So I have this terraforming crew on the south continent of  second world out from an orange dwarf fifty LY from Sol in 2486. A fast colony ship arrives unexpectedly, no warning until they decelerate into the star!

What can they do about it, and how serious a threat is a starship, or a fleet of colony ships?

Something weird, something wonderful...

I want to roll up a community, an asteroid settlement. Random age and gender, age is least out of two % rolls, so 78, 18 is an 18 year old teenager... And a girl because 18 is less than 78? 18, 78 would be an 18 year old boy.

46, 93 is a 46 year old man; default question is the character a female, a woman or a girl, and the lesser number is age. The age distribution scues to lower numbers. I need to run a Monte Carlo simulation, but about half are under thirty.

Less than 1/2 of 1/2 are older than fifty; ~18% are 57 or older than me ..

"What's the trouble, shipmate?"

I grabbed this from a short Wednesday's Universe story about a crew of scavengers just back from a bad mission, although how bad could it have been, they got back...

(I'd be very dead for saying that to my POV character. As in blood on the walls, kicked to pieces, and yet he says this to his youngest shipmate and proceeds to claw his way back from the void in little steps, for her, and for his captain and sister.)

There's a type of space adventure about crew as family which I learned off of 'Citizen of the Galaxy', and I will return to the well until I die...

So, story prompt, what's the trouble, shipmate?

So I have a strange old world for my solo RPG session, or rather I need to roll one up!

89 and 43 is a planet with 89% of Earth's surface area in ocean, because it's the largest number, and 43% of Earth's surface area as land, and add together for 132% of Earth's surface area, total. This is my quick and dirty world building trick with % dice, using my stopwatch function on the cell. A third larger and  probably more massive and dense, call it 16 or more likely 15% larger in diameter, about 20% more gravity? And about 60% more mass. More land, probably deeper seas and definitely a thicker atmosphere with a PPO2 of .2 bar and a PPN2 of 2.1 bar, 2.3 Earth atmospheres. Thick and probably causes problems long term, or short term...

So, a solo RPG group on a merchant tramp starship spacing between strange old worlds for fun and profit. Need to find jobs and deal with trouble, repairs, etc.

Pilot/astrogator, engineer, life support system tech, medic, broker, muscle, super cargo, steward, etc. many hats, a few PCs.

Pilot and astrogator wins 'The Lucky Star' in a poker game but borrowed his betting money from his service buddy. Made an enemy, got a partner, actually two, his engineer buddy and her wife, a nurse/paramedic. They need to fix up LS, or Stella, which is barely habitable and has many issues. The couple borrows the pilot to get a family started and now he's the third wheel in a group marriage...

Turn the kettle on...

Transmigration into so fantasy setting. We run a mill, but it's famine times, gotta find some way to support wife, kids, mother and widowed sister with her kids...

That's at least seven dependents, two sets of kids plural plus three female relatives, but we need to turn them into units of production, even the kiddos!

I'm Thorn, my wife is Hilda, my mom is Eleanor, my dead elder brother was Thacko, his widow is Grace. My wife and I, our kids are Elsa and Splinter, my brother and sister in laws kids are Quarrel, Hope and Happy, five kids under marriage high, three boys and two girls.

There's a 70% chance that this is an ark ship...

55, yes!

There's a 75% chance this is the zpocalypse... 68%, so yes, my PC is a survivor in the zpocalypse.

There's a 96% chance that my PC is a guy...

I 'rolled' an 86...

0.73

Is actually a 73% chance of something, in this case that my solo RPG will be a space adventure; 03%, waaasy under so my space adventure is unambiguously a space adventure. There's a small crew? Of three. I could randomly see the chance of a small crew call it 61%, and 64% over is a large crew of 64 + 85 is 149, that number... Dunbar's number.

A starship perhaps, which has become a geosynchronous space station and eventually a major port city.

grid and rows of points from pole to pole

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

I am thinking about a real time zpocalypse journaling solo.

Today is day two of the 163rd anniversary of Gettysburg 

Stuff happens...

Short week at work. Tomorrow I mu as t get some stuff done 

I start worldbuilding and laying out land and sea areas. Roll % against remaining HR% to find so many million km^2 of land or sea, based on whether the number is above or below HR%.

Find the quads with points within the radius

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

Who are they and what are they doing?

Where and when are they?

Why are they in trouble and how can they fix their problem?

The characters are the crew of cloud ship in the atmosphere of Venus in the 22nd century.

Their ship is leaking into the atmosphere and the need to replace an engine. They need a job which can pay for repairs and a new engine.

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

Solo RPG 

0.18, or 18 out of 100

0.88 or 88 out of 100

0.2707 or 2707; out of 10,000

A list of 11, 0.0730 times 11 is 0.803, round up to 1, 1 out of 11.

Yes/no oracles and lists I can turn into random event/encounter tables or choose an option.

This is how I will run my solo session.

Got home okay after a full day at work. Slept all evening, then got up and showered.

I looked at star forged, need to run a solo session.

Quick and dirty stars and worlds.

BP: 122/65/76, sugar: 126

I was sick all weekend and accomplished absolutely nothing.

Stuff happens and I want to world build something 

 Colony building game.

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

//.2

Something weird, something wonderful.

By

stuff

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

//

World map consists of points in rows.

I didn't get anything done today or this weekend.

Do some world building by star system.

point

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

Solo roleplay 

World building!!!!

Stuff

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

//

Something weird, something wonderful!

Come up with wrap around functionality.

Just start work building a planet and star system, the quick and dirty method. Get a random number  from the webpage.

The remainder of the square root of 63503 is 0.998015865204, and the remainder of square root of that times a thousand is 0.591389099005.

How about mimicking a dice drop in my world map canvas? Each point has a magnitude.

Who are the PCs and what are they doing?

When and where is this happening?

How do the PCs deal with the story problem and why?

Hey

Push out pts in 3d. 

Something weird, something wonderful!

Pixel/quad/triangle pair

Figure out the vertices of the quads. Find the quads with any vertices within the world radius and draw those as pixels within my canvas with rectangles one pixel wide and tall. These are placeholders in my canvas. Each quad has four vertices with x and y coordinates within or on the radius and some z coordinate at zero or some distance above or below zero.

Something weird, something wonderful.

Who are the PCs and what are they doing?

When and where does everything happen?

How and why did the PCs get in trouble?

Pixels! Draw all the quads with any vertices within the radius of the world map. Any quad vertex outside the radius needs to be normalized to the radius, with a z coordinate of zero. All vertices within the radius get moved above or below a z coordinate of zero. I need to draw two hemispheres, one above and one below..

space

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

//

again

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

The 13th has passed...

stuff

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

So, I need to finish the world mapper.

Relaxicon is winding down right now...

Who are the player characters and what are they doing?

When and where is this happening?

How can it be resolved and why this way or that way?

TACO!

As always...

This morning I am still working on the border  points on my terrain tiles.

Find the border points of my terrain tiles

Rows of quads from pole to pole. Going with Barnes again, I want some minimum area for each colony site. I will get the areas of each row by finding the area of the spherical caps down to the bottom of each row.

Oops!

Rows of terrain bits

Rows of quads from pole to pole. Going with Barnes again, I want some minimum area for each colony site. I will get the areas of each row by finding the area of the spherical caps down to the bottom of each row.

Oops!