viernes, 12 de mayo de 2023

SHOUJO STEAMPUNK ALCHEMIST - A TUTORIAL & REPLAY FOR VISORPG-Z+

 

"In the 14th-century, a genius but ambitious Alchemist tried to harness the power of the legendary Well of Life to achieve immortality. He carried out all kind of foul experiments, even sacrificing (and extinguishing) mythical creatures. But his final experiment failed miserably, opening a portal to the Well of Death and starting the Black Death outbreak. The Alchemist soul was also corrupted, and he turned into the Dark Alchemist.

The Well of Life reacted by investing power to young females, being these powers of alchemic nature too, but benign.  Thus, this Light Alchemists battled the Dark Alchemist and his creatures, defeating him and banishing him to the Well of Death dimension.

Since then, the Light Alchemists have fought the incursions of the Dark Alchemist minions. But now, it’s rumored that the Dark Alchemist is ready to make a comeback…with more power than ever! Are the rumors true? And if they are…what’s the Dark Alchemist planning, actually? And what waits at the end of the Light Alchemists fight?"

So begins the adventures of our protagonist in this Replay / Tutorial for VISORPG-Z+  which you can be found here). Or so it seems. Actually, these adventures began with the roll of 1d10, which decided which genre this Tutorial was going to have. Yes, the winner was 'Mahou Shoujo': the title of the Tutorial spoils that already, so why keep it in secret.

>>DOWNLOAD LINK<<



lunes, 17 de abril de 2023

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! 


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!


domingo, 12 de febrero de 2023

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!



sábado, 28 de enero de 2023

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

 

WELCOME TO TROPELAND!
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.

lunes, 19 de diciembre de 2022

“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.




martes, 6 de diciembre de 2022

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.

jueves, 17 de noviembre de 2022

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!




ADDITIONAL TOOLS FOR SOLO-RPG
KEEPING CONTACT! - Social relationships, bonds, factions, romance, etc.
WELCOME TO TROPELAND! - Plot & Scene creation based on narrative conventions.