NAME
CARTOGRAPHER
CartographersA SOLO
mapRPG ADVENTURE
the wild and dangerous
Roomlands, courageously heading out into new
territories and surviving, so that they can bring back
valuable information to the people of the towns
LOOKcities about the lands around their homes. Car-
and
tographers are driven by an urge to document and
understand the layout and geography of the
Roomlands and record their travels in a way that is
both useful to themselves and others. And along the
way annotating their map and treating it like their
adventurer’s journal, gradually building an atlas of the
lands they’ve explored.
Playing as a Cartographer involves using the
Cartographer cards in combination with the
Exploration encounter tables in the base rule-
book. Firstly, shuffle the Cartographer deck
and place it nearby. When you come to an
exploration phase in your adventure you will
be drawing cards from this deck instead of the
primary playing card deck. However, a Car-
tographer draws 2 cards for each exploration
point they have. So if an explorer has an explo-
ration score of 4 they will draw 8 Cartographer
cards from the deck.
EXPLORATION SCORE -
Then it is up to the Cartographer to lay out
those cards in a- grid before them that makes
COMBAT SCORE
the most sense and makes their exploration
the most interesting. You could choose to do
this randomly
INVENTORY if you like, by placing the cards
- EQUIPMENT/ITEMS
face down and then turning them over to re-
veal your day’s exploration.
When placing your cards you must make sure all
cards are connected to each other by at least
one edge. Also you may not create a layout
that is wider than 4 cards wide or longer than
4 cards long. Beyond those constraints you can
layout the cards you draw however you like.
When your cards are laid out you must consi-
der how any walls and oceans you might have
drawn will affect your map:
If you have drawn a wall card, then that wall
extends either vertically or horizontally in the
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direction shown on the card. You must conti-
nue this wall in it’s direction on your map,
even into tiles you haven’t placed cards into
this turn. If a wall would conflict with the pla-
cement of another card you must move that
card to allow the wall to make sense. You can
choose to continue these walls across onto
other pages of your map if you want.
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Oceans must be placed on the outer edge
of your map grid. The ocean continues in the
direction that the coast card shows.
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Once your grid is laid out you can now trans-
late the grid of cards into a map in your
Cartographer’s Journal. Simply translate your
grid into your journal and annotate the map
with what you found and what it means. Once
this is complete take the cards that formed
this phase’s map and put them in a discard
pile next to the Cartographer deck. Once
this deck runs out, shuffle the discard pile and
create a new Cartographer deck.
Use the suits on the Cartographer cards to
cross-reference with the Exploration Table in
the Base Rulebook to establish which state the
various landmarks are in when you find them.
With that phase’s exploration resolved and
your story told (either via map annotations or in
your adventurer’s journal, or both) you are now
faced with the decision of which direction you
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continue your adventure in, North, South, East or
West. Whichever direction you choose, turn to a
new page in your Cartographer’s Journal and
make a note of that page number. Return to
the last NOTES
page you were on and write that num-
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ber in the triangle that corresponds to the direc-
tion you travelled in. This will allow you to keep
track of how all your maps connect together.
For example: You finish your map on page 3 and de-
cide to travel North. Your next map will be on page 4,
so you write ‘4’ in the North arrow on Page 3. You will
also need to write ‘3’ in the South arrow of page 4.
If you are able to create a map of 5 pages or
more that maps the lands surrounding a town
or city, (the town or city must appear on one
of the map pages) you may sell that map for
3 treasures to someone living in that town or city.
NAME
RESEARCHER
CLASS
A SOLOhave
Rook Researchers RPG one
ADVENTURE
of the most dangerous With the fight done, (and assuming you are
jobs of all, deliberately engaging with and learning still alive!), you can write up your encounter in
about the unique quirks of specific Rooks in order to
your Researcher’s Journal. First you must name
help other Rook hunters and adventurers survive en-
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counters with them. your new Rook type discovery.
