Minimalist d6 Solo Game and Adventure Seed Engines available

Minimalist d6 Solo Game & Adventure Seed Engine

Available at two places: one a PDF or one for Kindle

A PDF @ DriveThruRPG

For Kindle (US) @ Amazon.com, (UK) @ Amazon.co.uk, (DE) Amazon.de.

A combined version sold in two different formats at two different eBook vendors that brings the two prior published toolsets together, is now available.

• Bundled version includes separate books and combined book @ DriveThruRPG 

For a reference on how these combined tools may be expanded, replaced, or furthered, see the prior post "An overview of some of the tools that I've created."

Minimalist d6 Solo Game Engine is a collection of tools, referred to as functions, that help you to play a solo game using standard six-sided dice. It works by generating either answers to questions, icon images, or keyword prompts for interpretation.

Minimalist Adventure Seed Engine is included in this version as a companion tool to be used with this book to create random story conflict, foe, theme, motivation, and twists.
You need a gaming system character and resolution mechanics with this book in order to create characters, have NPC and creature stat-blocks, and resolve game mechanics. This book focuses on generating narrative content using questions and keyword prompts. Some other game mechanics tools that can be used for some game mechanics are Minimalist Descriptive Combat (mass combat) and/or Remnant RPG Tools (descriptive roleplaying combat) which includes the Minimalist Descriptive Skills (descriptive d6 skill resolution) along with several other related tools.

A gamemaster has many functions. This set of tools focuses on six GM functions.
    • The gamemaster surrogate engine focuses on the function of giving four types of closed ended questions: yes/no, task progress, problem solving, and scientific method answers to help create story, characters, and setting.
    • The iconic fact generator focuses on the function of giving random sensory-based icon images that may represent answers to open ended questions to help create a setting based on the player character’s perception.
    • The indoor, outdoor, item Gen focuses on function of giving random keywords to be used as word prompts to help generate setting based on adjectives and determiners.
    • The relationship, mood, emotion, & encounter Gen focuses on the function of giving human and creature description based on description, mood, emotions to help create story encounters.
    • The NPC scene action (AI) focuses on the behavioral function of non-player character (NPC) or even creatures actions within a scene.
    • The Gamestory Adventures process focuses on the steps to create a narrative like the opening scene, inciting event, one or more conflicts, and until completion or failure.

This PDF version includes the Minimalist Adventure Seed Engine at the back of the eBook.

• This is a minimalist adventure seed engine to help randomly roll story seeds for gaming or writing.
• Easy, standard d6 dice system that may be used with any core system.
• It is uses a small amount of keywords to describe an adventure story.

FRPG6 Dialogue Engine example

This example is from the Dialogue Engine now available for sale as well as in a Dialogue Engine bundle which contains all of the needed tables.

https://www.rpgnow.com/product/249512/FRPG6-Dialogue-Engine

Example of Using the Dialogue Engine

In this example, I’ll use indented smaller text to show the game mechanics behind this short dialogue game situation.

The detective is approaching an old homeless man on the street in a Seattle attempting to find out if he has seen a suspect in the recent stabbing in the area. The homeless man will not trust the detective, at least initially

Old man

Personality = rolled 2D6 = 7 = guardian [from Character Generator]

Guardian - They seek perfection and to protect culture, society, and whatever they do.

However, if experiencing great stress, a Guardian becomes more of a Lone Wolf.

Lone Wolf - They seek to be original and unique.

The old man will be a minor character in terms of

importance.

vocal level = rolled 1D6 = 1 quiet ; rolled 1 = range, rolled 3 = middle range ; rolled 3 = texture, rolled 3 = twangy texture ; rolled 5 = word imagery, rolled 1 = cold, abstract word imagery.

The old man with a guardian personality speaks quietly, with a middle-range twangy voice, and uses

cold and abstract word imagery.

‘Excuse me sir. Have you seen this man,’ you ask, showing the old homeless man the picture on your

smartphone.

Hesitant, distrust; rolls a 1 = Pause often and cautious. Speaks little and guarded

The old man moved back from the picture, as if the image was dangerous or grotesque.

