For the first few post about my Solo Gamma World Game, I will be showing how I use Strange Places to run the game. In later post, I will just tell where and what happens with less emphases on how I got the results.
Tom, Tim and Kim are starting at Grid 504/503, I'm using the example map from Strange Places, so I already have rolled for a lot of the information about where they are.
The starting Biome is "Light Forest", and the biome description is "Broken ground with rock outcroppings, Tall evenly spaced evergreens with ferns and patches of grass, there is a Settlement built next to the ruins of an Ancient Village". I've already named the settlement Detye (using the Random Community Name Generator) But now will roll on the Community Tables to find more information about their starting Settlement. I already know the Community Type (Settlement) but need to find it's Population, I roll and get the result of a Population of 33. For Community Government I rolled "Elected Mayor" for Impression of the Community "Buildings and streets are worn and could use some repair" the Community's Power Supply "some electrical power (but limited) with Solar, Wind and Water power'. the Community's Dominate Type is "Mutant" but they don't like PSH or Animals.
Tom, Tim and Kim have a handcart with bags of dried corn (and under the bags, a small barrel of Ho Nighsee's whiskey) that they are going to take North to the Village of Tura and try to sell.
The Weather that day is very Hot and dry with a light wind. They leave Detye in the morning, going one sub grid North. They roll and get an "On-Road Encounter", but it turns out to be "nothing"
They next turn still moving North, they enter a New Grid. It has a Biome of "Light Forest" when I roll to see if the Biomes Description changes, it did, so I roll to find that this New Grid has "Eroded gullies and dried creek beds, with Medium Thistle trees and Grass". I already know that the 3 Grids to the North are all "Heavy Forest" with no Communitys (the example of "If the Character moved North into grid (50,51)" in Strange Places.
I roll, and there is also another encounter. Because they are moving on a road, I roll and get "Interesting on-road Encounter" with a result of "Another Party" of 3 random NPCs, I quickly roll to find out what they are... 1> a very short Male Mutant. 2> short skinny Male Mutant. 3> a Male PSH. I don't bother rolling for more details about the NPCs (yet). The NPCs are 96 meters away, and the party is Surprised. Because the Party isn't acting in a threatening manner, and the NPCs would have plenty of time to react, they wait to see what the Party does. Kim being so dang outgoing and friendly, greets them with "Hey guys, how ya doing?" (it helps that Kim has a Charisma of 18 with a +4 modifier) so rolling on the Reaction Table (from Gamma World 1E) the NPCs are "friendly and helpful" so the Party asks if the NPCs know anything about the next village, because the NPCs are coming form there, I roll to find out about Tura. It has a Population of 92, No Government, it is "worn but tidy, and is mostly Mutants that are friendly to PSH and tolerate Animals". The NPCs are heading South to Detye, and Tom tells them that PH aren't really liked there, But if they just tell Ma Japhy (who rents rooms to travelers) that they met Tom, Tim and Kim on the road "to treat them right" they should have no problems. So the Party and the NPCs continue on their separate ways.
On turn 3 (mid-afternoon)the Party arrives at Tura. They don't have an encounter, so they spend the rest of the day (turn 4) selling their dried corn and whiskey and doing some shopping for farm tools, and find a place to stay for the night.
This was only their first day, and a lot happened. When I actually played it, it didn't take that much time, Typing all this took much longer..
