Rules and tables needed to play OSR/0D&D/D&D B/X

games without a Dungeon Master

 Scene List ............................................................. 5
Loose Ends List ..................................................... 6
Contents
Solo Play Hints and Tips ........................................... 6
Credits ..................................................................... 1
Random Dice Tables ................................................ 6
Written By ............................................................ 1
Tip ........................................................................ 6
Cover Art .............................................................. 1
Random D6 Table..................................................... 7
Interior Art: Enrique Meseguer, Stefan Keller ..... 1
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Credits
Introduction ............................................................. 2
Written By: Peter Rudin-Burgess
No DM? .................................................................... 2
Tools of the Trade .................................................... 3
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Likelihood ............................................................. 3 Interior Art: Enrique Meseguer, Stefan Keller

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A Physical Event ................................................... 3
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NPCs, Friend or Foe? ................................................ 5
Who Said That? ........................................................ 5
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Introduction
These rules enable you to play an OSR, in this case,
meaning 0D&D, B/X style games, without a Dungeon
Master.
The game you will get using these rules will be a sandbox-
style adventure, and you will not need to do any Dungeon
Master [DM] style preparation, although having a few
stock NPCs of an appropriate level would be helpful.

No DM?
The normal cycle of play is that the DM describes the
scene and asks what do you do? The players describe their
actions. The DM describes the effects of those actions,
and the cycle repeats.
In solo play, there is just a single character and no DM.
You start by imagining your character in the game setting
and play them through all the social interactions, all the
NPCs and events that would normally come up. At some
point, you will reach a point where you would normally
ask your DM for more information. Are there any guards?
Are there any ways out? What can you hear? At this point,
the solo rules come into play. You pitch your question in
a Yes/No format. The solo rules will then return an
answer to your question, much like a Magic 8 Ball toy. It
is then down to you and your improv skills to decide what
does this answer mean right now? Often the first thing
that comes into your head is the answer to go with.
If you just got yes and no answers, things would get boring
quite quickly. These rules are designed to throw up twists
and turns into your character’s story.
Tools of the Trade
You are going to need just 2d6. It is helpful if they are
different colors or sizes. In some respects, if you have
been a DM before, you should be used to random dice
rolls changing the narrative of your games. When you roll
for wandering monsters, a bad fight can completely
change the character's chances of success or failure.
Rolling for surprise can radically change the outcome of a
fight. All these rolls are just 1d6, and these rules continue
that tradition. The d20 may get all the glory in a battle, but
it is the humble d6 that runs the world!
There are several parts to these rules. The most commonly
used part will be the Oracle. The Oracle answers your
questions.
Likelihood
Before you roll any dice, you need to decide if the answer
is more likely to be a yes, a no or whether it is a 50/50
chance. If you are in an orc hold and you are asking if
there are any guards on the exit the answer is more likely
to be yes than no. Glancing up and down a street to see if
there is an unattended horse you can steal is more likely
to be a no (most of the time).
A likely result gives a +1 to your roll. An unlikely result
gives -1 and a pure 50/50 question has no modifier.
1 or less No, and…
2 No
3 Complication
4 Yes, but…
5 Yes
6 or more Yes, and…
You can see immediately that there are more than yes and
no answer.
The ‘and…’ modifier means that the result is more than
you expected. If you wanted to know if the guards were
alert and you get a ‘No, and…’ maybe and officer has just
demanded that the guards follow him and marches off. If
you got a ‘Yes, and…’ maybe not only are they alert but
one of them thinks he heard something in your direction.
The ‘but…’ is the opposite of the ‘and’ modifier. The
answer is a yes, but it isn’t as good as you had hoped.
Think of it as adding some kind of drawback.
