Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Not dead yet

Been a while since I was last posting here.  Once vaccines rolled out in 2022, I got really into partying and hallucinogens, got a girlfriend, then got really into BDSM.  But now my girlfriend broke up with me so I'm back working on my ruleset again.  I think I'm about 75% done so I hope to start playtesting soon.  I'm honestly pretty excited about it, I've been playtesting the solitaire version of the game and it's a lot of fun.

More oracles for solo play: Things, Places, Abstractions

 More oracles!  2 years after my last post on the subject, I finally made more oracles that follow the same pattern of *The Verbing Noun*.  I find this format to be highly evocative.  As before, I've included some vocabulary words from biology.  If you don't recognize a word just go to your favorite search engine and search for the word followed by "meaning biology"

These oracle results are meant to spark your creativity.  They can be interpreted as literally or metaphorically as you want. 

Place (natural) 

For when you need a non-constructed significant location

Place (constructed)

For locations constructed by some intelligent creature

Object (Macguffin)

For when you need a quest object, magic item, or other significant object.  Mainly focused on things that the character could carry around, or would want to possess

Thing (other)

For generally weird and significant things, not limited to quest objects.  For answering questions like "what odd thing do we see in this room"

Abstraction

For more conceptual stuff.  For answering questions like: what problem does this person/kingdom/group have?  What significant thing has been happening lately?

An exercise in taking ability scores literally

Many games use 3d6 to decide character stats. Zedeck Siew posted an interesting discussion regarding how to interpret ability scores.  Thi...