Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Red dots

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

stuff!

Oops!


Missed a day...

I have been working up an alien invasion base, the apocalypse is an alien invasion.

A quick and dirty random fantasy kingdom is 71 parts water, 56 parts arable land, 47 parts wild forest, and 41 parts mountains, over 200 areas, call them ~100 km^2 each? Or 10 km hexes, which would be ~65 km^2.

Sunday, August 9, 2026

61% chance of being my default space adventure type of game; 51, so yes. A survey crew of (d%) 52 is waaaay too many, make it seven, 5+2, and five scientists and two crew, a pilot engineer with a ship handling certification and a medic who maintains the organic parts of the life support system, a life systems tech who services and backs up the the medical pod. The two geologists, xenobiologist, climatologist and hydrologist make up the science team; technically all are generalist planetologists who specialize, just like the one geologist is looking for ore bodies.

Friday, August 7, 2026

Stuu 

The monster is a threat of 51%, which is 51 hit points, an attack, defense, perception and everything of 51%. I roll d% of 48, which is still successful and a high success of 48.

Thursday, August 6, 2026

On the ferry with Mom. It's ten o'clock and still boarding.

There and back with little going on. Mom is going with Nancy next week.
28 March 2025- Draw Map

Area at each row.

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Spot

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Red dot

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Waiting to get Mom into dialysis.

34 and 41, HR% is 41/75 and land is 34/75. 45.33% land and 54.67% ocean, roughly 9 to 11 triangle tiles on a d20 type exploded icosahedron world map.

Monday, August 3, 2026

29 and 53, a 29 year old male.
44 and 51, a 44 year old male.
48 and 85, a 48 year old male.
Are they related? 51% chance, 36 (and I double tapped, so the stopwatch started back up again but it was 36), so all three are related, sons of the same mother...she had the youngest brother at 36 and is 65.

Who are these people and who is the father?

What sort of trouble are these people in? When and where? How do they deal with their trouble and why?

The obvious answer is zpocalypse, but what else is interesting? Alien invasion! Why? Alien refugees, like district 9? Ecological invasion, as well, mild terraforming??

Rolled 2d%, 41 and 55, went with higher number but sexual dimorphism? Aliens mass between 41 and 55 kg , ~90 to 121 #. Space elves? So original...

65% and 10 is a 10 year old female; 44 under 29% is not the youngest son's daughter, 1 under 44% is the middle son's daughter.

Survivor base has a defense: 77%, food: 50%, supplies: 56%, and peeps: 31%, literally 31 people with a skill base of 31%, not good, but excellent defensive position, either good fencing, etc. and/or skill defenders and reinforcement of a house or building. It's hit or miss, 50%, whether the people are getting enough food. We can alternate between choosing to define a daily mission, or having a random event happen to the base as a whole.

I can take the same approach to developing a whole world or state. Quick and dirty stats are best of two or even three d% rolls on my stopwatch function: 59, 40 & 57 is 59, so my monster has an attack of 59 a defense of 59 and a health of 59, whether the monster is a starship or a zombie, within reasonable parameters.

Keep this simple, the second son has a daughter and wifey is missing. Their old man is dead, before the invasion. Mom and youngest brother were living with oldest brother and second and the niece noped out of occupied territory to reach safety. Five people, contractor, teacher who was also a paramedic, second brother was also a teacher, actually a professor with a computer science degree and had contacts, learned things, got moving just in time...

Youngest worked for oldest brother in his contracting business. Built things, is an electrician. Eldest does concrete, payroll and was a demolition guy for the Marines once upon a time.

A sergeant is in for up to 12 years without advancing in rank, 17 to 29, got out 19 years ago when youngest was 10 and basically came home, started a business, supported mom and little brother after dad died and Mom fell apart for six months of self-pity. Eldest was parentified with second and left home to get out.

Friday, July 31, 2026

Hello goodbye 

Red

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


So write something!!!!

Copy paste from tablet

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Area at each row.

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Roll up some survivors!

91% and 60 is a 60 year old woman.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

38, 47 is a 38 year old man 
57, 8 is an 8 year old female 
48% they're related, 59, they are not. 38 year old has picked up a stray, a little orphan thief in the back streets of Golden Harbor space port who tried to pick his pocket. Thief was starving, so he bought her a bowl of ramen and shanghaied her on the Lucky Star.

That sounds terrible...

Monday, July 27, 2026

Something weird, something wonderful!

The bitten are still alive but designate a hitter...

(Zpocalypse again, of course)

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Milliseconds

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Area at each row.

Friday, July 24, 2026

Forgot to post yesterday...

I just had the barrel overflow because someone turned the sump pump off and nobody warned me; I was set up! 8-P

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

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?

Sunday, July 19, 2026

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 ..

Friday, July 17, 2026

"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?

Thursday, July 16, 2026

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...

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

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...

Friday, July 10, 2026

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.

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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

Monday, July 6, 2026

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.

Saturday, July 4, 2026

grid and rows of points from pole to pole

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Thursday, July 2, 2026

I am thinking about a real time zpocalypse journaling solo.
Today is day two of the 163rd anniversary of Gettysburg 

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Stuff happens...

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

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

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%.

Sunday, June 21, 2026

Find the quads with points within the radius

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Saturday, June 20, 2026

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.

Sunday, June 14, 2026

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Saturday, June 13, 2026

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.

Thursday, June 11, 2026

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.

Monday, June 8, 2026

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.

Saturday, June 6, 2026

BP: 122/65/76, sugar: 126

I was sick all weekend and accomplished absolutely nothing.

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Monday, May 25, 2026

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

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Saturday, May 23, 2026

Something weird, something wonderful.

By

stuff

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

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Monday, May 18, 2026

Sunday, May 17, 2026

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

Do some world building by star system.

Sunday, May 10, 2026

point

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!


Thursday, May 7, 2026

World building!!!!

Stuff

28 March 2025- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!

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Something weird, something wonderful!

Come up with wrap around functionality.

Thursday, April 30, 2026

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.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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

Monday, April 27, 2026

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?

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

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.

Sunday, April 19, 2026

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?

Saturday, April 18, 2026

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

19 April 2026- Draw Map

Pick a point and generate the planet, mass first.

Oops!
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