Mini GM Companion
A downloadable game
Solo roleplaying is a great way to experience tabletop RPGs, and it's nice to have many tools condensed into one place, or even a single spread!
Here is yet another set of fuss-free tools that hopefully someone else finds useful. It can be printed as a half-letter/A5-sized booklet, or as a single letter/A4 sheet. The PDF is only 2 or 3 pages, depending on which format you use.
Enjoy!
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Oracles currently included: Yes/No, Degree, Challenge level, Time, Distance, Luck, Story Moves (including Pacing, Change, Twist, and Consequence), and Motif (useful for open questions).
Have some solo/GM-less play tips you think would fit? There's about slightly more than one A5/half-letter page of space remaining, and I'm open to suggestions!
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Major inspirations:
- One-Page Mythic GME by Tana Pigeon
- Starforged by Shawn Tomkin
- Ask the Stars by Chris McDowall
- One Page Solo Engine by Karl Hendricks
- (A couple of others that I don't recall right now!)
Download
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Development log
- v0.2 updateDec 16, 2022
- First release!Nov 20, 2022
Comments
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I love this! Been testing it a bit and I’m in love with how complete yet compact it feels. The kit strikes a great value between having enough tables for most necessities while also not having too many so you don’t get bogged down. Another upside of all the d6 tables is that they are for the most part easy to remember on the fly so you minimize time you spend looking up at the table itself.
I also have a suggestion on how to turn it into a d6 only thing. Basucally just using Recluse as the engine for the yes/no oracle, and you can apply a twist move on a low-double roll (1-3) or a pacing move on a high-double roll (4-6).
Cheers!
Thank you for the kind words!
I haven't worked on this for a while, but I can definitely see that changing the yes/no oracle to d6's will make things easier for most people. I'll have a think about how to do it! As elegant as Recluse is, it isn't as intuitive to me as roll-over (the way I did it).
I myself prefer the higher levels of odds differentiation (pioneered by Mythic but adapted elsewhere), Recluse and other similar d6 oracles tend to have less of that. But I never say never! I'll have a look around and tinker, maybe I'd be willing to give up some differentiation if there's a d6 yes/no oracle I love.
In the meantime, do use my handout however you wish! Rip out the yes/no oracle and replace it with Recluse, it's all yours!
Ahh yes, I saw the mythic influence right away. Love the feeling of 2d10 tbh but I do prefer a less granular oracle that gets me going faster. It wasn’t much of a problem to me anyways since I also ALWAYS have 2d10 at hand for random tables.
As per your suggestion, is it ok for you if I make a spanish version/hack as a derivative product of your thing? With due credit ofcourse. I’ve played with this a couple more times and it’s becoming my main oracle thingie haha.
100% would love to see what you do with it! Hack or translation or anything else!
I will also admit that I was not doing my due diligence in citing my inspirations and references when first uploading this, so I will do it right now on the description
Thanks!