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It was initially thought that every Rook in the Colostle For example: If you drew 2 cards, ‘Underground’
was different, but thanks to the work of Rook Resear- and ‘Leaping’ you might call it an - ‘Earth Burrowing
chers it is now known that there are different types of Springrook (Leapus Terranus)’
Rooks, and many Rooks will fall into these type catego-
ries. Learning what we can about them is vital informa- After naming it, it’s time to sketch what you
tion and can be sold to the Rook Hunter’s Guild to help
saw so that others will know they have seen
hunters protect the general populace.
your discovery when they see it. A quick
sketch that highlights its key features is fine if
Playing as a Rook Researcher adds another
you don’t consider yourself an artist, but feel
layer of visual flair and complexity to your Rook free to make it look really good! Then outline
encounters, and will allow for the creation of what characteristic cards you drew to make
your own personal Bestiary that documents all
this monster, write down any additional notes
of the Rooks you have encountered. and add in the Rookstone it had from the op-
ponent creation section - and your entry is
You can sell this information at Hunter’s Guilds complete.
for 2 treasures per Bestiary entry or you can
share the Rooks you have discovered with
As a Rook Researcher you are trying to make
other players so that they can encounter other sense of and understand the Rooks and their
Rooks of that style and design on their ad-
different types, so perhaps try to look for
ventures too!SCORE
EXPLORATION Simply- scan or photograph your NATURE
connections and families within the Rooks
field notes page and share it online, and other you discover. As you discover more Rooks
players SCORE
will be -able to battle against a Rook
COMBAT and describe them in your journal you might
that matches your description. They could start to be able to develop a sort of Animal
even role-play it further by saying they found
Kingdom classification system with your own
out about
INVENTORY this specific Rook type by seeing
- EQUIPMENT/ITEMS ADVENTURE NOTES
unique terminology and language for enco-
your information in their local Hunter’s Guild!
ding their abilities and characteristics!
In order to play as a Rook Researcher, sim- Think about other ways you can incorporate
ply start a battle with a Rook as you normal- these Rooks of yours into more adventures.
ly would, using the rules in the base rulebook Perhaps you can sell this information to others
(p. 50-51). After your opponent is created and beyond the Hunter’s Guild if your story allows
you are ready to fight, draw a number of cards it? Perhaps you will start encountering more
from the Researcher deck. Rooks of the same type in a certain area, and
- Medium Rook : Draw 2 cards. if so, why?
- Massive Rook : Draw 3 cards.
Rook Researchers are some of the most
These cards make up characteristics of this learned and respected members of the aca-
Rook you are fighting on top of the charac- demic sector, so get out there and show them
teristics already established by your Rook your skills!
opponent creation phase. It is now up to you
to combine these characteristics creatively to
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describe your unique Rook opponent. These
characteristics will affect how the Rook looks
but also its behaviours in battle. These beha-
viours might affect your journal writing and
how you describe the card draws that make
up your fight.
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INVENTOR
The skills of aARooksmith
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SOLORPG
RPG ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
are rare and highly regarded in
the Colostle, as only with a Rooksmith are the people
of the Roomlands able to take the mechanical won-
ders of the Rooks and apply them to improve their
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everyday lives.
Working as a Rooksmith involves ignoring the
typical rewards a Hunter might gain from
taking down a Rook and instead going after the
junk that others might leave behind - seeing the
potential in it, and recombining pieces in new
ways to create new tools, weapons, gadgets
and mounts - or even toys and entertainment!
Shuffle your Rook Components deck and set it
aside while you are playing. Once you defeat a
Rook, instead of receiving the Reward stated by
the base rules, you can choose to take a num-
ber of cards from the Components deck instead.
- Medium Rook : Draw 2 cards.
- Massive Rook : Draw 3 cards.
Make a note of these components in the Com-
ponent Inventory section of your journal and
EXPLORATION
EXPLORATION
then put theSCORESCORE
cards -in- a discard pile next to the NATURE
Components deck. Once there are no more
cards to
COMBAT
COMBAT SCORE
SCOREdraw- - from your Components deck
you may shuffle the discard pile and create a
new Components deck.
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INVENTORY- EQUIPMENT/ITEMS
- EQUIPMENT/ITEMS
When you are at a safe place in your adven-
ture, such as at camp or in a town or city -
you may use your components to begin the
process of creating something out of them.
You can choose to combine the components
with an arm, rookling, helm or mount, or just
combine them together to create something
separate. Don’t worry about how you connect
the pieces together, this is just something a
Rooksmith is able to do thanks to their tool kit!
