The book has been at its most useful to me when creating an adventure from scratch, without any preconceived ideas. At the beginning I tried to use it to flesh out a preconceived idea I had for an adventure and almost never used the system again, which would have been a great shame. The ideas See more produced by running through the adventure creation process as written were quite random and tended to be incongruous with any set ideas I had before starting, except perhaps a general idea of genre.
However, when completely stumped for an adventure idea the system really comes into its own. It is ideal for brainstorming and inspiration. Running through the process, whilst being flexible about ignoring the odd incongruity and also moving an idea from one section to another where warranted, was very satisfying from a creative standpoint, and generally led to a cohesive and viable adventure outline.
I have experimented with using charts from different genres when creating a horror scene or a mystery scene within a fantasy adventure and on the whole these experiments have been successful. The process outlined compared with the order in which the idea generation charts are laid out don't quite match.
In the beginning I started by skipping back and forth between charts, which quickly became tedious. I am lucky enough to have Acrobat Pro so in the end I simply copied and pasted the charts in the correct order into a new PDF so I could easily follow the procedure, which I summarised myself at the beginning.
It would be ideal if this type of additional file could be offered to new purchasers. Unlike the other sections, the section covering the Initial Oddity and the Inciting Incident doesn't appear to refer to a chart that should be used to generate these situations and also doesn't specify if it's something I should have just made up based on what had been generated already.
Either a chart generating Initial Oddities and Inciting Incidents should be included, direction to which chart s to use otherwise or more guidelines on creating these situations if charts are not to be used would have been helpful.
The order in which the charts are used to create a scene did not suit my preference for idea creation. I found after a while that I switched to a different order of scene generation that produced a sentence that described the scene in a more fluid and time-orientated way, from the PCs arriving at the location, the plot for the scene, the opposition, action and thing and finally the challenge, rather than the standard order of presentation.
This helped me think about the way I was going to present the scene to the players and even the wording of boxed text where relevant. I'd like to have seen more structure or advice on creating the Finale. This section felt less potent than the initial plot and scene creation sections, whereas it should have felt more so. It would have been really useful to have included an integrated dice roller within the pdf itself not sure if or how that could be done but would be a really cool and useful gadget.
An app or program to autogenerate the results would also be a cool addition for this product. I created a new additional set of data myself for a range of archetypal fantasy villains to add to the Fantasy Oppositon chart as I felt this chart could easily have been expanded on. Overall, the basic premise of using massive random charts to generate inspirational ideas within a structured approach to adventure creation is great.
Even odd juxtapositions of ideas can stimulate very interesting concepts for scenes and whole adventures. The weakness of the product lies perhaps in the organisation of the charts and the ease of producing the results, but this is relatively easy to overcome. Anyone with the capacity to be both flexible and imaginative with the tools provided by this adventure creator will find their money well spent. I found that I could not answer directly to the publisher's reply to my review.
Therefore, I am taking it here. First of all, I wanted to thank Frank for his kind and understanding response. I think everybody who is into solo roleplaying is bound to be pretty creative on some level, but the book is aimed more at the kind of player who enjoys making up a story as they go, and the authorial challenge that goes along with that. I have to admit that I am a bit confused there, for my main problem with the system was the impression that it had too much pre-determination.
Truth be told, I compared it internally with Mythic, which I really like and enjoy playing solo, and I felt that Mythic is much more making up the story as you go. For example, your system For example, in your system, I would know right from the start on that it is a werewolf besieging the village, killing people there.
In Mythic, I only find corpses and hints, but I don't know whether it is a werewolf, an owlbear, a vampire or maybe a cult killing the people - or there might be some plot of vengeance behind it all. Only by playing the Mythic adventure to its end can I really know that information and all options could come true.
In a way, this made fixed tracks for the adventure. Your book is seemingly a nice tool to open this up a little bit when designing for multiplayer play. However, when you ask me to develop an adventure in a way to allow for different villains, things get conflicting for me as there are several potential roots for the adventure, each of which would require a different design.
I feel that trying to accomodate all potential villains actually makes things narrower as far what can happen basically, only things that make sense for all possible villains could be integrated, unless I accept logic inconsistencies.
Yours, Ranjith. Hey, I think I see where you're coming from, so I hope I can help. The initial plot sheet is meant to give you a lot of results and ideas, but they're just meant to inspire and help fill in the gaps of the story you want to play. It's not meant to tell you what the story must be, just give you options about where you want the story to go.
And if you find it's giving you too much to deal with, too many spoilers, or too many unhelpful results you can pare down the story sheet to just include results you want. And that might be all you need to get started for your particular game.
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I wonder which tone of ending will stick out more as we continue this. Or as I put it for short: Covetous Poet. Like the name implies, the PDF not only lets you solo GM a game, but also create your own adventures. And by God can you create your own adventures. You have five genre packs to choose from two are downloadable and they have a nigh endless supply of possible stories for you to do.
To compare, Mythic had a version of the genre packs that simply edited the Event Focus tables to include events related to said genre they had an example of a Zombie Genre where Zombie Attack was one of the random events but everything else was the same. In Covetous Poet, you have several thousand items related to the genre in question, so you are almost never without end. I want to give Frank Lee massive props for this, especially if he did all this himself, since it takes huge amounts of dedication to make lists that require a D to generate.
What this adds to the table is not just an adventure creator but also a character creator and a conversation emulator. To say I am excited to play with this system is to put it lightly. But that will all change now. Witness died at least once. Next door neighbour is always shown to be trouble. Who is our stranger? So we have our passenger. A very annoying businessman who had been ranting away on his phone prior to lift off, but at the very least, he knows how to be truthful.
Alright, we actually have a good person. Can you believe that!? And thus begins our first conversation with our next seat neighbour. Alright, so that was a pretty nice scene. We need brave souls like you to take care of those [BLEEP]ing assholes who rip me off faster than the Asylum at the newest blockbuster! The chapter that comes after, Variations on the Act Structure will cover several different ways you can build your adventures beyond what you first learn with the Adventure Creator.
One of the great things about every system presented in this book is that they are all modifiable and adaptable to whatever you want them to be. No one writes adventures the exact same way, or plays their games the exact same way, so you're always encouraged to make the book adapt to what you want it to be. Using the Adventure Creator as its primary tool, the Solo GM Guidebook is a system that assists solo roleplayers in playing their games all by themselves.
It will show you how to create your adventures as you play them, scene by scene, improvising everything as you go, playing both as the PCs and as the GM.
Thanks to the framework provided by the Adventure Creator even improvised adventures can maintain a consistent and coherent narrative that, with a little practice, can be very much like playing with a prewritten supplement. Besides the story of your roleplaying adventure, the Guidebook also has suggestions, tips, and charts to help you make PC personalities, NPCs, improvise conversations, create clues, devise mysteries, and more.
Once you have read the chapter you can immediately begin adopting the tools you like to help facilitate your gameplay, and enjoy your favorite RPGs as a solo GM! Browse 7 Images ». Science Fiction. Alternate Rules Variant Core Rules. Gift Certificates. Create Content for your Favorite Games. About Us. Privacy Policy. Our Latest Newsletter. Product Reviews. Newsletter RSS Feed. Start Over Advanced Search. Selected Products. Products found in this section
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