Wednesday, February 15, 2017

I stumbled across a web app today that might be useful for recording solo games. It's called True Novelist (https://www.truenovelist.com), and it's a KISS program at its core.


I stumbled across a web app today that might be useful for recording solo games. It's called True Novelist (https://www.truenovelist.com), and it's a KISS program at its core.

In the left column you have nested threads for scenes, characters, and places. In the center you have a basic word editor for writing about those things, and on the right you have some simple options.

Currently I am using it to work up a peanut gallery for a paranormal investigation game I've had kicking around in my head. Given the ease of moving things around in the nested threads also makes me think this could be good for a solo Microscope game I've been thinking about.

5 comments:

  1. Having played Microscope can see how this would be a great way of recording the output - thanks for sharing will have a look properly later :)

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  2. Wow! It looks like it has the bare-bones functionality of Scrivener, but with web accessibility, and for free. I'm impressed!

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  3. John Perich​ funny you should mention it, I found this when I was looking for an web alternative to Scrivener. The only downside is that I haven't discovered an export function. It may be there and I'm just overlooking it.

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  4. Geoff Osterberg HI Geoff - just started using it to organise a cast and a few locations for RPG group, the expert function is there, under "Story Tools", everything comes as a zip file organised in the same tree structure as you create. The files are all HTML but very easy to extract the contents if need

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  5. Malcolm Iggleden​ thanks! That makes me much more comfortable with investing time into it. I have a paranoia of services going under and taking my content with them.

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