Also, if your design requires small pieces of inci-
dental junk, you can assume you have plenty of
these sorts of pieces lying around or harvested
from your last battle. Perhaps your design needs
a handle or a casing - these sorts of basic gene-
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ric elements won’t show up in the card deck so
you can add those to your design for free. But
the major functional parts of your creation must
come from the cards you draw. There are also
some blank cards in the deck for you to add
your own ideas for Rook components and then
shuffle into the components deck!
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Use the ‘Design and Development’ area of the
Rooksmith’s Journal to try out sketches and ideas
for how your parts could go together, going into
as much detail as you like! This area is more
CALLING
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rough, imagine like your inventor’s sketchbook.
Then when you have a final design draw it up
in the ‘Final Prototype’ section, labelling the
key parts.
In the ‘Design Notes’ below, write about how
it works and how it might help an adventurer.
In the final ‘Item Ability’ box outline the specific
buff your tool might give a player of Colostle:
For example: A Rook Compass built out of a gyroscope
and vane might add 1 temporary Exploration point to
an adventurer’s score once every 4 exploration phases.
Think about not making your creations too
powerful as that might take all the fun out of
adventuring for you or other players!
You can keep your creations to use yourself,
or you can sell them! You can take your new
invention to any town or village and sell it
to local adventurers. Your creation is worth
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1 treasure for each component that forms
part of it’s design. So an invention made from
4 components would be worth 4 treasures.
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURENOTES
You can NOTES
also sell your creations to other players
by posting your designs online (by scanning or
taking a photo of the second page of your de-
sign pages) and naming a price in treasures.
(When selling to another player you can set
any price you like, you don’t have to follow the
pricing system for solo play). You might even
enter into a bit of negotiation if your customer
doesn’t like your price! But perhaps you fought
really hard to get the components you nee-
ded for this creation!
Now get out there Rooksmith, and make
a name for yourself as a great engineer of
gadgets and gizmos for adventurers out in the
Roomlands!
NAME
APOTHECARY
CLASS
A SOLO RPGforages
A Colostle Apothecary ADVENTURE Once the potion is created, and you have
for ingredients in the
Roomlands and then has the unique knowledge of noted down the potion in your inventory, with
how to combine them together in order to make po-
its dose count, the cards are all discarded –
tions and elixirs, with various effects.
LOOK so make sure to choose wisely, which cards to
CALLING
keep as lead ingredients, and which to use as
Any potion requires at least 3 ingredients to make:
body ingredients. Sometimes you might want
- 1 lead ingredient,
to use a card as a body ingredient because of
- 2 body ingredients.
how many doses it might give you, other times
The lead ingredient dictates what the effect
you might want to keep it as a lead ingredient
of the potion will be, and the body ingredients
for its effect.
together dictate how many doses you will
have.
You may only forage from the draw deck, not
from the discard pile. Once there are no more
On any exploration turn you can choose to go
cards to draw from the deck, shuffle the dis-
foraging instead of exploring in the standard
card pile into a new draw deck.
way.
When you do this, use your exploration score
Now, esteemed potion maker, get out into
to draw that many cards from the Apotheca-
the Roomlands, forage, combine, distill and
ry deck. These are the ingredients you find on
concoct - and come back with a range of
your forage. You can keep hold of these cards
elixirs to tempt and enhance!
until you are ready to start making potions with
them.
When you want to make a potion, first you
EXPLORATION
must designate SCOREwhich- ingredient you want to NATURE
be your lead ingredient. Then, take note of the
Doses this ingredient permit
2 coloured
COMBAT SCOREarrows
- at the bottom of the card. as a body ingredient. To be
These colours dictate which colour ingredients added with the other(s) body
MUST be used as the body ingredients to get ingredient(s)’s doses used
the lead ingredients effect.
INVENTORY - EQUIPMENT/ITEMS ADVENTURE NOTES for making the potion.
If say, the 2 coloured arrows are red and
yellow, this means you can use ANY red card
under the red arrow, and any yellow card
under the yellow arrow. When you complete
this, your potion is complete! Total up the num-
bers in the top left corner of each of your body
ingredient cards – this is the total number of
doses you have of your concoction.
Ingredient
name.
Flavour text
+ effect of the
potion using this
card as a lead
ingredient.
TREASURES
Arrows to indicate with colour the body
ingredients MUST be, if this card is choosen
as a lead ingredient.
There are 4 basic colour ingredients:
yellow, red, green, blue-purple.
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