Random Realities

August 29, 2024

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Writer: Cezar Capacle

Welcome to Random Realities: Revelations for the Roving Raconteur!

This zine works as a common oracle for all your solo RPG wants, comprising 60+ oracle outcomes on every of its pages. With a single 2d6 roll, a web page flip, or a button click on, you can be immediately impressed to examine worlds, places, scenes, individuals, creatures, settlements, objects, and way more.

Learn alongside to see a pattern web page and perceive the way it works.

With out additional ado, here is a pattern web page of the zine:

The thought could be very easy: roll d66 (2d6, utilizing one quantity as decimals and the opposite as items) to find out your web page, and immediately entry a singular mixture of outcomes from 60+ tables (the cube outcomes are within the backside proper nook, together with a d4 and a d12 as nicely).

Do not feel like rolling cube each time? Merely flip the zine to a random web page in case you have a print copy, or click on on the cube to go to a different web page.

Wait… click on on the cube??

Yup! If you’re utilizing the PDF model, you may merely click on on the cube (or on the title of any class) and it’ll take you to a different random web page! It’s fairly magical!*

A world in each flip

As you may see, as an alternative of getting a single desk on every web page, you might have a end result from 60+ tables on each single one of many 36 pages.

If you’re accustomed to oracle decks for solo play, the precept is just about the identical. As a substitute of flipping via the ebook to search out the suitable desk, you might have a group of outcomes that assist you to, in a glimpse, determine many particulars concerning the state of affairs you’re in. NPCS, quests, rewards, wilderness exploration, encounters, monsters, it is all proper there.

I drew from my 30+ printed video games expertise to gather essentially the most helpful, sensible, and evocative oracles for this zine. I attempted to maintain the entries as setting impartial as doable, however in some circumstances I default to fantasy as a kind of lowest frequent denominator. As a participant, it feels simpler for me to adapt a fantasy-flavored end result to, say, a contemporary setting, than the opposite means round.

*This function solely works on PDF readers, each on cellular or on desktop. Browsers don’t assist this perform.

The oracle outcomes are organized into 10 completely different classes. This is an outline:

Basic: Because the title implies, this class covers common oracle sources, comparable to answering sure or no questions, complicated (open) questions, and depth/high quality/amount questions.
World: create a singular setting by defining its identify, the prevalence of some traits, its inhabitants, and, with the assistance of some icons, envision what is exclusive about it.
Exploration: wonderful for crossing uncharted territories, hexcrawling and different types of wilderness explorations. You may describe the climate and the environment, in addition to outline a doable encounter or discovery.
Creation: envision objects, buildings, weapons, buildings, artifacts, or anything that may be crafted.
Scene: your predominant help if you get into motion! Outline a problem, uncover how the opposition reacts, describe the scene with sensorial particulars, and get impressed if you roll partial/main successes in your system of selection!
Quest: craft a mission, envision what’s in opposition to you, what may enable you, and maintain monitor of how your story advances and escalates!
Location: coming into a settlement or an outlined place? Uncover all the pieces about it, from its historical past to its want, from its leaders to its urgent issues.
Folks: your trusty NPC generator! Quirks, wishes, abilities, intents, it is all right here!
Creature: craft distinctive beings to work together with, together with their powers and the way they might act in a confrontation.
Destiny: apart from the d66 roll (the 2 numbers contained in the squares), you additionally get helpful d4 and d12 leads to case you want them, in addition to a chance definer.

If you’re an skilled solo RPG participant, I feel you may simply see the worth on a software like that. Straight to the purpose, concise but evocative, able to go.

If you’re simply beginning your journey into solo RPGs, look no additional! You may seize your favourite system, and with the assistance of Random Realities, leap proper into motion very quickly!

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