Cut Up Solo

Scandal in Bohemia
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Cut Up Solo Scandal in Bohemia takes the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and cuts them into snippets of text typically 4-6 words in length.

This cut up book has come out of a recent run of gaming set in the 18th to early 20th century. This started with Pirates! which was set around the mid to late 18th century and will continue with Agatha Christie's Poirot in an upcoming cut up book.

This book contains instructions on cut up play, 2,000 snippets of text arranged in two d1000 (3d10) tables, and 16 public domain images to help visualize the setting and NPCs. You will also get a spreadsheet containing all the snippets in excel and ods formats.

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 same author, and series of books, 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.