired at the big brute which started lumbering towards us, it smashed a confessional converted to a worg pen, sending shrapenel and worg parts at us.
Fortunately we won the initiative of the last round, and my inquisitor cleric pulled a recently looted magic wond and finished the ogre off with 2 magic missiles.
Because the worg was such a bad ass essentially holding off the ogre by itself for 3 turns, my cleric tried to befreind it, even using a meta currency to make it persuadable giving its maste abandoned it and its brothers were smashed to a pulp because of that.
one of the confessionals was full of 1500 gp worth of loot, that plus our new dog of unusual size was more then a reward for us, now we are seeing if we can head out of this holy hell hole dungeon alive.

>>96250096
the (after the fact) transcript

>>96249181
I don’t know what else to do. I’m bored of fantasy.

>>96250243
I have a small automated ship sending probs on planets doing surveys and exploration bipedals robots sent if anything noteworthy is found, doing hexcrawl over planet surface then "dungeon crawl" in different kind of buildings and underground structures, natural or not it's fun for me. If you like playing your thing just do it fuck it.

Going to be continuing my tianxia campaign about to have my first showdown in the street with a flamboyant ugly bastard attempting to kidnap the inn keeper's daughter

Fuck, my rolls gave me three towns that I have to build. This is going to take a while before I can start playing.

>>96252482
why do you need to build them all? just give them general descriptions outside of the one you are currently in.

>>96252587
The catch is one of them is getting invaded by a hostile force while the other has a dragon nearby. I want to use them for future adventuring hooks.

>>96252482
>Town of racist dwarves
>Town ran by a ruthless but mostly benevolent warrior
>Town with a temple to a slightly obscure god
There, broad strokes enough to fit in any setting.
Get to it lad.

>>96252648
Can I have a town? Here is my pitch: this town was a normal town but when a wizard tried to perform a trick for the King it went wrong and he summoned 1d6 Tigers and they ate everyone. A magical whip that summons tigers is left behind for the taking but you must defeat the tigers.

I CAN NEVER SETTLE ON SOMETHING
I CAN'T SETTLE ON A SYSTEM
I CAN'T SETTLE ON A CHARACTER
I CAN'T SETTLE ON A SETTING
AHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>96254622
Run them all and move between adventures as you feel it.

>>96254622
sometimes I roll a d50 to see which game I'm going to play

do you ever play a campaign where you do mundane things like deliver mail or do roofing repair?

>>96255924
>>96249144
Other than the space backdrop, this feels pretty mundane. It’s just hauling cargo to randomly generated space ports and dealing with mostly petty problems like my pilot being poached by a cruise liner.

>>96256053
Do you generate the economy? Fluctuations in prices from offer and demand or from conflicts and penury?

>>96256083
GURPS Space Ships 2 focuses on traders and liners and has rules for acquiring and selling cargo and planetary supply/demand.
Those are what I’m following.
I mainly roll a knowledge check to select a specific port where my goods would be in high demand, then randomly determine the distance in AU and Parsecs. Then I continue from there to the next port.
I’m currently above an extreme, non-industrial frontier mining world where I just delivered a shipment of textiles for 1.8 million, making a .4 mil profit.
I rolled quite low and failed my haggling check, so I had to sell at a bad price after spending two weeks on station.
Next stop will be determined by the goods I get, probably heavy metals since they’re at a -3 on determining the price.

>>96254622
>I CAN'T SETTLE ON A SYSTEM
GURPS
>I CAN'T SETTLE ON A CHARACTER
make a character for GURPS Space...
>I CAN'T SETTLE ON A SETTING
...and drop that PC into GURPS Dungeons
ezpz

>>96256317
This sorta gameplay is my current interest as I have a pf2e game going as a merchant using ACKS mercantile rules. What sorts of things are you dealing with as events, you mentioned your pilot being poached but im curious how you are coming up with some of that stuff.

