“Weirder Matters”, a VISORPG-Z game template of kids dealing with supernatural stuff in an 80’s American Town

 

The truth is out there!

The PDF too, but you can get it just by clicking the image!

WEIRDER MATTERS is a game template for the VISORPG-Z game based on...okay, seriously, do I really need to spell it? The title of this Blog entry just tells the whole story! So, to make it as quick and painless as possible: you'll find in its pages a bunch of pre-generated characters, questionnaires to config their Town, three sample main plots that brim with originality (the Creature, the Curse and the Conspiracy), etc.

KEEPING CONTACT! - Standalone Social system for Solo Roleplaying

Just click the image to get the PDF.
Come on! Bōkensha-kun is treating you a jug of beer! 

Don't leave him hanging!

KEEPING CONTACT! is a stand-alone social system for solo roleplaying designed to be used with any other RPG ruleset. This system has been inspired by a certain style of videogame system that you’ll probably recognize if you’re familiar with it. No more details about that will be given, to not spoil the surprise. On the other hand, it can be safely said that you’ll find rules for first impressions, established backstories, long-term and short term-relationships, Faction membership, and more! Yep, including romancing!

This Social system is the stand-alone version of the one that can be found in VISORPG-Z+ (available just here, in this blog) game.

And if you’re just feeling some deja-vu after reading all this…well, plenty of this has been just a copy&paste’d from theprevious entry in this blog. As I said once: recycling is good for the environment, so let’s recycle as much as we can!

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION (Just in case you missed the other links, twice)

ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOR SOLO-RPG

LET'S TALK! - NPCs Dialogue-system for solo roleplaying.

WELCOME TO TROPELAND! - Plot & Scene creation based on narrative conventions.

LET'S TALK! - Standalone NPC Dialogue System for Solo Roleplaying

 

Just click the image to get the PDF.

No, seriously, do it. 

Don't make Pan'ya-chan sad!

LET’S TALK! is a stand-alone dialogue system for solo roleplaying designed to be used with any other RPG ruleset. This system has been inspired by the classic tree-dialogue videogame system; to be precise, it’s based on those games where dialogue options are represented by just a word, short phrase, or even an icon. Luckily, this won’t be one of those games where the writer put words in the mouth of your character that you never, ever, would use, or even worse, mislead you…because in this case you would be the one selecting those words!

This Dialogue system is the stand-alone version of the one that can be found in VISORPG -Z+ (available just here, in this blog) game. To be fair, even if it was an already quite ‘stand-alone’-ish system to begin with, it nevertheless included some mentions to other mechanics. Thus, you'll find in this document a fully system-agnostic version of those rules!

CLICK HERE FOR THE PDF VERSION (Yeah, it's the same link than above)

ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOR SOLO-RPG

KEEPING CONTACT! - Social relationships, bonds, factions, romance, etc.

WELCOME TO TROPELAND! - Plot & Scene creation based on narrative conventions.

HOUSHI TO HOGO: Ambientación / Campaña para JDR en solitrario (...o no).

 

 Esta mañana, Yamada-sama se ha levantado con el deseo de asistir al festival de las flores de cerezo. Por supuesto, ya va con un mes de retraso, pero este año Yamada-sama estuvo enfermo y no pudo asistir...así que ahora nos toca encontrar la manera de hacernos con unos cerezos que estén a punto de florecer, o simularlos. Aunque espero que, esta vez, no nos veamos metidos en una situación de toma de rehenes en mitad del atraco a un banco, o en mitad de la peor ventisca de la historia...

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Höshi to Hogo (HtS) es una ambientación / generador de aventuras para usar con el JDR en solitario de tu elección (aunque fue creado con el sistema  V_IS_OR_PG en mente, para qué nos vamos a engañar) que te pone en la piel (es un decir) de una Unidad Battle Maid o Battle Steward: un Androide de servicio avanzado que ha adquirido una verdadera consciencia y personalidad, pero que a la vez posee un terrorífico Modo de Combate que lo convierte en, esta vez de manera literal, una igualmente terrorífica máquina de destrucción.

Estás trabajando de (más o menos) incógnito entre la servidumbre de  Yamada Hanako / Yamada Sato (nombre real mantenido en secreto por razones de seguridad), con el fin de proteger a esa persona de una, por ahora, desconocida amenaza. Quizás amenazas, en plural: Yamada para tener cierta tendencia a atraer el peligro con cada uno de sus actos...o incluso cuando no hace nada. Mientras, debes lidiar con el resto de la servidumbre, un puñado de gente excéntrica y algo hastiada, ala vez que tratas de entender qué es lo que significa realmente el "ser humano", y la lógica (?) que hay detrás de todas esas emociones que no paras de encontrarte ¡en ocasiones incluso en ti!

