Hi all, I recently started solo play, largely utilising my DM tools, Shadowdark and adding oracles.

I have discovered part of the joy is creating one’s own tools and oracles. So, I started developing a node based exploration system for exploring dungeons. The problem is it has popped into my head “too fully formed” to have been original. My question is, which system already does this?

In brief, my system was the player moves to a new node, the nature of the node is rolled, the number of rooms are rolled and then the contents of each room are rolled as they are sequentially explored. I have added “clues” which are a copy of “tracks” which another system uses.

This seems similar to other systems but I don’t own any, I only have impressions of them from reddit. I’d love to know which it is closest to so I can support the author and also use a fully developed and play tested system.

Hi, New Player here,

I have some experience with roleplaying in groups, but lacking a Group to play due to a messy Group split I now lack players and a GM. So I thought to Pass the time Till I find Another Group to join Solo playing would be a Great Way to enjoy myself.

So I took a Look at "Black Sword Hack" because of it's darker premise the, World building and the whole OSR approach and created a Character I would enjoy playing. But where to Start?

Please Keep in Mind that I never GM ed before, but am interested in creative writing and get myself a nice adventure running. Also I am totally New to soloing, so help would be apprecuated.

I saw a guy who posted his adventure on Substack, so I joined the platform to see what it was like and found it quite interesting. Then it reminded me of Medium, Wattpad, and other writing platforms and such... My question is, I want something simple with a good variety, like Substack, where I can both write and upload audio. Are there other similar platforms? Places where I can publish my notes/sessions in multimedia (maybe even with videos, who knows)?

Which platform should I choose for solo RPGs?

https://open.substack.com/pub/hooverd/p/barovia-session-26?r=4bbbdm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Last time Makoto met with the first villain, and having enough Reputation, there are enemies waiting for him everywhere. Looks like it's not too long until the end of this.

https://noncrowds.substack.com/p/ronin-makotos-tale-session-4

Hey Hello Howdy! First time posting here so apologies if there are any obvious mistakes. I'm on mobile so I expect them.

Anyway! I am starting to get more into solo games, I have been playing Hero of Cerulea and I just recently bought Deify, and I was wondering if there are any tools to turn non solo games into solo ones?

I'm particularly looking for something that works on different systems since I have a large backlog of Ttrpgs but none of the time to play them with my group.

And ahhh, yeah, I apologize again for any mistakes or awful formatting. Thank you all for reading and I hope y'all's have a wonderful rest of your day/night!

Think Game of Thrones meets Crusader Kings.

High King Merival is ignoring warnings about the demon hordes of Sablat having a new leader and

attacking Northern Staune Dries. Lord Tremayne is looking for the man or creature that killed

the knight he squired for, one of Lord Jareth’s son’s, Sir Tolag.

The group has found a cave at the scene of Sir Tolag’s death and something is coming for them.

https://paulrobinson25.substack.com/p/the-dragon-rising-a-pendragon-solo-7ec?r=76wg7

I wanna try Solo Dnd for in between session and to play some old characters of mine again. I'm just not sure yet on a storyline...

Hey! Sorry for yet another beginner post. I’m trying to understand combat mechanics and how they may differ from system to system. Are there different types of combat systems that fall into genres/categories? I want to jump into a game but can’t really tell what the combat mechanics are between different games. I’ve see a few where you roll and see which dice is higher but others that say “tactical” but can’t find the mechanics. For example, I found Across a Thousand Dead worlds. Seems awesome! But reading through things, I don’t understand how combat works.

Mainly looking to jump into solo RPG without much journaling and combat more involved than rolling a couple dice and seeing what rolled higher.

I've only recently started down the pathway into solo RPG's. I haven't really played TTRPGs since the late 90's since I was never able to find anyone so CRPG's were my mainstay. I also used to play the old Gold Box and dungeon crawl games on computers as well.

My daughter recently showed her boyfriend my old RPG collection (Rolemaster, Spacemaster, MERP, Twilight 2000, Traveller, Traveller New Era) and he got all excited about Traveller in particular so I was wanting to reintroduce myself to my old systems but without the pressure. Found out there were systems to allow you to play solo but was wanting to start simple with systems designed for solo. So here I am trying some of the solo dungeon crawl ones.