>>96256710
Random tables from Mythic GME 2e and the Universal NPC Emulator.
For the pilot my rolls were:
>Altered Scene, Remove Character, Valuable, Enormous, Joyfully, Modern
Which I interpreted as the pilot leaving for greener pastures which required me to stay in port for a few more days looking for a suitable replacement.
Another event was:
>Ambiguous Event, Flee, Hindrance, Softly, Smooth
Which I interpreted as a suspicious man seeking passage off planet, then rolled on UNE to determine how he acted.
>Friendly, Cautious, Scheming, Arrangement, Antagonist
A criminal needed to flee and quickly. He offered to pay triple the usual price and then
>Withdrawn, Scheming, Negotiation, Knowledge
Offered to give me information on local pirate routes for $10,000 when we arrived at our destination.
Currently I just encountered my white space whale. We’ll probably die fighting it, but it’s my character’s obsession. So all power to the tertiary weapon battery!

>>96256788
Alright so not much different than stuff I've handled. Im finding GME isn't altering stuff much for me. My first session had like 3 random events/alterations and felt great but since then I've been having to either come up with my own stuff or roll because I wanted something thrown my way but haven't had anything come up. My chaos has been at like 6/7 for 3 sessions now

>>96254622
That sounds frustrating :|

>>96256317
Do you have/make a map for it or only calculate the distance for travel? Discovering the "sector" as you play could be nice like with traveller.

>>96258197
I only randomly calculate distance for travel, usually distance to/from the nearest jump point in AU (d6), then the distance in parsecs (d20). I’m working under the assumption that most civilized worlds are known to an experienced merchant captain with knowledge of the sector/core/bubble like Elite or Starsector.
I might try a more exploratory campaign later at some point.

>>96258294
I ran a rogue trader exploration thingy before It was nice discovering the place as I go even with coordinates to reach for a mission there was unknown planets or lost to rediscover. Sounds easy enough for you to just have a far away location to reach and try it out. Lost communication with another crew you have to go there to retrieve the cargo and see what happened. Could even be a rogue crew leaving with merchandise having to track them there.

>>96256317
WFRP 4e's Death on the Reik has rules for this too if you're looking for something medieval.

>>96170930
>>96170941
Could you share a little more anon? I've seen a Traveller homebrew that works like this but I've never someone do it in practice.

https://freelancetraveller.com/features/rules/task/d66task.html

>>96254622
Me too but I'm still wrangling my adhd

>a good oracle deck
>and a d10 with a yes/no table
Let me guess. You "need" more.

>>96261638
Description tables are quite nice

>>96261638
I don't 'need' more, but I appreciate having options. Let me guess, you need more?

>>96261638
What's an oracle deck and what makes a good one?

>>96264815
Depends on the game because some come with custom ones but generally it's just a deck of playing cards and a rule set that tells you what each card means.

What disadvantages/advantages should I take to play as a giant (SM0) snail?
No legs doesn’t seem to have the options I’m looking for and invertebrate seems to assume you’re a cephalopod.

>>96265773
Forgot pic for inspiration.

>>96265773
Whoops, missed the slithers 0 points bit. My bad.

This was pretty interesting read. "Military Modelling: Guide to Solo Wargaming" by Stuart Asquith, written in 1988.

https://archive.org/details/militarymodellin0000stua/

>>96264815
Oracle decks started as a variation of tarot decks, the important difference being that while tarot cards are supposed to stick to certain themes, patterns, and meanings, oracle cards are more free in this regard.
This got adopted in the TTRPG market. Personally, I own The Citadel (picrel), and The Oracle (made as a companion for the Magus, I backed the Kickstarter).

>>96265773
>>96265786
Be a traveling snail pianist who is crushed by the weight of his poor career choice.

>>96266470
Wish I could've bought the expanded version of the first one before the publisher's website shat itself, it looked nice.

