Cut Up Solo

The Nine Unknown

Cut Up Solo The Nine Unknown takes the novel by Talbot Mundy and cuts them into snippets of text typically 4-6 words in length. The Nine Unknown is a 1923 novel by Talbot Mundy. Originally serialised in Adventure magazine, it concerns the Nine Unknown Men, a secret society founded by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka around 270 BC to preserve and develop knowledge that would be dangerous to humanity if it fell into the wrong hands. The nine unknown men were entrusted with guarding nine books of secret knowledge. (Wikipedia)

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.

The novel contains over 92,000 words of text, chopped into snippets of 4 or 5 words. You get over 21,000 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.