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Children of Grimetail
Heya everyone,Hope you all had fun with Mythic Starters 2 last week and had some fun 1920's Weird adventures. This week I used a creative suggestion made by Jim: 'Tucker's Kobolds'.Recently, I played around with a kobold character in a solo game of Tiny Dungeon and I thought it would be nice to use her tribe's background as a base for a kind of expanded wandering monster table you can drop into your own collection.The Children of Grimetail were basically abandoned by the green dragon they faithfully served for many generatio...
Mythic Starters 2: Three Setups for Solo Adventure
Heya, everyone!Hope you all enjoyed having a go with Cogpustule's Workshop last week. I recently included a small actual play that covers the first room, if you are interested to see it play out.Unfortunately, my family is having to go into quarantine at the moment, so I'm hoping everything will turn out ok.This week I had fun trying out Tiny Cthulhu as a ruleset during a few solo games of 1920s Weird using my Mythic GM Emulator deck. I turned the results into this second compilation of Mythic GME adventure seeds for you all to have fun...
Cogpustule's Workshop
Heya, everyone!Hope you all had fun using the Modular Notice Board cards from last week. This week has been pretty hectic and stressful for me, unfortunately, particularly with my day job.However, I did manage to have some solo fun and played through the finale of a small Basic Fantasy game I have been running! It revolved around strange barrels containing dangerous slimes being delivered across town and my characters investigating who might be sending them. I'll upload a small actual play when I finish writing it up.I thought it was fun to...
Modular Notice Board I
Heya, everyone!Hope you all enjoyed trying out Rapscallion last week. I'm considering using it for chapter two of an actual play set in Tales of the Burrow. However, this week I couldn't resist tinkering with a sandbox-defining method I really like to use in solo games! It basically takes something that exists in character, in this case, a tavern or village notice board poster, and uses the little snippets of information they present as little windows into the game world to define the larger setting for the characters.I've used this...
Rapscallion
Heya, everyone!Hope you all had fun with last week's Solo Starters I!This week I have been playing around with Rapscallion, my own one-page role-playing game/3d6 table conversion/hack of Usurper. I really like using Usurper in solo games as it hooks into input for interpretation a lot as an oracle system does.Ivan Sorenson, the creator of Usurper, kindly let me make Rapscallion available for you here. It leans into the GM-style output factor and funnels themed character creation. Singular paladin patrons should receive a physical version in...
Mythic Starters I: Three Setups for Adventure
Heya, everyone,Hope you all had fun with the third part of the point crawl location cards last week. Lately, I have had tons of fun using the card deck version of Tana Pigeon's Mythic GME. Normally, I use the blue book and an outdated google docs plugin when I use Mythic (has the old behavior check in a really nice format) but it was great having the Mythic deck do all the heavy lifting.I thought it would be fun to create a little bundle of three adventure seeds I made specifically for trying out my new Mythic deck and sharing it with you a...
Deck of Point Crawl Locations - part 3
Heya, everyone!I had great fun this week converting more of my solo gaming session notes into part 3 of the Deck of Point Crawl Locations and compile them into the rest of part 1 and part 2. As with the earlier additions, you will probably recognize some of them from my other resources. It was an enjoyable trip down memory lane for me!As part 3 moves the card count towards what I thought would be nice as a complete deck (around 60ish), I think the next step will be testing them out some more (I want to add a dungeon icon, and reformat/add some ...
Party Encounters
Heya, everyone,Hope you all had fun last week trying out some micro-adventures with the Fichtean Micro GM Emulator I made for the business card jam!This week I wanted to create some fun encounter-based stuff you can slip into your favorite set of random encounter tables to spice things ups and create interesting story hooks along the way.Random encounter tables have this nice GM-less world-building aspect to them in the sense that they show you that your characters are part of this larger world. I wanted to lean into this element of world-build...
Micro GM Emulator + Adventure Bundle
Heya, everyone!Hope you enjoyed stopping (or helping along) the assassin in Mark of the Fox Demon last week!This week, I decided to participate in a fun game jam currently going on Itch.io featuring business card-sized RPG resources (#pleasurecardrpg).So, here is my Micro GM Emulator, an example of play, and a bundle of 5 whimsical adventures that hook into this little system!I've been thinking for a while about this idea of hitting snags and gaining edges while you try to resolveobstacles that prevent you fromachieving yourgoal. I think it...
Mark of the Fox Demon
Heya, everyone!This week I had lots of fun playing around with an oracle seed loosely inspired by Deathwork's creative suggestion: Nekomimi.The theme of this suggestion had me thinking about the Tales of Sakura adventure toolkit I wrote quite a while ago which is based around a loose fantasy version of ancient japan.I created the Mark of the Fox Demon oracle seed using this toolkit and enjoyed playing through it using Scarlet Heroes and Mythic GME.My own game featured a lot of political intrigues and scheming, so I thought it would be fun t...
