#RememberTomorow #SoloActualPlay

#RememberTomorow #SoloActualPlay

Maxim vs AIWA

Elena's second face off with the Wan Brothers corp.

Elena's second face off with the Wan Brothers corp.

Still continuing to use concordances, but now I'm mixing that up with using a Bayesian formula to come up with the odds of some things given facts established in the fiction (or made up on the spot, as needed). Bayes comes mostly into play when I have some assumptions about how the flow should go but don't want to fiat things, or when I've constructed a potential flow out of concordances I've collected.

I've asked a few questions about using Bayesian inference as an Oracle of sorts here and on RPGNet. I'm still not sure I'm doing Bayesian inference correctly, but at least it looks like I'm getting consistent numbers to roll against. Feel free to chime in about that if you have any ideas.

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Remember Tomorrow - Maxim Wargentin vs AIWA Entertainment - Face Off Scene

Remember Tomorrow - Maxim Wargentin vs AIWA Entertainment - Face Off Scene

I'm continuing to use the same GM/Player dialogue format since it helps me immerse so well. I took on the GM role again since I have more knowledge right now than the character, Maxim, does.

As usual, I've put the complete actual play information on a spreadsheet, which is linked at the blog post.









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Remember Tomorrow: Elena Yamamoto Vs. Wan Brothers Multinational - Face Off Scene

Remember Tomorrow: Elena Yamamoto Vs. Wan Brothers Multinational - Face Off Scene

I still followed the same format that I did for Sarah Rheita's intro scene, where I don't write the actual play as fiction but as an interaction between GM and player.

In this case, I decided to GM because I had more knowledge about the in game situation, especially when it came to what Simao Okada of Wan Brothers had found out. I try to avoid having to pretend a character doesn't know something I do, so this is a nice way of dodging the situation. That's going to be my rule of thumb now: If I know more than the character such that I have to play it as if I didn't know what I know, I'll GM.

My approach to concordances keeps growing. I decided that in some cases it made sense to incorporate a more traditional oracle as a way to add indirection. For example, generating a random event and using those keywords as my concordance search. I added a few other things to my personal method as well which you can find out in the spreadsheet notes.

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#SGAM2017: Remember Tomorrow - Sarah Rheita - Intro Scene

#SGAM2017: Remember Tomorrow - Sarah Rheita - Intro Scene

This one feels a bit weird to share.

I tried something new with how I use the concordances to write the output. The fiction in this one is not like a story, bur rather, I wrote things out as if a GM was talking to me as a player. I found it actually helped my immersion, but it makes me feel a bit silly sharing it.

Still, I guess it's really a version of emulating other players that others like Aleksandar Battreps have used so successfully.

The notes were a lot more detailed and they might be interesting for some. The link to the google spreadsheet is at the end of the post.

I'm pasting a version of the actual play without the concordances or notes here, but it really makes more sense to see the actual play along with the notes and concordances to see how it all came about. :)

previous post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108395059461267285712/posts/Fc5KF3182Q2

next post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/108395059461267285712/posts/ELA39hRWRzM

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#SGAM2017: Remember Tomorrow - Maxim Wargentin - Intro Scene

#SGAM2017: Remember Tomorrow - Maxim Wargentin - Intro Scene

I've posted only the resulting fiction at the link. Though based on Neuromancer concordances, no one is going to confuse it with William Gibson. I have found a talent to mangle his beautiful prose into my own tortured crap.

Still, the prose is hardly the point; it's all about the process as a fun game. So fear not, for I am not going to force anyone to read bad fan fiction without seeing the process behind the game part. I am taking a page from Todd Zircher  , and using a spreadsheet to separate the game parts from the resulting fiction. The concordance generated phrases that inspired each line are in column A, the resulting fiction in column B, and the (very) sparse mechanics in Column C

A link to the spreadsheet is also at the blog link.

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#SGAM2017 Remember Tomorrow

#SGAM2017 Remember Tomorrow

This is the intro scene for Elena Yamamoto.

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#SGAM2017 : Remember Tomorrow (game prep - Factions)

#SGAM2017 : Remember Tomorrow (game prep - Factions)

These will be the entities that will most likely be opposing the PC's. There may be more (and also more PC's) introduced in-game if it makes sense.

I still have a couple of "blanks" for some details. Suggestions welcome, if not, I'll find out in-game...

