Alone on a Map
A downloadable game
You are a renown cartographer that has been tasked with creating a comprehensive map of the entire world. To do this you have divided the world into 36 quadrants and will label the most important Landmarks.
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Alone on a Map solo tabletop role playing game about discovering landmarks and creating a map.
This game uses a standard deck of playing cards, 2 six-sided dice, writing implements, a grid, and an optional coin.
A grid is provided at the end of each PDF document, but there is also separate grid PNG available for download.
This game is a hack of Alone Among the Stars byTakuma Okada and is heavily inspired byTiny Islands byDavid King
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Basic Info
Players: Solo
Tools Needed: Standard Deck of Cards, 2d6, Writing Tools, Provided Grid. Optional Coin
Session Length: >1 Hour
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Actual Play and Videos
Seth Triberry - A playthrough of Alone on a Map
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For a Sci-Fi / Space version of the game check outAlone on a Galactic Map
8/29/21 Update: Added a plain text and ePub version
3/9/22 Update: Added Transparent PNG
If you have made a map and would like to show me please @ me on Twitter my handle is@KadenRamstack and I would love to see it!
| Status | Released |
| Category | Physical game |
| Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (47 total ratings) |
| Author | K-Ramstack |
| Tags | alone,journaling,map-making,physical-game,Singleplayer,solo,Solo RPG,Tabletop,Tabletop role-playing game |
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Had some fun time trying some worldbuilding and discovering places on the map. Discovered that my mapping skills are nearly none, but I am happy with my map and what I wrote. It is hillarious, my mountains and trees look very close and using colors made it even worse. I even managed to draw in the wrong squares and needed to correct my notes after that. Would be a perfect map to hand it out to players to confuse them and have some fun with it.
As a side effect I had some interesting thoughts about what counts as a landmark. I had drawn some clubs for a lot of empty fields and once I was discovering a vulcano I was wondering what other landmark could be remarkable besides a vulcano in the same field. Quite inspiring for future sessions with other systems for landscape or map descriptions.
thanks for the quick reply! it's been posted
https://wrentheforrester.itch.io/the-lonesome-cartographer
An elegant way to generate a map with plenty of geographical elements and cities/towns etc, and a great twist on the Alone game mechanics. For a smaller map, use d4s instead of d6s and a 4x4 map.
This could be hacked to generate city maps as well, maybe dungeons or odd haunted mansions too. Very lovely!