Crucible of Spiders - Chapter 1 (complete)
Heya, everyone!Hope you all enjoyed playing cursed ghost-like Downton Abbey in Hemlock Hall last week!This week I have very much enjoyed using Heartseeker by Scott Malthouse as a DnD-inspired mini ruleset (it even has a music playlist, fun!) to finish playing through the first chapter of Crucible of Spiders. So, this week's upload sees the completion of Chapter 1 of my oracle adventure.It was fun finding out why the goblin raiders that stole the circlet in Sylwar'duin looked so strange with their elongated arms, I guess now we finally f...
Return to Hemlock Hall
Heya, everyone!Hope you all had fun taking The Whispering Church out for a spin last week!Jesper Ohlsson's creative suggestion 'Hidden beneath the Snow' got me thinking about a postcard RPG I made a while ago as a physical reward for Singular Paladin patrons. I liked it as a gruesome cross between an undead Dowton Abbey, Blackbeard, and Ravenloft.I always imagined Hemlock Hall, which is the castle that features in the game, as sitting high on an icy mountain. Jesper's suggestion helped me find a really perfect cover image to mak...
The Whispering Church
Heya, everyone,Hope you all enjoyed the point crawl cards so far! This week's upload is inspired by Amanda Rader's jar of linguistic deliciousness: 'Whisper' and 'Ardent'. Which I thought was really fun to use as the inspiration for a pick-up solo game using Basic Fantasy!Anyway, what started out as a pretty basic plot hook eventually got turned around on its head, and my characters pretty quickly discovered that all was not as it first seemed in the Whispering Church. Serves me right for jumping to conclusions!I really ...
Pointcrawl Locations - card deck prototype part 2
Heya, everyone!Here is the second part of the point crawl location deck I've been working on. Most of these locations either featured during my own solo campaign, in GMless games with my son or were inspired by your past creative suggestions.It has been so much fun seeing a lot of these adventure locations again while going through my session notes and putting these cards together!I've also started to think of a similar setup for dungeon generation and creating a dungeon through similar point crawl location cards. If that's somethin...
Pointcrawl Locations - card deck prototype part I
Heya, everyone!Hope you all enjoyed battling it out with P.R.I.S.M in Project Darkshard last week.I decided to prototype the pointcrawl system I'm currently experimenting with as a deck of cards for quick pick-up games with my son. I mostly use Basic Fantasy or Iron Falcon for these, but they are system neutral.Took me a bit longer, as the layout for cards always manages to spin out of control for me, and it requires a lot more art than usual!Anyway, part 1 includes 18 point crawl cards that should be nice and easy to print and cut. They de...
Project Dark Shard
Heya, everyone!Hope you all had fun creating NPC reactions using Gristleslick Alley last week. This week's upload came about after playing a SciFi game last week using Tiny Frontiers, which is a fun little TinyD6 ruleset!Project Dark Shard features randomizing SciFi locations in a space station under attack by mercenaries and P.R.I.S.M operatives trying to get to the Dark Shard and the crystalloid creatures it spawns.It uses a hexflower and counters for a little board game feel which I really like for these setups. I like to print the page ...
Bonus Compilation
Heya, everyone!Sometimes I just like to quickly throw some stuff together for a solo one-off game, for others, or just for fun. It makes for a nice creative diversion. I mostly share these on my Twitter, and I compile them here for you.This one includes a selection of random tables: Haunting in the Spectral Bagpipe Faery Council of Grimewater Rapids Meeting at the Wayside Shrine Wyrdspire Woods Dumpster on Lodge Street Love and Plunder on the Grim CartilageCheerio,John
Gristleslick Alley - NPC reaction system
Heya, everyone,Hope you had a fun time with the second part of Crucible of Spiders last week! This week's upload is a small standalone NPC reaction system I made using comparative behavior states and context.It basically uses an NPC's previous behavior state and lets you interpret a new state based on the old one. I thought the system would be nice as a small series of the 'the good, the bad, and the ugly' style NPC's you can interact with and easily slip into your own solo games.I made the system to also slot into Crucible ...
Crucible of Spiders - Episode 1-2
Heya, everyone,Happy new year! Hope you all enjoyed playing around with my prototype dungeon geomorphs and that 2021 will be a whole lot kinder to us.This week's upload is episode 2 of my OSR-styled Crucible of Spiders oracle adventure, where we follow strange goblin raiders deeper into the mountain and try not to get eaten by crevasse spiders and a stern giant eagle mother!It also includes a slightly revised version of the oracle system I've been toying with, and a small snippet of actual play(test) using it with episode 1 of this seri...
Dungeon Geomorphs (oracle tile prototype)
Heya, everyone,Hope you all had fun with Crucible of Spiders (new episode coming soon!)I've been having a blast playing GMless games of tiny dungeon with my son during the holidays. We are using this prototype dungeon geomorph oracle system I'm currently tinkering on.Seeing the surprising emergent structure when you put the dungeon tiles together is fun, reminds me of Hero-Quest but far more generative. The oracle system, while simple, also builds on that same emerging state of the context.I included both the printing files for the prot...
