The next encounter of my Edge of the Empire Beginner Game adventure solo game is up on my blog. For those of you who have the game, it is encounter five against the stormtroopers and the first time I could really test the extended So1um combat rules. I was very happy with the result. It ran smooth and quick and was tense.

The next encounter of my Edge of the Empire Beginner Game adventure solo game is up on my blog. For those of you who have the game, it is encounter five against the stormtroopers and the first time I could really test the extended So1um combat rules. I was very happy with the result. It ran smooth and quick and was tense.


https://solospelunking.wordpress.com/2017/02/04/edge-of-the-empire-beginner-game-adventure-using-so1um-and-miso-rpg-session-4/

Returning to my science-fiction roleplay roots, here's the outcome of the character creation game...

Returning to my science-fiction roleplay roots, here's the outcome of the character creation game...
http://ubiquitousrat.net/?p=3792

Folks may be interested in this little thing. I know I am.

Folks may be interested in this little thing. I know I am.

http://whatwouldconando.blogspot.com/2017/02/hex-mapping-notebook.html

http://mypersonaloracle.blogspot.com/2017/01/var-text-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over.html

http://mypersonaloracle.blogspot.com/2017/01/var-text-quick-brown-fox-jumps-over.html

Just made some major updates to the predictive text inspired tool. Now you are able to replace the default seed text in the text area, as well as set the distance (counted in words) that you want to lookup ahead and backwards.

It also behaves a lot more like predictive text in that it will show words that start with the letters you are typing. So for the string "mem" I just typed, I got "membrane, memex, and mem" at the top of the results with their corresponding context (consisting of words found around them, arranged into phrases). Other words and their context are also shown based on whether they contain the word you typed (e.g. "mem") in them. This is just an extra I added to show more content.

The context of each key word shown (on the left column) is constructed as "phrases" (basically take the word and attach the five words preceding it and following it to form one phrase). The phrases are not always exactly as they were found in the seed text, because the only word allowed to be repeated in the context is the key word itself.

The reason is that originally I just wanted to show a comma separated word list in the context. Later I decided that it would be nice to see the partial phrases, while still getting a set of unique words (except for the repeating key word on the left column). you can still treat the words as a list, but I may change this in the future to toggle the display between phrases and plain lists.

If you're tech savvy and into python, there is a tool (that also inspired me) that someone made for writing scripts that sounded like the source material (you can get the GitHub link from the article below):

Article about python tool, with link to GitHub: http://www.dailydot.com/unclick/jamie-brew-predictive-text-clickhole-coding-comedy/

This one is a lot closer to how CreativeWriter works, but it allows you to add your own corpus of text for analysis (which is what I wanted, but available in mobile format-- thus why I built my own JavaScript tool).

If you have any feedback as to what would make this more helpful to you, or why you would or wouldn't use it, that'd be cool. I have a feeling that I'm the only one that likes the predictive stuff for playing.

#SoloPlayWithAlgorithms

Forgot to share this..

Forgot to share this..,

Originally shared by Peter Webster

Flamepaw tries to delve into the Monastery of the Fire Opal alone...
http://ubiquitousrat.net/?p=3786

Has anyone played any 2 hour wargames the solo games? I bought the pulp set, and would like other opinions on it please.

Originally shared by Jacob Ross

Originally shared by Jacob Ross

So I am writing up an expansion to Cosmic Warriors. Like the core game, it will be pay-what-you-want, but right now I don't have anything budgeted for new art (that comes if the core game starts racking up medals on Drivethru). It's going to be a martial arts scenario, with a dose of random elements so you can even play it solo like a gamebook (different every time).

I'm getting lots of inspiration from Dragonball Z and Street Fighter. New rules for bringing a friend to the battle (allies are like a combination of styles and NPCs). Story twists come up with surprises for a more memorable tale. Are there things that you want to see in it?