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What causes different types of characters to decide differently? This chart considers personality types and 12 basis for decisions.

'identify source of tradition', 'define rejection', and 'use creative ways to be authentic'  ...

This is intended to be a paid upgrade to work with Character Generator archetypes, Emotional Reaction Generator, Dialogue Engine, Behavior Engine, Character Reaction Engine, and Character Communicator most directly.

This table shows mental basis for 15 different archetypes: featuring doer, caregiver, skeptic, lone wolf, guardian, striver, seeker, faithful, mediator, shadow, stranger, darkness, body, mind, and soul. 12 decision basis are cross referenced: cost/benefit, utility, sufficient/generalize, duty/authority, deduce/link, brainstorming, define/exclude, identify/cause-effect, empathy/sympathy, prior belief/fear, assumptions, and groupthink/harmony/dissenting.

This is a flexible thinking keyword or phrase generator that is meant to aid or take the place of a Gamemaster (GM) for adding decision basis for personality types. It may also be used as a list of ideas.

A 12x12 table optimized for 1d12 but with results for 2D6, 1D20, and 3D6 systems is included. Probability for any one result is less than 2.78% or less for all 4 dice systems (most are between 0.5 and 1.5%, averaging 0.69%). It makes it a versatile thinking generator.

The keywords are meant to help trigger thoughtful and inspirational ideas. Its generic enough for any genre.

Included are a total 180+ decision basis keywords or phrases.

2 pages: Its first page is the image shown on the cover thumbnail —  the instructions and example — and the second page is the chart turned longways 180 results.

The RPG Tools, Mechanisms, Engines, & Generators Series (1st Edition)

Mechanism Series

If you are only interested in the main all-in-one volume books in the Mechanism series and not the individual tools, click on the image above or or link here to go to the mechanisms series section of the publisher page.

Story Mechanisms series book and individual tools


Story Mechanisms
Story Mechanisms
ABS12 Flexible Solo Game Engine (1e)
Deep Dive Engine Flash RPG Three Conflict Chain RPG Foe Generator Modifier Generator
Mood-Emotion Generator Motivation Generator Plot Generator Scene Action Generator Theme Generator (1e) Transition Scene Generator
Twist Generator






Character Mechanisms series book and individual tools


Character Mechanisms
FRPG6 Dialogue Engine FRPG6 Character Behavior Engine Character Generator ABS12 Fact Generator Flexible Dice (1e)
Body Language Generator Career Generator
Character Communicator Dream Generator Human Generator Knowledge Generator Modifier Generator Mood-Emotion Generator
Motivation Generator Relationship Generator Sound Generator





Character Mechanisms II series book and individual tools

Character Mechanisms II

Character Reaction Engine

Character Relationship Engine Character Thinking Engine Character Flaw Generator Emotional Reaction Generator Physical Trait Generator
Thinking Generator Social & Mental Trait Generator



Environmental Mechanisms Series book and individual tools

Environmental Mechanisms
Environmental Mechanisms
Color Generator & Wheel Minimalist Descriptive Cave Minimalist Descriptive Coniferous Forest Minimalist Descriptive Deciduous Forest Minimalist Descriptive Desert Minimalist Descriptive Grassland & Shrubland
Minimalist Descriptive Mountains Minimalist Descriptive Rainforest Minimalist Descriptive Tundra Minimalist Descriptive Wetlands Minimalist Fantasy Worlds Minimalist Force of Nature: Air & Heat
ABS12 Fact Generator (1e)
Wing Generator Sound Generator Setting All-In-One Minimalist Force of Nature: Ground



Remnant RPG Tools series book and individual tools

Remnant RPG Tools, All-In-One
Complete Minimalist Descriptive Combat Minimalist Descriptive Skills Minimalist Elemental Effects Minimalist: Fear, Disgust, & Madness Minimalist: Ghosts, Angels, & Demons
Crishing Critical Piercing Critical Slicing Critical






Comparison of 6 Sets of Tools

Solo RPG Gaming & Writing Tools

Story Mechanisms

Character Mechanisms

Essential and Basic Solo RPG Gaming and Writing Tools [BUNDLE]

Character Mechanisms II

Environmental Mechanisms

Main Book (s): ;

