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This is quite unlike any other oracle or set of tables I’ve used before, and in a good way it is rather unpolished, even raw, in a manner that encourages me to engage with it recursively rather than just consuming it. Polishing it, making it easier to use, even acting almost as an editor towards it has been part of the fun I’ve had with it. The table of contents at the front is wrong; and even if it was correct, I messed up while printing it so some of the page numbers have gaps. I ended up making my own ToC and using sticky tabs to make it easier to thumb through. Some of the titles are at the bottom of columns; some of the tables contain mysterious, possibly vestigial numbers.

My latest solo character jumped from the pages of this oracle - the Red Planet Rogue, a scout in the sandy Martian desert ripped straight from the pages of a Barsoomian epic. Who knows how his quests will go? Maybe the answer is buried in the oracle, or maybe I will find it for myself.

For a resource I’ve got for free I think this is excellent. I’m highly likely to come back and actually buy it, once my financial status is a bit more stable. Thank you Ty! Your cozy oracle has a place of pride right in the middle of my solo gaming binder, with a tab all to itself.

This is a really fun little coffee-break skirmish wargame. Great excuse to bust out some toy soldiers, push them around, and toss some dice. The rules are so simple they can fit in my head or on a memo pad, but I can see how I might expand them or build on them in future!

Not the author, but I’m pretty sure you roll the ATTACKER’S die when you melee or ranged attack, removing it from their pool, and if you hit, you remove one of the DEFENDER’S dice; and if they’re reduced to 0 dice or had no dice before defending (due to using up their dice to attack), they’re dead.