A toro pasado, quizás deberías haber elegido un lugar menos extravagante para aprender todo eso...pero oye, al fin y al cabo se dice que errar es humano, ¿no es así?

[VISORPG] Mod for Tabletop Simulator

VISORPG TOOLS (& BOOKS) FOR TABLETOP SIMULATOR

Download link (beware, it's a 20-ish Mb file)

After some days of learning and testing (with much, much trial-and-error), I have finished what I had in mind: a series of tools for VISORPG in the form of a Tabletop Simulator Mod. Not the prettiest thing you are gonna found (heck, it probably isn't even in the Top 1000000000000!), but at least it has let me learn how to create and modify a bunch of items and all that kind of stuff.

Now, for some reason that totally evades me, I can't upload this mod to the TTS Workshop. I have tried all the suggestions I have found (i.e., uploading a dummy empty mod to use it as a base, uploading the thumbnail in different places, working with threading on and off, etc.), and...nope. Zero. Zip. Nada. So, I have packed it using the TTS Mod Backup program and called it a day; if you don't have that program, don't worry, the generated file is just a glorified zip file (or could it be a rar?), and you can just unzip (...unrar?!?) in the Tabletop Simulator Mod folder.

Two playbooks for Beyond the Wall: "The Fallen Divinity" and "The Stranger in a strange land"

 

"Fallen Divinity" &  "Stranger in a strange land"

Here (or, in fact, just a tiny bit below) you’ll find two (somewhat) new and (totally) weird playbooks for Beyond the wall. Both playbooks are more suitable for an urban-centered campaign than a village-centered one: a little village with fully operational Adventurer’s Guild would certainly be a rare occurrence! Also, their tables doesn’t strictly follow the same order than in other playbooks because, let’s be honest, they find no use for the more classical ones. In fact, the idea is using both playbooks in the same group, for reasons that would be totally obvious once you read their description...or just by looking at the image just up there. 

The Fallen Divinity was once more powerful that in Their current state. As in, way, way, WAY more powerful; the difference of power between a mere mortal and one of the Big Fishes of the Celestial Pond, to be precise. Okay, maybe one of the Respectably-sized Fishes, at the very least. This playbook is a modified version of The Devout Acolyte from Heroes of Yong and Old, but changing the benefits, the order they’re received and…well, everything regarding the narrative stuff.

The Stranger in a Strange Land comes from another world…or, from the point of view of this characters, this would be the another world, instead of old and dear Planet Earth. This playbook is based on the Rogue class and…well, as it was said, has a background as weird as the previous one (if not more!).

>>Download link; yeah, just click it, it's one of those "Google drive" ones<<

(but clicking the image at the top would also have worked; just saying)

[OETW] + [Rd5] + [Rd5(+6)] = ¡3 Add-on para VISORPG de una sola vez!

 

Esta entrada del blog sirve para presentaros no una, ni dos, sino TRES traducciones de add-on para el juego de rol en solitario VISORPG. De acuerdo, el tercero de ellos es más bien un Add-on de un Add-on, pero ¡no nos pongamos excesivamente quisquillosos, caramba!

OUTLAW EFFECT - TREK WARS

Enlace de descarga

Este Add-on de Ciencia Ficción te permite llevar tus juegoa de VISORPG al espacio...con dos modos de juego diferentes.

• Capitán de Nave Estelar- En este modo de juego estarás a las órdenes de tu Federación, actuando como su representante y cumpliendo con sus órdenes y protocolos. Por supuesto, esas órdenes pueden consistir en "explora toda esa enormemente grande región del espacio desconocido, y luego nos cuentas", y los protocolos basarse en  "no te saltes la Primera Directiva y comprueba siempre que la atmósfera de un planeta es respirable antes de querer darte un paseo por él", así que no tienes por qué sentirte especialmente limitado.

• Pícaros Espaciales. En este modo de juego, irás trampeando por la vida a los mandos de una nave espacial que, por lo demás, es bastante cool (sobre todo para lo cutre que suele ser el resto de tu existencia), siempre intentado ir un paso por delante de las deudas y, sobre todo, de los tipejos de baja catadura moral con los que tienes esas deudas. 

Este Add-on incluye reglas de combate espacial, creación (y gestión) de tripulaciones, eventos y misiones (o trabajos turbios) en el espacio...y, en fin, unas cuentas cosas más.

REGLA DE CINCO

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Este Add-on incluye reglas para jugar a VISORPG dirigiendo (más o menos) a un equipo de 5 personas, en lugar del personaje protagonista de turno. O, más bien, seguirás interpretando a UN protagonista, que actuará como Líder de ese grupo e intentará que las cosas no se salgan excesivamente de madre.

