Minimalist Adventure Seed Engine
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This is a minimalist adventure seed engine to help randomly roll story seeds for gaming or writing.
One-page¸ easy¸ standard d6 dice system that may be used with any core system.
It is small and compact. It's just this black cover page and one written page.
It can¸ however¸ be expanded by using the 12x12 plots¸ foes¸ themes¸ motivations¸ mood-emotions¸ and twists generator charts.
It is uses a small amount of keywords to describe an adventure story.
This uses up to six rolls of 1d6.
The keywords are interpreted based on context of the setting and characters.
Expanding with 12x12 (144 result) chartsAll of these are found in the Story Mechanisms all-in-one book¸ the Story Bundle¸ and Adventure Seed Bundle.
Plot Generator - 144 plot keywords based on 12 main sets of plots
Foe Generator - This table shows threats with twelve foes for each category including vs monster¸ vs creature¸ vs natural disaster¸ vs ND & epidemics¸ vs supernatural¸ vs paranormal¸ vs enemy personality¸ vs enemy career¸ vs society¸ vs self¸ vs technology weapons¸ and vs technology issues. It refers to enemy personality types found in Character Generator and Flash RPG. It refers to enemy careers found in Career Generator. It refers to other tables as well more indirectly.
Theme Generator - 144 sets of keywords (over 288 keywords) which can be used to find a theme or subject of a scene¸ session¸ story¸ or overarching story.
Motivation Generator - lists 144 character motivations based on the hierarchy of needs¸ morality system¸ defense mechanism¸ and personality temperament.
Mood-Emotion Generator - focuses on 12 categories of emotions or mood: joy¸ expectation¸ sadness¸ confusion¸ anger¸ courage¸ caring¸ fear¸ guilty¸ strong¸ hurt¸ and weak. 12 words detail the degree and specify the emotion or mood within each category
Comparison Of Toolsets
Title
Minimalist d6 Solo Game and Adventure Seed Engine
Essential SoRoPlay GamTools
Pages
14 pages
70 pages
Pages of tables
1+
11 pages
Gamemaster surrogate answers
4 types¸ 6 answers each
4 types¸ Yes/No = 8 answers¸ 6 for others
Fact generator (sensory based)
6 types¸ 6 visual icons each¸ 36 total answers
12 types¸ 12 answers each¸ 144 total answers
Encounter (human and creature)
12 categories crammed into 6×6¸ 6 details each
12 categories crammed into 6×6¸ 6 details each¸ and See Character and Motivation Generators
Indoor¸ Outdoor¸ Item
14 categories crammed into 6×6¸ 6 details each
14 categories crammed into 6×6¸ 6 details each (items separate)
Character Generator
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6 details¸ 9 personalities
Motivation Generator
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8 categories¸ 144 motivation keywords total
Conflict words
6
12 categories¸ 144 conflict keywords total
Foes
6 types