Merry Christmas
Heya, everyone,I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas and I'm sure we are all hoping that 2021 will be a better year for the world!I would like to tell all of you how much I appreciate your continued support and how grateful I am to be able to write up the solo roleplaying stuff I play for others to enjoy as well. Lots of fun things planned, and your suggestions and creative input have been so valuable to me.So, thank you, and Merry Christmas from the Lopez family,Cheerio,John
Crucible of Spiders - episode 1
Heya, everyone,Hope you enjoyed helping the girl escape from the mists of Crowloft Manor. Unfortunately, I've had some covid-19 related difficulties in my family that made me late in uploading. Sorry about that. For this resource, I was inspired by a context method I used in an actual play before which I think is a fun, and easy method to run published modules in solo play!I also wanted to make a longer OSR styled adventure module based on oracles and with a focus on player-facing input, including an eventual dungeon, for a while now. So I ...
Crowloft Manor
Heya, everyone,Hope you had fun last week putting a stop to evil Gobbletoth's plan for mouse domination in Call of C'turkey!This week's upload was inspired by Jesper's Ohlsson's suggestion 'dog star', which had me thinking a lot about how characters often follow a (often literal) light through the darkness.I combined this in 'Crowloft Manor' as my little love-letter to both Alice in Wonderland, and the old Ravenloft campaign setting, which I think had a perfect vehicle (strange mists) of just dropping stuff i...
Call of C'turkey
Heya, everyone,Hope you had fun saving your soul last week onboard the space shuttle in the Cosmic Silence. This week's upload was inspired by Jim's suggestion 'rebelling turkeys', which gave me quite the challenge! I was playing a GMless game of Mausritter with my son when things got a little scary for our investigator-mice and some inspiration hit me.Why not combine the two themes and include some insane turkeys! Call of C'turkey is the Lovecraftian/mouse crossover result. If you haven't checked out Mausritter, it'...
The Cosmic Silence
Heya, all!Hope you had fun last week with the automatons in Wondrous Skyship of the Clockwork Community.This week's upload was inspired by Deathworks' creative suggestion 'Silence', a bit of Lovecraft, and a fascinating story I read about astronauts sometimes hearing strange noises. It also gave me a chance to experiment with a new oracle seed format inspired by a few of my older more oracle-styled resources: The Homunculus Heist and The Bladed Prison.The story framework in the Cosmic Silence is one that I am really enjoying in ...
Wondrous Skyship of the Clockwork Community
Heya, everyone,Hope you all had fun last week checking out Planar Punk, my 24XX jam entry, and the bonus community creations! If anyone would like a drive-thru download code for Planar Punk, let me know in the comments. I'll do my best to sort that out. This week's upload was inspired by Martijn Jansen's creative suggestion: invention.In this adventure seed, a small community of free-thinking but broken and damaged clockwork automatons follow a kind-hearted inventor. She plans to take them on a skyship voyage to find someplace where...
Bonus Community Creations (compilation)
Heya, everyone!Sometimes I just like to quickly throw some stuff together for a solo one-off game, or just for fun. It makes for a nice creative diversion. I mostly share these on my Twitter, and the Mythic GME discord channel and I compile them here.This one includes: Caverns of the Thaumaturgist+map (Ex Umbra actual play) Apocalypse Interstate (one-page 'dungeon') The Gibbering Prophet (one-page 'dungeon') Wayside Shrine (encounter table) Jellyfish Wetlands (mini-setting) Wyrdspire Woods (forest hex flower) Mournheart 1-3 (exp...
Planar Punk RPG - 24XX JAM
Heya, everyone,Something special for you all this week. I've been having a great time solo gaming using Jason Tocci's thematic 2400 games. Basically, they are all really condensed roleplaying games. Little custom rulesets combined with lots of flavorful generation tools. I found the combination works really well for in solo play.There is a jam going on using the 24XX SRD so I decided to make a love-letter to one of my favorite settings (planescape), but combine it with a rebellious 'spirit of the revolution' to contrast with the...
The Tower Transcendent
The Tower Transcendent stands on the precipice of what is and what is not. A transient presence serving both as key and lock for those seeking a higher plane of existence.It appears in remote and dangerous locations. An otherworldly tower caught in an existential thunderstorm.The secret it contains draws powerful beings like moths to a flame. All of them seek the three-fold key of Oerios, the alchemist supreme.Heya, everyone,Hope you all enjoyed fighting the dracolich in Windhowl Oasis and the Sword of the Conquered King!This week's upload ...
Windhowl Oasis and the Sword of the Conquered King
Sheltered from the worst desert winds by rock mesas, Windhowl Oasis offers respite to those venturing into the cursed ruins of Ossuh. The sand blown remains of the ancient kingdom hide lost treasures eagerly sought by collectors and practitioners of dark magic.Spirit-wraiths glide restlessly among broken statues rising from the sand dunes. They serve as the eyes of the dracolich Xakaroth that lairs in the sprawling catacombs underneath.Heya, everyone,Hope you all had fun diving into Turtlerock Harbor!This week sees a return to a favorite little...