Se ofrecen cinco modos de juego diferente, incluyendo en cada caso las reglas necesarias para crear a tu arquetípica banda y sus no menos arquetípicas aventuras. Añade a eso reglas de romance, diálogos avanzados, combate de mecha, etc., y el resultado es...en fin, este Add-on. ¿Qué otra cosa iba a ser si no?

Y respecto a los cinco modos de juego ofrecidos, vienen a ser más o menos tal que así:

Sentai: ¡Cinco heroicos luchadores contra el Mal y por la Justicia, cada uno con su correspondiente color y todos ellos compartiendo un enorme mecha!

Mahou Shoujo: ¡Cinco heroicas Chicas Mágicas luchando contra la Oscuridad y por la Luz, cada una con sus correspondientes poderes mágicos!

Maestros de los Elementos: Las aventuras del Maestro de los Cuatro Elementos en su búsqueda por restaurar el Equilibrio, acompañado de Maestros de cada uno de los Elementos individuales.

El Gran Golpe: O cómo dirigir a un equipo encargado de robar a los ricos para dárselo a los pobres, previo pago de una mínima comisión. O a veces, ni eso, si el supuesto rico es un mal bicho.

Pop Band: Una mezcla entre Scooby Doo y "This is Spinal Tap", en esencia.

REGLA DE CINCO (+6)

Enlace de descarga

Seis nuevos modos de juego a añadir a los cinco que ese ofrecían en el Add-on mencionado justo anteriormente:, nuevamente con el material necesario para crear a los protagonistas, generar ideas de aventuras, etc. Y en este caso, estos modos de juego son...

Los Aventureros: Buscadores de tesoros en un mundo de fantasía, en dos versiones.

Los Aventureros: Como el de antes, pero en versión Isekai, en la cual interpretas a una persona de la Tierra atrapada en un mundo de fantasía. ¿Alguien acaba de decir 'Konosuba'?

Ciudad de Superhéroes: Exactamente lo que dice la etiqueta.

Ciudad de Tinieblas: Magos, Vampiros, Licántropos, Hadas, Cazadores...todos ellos viviendo en la misma Ciudad en feliz armonía. O no tanto, pero el caso es que tu equipo está compuesto de uno de cada, así que...

Danger Land!: ¡Aventuras pulp, con viajes por todo el mundo, reliquias legendarias, localizaciones exóticas, y muchos símbolos de exclamación!

El Espíritu del Bosque: Las aventuras de un grupo de animales del Bosque, en su lucha por la supervivencia (vale, no siempre tiene por qué ser tan dramático).

VISORPG TOOLS (PARA INSPIRATION PAD PRO)

Enlace de descarga

Y por si fuera poco, aprovecho también para presentar la traducción de las herramientas para VISORPG y OETW que te permiten, empleando el programa Inspiration Pad Pro (disponible en este enlace), consultar la mayor parte de las tablas del manual básico, crear personajes de manera instantánea o, en el caso de OETW, generar TODO el universo de juego (mundos, protagonista, nave, tripulación, etc.) con un simple click.

[VISORPG] Rule of Fives - Up to Eleven (An add-on for an add-on for VISORPG)

 

DOWNLOAD LINK - (Version 0.02)

DOWNLOAD LINK FOR RULE OF FIVES ADD-ON 

VISORPG HOMEPAGE

Here you can find a new add-on for VISORPG (well, and add-on for an add-on) which offers 5+1 new games modes, based on the same number of archetypical 'bands of five':

The Adventurers: Fantasy in two flavors (classical and isekai).

City of Supers: For your team-of-superdudes games.

City of Darkness: Urban-fantasy with more supernatural people you can shake a stick at!

Danger Land!: Pulpy adventures! Expect plenty of action! And exclamation points! As the following ones!!!

The Spirit of the Forest: Cute little animals working together to protect the Forest and their dwellers against both natural troubles and those caused by Human.

Requires both VISORPG Core rules and its Rule of Fives add-on. Or maybe not, if you just use this for other games. Don't worry, all of that it's free.

HOUSHI to HOGO: A setting / adventure generator for solo RPGing

 This morning, Yamada-san has woken up with the desire to attend the cherry blossom festival. Of course, it’s already a month late for that, but this year Yamada-san was sick and couldn’t assist. So now, we must search some way to find cherry trees ready to blossom…or fake them. I hope that, this time, we don’t get caught in the middle of a hostage situation with a bunch of bank robbers, in the middle of the Worst. Hailstorm. Ever.

Download link (Version 0.01)

VISORPG homepage

Höshi to Hogo (HtS) is a setting / adventure generator for a solo RPG of your choice (even if it was created with the V_IS_OR_PG in mind, to be honest) that puts you under the skin of a Battle-Maid / Battle-Valet: an advanced service android who has acquired self-conscience and real intelligence but, at the same time, with a frightening Battle Mode that turns you into a (this time quite literal) killing machine!

