Tindalos RPG, my belated entry for the Halloween RPG Challenge

And I did do some editing besides just changing the font. Health has been axed and now it is solely Wounds, which have slightly altered rulewise to include that Wounds from the hound can never be decreased. Should make gameplay a little easier, plus I needed the space for this new version with a much better font.

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I used size 20 font, which is about the same size for most of the one page RPGs I've done. I'll change the font if there is some sort of viewing problem, though. This is an initial draft I've posted for the game... though I'd hope for it to be the final one, I can alter it if there is trouble with it's readability.

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I'm not sure where you got size 20 from. Cut and pasted into word, the body text is 9 point and the title 14. Changing it to the more standard 12 with 1 inch margins all around expands the document to 5 pages!

There is quite a bit of redundancy that can be cut! Why does there need to be wounds and health that change together? Just have health that goes down with injury or wounds that go up. And on each line only note if the roll heals or hurts rather than stating "If you fail the test, increase your Wounds by 1 and decrease your Health" so many times. The document would be half its size with this change alone.

A few rules could be changed for reading purposes. Such as you need a complete set of standard dice. You have the attributes: (list) assign one die to each without repetition. When a test is called for, roll the attribute die against the difficulty - 2 for easy, etc.

Its an interesting idea. Solo games are certainly worth recognition - and making it in only one page more so. However, if the text is hard to read at 121% magnification its not going to get the play it deserves.

There is a fine line between hobby and obsession. I seem to have lost sight of it some time ago.

Somewhere along the way, it must have gotten shrunk down. I actually ended up with extra space (hence the hound pics) so I wasn't trying to cram that much in one space... thought I had room left over.

My only guess is that the font, which comes from a Mac, does not translate well. I will have to start trimming things... the Health/Wounds thing was redundant, but I liked how it worked... still, it will be the first to go. I also need to alter the font, obviously, and may need to get rid of the pics. I will work on this and re-submit the pdf soon, within hours hopefully.

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I had to switch to my Mac to read this without straining my eyes.

However, once I got past the hurdle of reading it and actually read it, I was quite impressed. Reminds me a lot of the good ole days of T&T booklets and FF. But with Hounds of Tindalos.

Never tire of your solo rpgs, and you've not let us down yet! Absolutely as good as any of the much-beloved T&T solos. Agree that there's some redundancy (such as balancing health v. wounds instead of having 1 stat) but doesn't affect playability. Also agree that, however it came to pass, the font is so small as to be unpleasant; but there's no requirement that it be a "one-page-rpg" so I'm going to re-type it in larger font. Keep up the good work!!!

Not sure why that last font was so small and unreadable, but I've tried a more straightforward font now that should be much easier to read. Trash that other copy and try this new version... if it's still hard to read, I will have to try again.

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Just before I came back to this page I'd re-typed the whole game in 12 size Times New Roman. Took only 2 1/2 pages. I made more space for the statistics (and used only the 1 statistic for Health instead of 2, as you're now doing) so you could put markers on the page to remember the type of die for each stat, amount of Health remaining, and which relics/spells you have. You've also answered my question as to what you meant about "ignore instructions to increase Health" if the wounds are from the Hound - that on subsequent turns after being bitten by the Hound, if you get an instruction that allows curing a wound you can't.
Which implies that, even if you are unable to make the two Difficult rolls to successfully use the Relic to win, the Hound only gets one bite then you go to the next turn?

Game is fun, and you picked a clever topic - good ol' fashioned pulp-horror-things-man-wasn't-meant-to-know. Wonder if it could be expanded? Right now it is purely luck if you get to take the tests in which you happen to have better stats. Maybe a way to make tests to either increase stats temporarily, or let you bump the D20 turn roll downward, or affect the die size in those contingencies where you're "lost" (in jail, dreamland, asylum)?

By two successful Difficult rolls to beat the hound, do you mean the one roll to avoid being wounded by the Tindalos followed by the roll to use the Relic/Spell? That's how it should have been set up to be. If it came off as anything else, then I didn't explain it right.

As for expanding the system, I do like this basic idea of different dice being used in tests. I like the die used being the variable, whereas the target number remains constant. Originally, there was going to be only one type of test: the average test where the target number is always 4. Then I expanded the test concept, and I'm glad I did. I do want to flesh out this system more, but I'm not sure if I will expand Tindalos or just take the system and apply it to a new RPG.

I totally agree that this is another one of my games wherein there is a certain fatalism when it gets started. Initially, you can set your Attributes, but after that it is completely random what you encounter, with little choice by you beyond what the die rolls say. Unfortunately, this is kind of the nature of the beast when it comes to certain solo games. I'll have to ponder how to make a system less fatalistic and more about player choice... for the most part, I have been able to accomplish that type of freedom with my massive solo RPG here called 'Adventuria', but a lot of that has to do with the size of that RPG moreso than it's solo nature.

Anyway, you definitely gave me something to think about... it's just hard to say what this will all lead to. A lot of times, I'll get an idea to further expand a game or gaming concept, but then it either goes nowhere or it just takes a few weeks for me to figure out just what direction I should go. I'm currently feeling like I may be putting out a new batch of small solo games like this, some beyond the 1 page size. We will see... any suggestions for expanding this game/system here will be well received.

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