Solo TTRPG Notation

Hi,

thanks you so much for all the work you have clearly put into this. I have an issue in section 3.3 - Obsidian won't parse it correctly and I see an error:

Dataview (inline field '>'): Error:  -- PARSING FAILED -------------------------------------------------- 
 > 1 | >     | ^  Expected one of the following:   '(', 'null', boolean, date, duration, file link, list ('[1, 2, 3]'), negated field, 
number, object ('{ a: 1, b: 2 }'), string, variable

Is this an issue with my Obsidian setup? Any idea?

Thanks in advance!

Hello! Maybe my answer is in the book but I’m struggling to find it. I’m trying out The Triple-O Player Emulator which requires players come up with three options before rolling for one. How would I go about annotating this?

This is really helpful in terms of what to journal and distill, and a great gift to the community. I've been using this for battletech alpha strike wargame battle reports, and using with a mobile markdown editor for on-the go RP scenes.

Edit: one technical issue is the use of > in my markdown editor at least generates a code block, so I have to keep escaping all the time e.g. \>

I've been using your notation system since a couple of days for my campaign and I am loving it! Now journaling my game sessions feels more streamlined and more like i am playing the game. 

Awesome! I love the idea of solo journaling rpgs, but struggle with the journal part. I can't wait to give your method a go. Thanks for putting this together! 

I really love it, thank you so much! 

To make it more practical for analog use, I printed and bound it. It turned out really well and will be a faithful companion for my gaming sessions.

This is great and thanks for publishing it. 

It does a good job of showing that solo play doesn't require an exhaustive journaling session. I know there are those who like it that way, but for others (like me) it can feel like a self-imposed homework assignment, and it can turn into an OCD slog when the point is to have fun. Your unified and simple notation system really works in that sense. 

I also like that you can get a snapshot of numerous sessions with a quick look. With your examples, in just a couple seconds I could get a rich sense of what happened over minutes or even hours of play.

Nice work!

This looks really useful, thanks for sharing! I’ll try to adapt my set of templates on Obsidian to it.

I have some notes and questions:

1. I’d suggest to add some links for people that want to know better or follow for further versions in the docs themselves, as after reading it I almost forgot where I saw it (reddit), and wanted to see how people are taking it
2. In section 4.1.1 if you want to update NPCs tags (or tags in generals) when you want to to just show the changes it might be less ambiguous to add `+` or `-` {status}, e.g. `[N:Jonah|+captured]` or `[N:Jonah|-wounded]`
3. How would you track random events in Mythic GME when you ask a fate question and you roll double digits lower than Chaos Factor?
4. When tracking PCs with tags, are you specifying only variable stats like HP or are you tracking all the stats the first time you mention them?

This looks great for adventure games with oracles; I'm having trouble figuring out how it works with prompt-based journaling games like Wretched & Alone games or Carta games. 

This is an amazing utility, I say it's as revolutionary as programs that automate oracles like RanDM Solo and Tayruh's toolkit.

Great toolbox! I've been doing the core notation using colored text (digital player) and it has always been a pain to format without losing track of my narrative. Will totally try to adopt your notation and spread the word!

Fantastic toolbox! It’s a great minimalist but powerful notation format that could even help keeping the log of a multiple player session.

A quick note, though, I’ve noticed that, I’m the “4.1.3 Events & Clocks” section, there are the Location examples from the block just above. Probably a copy-paste error, me guess.