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Rutibex posted:I do not like the look of this, it seems like the same trick pulled by D20 toolbox. Look at all the wasted white space on those pages. I think he is going to use a less compact formatting and boost the page count without adding any content. The kickstarter is bragging on the page count and doesn't say anything about new content: They explicitly say the main addition are the micro-prompt lists on the margins.  I imagine other than that, it's mostly the same book that is laid out prettier, which I am fine with. I checked my copy of the old TOAD and the free Kickstarter preview. The table in the old version is two and a half pages; it's three and a half in the new version. That about checks out; if you own the old version, you probably don't need the new one.
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Megazver posted:They explicitly say the main addition are the micro-prompt lists on the margins. I hate that new feature. I bought a pdf of Tome of Adventure design and printed a copy to put into my book of tables. It's actually the basis of all the sections in my big binder of tables. But those micro-prompts are embedded in a pure black bar. That bar will make printing the new book absolute hell on ink. Meaning you gotta buy his print on demand if you want a physical copy (old pdf is gone!). It's his book obviously so he can do what he wants but I'm slightly irked.
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I’m very glad they gave me a word to define a concept that I used when making The Dungeon Master’s Deck. Every card is a random table, but I added story cube style icons on top and modifier or adjacent micro prompts on the bottom of each card as well. I figured there was a German term for it, nice to find it.
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Ended up revisiting Starforged and off to a decent start. Wrote up an in-character prose version of the setting truths that I ended up liking quite a bit, then of course made a character that didn't fit with that perspective so it's a little disconnected, lol. But maybe this third or fourth time is the charm for making things work. Fingers crossed?
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I rolled up all the prep work for a Starforged campaign back when playtesting first started pre-KS and really, really liked the completely randomly-generated world I came up with and the character that I ended up with. I never really found the time to properly sit down with it, but it's a world I've wanted to go back to for awhile now. Turns out my character was a frontier doctor (unsanctioned by the official Healer's guild, ofc) whose colony was destroyed by a pandemic of something called the Ironphage that threatened to expand to the sector at large, and who took on an epic quest to find a cure. And as cool as that idea felt at the time, two years after Covid I just can't do this storyline anymore.
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Drone posted:I rolled up all the prep work for a Starforged campaign back when playtesting first started pre-KS and really, really liked the completely randomly-generated world I came up with and the character that I ended up with. I never really found the time to properly sit down with it, but it's a world I've wanted to go back to for awhile now. Ouch. Yeah, there's a few games that have fallen into the territory of "boy, I can't really do this right now" for me following the events of the last few years. I had a Red Markets campaign brewing that I was about ready to take to my group, and then poo poo went sideways and it was definitely not nearly as "unrealistic" of horror as it could have been. Maybe another character in the same world would let you go forward with the setting you enjoyed? It doesn't seem too hard to keep the broad strokes and focus somewhere else.
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I keep having to remind myself in Ironsworn that I can pay the price with a narrative disadvantage or potential danger rather than HAVING to subtract numbers from my character. On one hand it feels like I'm cheating, but I know everyone who plays the game, including Shawn, says it's not. It's just the old D&Der in me wants to have every round or conflict be a "Swing-> Hit/Miss -> Damage".
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Ubersandwich posted:I keep having to remind myself in Ironsworn that I can pay the price with a narrative disadvantage or potential danger rather than HAVING to subtract numbers from my character. On one hand it feels like I'm cheating, but I know everyone who plays the game, including Shawn, says it's not. I was fighting a mysterious space jellyfish in an abandoned derelict when I had to Pay the Price. I rolled Action + Theme and got Defeat History. This could only mean that this was a psychic jellyfish capable of feeding on people's memories. Now I am stuck in a barely functional derelict, with no memory of how I got here or what I am supposed to be doing. I saw people earlier, but they fled at my approach, and then I fell into an open maintenance shaft and got lost. Now I am thinking that these people have also had their memories drained by the psychic jellyfish. The crew are still here! They have merely forgotten how to operate the ship. This is my first time playing Ironsworn, and I am really impressed by how every new twist seems to explain things that happened earlier, even though nothing is actually planned out in advance. SimonChris fucked around with this message at 21:04 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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SimonChris posted:I was fighting a mysterious space jellyfish in an abandoned derelict when I had to Pay the Price. I rolled Action + Theme and got Defeat History. This could only mean that this was a psychic jellyfish capable of feeding on people's memories. Now I am stuck in a barely functional derelict, with no memory of how I got here or what I am supposed to be doing. Sounds like quite a lot of fun, and a creative use of that oracle pull. Very nice. Not having as much luck on my own effort - aforementioned game already petered out and any interest in it is dead. Ah well. I'm sure I'll be finding myself in the same place again in 3 months, like the last several times.
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SkyeAuroline posted:Sounds like quite a lot of fun, and a creative use of that oracle pull. Very nice. It's okay if the stories peter out. You don't have to finish for it to be a worthwhile activity. You might know this but I know it's a sticking point for some people.
