Scene Unfolding Machine for Solo RPG
A downloadable game
The Scene Unfolding Machine (SUM) is a GM Emulator that helps you come up with content during your scenes in your Solo RPG games. It provides you with tools for SCENE and CHARACTER emulation. Deepen your NPC social interactions, and improve your characters backstories and relationships. Quickly create NPCs on the fly, by using external elements the characters can perceive, or play around random elements of surprise during your scenes, and much more.
SUM is a GM emulator that expands any solo system, including that of my own: Plot Unfolding Machine, and it works with any other solo systems of your choice
Features
Some features are only available in v6+, which is a paid version of SUM. Please consider it a way to support my work, and also get the shiny latest of my emulator ideas :) v5 remains free forever.
- Scene Emulation
- Figure out what happens while your PCs are still thinking
- Discover how the universe would react to your PCs crazy ideas
- Find out what the other factions have been doing in the meantime
- (v7+ only) Kick-start your scenes with unique opener triggers
- Character Emulation
- Get a feel of the attitude of characters you meet
- Learn what do characters contribute to your story
- Learn how characters react to your PCs ideas
- (v6+ only) Get a distant impression of your characters
- (v6+ only) Figure out what do characters talk about
- (v6+ only) Verify whether the characters are being honest
- (v6+ only) Figure out your characters' parallel agenda
- (v6+ only) How do your characters backstories affect them today?
- (v6+ only) Define interesting bonds between your characters
- (v6+ only) All tables are refined and retested with hours of actual plays
- (v7+ only) Design character personality based on behavior
- (v7+ only) Define characters identity by their professions
- (v7+ only) Listen to characters recent anecdotes for exciting stories
- Quickly create deep characters by using novel and movies archetypes
- Customize your dice rolling with a BIAS, so things fit your expectations
Discuss SUM on Discord
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish
Digital Tools to play SUM
- Foundry (Mythic GME Tools) module
- Play by the Writing: https://jeansenvaars.itch.io/play-by-the-writing
Join me and let me know how this works for you :)
Check out my blog here: https://jvhouse.xyz/ for actual plays and other goodies
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of 5.00€ EUR. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Scene Unfolding Machine v7 FINAL release!36 days ago
- SUM v6 Released!!!Dec 13, 2023
- SUM v6 rev3 updateDec 12, 2023
- SUM v5 Rev 2 Release + SPANISHDec 04, 2023
- Scene Unfolding Machine V5 (2023) Released!Dec 03, 2023
- SUM v4.0 ReleasedNov 07, 2022
- SUM v4.0-Preview is released!Nov 06, 2022
- Scene unfolding machine V3.1 ReleaseOct 14, 2022
Comments
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Hi JeansenVaars, I think the product looks great, unfortunately, they have recently disabled PayPal in Thailand for non-Thai's. Is there any other way I can get some funds to you?
Cheers and happy festive season:-)
Thank you, Opus, don't worry so much. Your thanks and liking this product is already a huge thing for me. Please enjoy it, and why not share an actual play someday :)
Thank you! I'm excited to try this and PUM!
Ooh I love the look of those d100 tables! For some reason I keep finding myself gravitating toward big tables of adjectives (I constantly need to know things like "What does this cool new item look like?" and "So we found some kind of building in the wilderness, but what is it?") and the one included here will give a big boost to my collection. 😃
And the subject/topic table is great for "What does the NPC talk about?" and "What's written in the letter?" or "What does the inscription say?"
Thanks for the great resource!
Thank you for your kind words! Indeed, the Inspiration Prompts tables should definitely help with those kinds of questions. Complement them with yes/no oracles of PUM to refine them afterwards :)