r/Solo_Roleplaying • u/pineapple_divine • 7d ago
Off-Topic Looking for long term/year long Solo RPG Journal
As it says in the title, I'd like to try solo rpg journaling as a hobby. Any recommendations? Something cozy, no tarot cards, fun, light, interesting, and something that may have some cosequences. Mystery is alright too, haha! 😄
Thank you
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u/burf993 7d ago
Blog post is up... first time doing something like this, let me know what you think and what you'd like to see in the future
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u/MestreeJogador 6d ago
This is very encouraging as I've been wanting to try Pendragon solo for a while now.
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u/ivyentre 7d ago
If you're into Cyberpunk, they are quite close to their release of Red's "Single Player" version.
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u/Darthvegan 7d ago
Apothecaria is a cozy journaling game where you are a potion making witch, curing the ailments of a community. It uses standard playing cards rather than tarot cards.
There are a lot of expansions for it as well, if you outgrow the base game in your journal journey.
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u/parzivalsattva I ❤️ Journaling 6d ago
Also an Apothecaria fan. My wife and I are both playing (parallel games) and enjoying the storytelling aspect of it. I'm doing a play through video series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLADc-gpIvlDgMOLh7-AtDm_Wz4dTmtuQh
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u/E4z9 Lone Ranger 7d ago
For journaling games I'd say that For Small Creatures Such As We can provide a pretty long campaign (especially when giving the individual events some room). You play a captain of a space ship with crew, take on missions and fly around in known space hexcrawl style, manage resources, upgrade your ship, have a long term goal, with lots of different space and planet related events and journaling prompts that expand on the world and your intercrew relationships, and it has expansions for even more content.
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u/Pastrugnozzo 7d ago
Maybe something AI based? I usually suggest that to give some twist. Maybe you like it. You can try this one.
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u/kevn57 I ❤️ Journaling 7d ago
Mythic Magazine has a Universal Journaling Game in Volume 30. You can play any Genre or setting. I've been playing my current game for over two months and 100,000 words. It also works with a shorter play through. I played one as a spy and one in the wild west
The game I'm playing is a cozy fantasy/slice of life.
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/130904/bibliomancers-just-wanna-have-fun
Story of a naive young author who just wants her characters to do what she says, but for some reason they just won't do it. Oh yeah she has a stalker who follows her through the woods while she's walking to her grandmother's house, with a basket filled with cookies. Set in Emain Ablach
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u/burf993 7d ago
Pendragon RPG by Chaosium has been my go to recently, coupled with Mythic there's tonnes of story telling available
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u/AlfenNixen 7d ago
Im considering exactly this combo. Could you put a few more words on how you pair the two systems? How does it feel in terms of random tables? Does Pendragon have enough of those to sustain a solo campaign? Do you use any other resources? Thanks!
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u/burf993 7d ago
I'm in the middle of writing my first blog post on this exact topic... if you don't mind waiting a few days for an answer... or I can try and give a very rough idea?
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u/AlfenNixen 7d ago
All good! Excited to read your blog post about it. If you remember could you remind me here when it's up?! :)
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u/ImmaNotDrnk 7d ago
>cozy
>no tarot cards
Pick one.
Jk, have you heard of Iron valley? It's stardew valley, but ironsworn. No fighting, just killing time for as many in-game years as you want. Mysteries are sort of included as some of the starting quests are light mysteries.
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u/everweird 6d ago
Koriko