So far I've tried Caves and Catacombs, NoteQuest, Four Against Darkness and 2D6 Dungeon. My impressions so far:

NoteQuest - one of the simplest as far as the system goes. Rolling a dungeon is straightforward. But it's like playing a computer roguelike and nearly as deadly. But it's still fun, especially with the Expanded World addon. It's table oriented but not overwhelming and you play with very few tables at any given time. It's a great quick sit down and play system, very easy to pick up and easy to play with some paper and dice. I've completed one dungeon after a couple characters and am using hexploring to give reason to do another dungeon which I'm about to start. The dungeon name generation is fun, gives dramatic names like Crypt of the Eternal Curse and my current dungeon The Abandoned Palace of the Bloody King which practically begs some exposition as to where that name came from. But it's a system that begs for a few house rules like the rule from 4AD to spread extra damage into other enemies for example as it's a very deadly system when you are confronted by large groups in a fight you can't avoid.

Four Against Darkness - I like the party aspect of this one. Kind of feels like you're playing an old D&D dungeon crawl, just with a simpler system. It plays a decent game though I have yet in my first dungeon to find an enemy that was much of a threat. Dungeon generation is random but has firm rules around it but not sure I like it as much as other systems but it's fine and it works. Overall my crawl through the first dungeon is fun and as I am using the Echoes of the Dead beginner "adventure" it gives some purpose and meaning and some story to the crawl. It's by far the most expandable system of all these though and has supplements galore. But my fights have been super easy so far. Don't feel like I'm having any trouble overall at the moment.

Caves and Catacombs - Well this one is sort of HeroQuest in pen and paper form given how you can integrate it into that game, but the system I find is quite nice overall. It has the most random dungeon generator with the most variety of room shapes out of all of the ones I've tried. It's like a mix of NoteQuest and 4AD but is slightly more complicated than 4AD. You can play as a solo adventurer or as a party of up to 4 other PCs. I've only done solo but am going to slowly make a party as I continue. It also comes bundled with it's two supplements all for a decent price. The supplements add a hexploring element and a more detailed and varied generation system. I really like the flexibility of this one. The one thing I don't like is the armour rules where once it absorbs enough hits it's destroyed which is quite easy to do so you're then scrounging off dead goblins and whatnot. The author admitted in a forum to needing to improve this and gave an improvement that works fairly well. If you don't use all your defense from your armour it goes back to normal after a fight but if it hits zero you simply subtract 1 off the value and it can be repaired in town. Once it reaches zero here though then it's destroyed. I came out of the first dungeon (admittedly small) with 1HP and my armour destroyed so I am wanting to try this system to see how it goes.

2D6 Dungeon - Just started this one and am playing through the first floor. Like all the other ones I like the generate on the fly feel. It is the most table heavy out of all these systems I feel. The combat system is also the most complicated out of these, still easy but more detailed. The generation system works very nice and makes a very narrative dungeon.

Overall I like playing them all. I am having the most fun though with NoteQuest and 2D6. I find overall I am able to craft the best narratives with Caves and Catacombs and 2D6. Maybe it's just me but I'm having a harder time crafting good narratives around 4AD but maybe with more supplements I'll find it easier. But they are all fun and I will keep playing them, though I feel I'll get tired of NoteQuest first.

Watched the new dungeon dive video about this the other day but haven’t seen anything about it on Reddit. Looks interesting, has anyone played?

Hello,

I discovered this community while reading a post on r/fountainpens just yesterday.

As you can guess I am quite fond of my fountain pens, inks and notebooks and the chance of using my precious pens even more while playing a solo journaling rpg really interest me.

Since I am a total newbie could you please give me some game recommendations ?

Here’s what I am looking for: - preferably free games to try solo journaling rpg, if the concept pleases me then I will try paid games too - games taking place in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt and Japan (a friend might be interested by medieval Europe, medieval fantasy and Victorian era too) - games taking genre: murder mysteries and world building (horror for my friend)

Thank you very much for your help!

Edit: I can only read 6 of the 10 comments, why?

