Agreed! I think solo roleplaying game tech is going to reach back into gaming history with stuff like Fighting Fantasy and interactive fiction and forward into all sort of new and strange palaces.
I'm also interested in prioritizing storytelling over player agency in certain spaces (especially solo designs where a single player has way too much decision making power).
Looking forward to the solo rules! Will I be able to utilize the Mothership app with Cloud Empress? I have the zero edition of Mothership and have not purchased the first edition. Instead, I hope to purchase Cloud Empress.
Glad you're looking forward to the solo rules! Cloud Empress uses a separate character creation steps including different stats/saves, but 95% of the rules are the same in my estimation. This all means that Cloud Empress will not be compatible with the Mothership app.
your solo ideas and mine are eerily similar. i'm less far-along in developing the mechanics, but essentially a solo/co-op sandbox in a surrealistic dreamlike city setting in which multiple forces (characters, factions, "gods") move the world, making it living. the player "manages" or "plays" as multiple beings, sometimes at different levels of scale (the lone merchant who trades in rumors, the political faction of the golden sky, a demi-god who must eat dreams to perform miracles, etc). i'm still imagining the mechanics of such a big thing, but i think it can be done with simple dice mechanics and a compendium of lots of interpretive tables...
That sounds super neat. The zooming in and out that you are describing is not something I've seen in tabletop game before. Your concept also reminds me a bit of one of my inspirations for Cloud Empress, Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney. I'd be open to taking a look as things come along!
Ooo, the solo party sheet looks really cool. Excited to see more folks digging around and coming up with cool solo play tech.
Agreed! I think solo roleplaying game tech is going to reach back into gaming history with stuff like Fighting Fantasy and interactive fiction and forward into all sort of new and strange palaces.
I'm also interested in prioritizing storytelling over player agency in certain spaces (especially solo designs where a single player has way too much decision making power).
Looking forward to the solo rules! Will I be able to utilize the Mothership app with Cloud Empress? I have the zero edition of Mothership and have not purchased the first edition. Instead, I hope to purchase Cloud Empress.
Mahalo!
Glad you're looking forward to the solo rules! Cloud Empress uses a separate character creation steps including different stats/saves, but 95% of the rules are the same in my estimation. This all means that Cloud Empress will not be compatible with the Mothership app.
your solo ideas and mine are eerily similar. i'm less far-along in developing the mechanics, but essentially a solo/co-op sandbox in a surrealistic dreamlike city setting in which multiple forces (characters, factions, "gods") move the world, making it living. the player "manages" or "plays" as multiple beings, sometimes at different levels of scale (the lone merchant who trades in rumors, the political faction of the golden sky, a demi-god who must eat dreams to perform miracles, etc). i'm still imagining the mechanics of such a big thing, but i think it can be done with simple dice mechanics and a compendium of lots of interpretive tables...
That sounds super neat. The zooming in and out that you are describing is not something I've seen in tabletop game before. Your concept also reminds me a bit of one of my inspirations for Cloud Empress, Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney. I'd be open to taking a look as things come along!