Essential SoRoPlay GamTools

Essential SoRoPlay GamTools is a collection of tools, refered to as functions, that help you to play a solo game using polyhedral dice. It works by generating either answers to questions, step-by-step, or keyword prompts for interpretation.

It also includes an adventure seed engine is included in this verison as a companion tool to be used with this book to create random story conflict, foe, theme, motivation, and twists.

This book replaces and adds several of the minimalist tools with 1e tools to make a more powerful system with six of the more popular essential tools. ABS Solo Game Engine, ABS Fact Generator, Motivation Generator, Description Generator, Plot Generator, and Character Generator all in a newer simplified d12 and d100 grayscale style for the 144 result generators.

You need a gaming system character and resolution mechanics with this book in order to create characters, have NPC and creature statblocks, and resolve game mechanics. This book focuses on generating narrative content such as generic NPC details, adventure stories, and setting description using questions and keyword prompts. Some other game mechanics tools that can be used for some game mechanics are Minimalist Descriptive Combat (mass combat) and/or Remnant RPG Tools (descriptive roleplaying combat) which includes the Minimalist Descriptive Skills (descriptive d6 skill resolution) along with several other related tools.

A gamemaster has many functions. This set of tools focuses on ten GM functions.
 Gamemaster Surrogate (GMS) Function tools included in this book
    1. An essential closed-questions that are answered through this GMS function are “Yes or no?”, “When”, or “What happens?”  ABS Solo Game Engine
    2. An essential open-question that is answered through a GMS function is “Who?” Character Generator
    3. An essential open-question that is answered through this GMS function is “Why?” Motivation Generator
    4. An essential open-question that are answered through this GMS human or creature multi-functions are “What is the description of the encounter?”. The details for this tool focus more specifically on several different details such as, “What is the mood of the encounter?”, “What is the emotion of the encounter?”, “What is the number of encounters?”, “What is the size of the encounter?”, and a few other encounter details.   Relationship, Mood, Emotion, & Encounter Gen
    5. An essential open-question that is answered through this GMS function is “What happens from beginning to end?” Essential Gamestory Adventures
    6. An essential open-question that is answered through this GMS function is “What is the main story?” It rolls for conflict, foe type, theme, motivation, mood, and an occasional twist. Essential Adventure Seed Engine
    7. An essential open-question that is answered through this GMS function is “What is the character doing or need to do?” Conflict (Plot) Generator
    8. An essential open-question is answered through this GMS function are “Where?” or “What?” does the player see, hear, taste, touch, smell, or realize in terms of basic senses or basic concepts. Fact Generator
    9. An essential open-question that is answered is “What?” in terms of items & movable features or  “What items are in this setting?” Item Description Generator
    10. An essential question that is answered is “Where?” in terms of immovable or non-item setting features. Indoor and Outdoor Gen

This book mixes and adds to the Minimalist d6 Solo and Adventure Seed Engines with the six most popular generators expanding it from 12 pages to 70 pages. It has all new content. This book has 20 BW (grayscae) images. It has both a table of contents and bookmark navigation. Pages are numbered.

Both, a version with borders and a version without borders are included.

Multi-Core Series & Bundles

			Newest			New and Largest
	Essential	Essential + Basic	Essential, Basic, Expanded		Essential	Essential + Basic
	Solo	Solo	Solo		GM and Solo	GM and Solo
Multi-Core Series Core Sets [Bundles]
# of books	5	15	31		15	42
RPG GM books	—	—	—		4	16
Map for Worldbuilding	—	—	—		yes, world atlas	yes, world atlas
# of pages	339 pgs	1,120 pgs	1,452 pgs		847 pgs	2,199 pgs

Largest Bundle

Comparison of individual books and four bundles

	Comparison of what is include of the Bundles
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	Essential	Essential + Basic	Essential, Basic, Expanded	Essential	Essential + Basic
	Solo	Solo	Solo	GM and Solo	GM and Solo
Title, Cover, & link
RPG Gamemaster technique books	0	0	0	4	16
Fictional World Aioskoru	—	—	—	yes	yes
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Grammar Fuel: 12,000 Phrases & Idioms, Remnant RPG Tools Character Reaction Engine Expanded, Character Thinking Engine Exanded	—	yes	yes	—	Remnant RPG Tools
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Minimalist Descriptive Civilizations, Minimalist Descriptive Urban, Minimalist Descriptive Rural, Micro-Dungeon, Room Generator,  Minimalist d6 Solo Game Engine & Adventure Seed Engine, Character Traits 3 & 4, Conflict (Plot) Generator 2	—	—	yes	—	yes
The Haunting of Home, Character Trait Generator 3, Character Trait Generator 4, Character Relationship Engine Expanded	—	—	yes	—	—
Top-Down Worldbuilding for RPG Gamemasters, Creativity for RPG Gamemasters, Constructing Fight Scenes for RPG Gamemasters, Character Motivation for RPG Gamemasters, Plot: Conflict Foes and Obstacles for RPG Gamemasters, Theme for RPG Gamemasters, Adventure Story Structure for RPG Gamemasters, Twists and Foreshadow for RPG Gamemasters, Character Traits Attributes and Characteristics for RPG Gamemasters, Skills for RPG Gamemasters, Mood and Tone for RPG Gamemasters, Description for RPG Gamemasters, Fantasy and/or Science Fiction Multi-Language Dictionary	—	—	—	—	yes