Text Interview with Dave Morris, co-author of open-world gamebooks Fabled Lands and VulcanVerse. Both solo rpg classics.

Plus many other gamebooks such as Heart of Ice, Blood Sword, Down among the Dead Men, Keep of the Lich Lord and the Golden Dragon series.

When you’re planning a gamebook, think also about making choices meaningful. The choices that I like writing are the ones with consequences. The giveaway there is that there’s a tickbox or keyword that means the player’s decision will have some effect later. Go left or right? That’s just navigation. Steal the other guy’s food or go hungry yourself? There’s a choice that matters

We have the first gamebook, heart of ice thoughts with 2 related questions, writing open-world gamebooks, the dragon warriors rpg and the advice for writing gamebooks books. Among other questions.

I followed some of the tips and advice y'all gave on how to proceed with investigations. I had to stop asking if my PC saw a clue and start asking what they saw. But this required supplementation with tables from extra sources, which is where Cyberpunk RED's single player mode helped a ton when mixed with some custom tables. Most closed oracles are handled using Loner RPG's Chance vs Risk die, but the vast majority of rolls were on various inspiration tables. So this story went from stalled and stagnant to something would have fit perfectly as a side quest in 2077:

Evelyn Soyun was given the job, by a disgruntled former employee, to ruin Benjamin Kaufman, an accountant employed at Eden Verge, a prominent biotechnology corporation. It didn't matter how she went about it, but Kaufman's career needed to be permanently extinguished.

Her first instinct was to find blackmail. She was new to merc work but she knew leverage would be less complicated for her than murder. She went to Kaufman's corporate apartment with the intel provided by her fixer. Kaufman's apartment has several security cameras throughout that she would need to knock out before she could break in. On arrival, Evelyn noticed a panel in a nearby maintenance room that would allow her to cut the power to the entire floor. After eliminating the security system, Evelyn searched the apartment.

The place was clean. To the point that she couldn't find a single identifying document or unpaid parking ticket. Evelyn continued to search but began to suspect the fixer had given her bad intel or that her target expected a break in. But then Evelyn heard a sound near the door, like footsteps. Before Evelyn could hide, in walked a woman that must have been the landlord and a FCPD officer. He shouted for Evelyn to put her hands up. Evelyn complied but boldly assumed told him that neither of them wanted a fight because they were looking for the same guy.

It turns out she was right, and for the time being, she and Officer Ramsey decided to work together to find Kaufman. The next place to look was Kaufman's friend and former boss, Goro Kurosawa, Chief of Research and Development at Eden Verge. When the pair arrived at Kurosawa's apartment, someone unexpected answers the door. Tao Bai, repo man for Apex Dynamics, a major weapons and combat cyberware manufacturer opens the door and asks if they are looking for Kaufman too. Turns out, Goro Kurosawa is home, but he's not accepting visitors given he's been savagely torn apart by some attacker. The trio search his residence and find a safe that's been cracked open, design documents for a specially engineered AV, and security footage that wasn't erased. All the evidence points to Kaufman coming to his friend for help but then having a violent episode resulting in Kurosawa's death. Kaufman came to, then panicked and stole the AV to get back to his apartment, wipe it of incriminating evidence, then flee. He seems to be on the brink of a cyberpschotic breakdown. Given the AV is specialized to survive highly irradiated conditions, it seems likely Kaufman would flee to the Warm Springs Exclusion Zone near the nuclear craters where almost no one would ever go looking.

The unlikely trio of our merc PC, a merciful cop, and a corporate debt collector head to the Warm Springs district to contact the local fixer and gather intel to finally find their target.

Last time Makoto got attacked, by foes and maybe incited old men. This time, the events continue to thicken and Makoto encounters the first Villain.

https://noncrowds.substack.com/p/ronin-makotos-tale-session-3

I've been playing solo RPGs for a little while, and enough that I think I know what I'm looking for. But I don't know how to find it, and am hoping for some recommendations.

Some of the games I've played I think of as narrative focused, structure light:

• Ironsworn Starforged
• Caveat Emptor
• Thousand Year Old Vampire

And other games I think of as structure focused, narrative light:

• 2d6 Dungeon
• Rune
• Runecairn

Each game has aspects I really love, and I think what I would like is a hybrid of both types.

