Friday, June 30, 2017
Solo RPGs on a mobile device: So I've wanted to find a setup that lets me play solo RPGs using mobile apps (while I'm on the bus or whatever) and I think I might have found a promising candidate suite of apps. Trello, which is a very light project management / task list app, maps reasonably well onto the index card driven format of Microscope, a world-building storytelling RPG. I'm going to give it a shot with three 'players', one of which I have full control over and the other two are run using the Adventuresmith app (probably mainly using the GM's Apprentice and Mythic generators). If I get results that are Not Crap, I'll try to post here.
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I haven't used Trello (I did try out Taiga.io), but I've been experimenting with Tiddlywiki and rules taking advantage of its unique nature and, while you'd probably have to host it somewhere or use tiddlyspot to use it mobile, it might be worth a look too!
ReplyDeleteI like the "play one character and simulate the other two" solution. I did this while playing The Quiet Year, where I randomly determined what they would work on and then used icons to determine what they would do. After a couple turns, personalities "emerged."
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Tools that work on mobile for me: 1) PDF of Scarlet Heroes / etc, 2) Google drive - docs, 3) Dice roller app.
ReplyDeleteSame setup as my desktop, basically.
I still use trunknotes, a personal wiki as my preferred journal.
ReplyDeleteHow does Adventuresmith work?
ReplyDeleteAdventuresmith has a ton of random generators, as well as 'oracle' tools like Mythic. https://stevesea.github.io/Adventuresmith/
ReplyDeleteDrat! It's not for iOS...
ReplyDeleteYeah, sorry. Check out this site though, which has similar features: https://donjon.bin.sh
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