Cut Up Solo

Carnacki The Ghost Finder

This book takes the text from Carnacki The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson and cuts it into snippets of 3-5 words. There are two d1000 tables included in the PDF and over 15,000 snippets in the included spreadsheets. The spreadsheets (xlsx and ods formats) can be downloaded using a link in the book. These are set up to randomly grab 20 snippets at a time, or you can use the built-in Find All function to use the spreadsheet as a concordance.

These cut ups suit a game using Call of Cthulhu or GURPS Horror, amongst other horror themed games.

Cut Up Solo is a technique that uses random snippets of text that you pick and fit together, creating what the GM says to you. You can then respond to that, and then the cycle repeats. As all the snippets in this set all come from the book, it gives a sense of continuity.

Cut up play is very different from more traditional oracle driven solo play. If you struggle with how to interpret word pairs or prompts, cut up could be for you.

The novel contains over 54,000 words of text, chopped into snippets of 4 or 5 words. You get over 14,000 snippets to mix and match in your solo games. The PDF contains two d1000 tables of snippets, and the spreadsheets contain the full set of snippets.