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September 21, 2022

Oddfish Games’s Radiance Adventure Engine lights the way for Solo TTRPG Play

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We’ve all been there: You’ve got the urge to play your favorite tabletop roleplaying game. You want the thrill of telling a great story, tossing some dice, and making instant memories. The only problem: your gaming group’s on hiatus, or you’re travelling for a work trip, or – in today’s pandemic world of self-isolation – you’re not able to meet with friends. The only option before was to simply pine over our lost hobby and dream if the good ol’ days. But now, there’s hope: A light that shines at the end of this proverbial tunnel: The Radiance Adventure Engine. Mike Howlett of Oddfish Games has created the ultimate ttrpg solution to the lonely-player’ blues: A gaming system that You can use by yourself for ANY game in ANY system. In the Radiance Adventure Engine, you are both the Player and the Game Master, and the story belongs completely to you and the system of your choice. Radiance is not a combat simulator; there’s no rules for any ttrpg outcomes.

September 15, 2022

Radiance Adventure Engine Fully Funded Within 72 Hours

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About three days ago Oddfish Games launched the crowdfunding campaign for their latest tabletop RPG modification product, the Radiance Adventure Engine. It’s turned into their most successful campaign to date, reaching its initial funding goal in less than 72 hours. What the RAE is meant to do is convert ANY multiplayer tabletop game into a single-player experience. Most tabletop RPGs are meant to be played by more than one person, but Oddfish’s system of plug-in cards promises to make any game self-driving. The Radiance Adventure Engine acts as its own GM, generating a random sequence of story events through a card deck. It uses a four-act narrative structure broken down into eight Adventure Stages. At each stage you draw Story and Detail cards to create the specific scenario, then decide what your character or characters should do next. The Radiance Adventure Engine can also be used in a multiplayer format, allowing the GM to quickly generate scenarios by drawing cards (or in their absence, someone else can draw ’em). You

September 12, 2022

The Radiance Adventure Engine Converts Any Tabletop RPG Into Single-Player

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Most tabletop RPGs are meant to be played by more than one person — someone’s gotta be in the GM driver’s seat, after all. This makes them useless when your buddies aren’t around. But Oddfish Games is working on a solution — an engine that promises to convert ANY multiplayer tabletop game into a single-player experience. Sound impossible? They’re making it happen. It’s called the Radiance Adventure Engine and the crowdfunding campaign opens today. The RAE acts as its own GM, generating a random sequence of story events through a card deck. It uses a four-act narrative structure broken down into eight Adventure Stages. At each stage you draw Story and Detail cards to create the specific scenario, then decide what your character or characters should do next. The Radiance Adventure Engine can also be used in a multiplayer format, allowing the GM to quickly generate scenarios by drawing cards (or in their absence, someone else can draw ’em). I should remind people that Oddfish is also the inventor of

October 12, 2021

How To RPG With Your Cat Enters Final Hours

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We’ve entered the home stretch for How To RPG With Your Cat, a quirky new tabletop experience from Oddfish Games that allows your pet to become part of the game. With less than 48 hours to go, Oddfish has so far raised $11,000 (out of a initial goal of $3000). So far, backers have unlocked the additions of cat confetti, character sheet bookmarks and a foldable D20 paper cat toy. If the campaign can make it to $15,000, they’ll throw in a bumper sticker. In How To RPG With Your Cat, your pet is unwittingly cast as an important character in the game’s world. Should the cat choose to leap onto the table and start pawing various figures, well, it was supposed to do that! This is a story event that the other players will have to respond to…in any other fashion than the normal one (carrying the cat into another room and locking the door). If the cat decides to take a figure off the table, carry it to

September 28, 2021

How to RPG with Your Cat Kickstarter Hits 200% Funding

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OddFish Games recently hit 200% funding on the Kickstarter for their tabletop RPG, How to RPG with Your Cat. The crowdfunding campaign started on Tuesday, September 14, 2021, and runs through Thursday, October 14, 2021. Rewards tiers include options as low as $15 for a PDF of the game book, $30 for a physical paperback copy of the same core book. The crowdfunding campaign also includes premium reward tiers. These tiers will allow backers will receive handmade, cat-themed TTRPG accessories, in addition to the PDF and Paperback versions of the game book. How to RPG with Your Cat takes a situation with which all those who own cats and play board games or tabletop RPGs are familiar. Cats love to get involved with the game, often resulting in chaos. How to RPG with Your Cat harnesses the feline-created mayhem using methods that allow cat owners to spend more playtime with their cats, families, and friends while still getting to play a tabletop RPG. Related: How To RPG With Your Cat

September 16, 2021

How To RPG With Your Cat Kickstarter Now Live

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Oddfish Games has officially launched the Kickstarter for How To RPG With Your Cat, a new solution to an old problem. Cats tend to disrupt tabletop gaming sessions with their demands for attention and their mistaking of small figures for edible bugs. So…what if there was a tabletop RPG where the POINT was for the cat to get involved? In How To RPG With Your Cat, your pet is unwittingly cast as an important character in the game’s world. Should the cat choose to leap onto the table and start pawing various figures, well, it was supposed to do that! This is a story event that the other players will have to respond to…in any other fashion than the normal one (carrying the cat into another room and locking the door). If the cat decides to take a figure off the table, carry it to the corner and start chomping….well, it was nice knowing you, Larry. The role the cat plays is up to you. Wise sage, world-destroying monster, trained

September 13, 2021

How To RPG With Your Cat Launches On Kickstarter Soon

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Does your cat keep trying to get in on game night? Don’t stop them. How to RPG with Your Cat is a new Tabletop RPG on Kickstarter that makes your actual cat the star of your TTRPG. It’s a well-known fact that cats and tabletop games are natural enemies in the wild. If a cat wants attention, and its owner is currently bestowing that attention on something else — be it a computer keyboard, a good book, or an RPG — it’s universal cat logic that if a cat replaces that object with its own body, it will receive the attention instead. Trying to argue with a cat that this is not true is useless. It’s impossible to shake this belief of the feline mind, and it’s ruined many a gaming session. So the folks at Oddfish Games got an idea…what if there was a tabletop RPG where the POINT was for the cat to get involved? In How To RPG With Your Cat, your pet is unwittingly cast as