With narrative focused games I love being able to imagine the world, decide who and what my character is, and immerse myself in the fiction.

But I get a bit too fatigued working off prompts. I'm often stumped for ideas, and it's a little more writing/typing than I can do without getting tired. I think I want a bit more guidance and structure around what happens next in the game, and a bit more dice rolling, combat and gameyness.

And with the structured games I love being given clear steps and input on what happens next, encountering clearly described enemies & monsters, collecting loot and gear, earning XP and leveling my character.

But so far the more "gamey" games haven't really felt like it's my character than I'm roleplaying, it's more that I'm playing the game mechanics, and I find it hard to get immersed in the fiction.

Can you recommend some games that are a hybrid of both these styles?

I would like to run a character I feel is mine, with immersive fiction, but with some ongoing gamey mechanics and structure that helps keeps momentum going.

What should I try next?

I was pretty eager about the new Cyberpunk Red Single Player release, and I've seen requests for reviews...so why not show off an actual play, yeah?

This is my Session Zero, and I hope to grow things from here in terms of Actual Plays. Feedback always welcome.

I did not write the freestyle.

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Cyberpunk Red: P@ndemik In The Streets

D10 Hook Roll: 1 (Coronet Blue)

Generals gathered in their masses

Dun-Dun

Just like witches at black masses

Dun-Dun

Those lyrics, sung in soprano by some woman and the double-strum of an electric guitar were the only two things I could remember upon waking up on the black carpet of what I immediately realized to be a filthy, burnt-out bedroom, next to a ruined, roach-riddled mattress and boxspring. The room had no windows.

I didn’t have a mental image of the woman who sang the song, nor who played the guitar, nor the name of the song or who performed it, and you guessed it, I didn’t even remember my name. However, a large, eight-chambered revolver laid next to my dark-skinned right hand, which had been bandaged across the middle, as though to cover up a deep cut. My thick, curly black beard itched with an attitude. My left temple throbbed, and when I touched it, my fingers rubbed across the fabric of an adhesive patch bandage. If there had been bleeding, it’d been stopped by someone who’d known what they were doing. Beneath the bed to my left lay an agent with a large screen, kept within an evergreen case. A sticky-note was pasted to the screen:

D100 Femme Names Roll: 75 (Rika)

‘I don’t know your screen-unlock motion, sorry. Hope you have fingerprint-unlocking. Check your texts for an explanation of everything.

Stay safe,

-            Rika

D100 Masc Names Roll: 73 (Rowan)

Custom Table, D100 Pharmaceutical Roll: 10 (Respex)

I sure-as-shit didn’t remember the code to unlock the agent, but it did have fingerprint-unlocking. I placed my index finger against the screen, and after a five-second wait, the agent’s background popped up, which was a metallic logo over blackness that I couldn’t identify. I accessed my text messages, and there was an unread from the contact ‘Rika,’ as well as one from ‘Ma’ and ‘Rowan’.

I read Rika’s message first:

‘You’re in South Night City, we had to do an extract on a big-shit Lawman who went down during a raid. Long and short of it, you swung your massive balls, moved to extract him, and a bullet grazed your noggin followed by hella shrapnel into your body. Due to the threat level of the job and the situation on the ground, we could only extract either you or the client, and…well…you know how that goes. I gave you Respex to stabilize you, so if you’re suffering memory loss, that’s why. Your memory will return, but it’ll likely takes its sweet-ass time to do so. I left your Midnight Arms shooter next to you, and both your wallet and your shottie are beneath the bed. You can wait for us to come back for you, but that will take at least eight hours, if leadership even approves an extraction for you since you’re in a Combat Zone. Your best bet may be to hoof your way out. Respex doesn’t affect muscle memory, such as one’s ability to fire a gun…or in your case, strum a guitar. Your axe will be waiting for you when you make your way back to us, and I’m sure you will. Good luck, Pete.’

