I noticed that a few people have difficulty with the suit domains in 1PSE not providing enough information to work with, so I put together lists of alternative domains for each suit using a few sources (primarily Peach Garden Games’ Carta).
The final options for each suit were included with Ironsworn specifically in mind, but should work with other systems.
Hearts (Cups): Water, healing, kindness, emotion, love, or health
Clubs (Wands): Fire, ambition, courage, movement, growth, creativity, or momentum
Diamonds (Coins): Earth, stillness, reality, wealth, materiality, or supply
Spades (Swords): Air, thought, calculation, fear, intellect, trials, or spirit
I’m using OPSE a lot, and wanted to give you a huge thank-you, especially for the iOS app. With the app and another one for dice rolling, I was able to live whole adventures while waiting in boring lines. :D
That's great! I'm so glad to hear you're enjoying OPSE. Adding a dice roller is one of the top requested features, so maybe that will be coming to the mobile apps soon!
Hello, there, I'm here to express my gratitude for making this toolkit.
I tried using it with Tiny Dungeon and it works really well. I will try using PbtA and other game system in the future too. Not just helpful for solo-roleplaying, it also helps brainstorming for ideas that can be used in oneshot or campaign.
Started using OPSE for my Cairn solo playthrough. I love how you can do journaling in the app itself. Just need to export from time to time to save progress. Very useful tool for playing solo RPG / enhance your GMing repertoire.
OPSE works great with Tricube Tales - perfect lite ttrpg combo!
In Mythic GME, when asking questions, rolling doubles under the Chaos Factor would generate a random event. I like it coz it simulates a GM throwing a wrench in the works.
How would you treat that in OPSE? A Pacing Move whenever I draw a certain combo of cards? (The Chaos Factor is optional).
Glad you're enjoying OPSE! One way to add in unexpected random events is to leave the jokers in the deck and then add a Random Event (Action Focus + Topic Focus) when you draw one. You could add a Pacing Event as well if you wanted. I think a Pacing Event would tend to escalate the current situation and a Random Event would move it in a new direction.
Just drop the trump cards (aka major arcana), and use the remaining Tarot deck. Treat Knights as Jokers.
If your Tarot deck does not use French suits, you can use the correspondences:
♥ = cups,
♦ = pentacles = bells,
♠ = swords = leaves,
♣ = wands = acorns.
If you have a divinatory Tarot deck, you can keep the trumps (major arcana) as a separate deck and use them for generating topics according to their divinatory meanings, maybe instead of Topic Focus.
If you have a playing Tarot deck, you can treat trumps as fifth suit (XI = Jack, XII = Knight [i.e. Joker], XIII = Queen, XIV = King, like in Tarot soliatre) and assign it some meaning (e.g. following the idea that trumps are the strongest card, we can get something like Authority [influential, hierarchy]; or maybe you can use something like "same suit as the last non-trump suit drawn"). Then only cards from XV to XXI (Mond) need to be dropped.
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I noticed that a few people have difficulty with the suit domains in 1PSE not providing enough information to work with, so I put together lists of alternative domains for each suit using a few sources (primarily Peach Garden Games’ Carta).
The final options for each suit were included with Ironsworn specifically in mind, but should work with other systems.
Hope this helps someone.
I’m using OPSE a lot, and wanted to give you a huge thank-you, especially for the iOS app. With the app and another one for dice rolling, I was able to live whole adventures while waiting in boring lines. :D
That's great! I'm so glad to hear you're enjoying OPSE. Adding a dice roller is one of the top requested features, so maybe that will be coming to the mobile apps soon!
Hello, there, I'm here to express my gratitude for making this toolkit.
I tried using it with Tiny Dungeon and it works really well. I will try using PbtA and other game system in the future too. Not just helpful for solo-roleplaying, it also helps brainstorming for ideas that can be used in oneshot or campaign.
So, thank you for creating this toolkit.
Great to hear that you're enjoying OPSE! I also like using it for brainstorming ideas and for group games.
My only complaint is it’s free, you should be making some money for it!!
Thank you for the nice comment! I'm happy as long as people can use and enjoy it.
You have accomplished your mission then!
Started using OPSE for my Cairn solo playthrough. I love how you can do journaling in the app itself. Just need to export from time to time to save progress. Very useful tool for playing solo RPG / enhance your GMing repertoire.
Great! I hope you've been in enjoying OPSE. I use it for GMing as well and I think its a great way to make group games feel less... railroady. :)
OPSE works great with Tricube Tales - perfect lite ttrpg combo!
In Mythic GME, when asking questions, rolling doubles under the Chaos Factor would generate a random event. I like it coz it simulates a GM throwing a wrench in the works.
How would you treat that in OPSE? A Pacing Move whenever I draw a certain combo of cards? (The Chaos Factor is optional).
Glad you're enjoying OPSE! One way to add in unexpected random events is to leave the jokers in the deck and then add a Random Event (Action Focus + Topic Focus) when you draw one. You could add a Pacing Event as well if you wanted. I think a Pacing Event would tend to escalate the current situation and a Random Event would move it in a new direction.
Thanks for the tip!Will test this out 🙂
Keep creating, bro!
Is there a variant planned for this that uses tarot cards instead of regular playing cards?
It's quite easy to adapt.
Just drop the trump cards (aka major arcana), and use the remaining Tarot deck. Treat Knights as Jokers.
If your Tarot deck does not use French suits, you can use the correspondences:
♥ = cups,
♦ = pentacles = bells,
♠ = swords = leaves,
♣ = wands = acorns.
If you have a divinatory Tarot deck, you can keep the trumps (major arcana) as a separate deck and use them for generating topics according to their divinatory meanings, maybe instead of Topic Focus.
If you have a playing Tarot deck, you can treat trumps as fifth suit (XI = Jack, XII = Knight [i.e. Joker], XIII = Queen, XIV = King, like in Tarot soliatre) and assign it some meaning (e.g. following the idea that trumps are the strongest card, we can get something like Authority [influential, hierarchy]; or maybe you can use something like "same suit as the last non-trump suit drawn"). Then only cards from XV to XXI (Mond) need to be dropped.