New Agent of Chaos: Books
Jan. 20th, 2026 08:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solo_knightEdited Agents of Chaos with the following:
Books
Some people collect random snippets from books and use them as oracles. I’ve seen
– a name for a character (first name they come across)
– borrow an event (this works best with gothic/fantasy novels, but mysteries can work, too. This is where you get the trapdoor or the weird smell or the hostile villagers or _something_ and incorporate them into your game.
– spark table (you roll for a location: page/line) and use those words instead of a table of random words
I have also glanced at a number of games that are based on novels, but haven’t studied the actual mechanism of gameplay.
There seems to be a number of games based on using books as a randomiser; if they come up and the mechanism is worth examining, I will update the master list further.
Books
Some people collect random snippets from books and use them as oracles. I’ve seen
– a name for a character (first name they come across)
– borrow an event (this works best with gothic/fantasy novels, but mysteries can work, too. This is where you get the trapdoor or the weird smell or the hostile villagers or _something_ and incorporate them into your game.
– spark table (you roll for a location: page/line) and use those words instead of a table of random words
I have also glanced at a number of games that are based on novels, but haven’t studied the actual mechanism of gameplay.
There seems to be a number of games based on using books as a randomiser; if they come up and the mechanism is worth examining, I will update the master list further.