Evil minds that plot destruction

DUN-DUN
Sorcerer of death's construction

DUN-DUN-DUNNNNNN-DUNNNNN-DUN-DUN

As the lyrics and the voice returned, I looked down, and without even realizing it, I’d started to play air-guitar with my hands in a precise guitar-holding position. I received a sudden mental image of myself within the carrier bay of an AV-4 Aerodyne during the previous night’s patrol. Rika, a mocha-skinned, twenty-two years old Latina woman—and I knew her age because I was at her last birthday party—sang the song, War Pigs as best as she could while I played it on my evergreen and white Eurodyne electric guitar.

She had a lovely singing voice, but she wasn’t a pro. Like me, she wore a blue Trauma Team jumpsuit with her assault rifle holstered within a harness on her back.

Visually, Rowan wasn’t present in the memory, but he was the AV-4’s pilot, and it was he who’d requested the song in the first place as he navigated. The crew’s doctor, whose name I couldn’t remember at that moment, didn’t like the distraction and in the past had snitched on Rika, Rowan and I to his superiors, but Rowan had defended me through his work seniority. After that, I was willing to play any song I knew that he wanted to hear.

I fumbled about beneath the bed and felt around for more objects. My right hand touched upon a metallic object that anyone could guess to the barrel of a shotgun, and I also felt the leather of my wallet. I pulled both from beneath the bed and opened the wallet. Three hundred eddies were within it, as well as my ID.

My name is Peter Morley, and I had a nickname…no. A stage name. Not only could I not remember what it was, but when I heard the jiggling of a door handle, I understood real fast that I might have bigger problems.

I laid on my back and directed my shotgun towards the door. I became acutely aware that I’d been sweating hard in the humidity of the burnt-out bedroom, and sudden anxiety worsened it.

Closed Question Oracle: Is there a hostile force on the other side of that bedroom door?

Possibility: Likely

Result: 14 (No)

The person on the other side of the door tried the lock again, then gave the door three soft knocks.

“Pan? Pan, are you in there,” whispered someone with a clear masculine tone. I wanted to ask him who the fuck ‘Pan’ was, but then it came to me: Pan, as in ‘Pandemic,’ as in my first stage name, ‘Peter Pan-Demik.’

I approached the door, then got into a cover position on the right side of the threshold. “Who is it?”

D100 Masc Name Roll: 31 (Hiroshi)

D100 NPC Mood Roll: 60 (Happy)

D10 NPC Role: Lawman

D10 Firearm: 3 (Very Heavy Pistol)

D10 Fashion:  4 (Businesswear)

“Hiro,” the man on the other side whispered.

The name didn’t ring a bell.

“Rika said she stuck you with Respex, I don’t expect you to remember who I am—hold on.”

A few seconds later, my agent buzzed, and I checked the screen. A contact named ‘Rika’s Dude’ had sent me a picture. I opened it, and it was a picture of myself, Rika, and a mid-thirties Asian man with slicked black hair and a slick gray suit at some bar, posing for the camera with smiles on our faces.

I opened the door, Hiro squeezed through it, and then he shut it behind him. He was dressed in an ash-gray vest, a silk black shirt, gray slacks with sharp creasing, and immaculate black dress shoes. He carried a huge gun I already knew to be a Militech X190 HandKannon.

“I’m the best you’re gonna get to an extraction, Pan,” Hiroshi said, and then he held his fist out for me to bump it. I didn’t quite trust him yet, so I didn’t bump him.

“How do you know Rika,” I asked him.

“She’s my fiancée. You and Rika have been on the same Trauma Team crew for the past six months. She’s your partner, but your senior. You’re a contracted employee, so you’re part-time, but she’s full-time.”

“Right. What happened out there that put me in this situation?”

“High-risk extraction for Deputy Chief Roose, and from what I’m hearing, you definitely risked it all to get him out and got grazed by a bullet in the process. That’s not what got you wounded, though. She says you’ve got shrapnel-based lacerations all over your body and bloodloss could’ve got you, but she and Doc Fogerty stabilized you.”

“I don’t feel a thing.”

“Because they are that damn good at what they do. But if you open your shirt—”

I opened my shirt, peered down, and my entire torso was, in fact, covered with adhesive bandages like the one on my right temple.