There is also a complication. A complication should stand
between the character and the subject of the question. The
Complication is the first way in which the solo engine can
take your game in an unexpected direction. For example,
you look down the street and ask, “Is there a horse I can
steal?” The result is Complication and the first thing that
comes into your mind is that looking down the street you
see your arch nemesis riding into town with half a dozen
of his mercenary followers.
Plot Twists
At the same time as rolling the oracle d6 you also you roll
a second d6. On a 1 result there is a plot twist. Roll both
dice again and consult the following table.
First Die Second Die
1 An NPC 1 appears.
2 Your PC 2 alters the location.
3 An organisation 3 helps the hero.
4 A physical event 4 hinders the hero.
5 An emotional event 5 changes the goal.
6 An item 6 ends the scene.
With your two results put them together to make a short
sentence such as “A physical event changes the goal.”
Most of these results need some explanation.
An NPC. You should be familiar with what an NPC is.
You can either introduce a new NPC or reuse an existing
NPC in your story (See record keeping below).
Your PC. Somehow the root cause of the even comes
from your characters actions, intentionally or otherwise.
Have you ever seen a scene in a movie where a character
leans against a bookcase only for it to shift and reveal a
secret passage? That is the PC driving a twist.
An Organisation. An organisation can be anything
from a village council to an entire army or just a single
representative of the organisation. Most fantasy settings
have guilds and secret orders that easily fit into this
category.
A Physical Event. This is an external physical event; it
could be a door opening somewhere in a house that is
supposed to be deserted or a caving in a dungeon. A
barroom brawl would just as easily fit under this heading.
An Emotional Event. Emotional events are those that
force or play on your characters emotions. It could be a
random act of kindness or something that plays on your
characters back story.
An Item. Characters are surrounded by items and simple
machines. You have their own equipment, objects around
them as well as traps and unique items in the world.
Appears. This does not have to mean “as if my magic X
appears”. This twist introduces something into the current
scene.
Alters the location. Something happens that should
drive the story to change the location of the action. It
could be as simple as learning that the wizard you are
looking for is in a different city or a pit that drops you into
a cavern below the temple.
Helps the hero. The help could be a simple as a farmer
allowing the hero to sleep in their barn to a sage giving up
valuable information or a key NPC offering aid.
Hinders the hero. Is the gate guard being
cantankerous? The sage refusing to see anyone. Has a roof
collapse blocked the way out?
Changes the goal. This twist can really change your
story. Changing a goal may be a piece of information that
changes what you were planning to do next. It could be
that someone else completed the quest before you and
now you need to find them?
Ends the scene. You should see Scenes below for more
on scenes. In short, a scene ends whenever a director
would shout cut, when the DM would hand wave away a
period of time or the action changes location. When this
twist comes up something will happen to bring about an
end of scene.
Playing out Twists
A twist does not have to happen instantly, the second you
roll it. You should rather see it as a note pinned to your
character or storyboard. Once you have decided what the
twist would mean for your character you should then try
to work it into your character’s adventure. Sometimes they
will be instant. Frequently, the best solution will create so
many unanswered questions that they will drive some
amazing role playing and challenge your improvisation
skills. If you are five levels down in an undead infested
catacomb and the dice say an NPC helps the hero. Where
did this NPC come from? How did they get here? You
just need to let your imagination provide and answer.
Scenes
These rules have mentioned scenes. A scene ends when
you could imagine a director shouting Cut! or you feel like
skipping a block of time. More importantly is your ability
to think in scenes. You do not need to play every scene.
If you were sat around a gaming table with friends, you
would not role play every minute of a mundane journey
into town. As you are the only player and the game is for
your benefit only you can pick the scenes you want to play.
There is no reason not to skip great swathes of a dungeon
crawl and just play the most exciting scenes, the first
meeting with the undead guards, confronting the dark
priests in their temple and then slaying their horrendous
snake god.
You can also jump about in time. If you character died