You are working (more or less) incognito among the servants of Yamada Hanako / Yamada Sato (real name kept secret for security reasons), to protect the master of the household from a (for now) unknown threat. Maybe threats, in plural: that Yamada seems to attract danger with every act…or even without acting. Meanwhile, you’ll have to deal with a bunch of quite eccentric and jaded servants (in addition to their capricious master), while trying to understand what means to be ‘human’ and the logic (?) behind all those human ‘emotions’ you keep finding…sometimes even in you!

In hindsight, maybe you should have chosen a less extravagant place as your testing ground…but hey, making mistakes is part of being human, isn’t it?

[VISORPG] RULE OF FIVES: An add-on for ViSORPG about Teamwork & Human Relationships (and, maybe, also Giant Robots)

 

DOWNLOAD LINK (VERSION 0.02)

For those who want to play solo, but not too much solo, here there is Rule of Fives (or Ro5s): an Add-on for the VISORPG game that lets you play with a team instead of with just one lonely character. Not that the core manual didn’t allow you making a team, mind you…but here you’ll find more structure, and stuff like that.

Thus, in its 40-ish pages you’ll find…

·        Five game genres which let you play with archetypical 5-member teams: can you see the symmetry here? So you can choose your poison:

Sentai: color coded for your convenience…and with an included mecha!

Mahö Shöjo: Magical Girls fighting against Darkness in the name of Light & Friendship!

Master of the Elements: the adventures of the Master of the Four Elements (and company), trying to save the world from a terrible crisis!

The Great Heist: apply a little of karmic balance by robbing to the rich and give it to the poor. Or something like that.

Pop band: ‘Scooby doo’ meets ‘This is Spinal Tap’. Nuff said.  

 

·         Rules for romancing. Nuff said, again.

·       New Dialogue options: now you may be romantic or even flirt…but expect some eye-rolling responses if you have read the room in a wrong way.

·         Mecha combat rules: because that mecha in the Sentai game isn’t there just to look cool and sell merchandise, y’know.

·       New events: what are the rest of the team members doing when you’re not looking at them? Now you can know it!

[VISORPG] HIGHER RESOLUTION - A troperrific, cliche-laden and convention-filled Add On for VISORPG (but potentially standalone)

 

[Update: The content of this Add-on has been included in the second edition of the V_IS_OR_PG system. So, if you came here only for the tropes, just click in the link below...but if you're interested in the whole deal, you can find the full game here!]

[Another update: Since 01/29/23, there's something that's a lot like a second edition of this tool, even if with a different name. You can find it here!]

[And keeping with the updates: Since 04/18/23, there's even a sequel of that something-like-a-second edition. You can find it here!]

Download link (Ver 0.01)

As if V_IS_OR_PG wasn’t already full of clichés, tropes and conventions, this Add-on will take it up to eleven! In its 16 landscape-oriented pages, you’ll find a bunch of 10 x 10 tables with tropes and simillar stuff for different genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi and Superpowers. Yes, that means that, for use the, you’ll need 2d10 in addition to the usual 2d6. What did you expect? If you want to play with higher resolutions, you must update your hardware!

Also, this Add-on expands the runes tables, following the same principle: 100 results instead of 36 for each table. That means that the chances of getting a ‘Platypus’ result will be greatly diminished. Feature? Bug? The jury is still out on this one.

As things are, this Add-on could be used as an additional Oracle for other solo RPGs. Maybe a somewhat weird Oracle...but who am I to judge? 

[VISORPG] OUTLAW EFFECT - TREK WARS, the SciFi Add-On for VISORPG

 

Download link to the PDF  - 0.02 Version

Download link to the Game Setup Tool

As I (not actually) promised, here there is the first Add-On for VISORPG, the Videogame-ish Solo Roleplaying Game. And, if its title wasn’t enough of a hint already, let’s take a look at what’s the theme of this Add-On, and its content:

·         An adaptation of the rules from the VISORPG core manual to play a solo sci-fi RPG experience.

·         Two modes of play, Starship Captain and Space Rogue, inspired by…oh, come on, the title said it all already!

·         Rules for space combat, unknown world probing, loyal crew management and many more. Or, at least, a little more; this Add-On is only 30-ish pages, after all, no a gaming rendition of the Galactic Encyclopedia!

·         An Inspiration Pad Pro table to create a game universe with just one click. Or 25 universes,  if you forget to modify the default application values. Don’t worry, even 25 of them would be created in just a breath.

So, just click on the links at the top (we’re staunch believers in the just-with-one-click philosophy, as it seems) to get the corresponding files!