I know it says "Solo" on the tin, but the FlexTale Solo Image Oracle Omnibus is an excellent tool to spur the thought process for the harried DM. It should be in every DM's toolkit at 4 bucks for the FlexTale Solo Image Oracle Omnibus PDF (instead of the standard 19.99). The sale price will be valid until late tomorrow morning (around 11 AM ET).
The FlexTale Solo Image Oracle is an innovative creative tool for solo adventurers to generate dynamic, intriguing answers to questions about your campaign and the adventures that take place within it.
A simple roll of 3d6 is all you need to generate over 5,400 answers and pieces of creative content for any campaign setting, any situation, and any level of skill as a G/DM.
Omnibus
This book is the Omnibus edition of the Solo Image Oracle. It assembles the contents of the previously-published six individual volumes. Each of those Volumes contains 36 images; this Omnibus contains all 216 images.
Digital Resource Companion
You also get a Microsoft Excel file containing all 5,400 creative elements for all 216 images. This is the same content that's presented in the book, just in a format that some might enjoy using more than a PDF. You are welcome to extend, amend, or otherwise use this tool for your own personal gaming experience.
Immediately Useful
Download this book, open it up to a random page, and pick any part of that page. This book was designed so that whatever you end up pointing at, you should be able to use it in your campaign, whether you're a veteran DM of 30+ years running a published campaign for a dozen players, or a brand-new player giving solo play a try.
What is This Thing?
An Oracle is a tool to provide an answer. Usually, this is in the context of a solo adventure, where you as the adventurer need to rely upon some external source of truth to keep things unpredictable and interesting. Solo Oracle tools abound, and are quite popular--it's probably safe to say that nearly every single solo adventurer uses at least one Oracle tool.
The Solo Image Oracle takes this a step further. (It wouldn't be a FlexTale book if it didn't take things an order of magnitude further!)
Three dice is all it takes: Roll one six-sided die to pick which image palette you use. Then, roll 2d6, and pick an image randomly from that grid of 36 abstract icons. You can use that simple image as a point of inspiration on its own; this approach is very similar to Rory's Story Cubes, another popular resource for solo gamers.
A Step Further in Creative Inspiration
But the FlexTale difference amplifies the utility and power of this book as an Oracle: each of those images gets its own full page.
Each of those 216 images gets over 25 different elements: specific answers to questions, creative directions, entire quest snippets, magic items, random encounters, and much, much more.
All in all, two simple dice can drive over 5,400 dynamic and creative sources of inspiration for any campaign setting.
System-Neutral, Zero-Prep
This is a common objective in FlexTale books, and I'm thrilled to say that this book was designed from the start to satisfy these as requirements, even moreso than any other book before it in the FlexTale line.
The Solo Image Oracle provides visual and text inspiration. As a result, it's system neutral, and can be easily used in any tabletop roleplaying game, though the particular answers in many cases are fantasy-oriented. For those who use 5E, Pathfinder, Pathfinder Second Edition, OSR, or DCC systems, there is an extensive 9-page description of how to use specific rules language across those systems.
The whole point of this book is that it requires no preparation to use. You can, quite literally, flip to a page completely at random, and point to a place on that page, and derive inspiration for your solo adventure cotntent.
Any Gaming Table
Although the Solo Image Oracle was designed from the ground up to be a tool to empower solo gamers, it's also an immensely powerful tool for a traditional gaming table. A time-pressed or creatively stymied G/DM can use this book exactly like a solo gamer would, and find creative drivers just as naturally and quickly.
You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Rumble or YouTube - Tenkar
You can support The Tavern by using our affiliate links: https://www.tenkarstavern.com/p/support-tavern.html
No comments:
Post a Comment