You get a lot of variety from a SoloCutz spreadsheet (compared to generic table-driven solo oracles), while at the same time you can be more focused on the tone and genre you're seeking.

One advantage of the SoloCutz approach over certain other solo tools is that you can choose the title that best fits your genre and tone. In some other solo tools, you're rolling on generic tables that are supposed to work regardless of the tone or genre of your campaign. Fairy tales for kids? Science fiction for adults? Generic oracles would have you use the same word tables for both.

Another advantage is the sheer number of possible results. A generic oracle might use d100 tables or something smaller. Statistically, if you're rolling d100, you're likely to start repeating previous rolls by about the 12th roll. A d20 table is likely to start repeating after 6 rolls. That's not much variety. In contrast, Part 1 of Le Morte d'Arthur has 20,539 entries, and Part 2 has 24,028. For a table of 20,539 entries, repetition doesn't become likely until the 169th result.

The spreadsheet gives you 20 random excerpts from the text. Each excerpt is several words long, typically not a complete sentence. The spreadsheet offers you a way to flag some results as keepers so you can you reroll the rest. Once you're satisfied, you could then copy the results elsewhere.

My preferred usage is to pose a concrete question, and then I use a result that answers my question or that implies or inspires an answer. If I ask "Where does this scene take place," a result like "he put Sir Tristram in prison, and" suggests that the scene takes place in a prison. A result like "talking together, therein came twelve" doesn't name a location, but it implies a location where people would be talking together, so I could make the location a noble's hall, during a meal. If I ask "What is Sir Leodorak doing," the result "he put Sir Tristram in prison, and" could suggest that Leodorak is either imprisoning someone or being imprisoned himself -- whichever seems more likely or more interesting in context. The result "talking together, therein came twelve" could suggest that he's in conversation, or that he's arriving as part of a group (of twelve, maybe).

A nice touch is that Tangent Zero trimmed the fat from the original -- no extraneous stuff like front matter, end matter, or chapter headings. All results are from the body of the work.

The spreadsheets include a few common dice results for when you need a numeric answer or when you have a yes/no-style question. For my part, I don't need these spreadsheets to be my dice roller, but the dice results don't inhibit my use of the tool.

You need no more than basic spreadsheet skills to use the spreadsheet, such as triggering a recalculation or copying and pasting.

Very useful for GMs who like sandbox sci-fi settings. The setting is very stripped-down, leaving only the essentials needed for an exploration-based campaign and leaving the rest to be filled by the GM and players.

I found the mission page useful to kickstart the adventure, and different missions have potential to set different tones and/or create conflict for the characters (who, e.g. may not like working for a particular type of sponsor).

The main dish is a large list of star systems, each packing a bite-sized content chunk and a few questions to expand on it, plus there is a bunch of mysteries that can resolve over time visiting different star systems. Though it's built for Uncharted Worlds, most of the content is actually system agnostic; I'm definitely going to adopt the form for my own GM prep and perhaps run a Risus campaign with it.

This product delivers good bang for the buck. It can certainly prove useful when interpreting tarot card draws in solo gaming.

If you like It's Not My Fault (INMF), you'll like this sci-fi variant. The game lends itself well to a pick-up GMless improv game. It prints out as a single page.

Like INMF, each player pulls three cards to create a character. This variant uses an ordinary deck of playing cards (no jokers) instead of the custom cards used by INMF. That makes this even easier to use as a pick-up game.

In Fate Accelerated Edition (FAE) terminology, you wind up with the usual six approaches, rated 0-3 each, totaling 9 points. You also wind up with three aspects. The game avoids conflicting aspects by asking you to avoid using two cards of the same rank. Example character: a silver-tongued navy gunner with acrobatic running skills. Approaches: Careful +1, Clever +1, Flashy +2, Forceful +2, Quick +2, Sneaky +1.

Unlike INMF, this game doesn't give you any FAE stunts. If you understand the FAE system, you could make up FAE stunts on the spot. If not, it'll probably be enough to recognize that you can do what any silver-tongued navy gunner with acrobatic running skills can do. And you can do it well, because you're a hero in this story.

Like INMF, you draw cards to create the situation. Draw three times to answer three questions. You wind up with something like you'd find in a classic sci-fi action/adventure movie. There's nothing above a PG-13 rating. Example situation, generated by card draws: We're in what appears to be natural caverns. The alternative was getting recycled. It's about to get worse because the natives are restless.

Your job as players is to figure out what the initial situation means, and then you take it from there.

Perhaps a key difference between this game and INMF is that this doesn't tell you what to do or how to play after you've created the characters and the situation. Maybe they assume you already know how to play INMF and how to use the FAE system.

From my perspective, you don't have to know INMF or FAE. Just improv the story starting from the situation you generated, and have fun. Wrap up the story when it feels like it's time to wrap it up. If you don't know how to play FAE, at least come to an understanding of what the six appraoches mean. Make up some game mechanic for resolving situations using the approach you've chosen for handling it.

For our use, we decided it needed goals, so we created a table of 13 goals, and then we draw a card at the start to pick one.

It's been a fun game for our gamng circle.

A fun time was had by our group when we ran this game. Making characters is very easy and play leans towards an more improvisational style. I would love to see a deck done up for this, so I could use it as a supplement for my other "Not My Fault" decks!

All of the amazing elements of its not my fault (inmf) contained on a single sheet. I really love the sci-fi theme and your included instructions to make random characters using a simple deck of poker cards. Thank you! This is amazing!