confronting the priests, you could jump backward in time
and carry on playing the same character but explore how
they came to be on this quest.
When we cover record keeping, scenes are one of the
things that you may want to keep a record of.
Complex Questions
Not every question can be answered with a yes or a no. If
you eavesdrop on one of the villain’s lieutenant’s
conversations, then yes or no is not much use to you.
In this case you roll two dice, or one die twice, and check
the following table, just like building a twist.
First Die Second Die
1 Plotting against 1 an ally or colleague.
2 Uncovering 2 a foe or traitor.
3 Supporting 3 a new force or an old enemy.
4 Opposing 4 old lore or magic.
5 Creating 5 a death or murder.
6 Discovering 6 an alliance or surrender.
As before, you build a short sentence and then try and
work this into your game. Typical complex questions
relate to conversations, the contents of scrolls and books
and orders given by officers, but you will come up with
hundreds of other uses.
The golden rule is that you consider the story so far, the
current situation, the sort of adventure you want to have
and finally the dice rolls.
Imagine you are trying to gather some rumours in a town.
There are a couple of women sat by the well doing laundry
and chatting. You get close by and listen in. You roll a 5
and a 6, Creating an alliance or surrender. Depending on
the sort of adventure you are having are they
matchmaking and arranging a marriage between their
eldest children or are there rumours that a battle went so
badly that the king has been forced to accept surrender?
The same rolls made in a dockland dive of a tavern could
have two lowlifes negotiating a ceasefire between their
gangs. It is the context that is vitally important.
Ultimately if the roll makes no sense then discard it or if
you have a better idea, go with that.
NPCs, Friend or Foe?
Not everyone is going to be your friend and likewise not
everyone is going to draw swords and try and kill you.
NPC reactions can be handled using the regular Oracle,
but you can use your characters Charisma in in addition
to likelihood modifiers. For example, if it is highly unlikely
that a castle guard will let you pass but you have a +2
modifier from your Charisma then that gives you a net +1
on the roll. You must remember that depending on the
question. If you ask a negative question where a Yes will
be bad for your character, then inverting you Charisma
bonus/penalty would make more sense.
Who Said That?
Using the Complex Questions tool too often in a game
session can lead to too much repetition. When the
question relates to NPCs and conversations then here is
an alternative. If you can only hear one side of the
conversation then just roll on one or the other side,
possibly alternating with each use. If you can hear both
sides roll a first and second die.
Roll Speaker 1 Speaker 2 Roll
1 Strongly Disagrees Strongly agrees 1
with… with …
2 Disagrees with… Agrees with… 2
3 Has news Is shocked by… 3
4 Needs to know… Doesn’t care 3
5 Agrees with… Disagrees with… 5
6 Strongly agrees Strongly disagrees 6
with… with…
You still need to improvise what the conversation is about
but it this gives you the speakers position from which you
can visualise their attitudes, body language and tone of
voice.
Record Keeping
It is helpful to keep a written log or journal of your solo
adventures. This helps you pick up where you were later.
This is no different to keeping game notes except there is
no planned campaign as a backdrop.
Some people will make a few oracle question rolls and
then write up an entire scene as if it is a chapter in a book.
Others will record very little. I personally just use bullet
points and record questions, answers and key points. It is
very terse and would mean nothing to anyone else, but it
only has to serve as a reminder to me. I also find that the
less time I spend writing the more time I can spend in
character.
Regardless of the style of journal you keep it is helpful to
keep a few lists.
NPC List
An NPC list just needs to keep the barest of details, name
race and location and a brief note about your meeting. The
location is important as when you revisit a place it helps if
the same NPCs are there. It helps to make the world more
consistent. If you have a list of NPCs and the oracle tells
you to introduce an NPC it often makes sense to use an
existing NPC rather than constantly creating new ones.
For you a player and DM not having to create hundreds
of detailed personalities makes life easier.
Scene List
You can number or name scenes as you play them and at
the end of the scene add a descriptive note. Glancing
down a scene list is almost like fast forwarding through
your adventure, but it is also useful if you want to insert a
flashback scene between a pair of scenes you have already
played. I record which NPCs were present as well as what
I was trying to achieve.
Loose Ends List
