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Wow, some very nice words, thank you.

I'm intending to put together an actual play that shows the tools in use. I know what you mean about mental fatigue; I'd say more about it but I haven't solved that myself, yet. Basically if I end a session on a good note, I'm ready to play again very soon. And if it's mediocre, I find it hard to get back into it. But I think that's true about any solo RPG.

Regarding memorization and mental grids, this is a big subject. I've studied techniques like the Method of Loci, and the Major System. While worthwhile to learn, and a fun party trick to recite 100 digits of pi,it's overkill to learn them JUST FOR HANDS-FREE. If I could come up with a simplified version...

As for PWYW, I intend to put up a donation box after Hands-Free settles a bit more. I keep making lots of changes. I'm glad you learned the acronyms, but you know know I'm actively considering changing some of them. I think "BEGINS" needs some more work. I've also been toying with a better genre randomizer.

The TIMERS thing means I'm terrible at editing. It will be fixed in the next version. As for AI, I thought if I was completely above board on what parts of AI art I did use that people would accept it, but I completely underestimated how much the RPG community hates AI art. I want focus to be on the game  and not AI, so when I have the time I'll excise the offending elements. Thanks for your feedback.

Death portals and the artificial core were both courtesy of the "secret" category. I love that you roll it last, adds a nice twist.

I did it rockless, but I love the idea. The creation of the planets bit by bit and analysis of colony viability was a blast to play. The summary from my crew of colony engineers:

Fonda-3 is the worst. It is breathable, but landmass is scant, no native food to be found, and temperature spikes are deadly. A artificial metallic core with no known purpose also leaves us concerned.

Fonda-1 is breathable in a pinch, but we’ll have to subsist on ice bugs and invest in tunnel infrastructure between bases which must be positioned between ridges to protect from intense weather.

Fonda-4 is next best. Breathable atmosphere, but the surface is dangerous (flying beasts, meteors, stray death portals) and an underground base built to be structurally sound will be quite costly.

Fonda-2 is clearly the best choice. Full stop. Requires work with lightning and pest mitigation, but otherwise is a beautiful planet for us. Welcome home, folks.

I made Lick-29, a frog ship, a sloshy but sleek colony vessel hopping its way to Swamp Candidate 462. Many amphibians gave their life so that the future generations could visit Licky, which is now a history museum, and eat Impossible Flies that nobody eats anymore and you only try it here out of nostalgia.

The musical interludes were fantastic. I wound up playing Frogs by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds during the final rest. It was majestic.

After five turns of guilt, I am a master of procrastination. I defeated guilt once and had to clean my kitchen. :(

I saw your request over at /r/Solo_RolePlaying. Making the document screen-readable sounds like a great idea for a system like this. A Doc version is a bit hard to do because it's all in Homebrewery Markup, but the markup is a text file and in itself might be interpretable by a screen reader. I'll upload it here.

That's awesome! 

Zoltar is a great way to ask for more information without yes/no.  Instead of asking "Is there a magic portal?" you could ask, "What do I discover?" In one shot, the resulting word could lead you to a magic portal or a dwarf in a tree or just an eerie silence.

I would LOVE to hear what you've done with it!