ABS12 Solo Game Engine 1e Reimagined

Story Mechanisms

Character Mechanisms

Essential & Basic Solo RPG
Gaminng & Writing Tools

Character Mechanisms II

Environmental Mechanisms

Yes, but reimagined 2020 style Yes Yes, but reimagined 2020 style
Motivation Generator Yes, 2020 graystyle Yes Yes Yes
Plot Generator Yes, 2020 graystyle Yes Yes
Character Generator Yes, 2020 graystyle Yes Yes
Fact Generator Yes, 2020 graystyle Yes Yes Yes
Description Generator Yes, 2020 graystyle Yes Yes
Gamestory Adventures Yes Yes
Adventure Seed Engine Yes Yes
Unified Encounter Details based on Importance Yes Yes
Unified Setting Details based on Importance Yes Yes
Theme Generator Yes Yes
Foe Generator Yes Yes
Mood-Emotion Generator Yes Yes Yes
Twist Generator Yes Yes
Flash RPG Yes Yes
Human Generator Yes Yes
Animal Generator Yes Yes
Indoor Generator Yes Yes
Outdoor Generator Yes Yes
Modifier Generator Yes Yes
Story Mechanisms, Deep Dive Engine, Scene Action Generator, Three Conflict Chain RPG, Transition Scene Generator Yes
Character Mechanisms, Body Language Generator, Career Generator, Character Communicator, Dream Generator, Character Behavior Engine, Dialogue Engine, Knowledge Generator, Relationship Generator, Sound Generator Yes Sound Generator
Character Mechanisms II (with Mechanism Master Screen (GM screen), Character Flaw Generator, Character Reaction Engine, Character Relationship Engine, Character Thinking Engine, Emotional Reaction Generator, Physical Trait Generator, Social & Mental Trait Generator, Thinking Generator Yes
Color Generator & Wheel, Wing Generator Yes
*Min Fantasy Worlds, Min Coniferous Forest, Min Desc Deciduous Forest, Min Desc Rainforest, Min Desc Grassland & Shrubland, Min Desc Mountains, Min Desc Cave, Min Desc Wetland, Min Desc Desert, Min Desc Tundra, Min Force of Nature: Ground, Min Force of Nature: Air Yes

* Min Desc is short for Minimalist Descriptive. Min is short for Minimalist

Because of the overlap, some bundles may be priced lower after purchasing each bundle because of credit for prior purchases, if purchased separately.

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March 05, 2019 11:09 pm UTC
I'm on your mail list at DTRPG, and your products look intriguing. That said, I'll tell you I have not purchased anything because I just can't seem to wrap my head around your products. For example, I can't tell what if any of a specific product is or is not in your separate Mechanisms books.

You have made the effort to explain your vision of all this-- but-- even with the description of this product-- your descriptions amount to a confusing and over engineered spaghetti of one or two page charts. I think some-- maybe all-- of these might be useful, but the idea of trying to filter through each feels exhausting to even think about.

Given the size and complexity of your product library, perhaps now is the time retire the morass and put these into a few complete products that are clearly priced and explained.
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ken W May 05, 2019 10:52 pm UTC
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Hi. The current core is the Mechanism Series: Characters, Story, Setting 4 book set [BUNDLE].

As for what is in each, for example the Character Mechanism book (now volume 1), it has the 15 tools listed from the Fact Generator down to the Relationship Generator. The Story Mechanisms has 13 tools from the Flash RPG down to the Transition Scene Generator and Modifier Generator (Modifier Generator and two other tools are in both books). Thinking Generator and 8 other tools are in the recent 2nd volume, Character Mechanisms II—that product page lists those tools.
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May 13, 2019 9:27 pm UTC
I'm sort of tracking all that.

Let's say (likely), that I like these products. Bundles will do a mediocre job of tracking what I have and don't have. But then there are ALSO volumes. Volumes are like bundles of individual tools, but don't register well for tracking the individual table products.

I could try to keep track of the publication dates of the volumes (given effort), but what if updates or errata is included. Am I sure the specific product I purchased is up-to-date?

Are you feeling me as customer? 'Choice' is good, but only to a point. With every redundancy there is increased complexity. It also makes my customer-focused assessment of value very difficult. Search "Consumer confusion" for more informed explanations of this phenomenon.

As soon as we could get rid of the dewey decimal classification system, we did. It might have been logical, but it wasn't intuitive to the mob.
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