It is inevitable that you will end up with a great many
unexplored plot threads or loose ends. Why did your
nemesis ride into town that day? Who was the lieutenant
plotting to kill? Complications can create loose ends; story
twists often create loose ends and complex questions do
the same.
When this list gets to more than half a dozen it is worth
seeing if you can tie some of them together into a deeper
and more complex plot that your character has just
brushed the surface of. Highlighter pens are useful here as
you can group by colour. These loose ends could be used
to explain some of the more unusual dice rolls. If
someone is going to be murdered that could explain why
the wizard, you are looking for has fled town!
Solo Play Hints and Tips
❖ The golden rule is do not ask too many questions. Ask
a question and possibly a follow up if you are still not
sure but then just start to improvise.
❖ Do not ask game breaking questions. Don’t ask if you
wake up and find 1000gp under your pillow or a
vorpal sword at the end of the bed. If you need these
things just add them to your character sheet. It is your
game, no one will ever know!
❖ Playing as a solo hero in a game designed for parties
of 6-8 heroes is hard. You may want to start at 2nd to
3rd level. This also adds more scope for skipping back
into your characters past to play flashbacks.
❖ Don’t start your first solo play sat in a tavern. Take a
leaf from Hollywood and start right in the thick of the
action, a roof top fight against thieves, in a runaway
carriage careering towards a cliff or surrounded by
zombies in a boneyard. You know the sort of
adventure you want to have. Start there and start in
the thick of it.
❖ The first time you solo play it will probably be slow
and stilted as you don’t know the rules or what to
expect. Don’t worry, this is normal and the more you
play the faster and more fluid it all becomes.
❖ It is useful to have a stock of pre-generated NPCs.
When you are learning a new game, it is useful to
make a few characters to try and get an idea for how
the rules work. Keep those characters and use them
when you need an NPC. That saves breaking up your
game to create an NPC at a crucial moment.
❖ Narrative Description is your friend. Have you ever
had a character in a barroom brawl and asked the GM
if there a bottle or chair at the table you can throw?
Or maybe you asked is the chandelier secured by a
rope, when you wanted to swing across the hall. In
solo play the answer to all these questions is yes. It is
your story, your adventure, you are star and director.
The props will always be in the right place.
❖ Fail Forward. If something goes wrong and the
adventure would end or there is no way out, ask the
oracle. In the movies the hero faces seemingly
impossible situations all the time and somehow gets
out of them. You are the hero; it is OK to save
yourself.
❖ The questions you ask should be the ones best for the
game and not what is best for your character.
Random Dice Tables
On the following page is a random dice table with nearly
a thousand d6 rolls. You can use them left to right to top
to bottom, any which way you like so long as you use them
in sequence.
Random dice tables speed up your gaming, both solo and
at a regular table. If there is a chance of wandering
monsters you can easily scan down the list and see how
long it would be before the monster would turn up and
you can work that knowledge into your narrative. If you
can see that nothing would happen until midday you can
work with that.
At a regular table, if your players are anything like mine,
they will regularly force you into improvising. If you don’t
want it to be obvious that you are improvising, random
tables make it appear you are consulting game notes when
you are actually letting the dice decide.
There is no significance to the numbers being grouped
into threes or three by three blocks. That is purely for ease
of reading and highlighting.
Tip. Highlighters will never obscure the number on the page so you
can use the page once and highlight the used numbers in yellow and
then go over them again in green then pink and so on.
Random dice tables like these are useful for wandering
monsters, to see if elves spot a secret door without alerting
the players that there is something worth searching for.
If a player suddenly thumps a town guard then you can
glance three numbers along and you have his strength, if
he still be standing and wants to thump the character back.
When used with these solo rules they can completely
replace the dice. Print off the table of rolls and have its
side by side with whatever table you are referencing. It
speeds the game up immensely and doesn’t break the
suspension of disbelief nearly as much as making multiple
dice rolls.
Random D6 Table
3 6 3 1 1 1 2 6 6 5 4 6 2 4 3 6 1 6 4 5 1 6 4 5 1 2 1
2 4 3 3 5 3 2 1 3 4 3 2 6 5 1 2 4 1 2 2 6 1 3 1 3 1 2
3 4 4 3 6 3 4 4 3 1 1 3 6 6 1 4 4 3 5 6 6 5 4 5 2 3 2