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#SGAM2017: Remember Tomorrow (game prep - PCs)

#SGAM2017: Remember Tomorrow (game prep - PCs)

Three PCs generated using the game instructions and also with the help of my concordance generator (seeded with Neuromancer). Suggestions and ideas welcome.

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Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid - Final Scene: Taking on the Crisis

Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid - Final Scene: Taking on the Crisis

Our last hero has made it this far to finally face the Crisis. Will the world be saved? Read on to find out!

Stay tuned after the credits for the Blue Ray special features: Alternate endings!

http://solorpggamer.blogspot.com/2017/07/our-last-best-hope-killer-asteroid-act.html

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Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid- Act 2 - Scene 3 - Taking on the Threat

Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid- Act 2 - Scene 3 - Taking on the Threat

I sort of knew how this one would go since the mechanics empowered me to set much of the direction. Dialogue from Hema and MIMIC was still generated and kept things fresh.

http://solorpggamer.blogspot.com/2017/07/i-sort-of-knew-how-this-one-would-go.html

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Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid- Act 2 - Scene 3 - Hema & Brett

Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid- Act 2 - Scene 3 - Hema & Brett

Got a little bit stuck here. Either it's my tiredness or maybe it's a weakness of the transcript or the parser. I think it's how the movie transcripts slant. Scenes where I'm not focusing on personal lives, but rather on the crisis and actions related to it have gone faster and smoother. When the focus is on personal lives and relationships, I've had a harder time finding results I can integrate.

Still, it sort of worked out here with the pauses and changes in subject (which provided surprise). Oracle questions also came to the rescue (a last resort for me).

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Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid - Act 2 - Scene 2 - Taking on the Threat

Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid - Act 2 - Scene 2 - Taking on the Threat

This scene did not turn out at all like I expected. The game mechanics really took things in another direction. Maybe I just don't have a good sense of probability...

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?798339-Our-Last-Best-Hope-The-Killer-Asteroid&p=21188693#post21188693

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Title

This is a flashback scene due to circumstances stemming from the last scene.

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?798339-Our-Last-Best-Hope-The-Killer-Asteroid&p=21186777#post21186777

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Recommendation for solo engine for room-based game needed

Recommendation for solo engine for room-based game needed

I plan to herd some Alfheim characters through a solo run. I'll probably just use Miso RPG [^1] with a 5 room dungeon [^2] as the solo engine to keep it simple.
My main interest is to learn how the ICRPG system works.

ICRPG lends itself well to room based design. Should I use something different? Schweig's Generator? Location Crafter?

Here are the characters I made, no actual play yet. http://dieheart.net/ap-icrpg-chargen/

[^1]: Minimal Solo RPG http://dieheart.net/miso-v1/
[^2]: https://roleplayingtips.com/rptn/rpt156-6-methods-making-dungeons-interesting

Originally shared by Sophia Brandt

Preparing for my #SoloActualPlay of the Index Card RPG #ICRPG: Creating Characters for Alfheim
http://dieheart.net/ap-icrpg-chargen/
http://dieheart.net/ap-icrpg-chargen/

I've tagged all of the actual plays I could find on RPGNet with this tag:

I've tagged all of the actual plays I could find on RPGNet with this tag:

https://forum.rpg.net/tags.php?tag=solo%20actual%20play

If you are in need of examples or if you just want to read some for the heck of it, there's about two pages of them.

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Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid

Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid
End of Act 1 & Act 2 - Scene 1 - Hema & Catherine

Every character gets one more spotlight scene, so 3 scenes. Also three more Threats, which I'll roll randomly after each scene.

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?798339-Our-Last-Best-Hope-The-Killer-Asteroid&p=21168755#post21168755

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Actual Play: Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid - Act 1 - Scene 4 - Taking on the Threat

Actual Play: Our Last Best Hope - The Killer Asteroid - Act 1 - Scene 4 - Taking on the Threat

I think this scene came out well. It was fun, in part because I got to engage more with the crunchy bits, and also got to engage with the parser (which output is the closest thing I've felt to roleplaying with someone, especially when the phrases pretty much demand no interpretation, or something close to that.)

Still using the text parser for dialogue and also now for a "Narrator" who might frame the scene. I'm using the the movie transcript text assigned to MIMIC (the MIMIC 'voice') for the Narrator and NPCs in this scene at least.

