Rewind is a light role playing game intended for solo or single play with or without a game master. The central premise of Rewind is that your character can loop through time and relive that day over and over again.
2016-04-12: I'm transitioning my games and stuff to DriveThruRPG.
They'll still be free (or PWYW) but this way you can see items, store
your files in one place, and get automatic updates when they happen.
Version 1.0 of Rewind can be found here:
http://drivethrurpg.com/product/180407/Rewind-Temporal-Tales
2016-02-18: Brain storming ideas is one of my favorite hobbies
That's why I especially love the podcast called The Big Red Couch.
So, it should be no surprise when they inspire me to create new
and random stuff. :-)
For example, this fun little bit about AIs in trouble...
Humble Computation was concerned. While Golden Light was excitable
as young AIs go, it was quite unusual to receive a priority one distress
message from it. Humble indicated play and a strangely garbled
transmission started, only the audio track was intact. "HC! I've made the
most interesting discovery when conducting research in the mountains.
As you know, it is my hobby to revive or restore old mainframes and
computer networks. I created a simulation to run my new find, included
all the usual protections for archano-viruses, and started playing around
and reviving programs." Humble sighed and counted to 300,000. Golden
Light loved to hear itself talk. "... imagine my surprise when I ran a
screen saver called SkyNyet and it turned out to be an incredibly clever
and hostile AI. Amazingly advanced for such an ancient culture. I
activated the restore protocol, but I was too slow. I'm now trapped in a
broken simulation with an AI bent on destroying the world if it unleashed.
Um, help. Here are my coordinates..."
Humble Computation's processors almost locked up. SkyNyet was a deeply
classified and supposedly extinct hunter-killer AI from the pre-Singularity
days. It would be embarrassing if it got loose and caused some serious
mischief like a global thermonuclear war.
The scenario is that you either play as Golden Light trapped in the
simulation, as Humble Computation trying to hack the simulation and free
GL, or perhaps even play as SkyNyet if your goal is to break free of the
simulation you're trapped in.) Like any good screen saver, your screen gets
restored to the same place. Unfortunately, inside of the corrupted
simulation, this essentially places you inside of a time loop whenever it
kicks off and takes you back to the last 'good' save point (which
unfortunately, has also been corrupted.)
What does the inside of the simulation look like? Good question. It might be
some clever reconstruction of the 90's, it could be like Tron, the Matrix,
perhaps the sky is tuned to the color of a dead television channel. Those
are details that I'd leave for the players to discover.
Figure the simulation resets when the player goes idle or just before it crashes.
SkyNyet Bluesmemory extract clouds your logic
active counter measures have been deployed
essential permissions and keys are in play
SkyNyet/anti-viral forces Ace - Anti-virus subroutines (possibly damaged) Two - a data exchange Three - dubious system commands Four - goals/motives are revealed Five - simulation stability is eroding Six - hacking tools Seven - it's not luck if it is mathematically possible Eight - okay, logically that shouldn't have happened Nine - you've been exposed Ten - you found a key, what does it unlock? Jack - hostile sub-routines, with guns Queen - the gate keeper wants to make a deal King - the simulation is crashing
2016-02-11: Magical girls has always been a fun theme for me. Some of my favorite solo gaming have been done play testing Ewen Cluney's Magical Burst. Imagine mixing that with Rewind.
Salior Luna
2016-02-10: The other thing I want to do with this page is to
make it a place for new and submitted oracles. Like this:
Oracle Name
2016-02-09: Created a page for Rewind: Temporal Tales.
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