2 1 3 3 6 5 2 6 6 3 2 2 2 3 2 6 3 3 6 1 2 2 4 4 4 6 4
6 3 3 1 4 5 6 6 2 6 4 1 3 6 6 2 6 5 1 4 6 4 4 5 6 1 6
6 2 3 4 4 1 4 6 1 4 1 6 3 5 1 4 1 3 3 5 6 3 3 5 6 1 5

3 1 5 2 5 5 2 4 3 6 6 1 3 3 1 1 5 3 3 6 3 4 6 1 6 6 4
6 5 3 1 4 3 1 5 3 1 5 3 4 3 6 4 6 1 5 2 2 3 4 1 5 2 5
4 5 3 6 5 1 2 3 2 4 2 5 5 2 1 4 1 1 5 5 4 6 4 6 1 2 5

1 1 1 1 6 1 2 2 2 1 1 4 5 6 2 5 1 1 5 4 4 5 6 4 5 6 4
3 6 6 3 6 3 5 2 2 5 2 2 6 3 5 3 2 4 1 1 1 1 6 6 4 2 2
1 5 2 5 5 1 5 1 1 1 4 4 1 2 3 5 2 4 6 1 4 5 4 4 3 3 2

4 6 2 4 2 5 1 4 4 6 4 4 5 6 4 4 3 6 1 4 5 6 3 2 5 5 5
2 4 1 5 1 6 4 6 6 1 6 6 5 3 1 3 2 4 5 1 5 4 4 5 5 5 5
5 3 2 5 1 3 3 1 2 3 6 5 4 4 5 5 2 1 4 5 4 5 6 4 5 6 1

6 4 5 1 1 6 3 2 6 3 3 6 3 6 1 3 2 2 3 5 5 6 3 6 3 3 4
3 1 1 6 4 5 5 3 6 2 2 3 4 6 3 5 1 2 6 5 2 4 3 2 2 4 5
4 4 4 6 5 3 1 4 2 2 4 6 1 5 6 1 4 1 5 5 3 2 6 4 1 3 2

6 1 5 1 6 5 3 3 2 2 1 1 3 3 5 5 4 5 4 1 3 5 1 3 2 3 2
3 2 5 6 5 3 1 3 1 5 3 6 4 4 3 6 6 6 1 4 2 1 4 6 4 5 6
2 2 2 2 4 5 6 2 6 2 1 3 5 2 5 1 6 4 3 5 3 5 3 2 5 3 6

1 3 3 4 1 4 1 3 6 3 1 4 6 3 4 1 6 5 4 3 2 2 5 3 4 4 5
4 2 3 5 5 5 2 4 3 6 2 1 4 3 3 1 4 5 6 2 3 2 3 2 4 3 4
5 5 6 6 4 1 1 1 2 1 1 4 3 5 2 4 2 6 2 6 6 5 4 2 6 2 1

5 2 6 1 5 2 5 1 5 1 2 1 4 6 4 2 6 5 3 5 6 4 3 3 4 3 1
3 3 3 5 1 3 5 6 5 5 1 6 6 4 3 3 6 5 4 4 4 3 3 6 1 2 1
2 1 2 6 4 6 2 3 4 1 5 4 6 5 6 3 4 1 1 2 5 2 6 6 3 3 4

5 5 4 3 3 4 3 4 5 4 4 3 6 3 3 2 2 2 6 1 6 6 3 4 6 3 3
1 5 2 4 1 5 4 2 3 6 3 1 5 2 5 6 1 5 2 3 2 2 5 6 1 6 5
6 6 1 4 6 6 1 3 1 2 5 3 5 5 2 1 1 4 3 3 3 6 3 4 2 6 2