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HopperUK posted:It's okay if the stories peter out. You don't have to finish for it to be a worthwhile activity. It is, and I remarked on the same to a friend who read what I wrote. I'm consistently disappointed by the results of solo games, but it's still worthwhile to engage creatively with something, even if it doesn't necessarily work out. I would prefer to get a little farther than "prologue and swearing my first vow" next time, though.
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I was wondering if people could recommend some general RPG resources useful for solo playing, in particular with regard to procedural content generation? One can always use more random generation tables, encounter decks, etc. I would like to start out by recommending Downcrall and Skycrawl, which are system-neutral sourcebooks for generating adventures in a mysterious underground world and/or among floating island kingdoms, with lost of tables for weird areas, characters, and items. Both can easily be adapted for Ironsworn or similar systems. I mean who couldn't use a random psychedelic mushroom generator for their Ironsworn campaign? Anyone else have any recommendations?
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SimonChris posted:I was wondering if people could recommend some general RPG resources useful for solo playing, in particular with regard to procedural content generation? One can always use more random generation tables, encounter decks, etc. Thank you for giving me an excuse to make this post  D30 DM Companion & D30 Sandbox Companion: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/102567/d30-DM-Companion https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/124392/d30-Sandbox-Companion Kevin Crawfords Worlds/Stars without Number & Scarlet Heroes https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226996/Stars-Without-Number-Revised-Edition?src=hottest_filtered https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/348791/Worlds-Without-Number https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/127180/Scarlet-Heroes Wilderness Hexplore Revised: http://www.jedmc.com/ixdd/2016/7/12/wilderness-hexplore Judges Guild (these will be hard to find) -Wilderlands of High Fantasy -Campaign Hexagon System -Castles book I&II -Village book I&II -Field Guide to Encounters 1&2 Tome of Adventure Design https://fggstaging.com/product/tome-of-adventure-design/ Solo Game Masters Guide: https://modiphius.us/products/solo-game-masters-guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmevQ7JsKMw D20 Toolbox: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3537/Toolbox Hackmaster: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/109620/HackMaster-Players-Handbook https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/178041/HackMaster-GameMasters-Guide Dungeon Crawl Classics: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/101050/Dungeon-Crawl-Classics-RPG-DCC-RPG Metamorphica Revised: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/198038/The-Metamorphica-Revised
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I've seen the following recommended for their scifi random tables but I don't own them so I can't speak to their content. Book of Random Tables: Science Fiction 1 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/244529/The-Book-of-Random-Tables-Science-Fiction Book of Random Tables: Science Fiction 2 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/301859/The-Book-of-Random-Tables-Science-Fiction-2 Science Fiction Codex of Lists 1 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/108333/Science-Fiction-Codex-of-Lists-2nd-Edition Science Fiction Codex of Lists 2 https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114967/Science-Fiction-Codex-of-Lists-2-2nd-Edition If you wanted to look further afield, there are a couple wargames that have useful tables. Rogue Stars has 7 pages of tables for missions and environments and a few more pages than that if you were looking for scifi factions, equipment and psionic powers. In terms of Rogue Stars as a wargame, I'd recommend you look up Guerilla Miniature Games Rogue Stars video on youtube to get a feel for it. The action economy is different from wargames I've usually played and not everyone likes it. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/283384/Rogue-Stars-Skirmish-Wargaming-in-a-Science-Fiction-Underworld 5 Parsecs from Home the scifi solo wargame I've talked about before also has tables for generating enemies, towns, trade, character events and starship travel. As a solo wargame I highly enjoy this product. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/358938/Five-Parsecs-From-Home--Solo-Adventure-Wargaming
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Those Book of Random Tables things are bland as all hell. Stars/Worlds Without Number and googling random tables will serve you much better honestly.
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ShutteredIn posted:Those Book of Random Tables things are bland as all hell. Stars/Worlds Without Number and googling random tables will serve you much better honestly. The only ones of those I ever got and found genuinely inspiring are the ones by Madeline Hale that you can get cheap in paperback on Amazon. She has one of magical objects that has genuinely fun and inspiring ideas in it, and the other ones of hers are pretty good too.
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There are also a few free programs that I use. When I want to generate a hexmap I use Hexographer. You can set it to generate all kinds of random terrain and populate it with random icons. This gives you a really great base for a solo game, you just need to roll up details as you trek along. I find that 16x21 fits well onto a single sheet of paper for printing: https://www.hexographer.com/free-version/     There are also a lot of great random dungeon generators. One-Page-Dungeon I find is best if you are gonna print things out (its only one page ) But Donjon is great too if you give it the right settings (the wrong settings will destroy your printer!). I print out a bunch of these unkeyed dungeons, then make up a bunch of dungeon keys separately. You simply combine different dungeon keys with different layouts to make new dungeons, kind of like Gloomhavenhttps://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon https://donjon.bin.sh/d20/dungeon/  
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Oh hell yeah, thank you. I wanted something like the hex program for 5 Leagues. Does it also do sci-if? (probably not) that would be good for Starforged.
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Doctor Zero posted:Oh hell yeah, thank you. I wanted something like the hex program for 5 Leagues. Does it also do sci-if? (probably not) that would be good for Starforged. Yeah you can set up the tiles for space and planets too. It takes some time because thats not the default but its there.
