The Shadow over InnsmouthHorrifying Novelette
This is a literary translation of the original public-domain text
The language has been updated from the 1942 original to contemporary American English.
The text has been edited to make it more concise and accessible to a broader audience.
Language that would today be considered racist but was acceptable... [click here for more]
The Mark of Zorro
This is a literary translation of the original public-domain text
The language has been updated from the 1919 original to contemporary American English.
The text has been edited to make it more concise and accessible to a broader audience.
Language that would today be considered racist but was acceptable at the time has been removed.
For comparison, the original before translation:... [click here for more]
Tom Swift and His Motorcycle or Fun and Adventures on the Road by Victor Appleton & Peter Rudin-Burgess
This is a literary translation of the original public-domain text
The language has been updated from the 1910 original to contemporary American English.
The text has been edited to make it more concise and accessible to a broader audience.
Language that would today be considered racist but was... [click here for more]
Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
This is a literary translation of the original public-domain text
The language has been updated from the original 1918 English to contemporary American English.
The text has been edited to make it more concise and accessible to a broader audience.
For comparison, the original before translation:
'"In thy father's house did I not rear thee to greatness—even... [click here for more]
Cut Up Solo
A Thin Ghost and Others by M R James
Cut Up Solo is different from the more common Oracle driven solo play. You still get a basic yes-no question and answer tool, but where you may be more familiar with getting word prompts or story cube style game-icons to serve as prompts for scenes, motivations, or even plot twists, cut ups do things differently.
Cut Ups take texts in the same genre... [click here for more]
Cut Up Solo
Barsoom
Barsoom was Edgar Rice Burrough's name for Mars in the John Carter of Mars novels. There are 12 Barsoom/Mars novels in all, and this supplement+spreadsheet uses everything that is available in the public domain.
Cut Up Solo is a technique that uses random snippets of text that you pick and fit together, creating what the GM says to you. You can then respond to that, and... [click here for more]
Cut Up Solo
Deathworld Trilogy
This is, in my opinion, the best Cut Up Solo supplement so far. It uses the texts from Harry Harrison's Deathworld trilogy. The PDF contains 2,000 snippets, the spreadsheets give you 25,000+ snippets.
You also get all the illustrations from the original stories. I included the art as I think it fits in with the philosophy of non-authoring solo play. A regular GM would... [click here for more]