1 2 4 5 6 3 5 5 6 4 6 2 5 1 1 4 5 1 3 1 1 2 3 4 2 6 2
6 5 1 2 3 3 1 1 2 5 5 2 1 2 6 4 5 5 5 1 1 4 6 3 6 3 3
5 6 2 2 2 2 1 4 3 2 1 1 5 2 4 5 4 5 2 2 1 6 2 3 1 5 6
How To: Solo a Module
I will confess right from the start that my preferred style
of play is an open sandbox where adventure is something
that sweeps the character up, rather than a published
module that has a defined start, middle and end.
Having said that, my regular group is doing a middle way,
where I have salted the world with plot hooks that will
feed them into modules and they can do, or not do. It is
their choice. They also don’t know what modules they
have done and what they haven’t
Solo playing a module is different to putting a regular
group through one, but some of the same prep needs
doing.
Firstly, you need at least a passing knowledge of the
module. I suggest reading it all, if you can skim read and
get all the salient points, that may be enough.
I am a huge fan of the humble post-it note/sticky note.
Organise the Adventure
What you need to do next is create what amounts to a flow
diagram of the key points in the module. These are the
things that MUST happen if the module is going to be
completed. Put each one on a post-it.
Mounting each key point on a separate note means that
they are easily rearranged if your solo journey goes slightly
off course. I arrange rumors, that are likely to either
impart essential information to help the character survive
or plot hooks to get your character involved into one
group. Key locations into another and encounters into a
third.
Taking B2 Keep on the Borderlands as an example of a
classic module. Some of the rumors would instantly attract
a magic-user (A powerful magic-user will destroy all cave
invaders/A magic wand was lost in the caves’ area)
whereas others would attract a fighter (Piles of magic
armor are hoarded in the southern caves.) and so on.
Knowing your character and the hooks that are likely to
get them involved cues up some of the roleplaying scenes.
There are then a set of wilderness encounters, the hermit
and lizardmen etc. There can all be treated as scenes in the
solo play. You can soon map out a likely path for each
adventure. Roleplaying events in the keep, leads to this
rumour being learnt, which leads to this expedition and
this encounter.
When the Caves of Chaos are introduced there are distinct
tribes that are essentially separate adventures, as the caves
cannot be explored in a single sortie. These you can break
down into essential encounters and challenges.
Applying the solo rules means first and foremost not
asking questions that you know are going to break the
module. Many questions you could ask of a theatre of the
mind game, will not be required. You have a map that tells
you the exits or the contents of rooms.
Group into Scenes
Having a map or diagram of key events that are required
gives you objective. If you were DMing a group and an
event was essential then you would move the NPC to the
right place, or move a room to put it in the character’s
way. You can group your post-it notes into scenes.
Scenes are the essential building block of solo play. Some
oracle questions/plot twists may say “xxx end the scene”.
You can still use this, because you have organised the
module into scenes.
If you know that the next room contains an ogre and you
roll a plot twist that says “An organisation changes the
location”, the organisation could be a small as an orc
ordering the ogre to attack. I can assure you, as a low level
solo character, an attacking ogre WILL change your
location, probably rapidly backwards!
On the notes above I have already sorted out the numbers
of encountered and in what locations, the numbers in
brackets. Being organised means that I don’t have to break
up my solo play too much to fit into the module.
Building Blocks
I cannot reiterate enough that the basic building block of
the solo game is the scene. You build them before you
play the module, you play through them in the order that
makes sense. Some scenes will be pre-planned, some will
evolve naturally.
Keep on the Borderlands could look like this
Scene 1: Arrive at the Keep
Scene 2: Interview with the Castellan
Scene 3: Find the Raiders
Scene 4: Spiders!
Scene 5: Meanwhile back at the keep
Scene 6: A magic wand you say?
Scene 7: Kobold Attack!
There are bits I have time jumped, parts that I want to
play in detail. I like my games roleplay heavy and combat
light. Keep on the borderlands encourages characters to
take alternatives to combat and to build relationships
within the keep, as it becomes there base of operations. If
I was playing this module the wilderness exploration
would be played down and life in the keep would be
played up, but that is me, and the beauty of solo play.
Levels and Encounters
For an adventure marked Levels 1-3, I would look to use
a character at the top of the scale. My PC would be 3rd
level. For the encounters, I would divide the numbers
encountered by 4 with a minimum of 1 and round any
fractions up. So 5 goblins would become 2, 5 divided by
4 and rounded up the next whole goblin. The logic being
that most modules were written for about six characters
and taking the middle level as an average would give a total
of 12 player levels, A third level character is then balanced
by quartering the number encountered.
What Comes Next?
Solo play does not have to be a solitary hobby. We may
have our adventures alone, but there are tens of thousands
of solo role-players out there.
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I have a very different philosophy to solo play. I don’t
want to use one set of solo rules for every game. I want
my solo rules to be the lightest touch possible and not get
in the way, or not feel like they are from a different game.
For that reason, I make rules on a system basis. Yes, it
means that there are subtly different rules for every game.
I appreciate that you paid good money for this booklet.
Buying one of the larger more expansive sets of rules
would have set you back nearer $20 compared to the
pocket money price of this booklet and all the others I
have created. My logic was that you could buy half a dozen
of these little booklets and still have paid out less than just
buying one mega system. For me, solo play does not need
150 to 300 pages of random tables.
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