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SimonChris posted:I was wondering if people could recommend some general RPG resources useful for solo playing, in particular with regard to procedural content generation? One can always use more random generation tables, encounter decks, etc. I cannot recommend Veins of the Earth highly enough if you're doing anything focused on going underground, or deep time, or just want something to put you in the right mood for powerfully unsettling weirdness. Lot of quite evocative random generation content in the back, too. And yes, you'll see it advertised as a Lamentations of the Flame Princess book, but it isn't - there's no LotFP content in there, it isn't associated with Raggi, it's just got that tag due to being published at a time when saying you were LotF-compatible was a requirement for publishing in the OSR space, and now it's permanently branded that way on DriveThru.
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Kestral posted:I cannot recommend Veins of the Earth highly enough if you're doing anything focused on going underground, or deep time, or just want something to put you in the right mood for powerfully unsettling weirdness. Lot of quite evocative random generation content in the back, too. And yes, you'll see it advertised as a Lamentations of the Flame Princess book, but it isn't - there's no LotFP content in there, it isn't associated with Raggi, it's just got that tag due to being published at a time when saying you were LotF-compatible was a requirement for publishing in the OSR space, and now it's permanently branded that way on DriveThru. LotFP is the publisher, it's not just a tag. As in, they get percentages if you buy a new copy, digital or physical. It was also edited by  .
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Kestral posted:I cannot recommend Veins of the Earth highly enough if you're doing anything focused on going underground, or deep time, or just want something to put you in the right mood for powerfully unsettling weirdness. Lot of quite evocative random generation content in the back, too. And yes, you'll see it advertised as a Lamentations of the Flame Princess book, but it isn't - there's no LotFP content in there, it isn't associated with Raggi, it's just got that tag due to being published at a time when saying you were LotF-compatible was a requirement for publishing in the OSR space, and now it's permanently branded that way on DriveThru. The ancient module D1 Decent into the Depths of the Earth is actually a random underdark hexcrawl. Its not as fancy as some of the newer stuff, but it's another set of charts to roll on if you are going DEEP DOWN https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17041/D12-Descent-into-the-Depths-of-the-Earth-1e https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-qWqJRA4uk
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Doctor Zero posted:Oh hell yeah, thank you. I wanted something like the hex program for 5 Leagues. This is a drat good idea. Thanks for the Hexographer and other random dungeon generator recommendations Rutibex
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Ragnar34 posted:Veins of the Earth sounds like wishlist material for when I have money, but who is Raggi and what is Lamentations of the Flame Princess Siivola fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Apr 12, 2022 |
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Ffffff Well, maybe I can eventually find a used copy in the physical.
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So this doesn't say it's a journaling game or a solo RPG, but I'm pretty sure it is. https://twitter.com/Sotherans/status/1510361300945321994?s=20&t=ABZaCKdYS-8yPF_juiLldA
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Skwirl posted:So this doesn't say it's a journaling game or a solo RPG, but I'm pretty sure it is. There is also this: https://twitter.com/Sotherans/status/1513210507506954250
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SimonChris posted:There is also this: Kind of reminds me of You Are Quarantined With Adam Driver And He Is Insisting On Reading You His New Script.
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Ragnar34 posted:Ffffff is there anywhere selling print copies? i don't use pdfs
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SimonChris posted:There is also this: And how can we forget: https://twitter.com/deathbybadger/status/1512436603549102082?t=LUNEVubaqzsFEU1YaFTLHw&s=19
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Devorum posted:And how can we forget: We got to spend one night together!  Then he left  10/10 would play again.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:Ugh I love the models for Stargrave and I want to pre-order the new boxes but I hate having to pay $30 s&h and weeks to wait for them to show up to burgerland I haven't heard of this before and thanks to your comment I went down a rabbit hole of solo-wargames and absolutely amazed that this genre exists.. and a little concerned that I am probably going to get yet ANOTHER system this weekend to start. Looking at 5 Parsecs from Home right now, because I am enamored with campaign play and rolling on tables. I am not truly happy unless I'm rolling on a table. The only negative, if you could call it that is I am not a big mini guy. I don't enjoy collecting, painting etc minis, but I suppose I proxies and cardboard cutouts will do the trick.
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Ubersandwich posted:I haven't heard of this before and thanks to your comment I went down a rabbit hole of solo-wargames and absolutely amazed that this genre exists.. and a little concerned that I am probably going to get yet ANOTHER system this weekend to start. Why not? Also, you can get pre-painted dnd minis, there's a fantasy option, Frostgrave GreenBuckanneer fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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Ubersandwich posted:I haven't heard of this before and thanks to your comment I went down a rabbit hole of solo-wargames and absolutely amazed that this genre exists.. and a little concerned that I am probably going to get yet ANOTHER system this weekend to start. There are a lot of companies that do paper "minis". One Page Rules is one. https://www.wargamevault.com/browse/pub/16079/onepagerules?affiliate_id=2357452 I love the style!  Also, there's a company out there that does acrylic 2d minis that are super nice, but.... erm... can't remember who. Let me look around.
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