I've still had to occasionally dig deeper into the parsed text for phrases that fit the context, especially when the conversations relate to relationships between characters. Chalk that down to the downside of randomness and the contents of the movie transcripts. A well chosen or constructed text to parse might fix this but I'm committed to the texts I assigned.

https://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?798339-Our-Last-Best-Hope-The-Killer-Asteroid&p=21164414#post21164414

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Turns out I overlooked one rule of the game that says Threats should always equal the number of players. I don't know that it really affects me much, since I've been rolling randomly for what threats to take on.

Turns out I overlooked one rule of the game that says Threats should always equal the number of players. I don't know that it really affects me much, since I've been rolling randomly for what threats to take on.

As for whether I'll go beyond this last upcoming Threat before moving on to Act 2, I'm not sure yet. I can say that spotlight scenes keep my interest afloat as I dig into the personalities of the characters (with the help of the text parser for Hema and Catherine).

Speaking of the parser, for this session, I had to dig a bit deep into the generated content at times to find something that fit the context. It wasn't too bad, though, and the phrases that made sense in context still surprised me.

Interestingly, it took me more time for me to think about what I wanted to say as Brett, which requires no parser. Had this been a social game, I wouldn't have had the privilege to think about it so much. Yay for solo gaming.

Let's see how it goes when I take on the Threat next session.

p.s. I don't have a precise visualization of the character's environment. It's just vaguely the inside of a spaceship, though it feels somewhat big. Big enough that these two were able to have a short conversation with pregnant pauses and everything on the way to see Catherine. I'm pretty sure that if I really thought about it, it'd be ridiculous...but i"M not going to think about it.

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https://groups.google.com/d/msg/solorpgs/T4Br-4kMd6s/oy6zuKgYAAAJ

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Used the oracle to establish a few things first, then continued with using the text parser to drive banter, etc.

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(I've decided that what drives Brett 'crazy' about Catherine is her pessimism and animosity towards him. I will filter the text parser results for Catherine through the lens of the pessimism she displayed during their last spotlight scene.

Randomly selected "Fire Near The Fuel Tanks". Randomly determined that Catherine won't take on the threat. Since Hema already used her death card, Brett will take on the threat again. Randomly determined that Hema will help.

Brett - 1 point to add one dice . - 1 point to use Fire Extinguisher asset. (3W vs 2B)
Hema - 1 point to remove one dice from the threat: 3W vs 1B)

Act 1 - Scene 3 - Taking on Threat

MIMIC: ([over paul this is houston fire]) "Houston we got a problem. There's a fire next to the left fuel tank."
Brett: "Just what we needed. I'll go MIMIC. Turn off propulsion."
MIMIC: ([blow this thing up from the]) "If the tank explodes, it will blow this thing up from the-"
Brett: "I GET IT, MIMIC. Just do what I told you."
MIMIC: ([you got that - okay])"OK, you got it, Brett."

(Hema arrives just as Brett is starting to use the fire extinguisher.)
Hema: ([listen carefully exit from the]) "Brett, listen carefully. We can deplete the oxygen in the room to help starve the fire."
Brett: "That's a good idea. MIMIC, is it possible to seal off this section of the craft?"
MIMIC: ([yes - do we have a]) "Yes, we do have breach resistant gates."
Brett: "OK, do as Hema says."
MIMIC: ([leave now here is the key]) "I will do once you are out of the area."

(Rolled: 2,2,3 for White. 2 for Black. Hema's plan worked.)

MIMIC: ([ in the balls and you]) "Hema's plan has kicked the fire in the balls. Metaphorically speaking."
Brett: "Um...I hope it did, MIMIC." To Hema, softly: "Seems like the software engineers had a little fun building MIMIC."
Hema: ([a gigantic fireworks display thank you]) "I'm just glad we didn't become a gigantic fireworks display, Brett." She says smiling.
Brett: "Excellent point," he smiles. "Excellent plan too. MIMIC, is it safe to go look at the damage?"
MIMIC: ([yeah basically - let me get ]) "Yeah, basically. Let me get some oxygen circulating in there again, though."
Brett: "OK. We'll go check on Catherine in the meantime."

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The normal rule is that you move to Act II once the pool has grown to 3 dice per player. Right now we're at only 4 dice, and I'd need at least five more spotlight scenes to move on to Act II. I'm not sure I can sustain my interest that long, particularly creating and taking on four new threats (at least!). There's just not enough crunch.

Depending on how I feel during Scene 4, I might need to invoke the game's alternate rule of capping the number of Act 1 spotlight scenes. Maybe doing the next spotlight as a flashback taking place somewhere other than the spaceship might help.


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