>>96266470
new to solo and didn't know separate oracle decks were an option
I found this, and I think it's awesome
but pricey
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/468543/downcrawl-deck

anyone know cheaper and maybe print to play options with a similar concept ?

>>96269604
That's actually the one I own.
Damn, the website actually did go down. Shame. At least I got lucky and got mine just in time? Where did it go down?

>>96273469
Some time last year, I think. Had my eyes on it, saw the buy now option get taken away, and after they didn't respond to my ask for when it'd be back, I knew that shit was gone.
Sounds like you were lucky too, I looked it up again and it seems like the limited edition had a lot of issues with shipping and actually getting the thing. And they fucked the author on royalties as well, which led to them revoking the right to sell, but they haven't put it up anywhere else yet, it seems.

>>96255924
No, you have to adventure.

has anyone tried sojour vtt?

>>96276273
no have you?

>>96276371
no

Does anyone use Fate Core for solo games?

>>96276273
I *want* to but I don't know if I can run it. It seems lightweight enough for my toaster but my OS is outdated and I'm absolutely sure any program made these days has some minor dependency that is out of my reach.

S1E7 - "Signals"

Our intrepid Crew of the U.S.S. Indefatigable have been sent to find the missing runabout Susquehanna. the course and sensors lead them to a planet, they found some live commbadges but got no answer.

Our captain has sent his XO, the andorian Vyssia Thoss, Ops 1, Grinzyr glov Brin the tellarite, Doctor Gwen Tonn the cybernetically 'repaired' human and his Wife, T'Lana, the security officer with her Rifle to guard them. As away team down to the planet.

Ship's engineer Larr Gollin, the Rigellian, had to modify the transporter to Punch through some heavy ECM hash
>very similar to their last mission where their shuttle crashed upon entering the atmo thanks to the ECM, so this time they elected to beef up the transporter.

Larr Gollin sets up a 'carrier wave' and demats the away team, then cranks up the power and punches through the transporter beam ONE person at a time to ensure safe Pad-to-Site orbit to surface beaming.

let's see how this goes.

Is there a good book for generating solar systems and planets? Architect of Worlds is a bit too math-intensive for me. I’m looking for something I can use on the fly.

>>96279995
https://sta.bcholmes.org/systemGenerator

>>96280058
404 error.

>>96280086
you gotta set up the generator with options. from
https://sta.bcholmes.org/
you choose characters and starships.
then first ed. then make sure at least the core books are tagged. then you go standard rpg rules select button next gen era button. then hit space sector button. dropdown for different quadrants and generate away. its stupid fast and easy.

>>96280058
>>96280128
Thanks!

i just generated 10 systems randomly and have soooo many adventures to run from exploring them!
>>96280152
i wanted to double check it worked.

>>96275269
I got it last year as well. Somewhere around May, I think?

>>96278859
Ohh neat. Godspeed, crew of the Indefatigable!

The away team find out WHY the commbadges are going unanswered. teleporter accident people pizza. gruesome. AS the away team is reporting the corpse/s and informing the captain of some kind of tech in the area, smoke on the horizon, they're off to investigate... the science officer Huryn'Vhar the caitian, detects a faint signal. its a distress call! degraded and broken, but its from the missing runabout. captain K'Gann tells the away team they'll be on their own for a bit.
and Indy zooms away at high warp, max sustainable, 9.5, to answer the call.
>>96280621
thanks

Any of you guys ever attempted a megadungeon?

>>96165643

>trying to populate it with enough different results to make the hexflower format worth dealing with at the table while also not dipping into discrete attack actions that hinge on a system

There's at least one system that uses a hexflower for its enemy AI. Enemies have a few regular actions scattered across their hexflower, and then a Special Ability A and B that they get access to once they lose enough health.

>>96281958
I’ve played dungeons before, the concept should carry over. Any particular advice you’re looking for?

ok, this is going to be a big one, im attempting the seige at sukiskyn and here is the guide + map i made to keep track of all the events and positionings.