My solo rpg oracle
Which also works as inspiration for creative fantasy writing.
This is what I do. I have a plain text file, called verses.txt. There I store selected quotes from books which I find inspiring, anything from three words to a paragraph.
There can be any number of quotes, but always one and only one quote per line.
Once I need to ask my oracle. I just choose 3 quotes at random, and interpret them as if they had come out of the mouth of a priestess of the Oracle.
And that's the whole thing and it does work quite well for me.
Tips
How to get your quotes quickly:
- Add them as you find them.
- Get some fantasy or adventure books on, e.g., the Guttenberg Project. Read and go cutting and pasting as if there was no tomorrow.
- It takes time, but it grows momentum.
How to take them at random.
- D10's if you have like 1000 quotes, roll three d10, on a roll of 321, you'd get line 321, if you have 10000 verses, roll four d10. If you have like 7000, roll 1d6 and 3d10... you get the idea
- Use an online app to generate random numbers. Random.org is a neat site for that.
- Code. Get yourself a little script. That's what I do. See my code:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys, os
from random import choice
with open("verses.txt", "r") as vf:
print(choice(vf.readlines()))
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