Roleplaying

I like countdown timers and drama dice. Any mechanism where I know there is a threat of something happening, normally something bad, but also for good things, like holding out for the cavalry to come and save me. Drama dice are often a dice pool, where the more dice mean that the event is less … Read more

I have tried several times to write numbered paragraphs for fighting fantasy/lone wolf/CYOA-style adventures. I struggle I think because I want to include every sensible option at every stage, and before you know it the things have ballooned to many hundreds of paragraphs. Traditionally, these adventures are 300 paragraphs long, including all alternative routes and … Read more

This is a longterm project, quite possibly five years or more in the making! The idea is to create one adventure for every one of the 24 planets in the Sand System. These will then be crossported to Cepheus System, FTL:Nomad, and Mongoose Traveller, and possibly 3Deep, Savage Worlds and Starfinder 2e. Once those 24 … Read more

This was/is a classic novel by Lord Dunsany. You can download it from Project Gutenberg and read it if you like. I would never normally create a Cut Up Solo book for it because, where I live, it is not in the public domain. This is one of those books that is in the public … Read more

I tend not to place common objects, I invent them. What I mean is, if I imagine my character running, and using a rock sticking out of the grass as a springboard to vault up behind the villain on their warhorse, then I simply assume such a rock exists. If I want to slam a … Read more