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“Hands Free RPG” by Eric W. Lund (via) — a short, free solo RPG for playing purely in your head (no dice required). The core brilliant innovations: ❶ “Stroke-counting” as a technique for generating a random roll, up to d10: think of a random word or phrase, then imagine writing it with a pen/pencil, and count the number of strokes you make; for a d10, wrap around back to 1 after reaching 10. ❷ “Wordle” as a technique for generating a random word oracle: think of a word (can be related to the asked question), then try to find another word while: keeping one letter of the original at the same position, and one other letter at a possibly different position. ❸ Borrowed from Diedream: “Rapid Associations” as a technique for generating a random word oracle: quickly think of some related word, then again of a word related to that new word, repeat in sequence ~four times (can count on one hand fingers for a slightly less hands-free experience, or imagine jumping five pips of a die face for a visual aid: ⚄), — use the final, ~fifth word. (TIL: the pattern of five dots arranged as on a die ⚄ is called quincunx!)
♧ 2024-07-13“I have to keep reminding myself that the only person I have to entertain in a solo RPG is myself. Who cares if it’s cliche or not a great story or has some flat characters? Who cares if I spend an entire session ruminating about my PC’s morals or simply talking to myself about the game world instead of pushing the adventure forward? Those kinds of things may not work in group play, but if they’re fun for me, then that’s all that really matters.” — from u/ctalbot76 (via)
♧ 2024-02-27