HeyJaredThe Daydream Engine Journal
Fiction, solo TTRPGs, and design notes from the Engine of Imagination.
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Ronin Road: A Cyberpunk Red Actual Play - Session One (opens the original)
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Date of Authorship: April 4th, 2049The hits just kept on coming, and coming, and coming.After my band’s battle against Rhymereich and the Bozos in the Badlands back in the Fall of 2047, the Skiv Family came at me after I left a nightclub in the Old Combat Zone. The first one who came at me was a sloppy solo, he missed with his first shot, so I closed the distance between us and took his head with my sword. Another four of them surrounded me. My Reflex Co-processor implant reacted as it was suppo
‘The F**k Am I?’ - P@ndemik’s Story So Far (opens the original)
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Reigning Solo Bonus: 1d20 Battle Complications Table (opens the original)
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As a bonus to my recent article ‘Oracles, Tables, and Encounters: Solo Wargaming Edition, I am pleased to provide my own homebrewed 1d20 Battle Complications for any Solo wargame.<source
(O)racles, (T)ables, (E)ncounters: Solo Wargaming Edition (opens the original)
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Back in January, I wrote an article about Oracles, Tables, and Encounters, and their places as crucial tools in the narrative Solo RPG experience. While many Solo Wargames don’t place a priority on including O.T.E’s in their core rules, they are just as important for the Solo Wargame experience as they are for the Narrative Solo experience, if only because they can turn a purely tactical wargame into one that more-effectively combines elements of tactical and narrative. <div class=
Ronin Road - Faces of The Red Vol. II: Session Zero (Mild NSFW) (opens the original)
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This is an Actual Play of Cyberpunk Red’s Single Player Mode. While some rolls have been omitted in the interest of brevity, this entire narrative is dictated by a combination of my decisions as a player, and the rolls of the die. It’s August of 2048, and since we’ve last parted ways in September of 2047, I’ve survived eight assassination attempts by the Skiv Family, twelve attempted Bozo pranks, and sixteen random street encounters, some of which I’m sure were contracted hits. And then there’s
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