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Three interactive adventures you can play now, a board of one-page quests for a table, the rules port for running the world with the Operator Tactics D6 engine, the adventure design worksheets, and every RPG book as a free PDF.

In the browserInteractive adventures

Your choices are saved as you go. Each has a story map showing every scene and route.

Gauntlet structure

The Null Set

A ledger that does not add up, an embassy that watches its own clerks, and a night to find the missing number.

For the table · 8 postedThe Quest Board

One-page adventures pinned at the Bastion, each built on pressure, leverage, and a clock. Newest first.

The whole board

Run it · Operator Tactics D6The RPG port kit

Seven documents that port the setting onto the Operator Tactics engine. Read in order, or take the Complete Play Kit as one piece. Each has a print PDF.

Design your own · 6 sheetsAdventure design worksheets

The Scribbler's Toolbox sheets for building interactive stories, as fillable forms that save in your browser. Fill the universal sheet first, then the structure sheet that fits.

Structure Beat Sheet · 1 of 5 · No. 01

Quest

Journeys of exploration · organized by geography · one true ending

Structure Beat Sheet · 2 of 5 · No. 02

Gauntlet

One spine · many deaths · survival against a hostile world

Structure Beat Sheet · 4 of 5 · No. 04

Sorting Hat

Early choices sort the player into a track · identity is the product

Structure Beat Sheet · 5 of 5 · No. 05

Open Map

One rich place · free movement · the story is what you choose to see