Who here uses Covetous Poet's Adventure Creator and Solo GM Guidebook? Do you use it for solo? What do you like/dislike? How much do you generate ahead of time, how much during play?
Seems like potentially really awesome, with 1000 item lists of inspirational material and gentle help organizing/nudging plots along.
Anyone know of an app for this?
I read it. Printed some of it off. Never used it.
ReplyDeleteI like it but I didn't figure out how to use it.
I use I sometimes. Generally I roll the story background up through the first scene. Then I play out that scene, and only go back to the book if I don't have a strong idea for the next.
ReplyDeleteFor example, the PC talks to a contact. What information does the contact give? I roll up a new scene, and figure that whatever it was, it led the PC here. So, I come up a connecting clue and move on.
As the game progresses, I use it less and less, S more becomes known to me. But, if you're starting a game cold? It's a wonderful tool.
I ike it. I use in a similar way I use the Mythic Meaning Table, and to set scenes...
ReplyDeleteI have used it once. Tarcisio Lucas has it right. It’s Mythic with advice. I prefer it over Mythic, not because it’s vastly different (it really isn’t) but the Act and Scene advice is worth it. From a solo perspective, I have advice on a one act, three act, five act or TV episode structure. Add in the generators and oracles, and it’s very much Mythic with helpful guidelines.
ReplyDeleteEdit to add: I generate nothing ahead of time. I set the first scene using it or another random thing then make the remaining content as I go along.
I use it on occasion. It is one of my favorite emulators because of its varied genre tables which offer endless stories to be told in contrast to the other emulators.
ReplyDeleteIn particular the TV arc style episodes interest me, because I intend on running a [hopefully long-running?] Solo campaign with a growing ensemble cast of PCs tied together by Dungeon World bonds or Fiasco-style relationships/needs/etc, flashbacks, jump-cuts and scrubbing through space and time via Microscope, zooming detail fate fractal style, and maintaining ever growing lists for random events/modified scenes like Mythic handles them. Haven't absorbed the "solo system" bit in "Covetous Poet's...", but I do dig the huge tables a lot.
ReplyDeletedid NOT know about this resource!!! thanks for sharing!!! i love solo roleplaying... and boardgaming... and wargaming... wait i'm seeing a pattern lol
ReplyDeleteOMG this book is a freaking awesome resource!!! wish there was an app though
ReplyDeleteCheck out Covetous Poet's blogspot for the Superhero and Mystery charts. Look under Bonus Material.
ReplyDeleteAlso at the Kickstarter page is a link for the Spy genre charts, a couple of updates down.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/584302999/the-covetous-poets-adventure-creator-and-solo-gm-g/updates
covetouspoet.blogspot.com - The Covetous Poet's Roleplaying Blog
I also use tables from CP along with Matt Finch's d1,000 Patrons and Targets table (Tome of Adventure Design) to supercharge Zach's UNE
ReplyDeleteNaseras "Roof-runner"
Industrious (CP, p.83) Thief, freelance (ToAD)
motivations (CP, pp.29-31):
Divide Parents/Grandparents
Accuse Throne
Negotiate Punishment
Oddity (CP, p.86): Detests children
Location (CP, p.28): Hallway
I use it every game as a generator. It's such a massive toolbox and jammed with generators for everything - clues, plots, locations, themes, actions, things, quirks...the list goes on and this is all repeated for different genres.
ReplyDeleteMight finally pull the trigger on this.
ReplyDeleteAs for an app, you could create your own generators using perchance.org - Create a Random Generator - Perchance.org
ReplyDeleteJust pulled the trigger in the last 2 minutes of Deal of the Day!
ReplyDeleteWord templates for the plot and act story sheets are still linked from the old Kickstarter page, update #30.
ReplyDeletekickstarter.com - Update 30: Word Document Versions of the Story Sheets · The Covetous Poet's Adventure Creator and Solo GM Guidebook
ronald v Downloaded, thanks!
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