IT'S A TROPE! - More tropes, conventions and stuff for your solo (or not-so-solo) gaming!

 

IT'S A TROPE!

Just click on the link to get the PDF! 

Yes, this one! 

This sequel of WELCOME TO TROPELAND! (whose page you should visit in this link, if you have no idea of what am I talking about) adds a few hundred more tropes, conventions, archetypes and stuff. About 600 more, if I have not miscalculated (hey, it wouldn't be so strange!).

·         Supers (100): Because, at this point, this is a media genre on its own, isn’t it?

·         Camelot (50): For your Arthurian games. Which takes us to…

·         …’Tis a silly place (50): It’s not a matter of IF someone is gonna quote ‘The Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ in an Arthurian game, but WHEN…so better quote it with a reason!

·         Ancient Egypt (50): Ambulant mummies are not explicitly mentioned…because they’re a given!

·         Celtic Myths (50): Maybe I have mismatched some concepts in this one. I blame the internet for that.

·         Spanish Golden Age (50): Yes, I have included one table related to my own country. What? You disagree?!? ¡No queda sino batirnos!

·         Three Kingdoms (50): I’d rather trope-fy this era, than let this era trope-fy me!

·         Vikings (50): Sorry, no horned helmets. I’m trying to be keep the historical accuracy [SNORT!].

·         Wrestling (50): Because it’s still real to me, dammit!

·         1000000 BC (25): When dinosaurs and cavemen shared the Prehistoric Earth. Because they shared it, right? I mean…I watched a documentary about that, it featured Ringo Star!

·         Disaster Blockbuster (25): Just add one specific kind of disaster, and you’re set!

·         Magical School (25): You should combine this one with the High School table from WELCOME TO TROPELAND! Also, probably, with the Romance and Comedy one.

·         The Heist (25): This one, on the other hand, asks to be combined with Action, probably Crime, and whatever you want to add!

ONCE AGAIN, JUST IN CASE: HERE IS THE LINK

ULTIMATE MYSTICAL CHEF - A roleplaying game with action, humour and adventure. And, also, lots of cooking!

 

Clink on the title above to get the game. Come on, do it, it's free!

(But you'll have to download the character sheet, too, so...maybe you should use the links below)

DOWNLOAD LINK: MANUAL (Version 0.02)

DOWNLOAD LINK: CHARACTER SHEET

In the world of ULTIMATE MYSTICAL CHEF (or UMC), cooking isn't simply a way to turn raw ingredients into something edible (or, sometimes, just something more edible). No, in this world, cooking is POWER. Magical power, to be precise. And, therefore, those who are dedicated to the culinary arts are seen with admiration and respect, being their Cooking Competitions the mass spectacle with the highest audiences.

In this way, the protagonists of UMC will be travelling the world (or, perhaps, managing their Local or Cuisine Academy), from Competition to Competition, or facing all kinds of troubles and challenges. Because there are some who try to seize the culinary magic to use it for their own purposes. And others simply seek to destroy the world. By devouring it, to be more precise.

The UMC manual includes...

... a summary of the setting, including a description of the Chefs' Cuisine Schools (both Great and Minor)

... A fairly simple game system (or, at least, I find it quite simple!), based on throwing 1D10, adding something, and hoping the result is high enough to get what you want

... rules of creation of Chefs characters, both in their youngest version (the participants of the Junior Circuit) and more veterans (the participants of the World Tour), but also of other characters who, without being Chefs, can participate in his adventures by offering them support

... a Grimoire (sorry... Recipe book) with the Culinary Techniques of the different Schools, the special skills of the companions of the Chefs, and rules for the elaboration of Culinary Creations (what would be the 'magic items of a single use' in other settings, y’know)

... a repertoire of possible allies, opponents, rivals, and enemies with their complete character sheets and backgrounds

...lots of tables to generate random character, places, events, etc.,  and even for playing the game solo!

Welcome to Tropeland! - A troperific & system-agnostic game content generator

 

WELCOME TO TROPELAND!

Just click on this link  to get the PDF! 

Come on, do it. It's not just troperific...its also FREE!

Welcome to Tropeland! is a system-agnostic (but designed with the VISORPG-Z+ system always in mind, just to be fair) featuring a heap of tables full of tropes, clichés, narrative conventions, archetypes, etc., to use as an inspiration for rolling random events on the spot, creating (or giving flavour) to all kind of game content (quests, locations, characters...), etc. You'll also find guidelines regarding how to roll in this tables and interpret the results, using a 'follow the narrative' mixed with 'let's just break conventions!' methodology.

In this text, you'll find tables for the following genres and subgenres, each one containing 100, 50 or 25 potential results:

• Action! (100)
• Comedy (100)
• Crime (100)
• Drama (100)
• Fantasy (100)
• Horror (100)
• Romance (100)
• Chanbara (50)
• Cosmic horror (50)
• Cyberpunk (50)
• Faery tales (50)
• High school (50)
• Modern war (50)
• Pirates (50)
• Post-apocalyptic (50)
• Sci-fi (50)
• Slices of life (50)
• Space (50)
• Spies (50)
• Swords & Sorcery (50)
• Tragedy (50)
• Western (50)
• Zombie outbreak (50)
• Gangsters (25)
• Musical (25)
• Ninja (25)
• Slasher (25)
• Peplum (25)
• Regency England (25)

Update: As if it wasn't enough already, there's now a sequel, IT'S A TROPE!, that you can find in this link!

ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOR SOLO-RPG

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

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

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

 

WEIRDER MATTERS

The truth is out there!

The PDF too, but you can get it just by clicking this link!

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 title above to get the PDF.

Or the link below. Or the link below-er. 

I'm not gonna judge you, in any case!

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; again, I'm not judging)

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 title above to get the PDF.

Or some of the links below. The point was giving you options!

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; as I said...options!)

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?