Quietly he spoke. ‘What ... did he do?” he asked in a twangy southern accent voice.

What is the old man’s motivation? Motivation rolls 3D6 = 12 defense mechanism, rolls a 13 = restoring a past wrong (from Motivation Generator]

The old man is speaking little, guarded, slowly, and cautiously because in the past he said something

that came back to haunt him.

The lone wolf in him caused by the increased past trauma is telling him to ‘Leave me alone’.

‘He may have done something very bad,” you say trying to read the old man’s face.

The old man will remember that experience feeling guilt at first and then hurt. Guilt roll 10 = sweating; Hurt roll 16, uneven steps, weak stumble, collapse.

The old man began to sweat. He seemed to brace himself on his old possession filled shopping cart.

‘I don’t like it ... when good people ... get blamed ... for bad things.’

I used the ‘I don’t like’ as suggested as guardian common words spoken.

Finding true eternal love: Flash RPG

For this post I'm again using my Flash RPG.

4, 3, 1, 3, 5, 4, 5
4 romance
3 outdoor
1 battle...defeat
3 supernatural, unimaginable

A college student battles to try winning the heart of a vampire.

5 soul
4 +1
Charming

A charming college student

5 challenging, terrifying

...the heart of a terrifying, out of his league, seductive vampire.

Will the charming college student succeed?

6 automatic

Despite the differences, the charming college student with unbelievable effort manages to defeat all the obsticals in the way winning the heart of the vampire.

Stakeout in a pawnshop vent: Flash RPG

For this post, I'm again using my Flash RPG.

5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1

5 modern
5 region
4 overcome
4  person

A street cop must outsmart a recent jewel thief. The jewel thief has targeted  pawn shops in the region.

3 body
1 -3
1 easy
Not flexible

The inflexible body of the street cop may make staking out a suspect's possible location more dificult, because he has only found a vent shaft as an ideal stakeout position.

5 amazing effort
5-3=2 -1=+1

Through amazing effort, he contorted his body into a vent shaft in a yet to be targeted shop. His pain and discomfort pay off as he is barely able to scurry out and catch the suspect, despite it being an easy feat.

He now is considering doing yoga to increase his flexibility.

Professor is gone: Flash RPG

My next flash fiction story using my Flash RPG system.

6, 5, 5, 4, 1, 2, 4

6 pulp
5 region
5 find...deliver
4 person

A detective is in search of a beloved professor that recently disappeared.

1 mind
2 -2
4 challenging

The least reasonable detective, unaccustomed to solving crimes, due to scant evidence and no known motive is face with a daunting case, maybe over her head.

6 automatic success, unbelievable effort

Despite her lacking reason and having very little evidence through her unbelievable effort she managed to find him.

The culprits were brought to justice and the university celebrates her solving the case.

Ancient evil vs gunslinger Flash RPG

The next Flash RPG session.

6, 5, 1, 3, 4, 3, 3
6 western
5 region
1 battle ... defeat
3 supernatural, unimaginable

In the furthest reaches of the western frontier an ancient evil awakens to battle a gunslinger.

4 body
3 -1
3 hard

A less than accurate gunslinger must overcome this formidable supernatural force. Will the gunslinger prevail?

1 little effort
Automatic fail + worse

Not only does the gunslinger fail, the ancient evil possesses the gunslinger's soul.

Gentleman superhero using Flash RPG

For this post I'll use my new Flash RPG to create a microfiction a 100 word or so story.

4, 2, 3, 6, 5, 6, 5

4 superhero
2 indoor
3 defend ... from
6 technology

A superhero infiltrating into the villian's lair must defend himself from an onslaught of laser robots. Will he survive?

5 soul
6 +3
5 challenging

This most stylish gentleman superhero defends himself against terrifying wave after wave of robots.

2 good effort
+3 most stylish
Vs 5 challenging
= tie

Only giving good effort he manages to defend himself, though he is injured as well.

Next time he should take these robots a little more seriously.