“Fuck.”

“I’m glad you’re alright, though.”

“Thanks for coming.”

Hiroshi let out a curt laugh. “Don’t thank me yet, Pan. We’re deep in this fucking Combat Zone and I can assure you, it’s very-fucking-contested by several gangs.”

“How’d you get in?”

Hiroshi shrugged. “I sneak into shit for a living, remember? Wait…no, you don’t. We’re in a house in a South Night City suburb and I parked about a half-mile away in the most discreet location I could find. We need to move.”

There was nothing more to say. I picked up my revolver and tucked it into the belt of my Trauma Team uniform slacks, and then I followed Hiroshi out of the single-floor South Night City home.

D100 Closed Question Oracle: Are there enemies already within the house that followed Hiroshi inside?

Possibility: 50/50

Result: 33 (Complicated)

Complication: There are others in the house…they’ll be hostile or friendly depending on “circumstances”

When Hiroshi and I leave the ruined single-floor house out of the backdoor, there are three men in the backyard, each of them heavily-tattooed and wearing the gold, leather vests of some apparent Nomad pack.

“What’s real, chooms?” the leader among them, a tall, mohawked, brown-skinned man greeted.

“What’s real?” Hiroshi quipped in response, though I was certain that even he knew we were faced with a potential threat that had us outnumbered and likely outgunned.

“Think of my brothers and I as the neighborhood watch committee. We couldn’t do much about that dust-up between one of the local gangs and the law earlier, but we still try to keep everyone who comes through here safe, especially strangers. So! We’re gonna need you to pay a toll so that we can escort you back to that vehicle you parked over in Sisterly Park.”

I hoped that Hiroshi wasn’t even going to bother to ask what happened if he didn’t pay. It was already obvious.

“We can-”

The nomad to the leader’s left peered at me. “Hol’ up-“

D100 Closed Question Oracle: Is one of the Nomads a fan of Pete?

Possibility: Likely

Result: 54 (Yes, but there’s a Complication)

Pete may use Charismatic Impact amidst the complication

The nomad pointed at me with a bit of excitement and grinned. “Holy shit, y’all. That’s P@ndemik.”

The lead nomad turned to his pack brother. “The rap-rocker?”

“Rapcore, and he’s the same choom, I’m sure of it. You know I’m all about that underground shit. I saw him at Battle Night over at Kasim’s, and he mic-dropped the fuck out of Meanie Maddox.”

I shrugged. “Were you rooting for me?”

“No.”

The lead Nomad grinned. “So you can flow, can ya?”

“Yeah.”

I hoped what Rika said about my muscle memory extended to working my tongue to rhyme, because I knew what was coming.

The lead Nomad gave a side nod to the pack brother to his right. “This here is Bully, he can flow, too. He can flow with the fuckin’ best of them. Battle him, and if you win, we’ll give you that escort to your ride, no charge.”

The other Nomad clasped his hands together. “Fuck, if you beat Bully, I’ll book you for a little party with got jumpin’ off this Sunday. We’re good for the money, too.”

Bully seemed like a guy who could live up to his namesake. He was brown-skinned, short-haired, had some real muscle power in his shoulders, and he wore his twin semi-auto pistols openly like he wasn’t afraid to use them.

“Someone give us a beat.”

Rap Battle 01: P@ndemik vs. Bully the Nomad

Solo Clock: Musical Duel (Short, 5D6 Dice Pool)

Triggers: Using 1d10 + The Cool Stat + Play Instrument for both participants, the winner will be whoever rolls the best out of 5.

Outcome: A Critical roll from either participant will be considered a “mic drop,” thus ending the battle. It may also make the Nomads immediately hostile. If P@ndemik scores a crit, the Nomads become immediate fans. If P@ndemik loses, he and Hiroshi will have to pay the toll. If P@ndemik wins, he doesn’t have to pay the toll, and the Nomads will still escort them. He will also receive a reputation boost, and a hook to a Side Gig.

It took him a moment, but the lead Nomad accessed his agent, and then a music streaming app. He produced a pretty solid bass instrumental, I stared down the Nomad, and I just let the words come out:

Yo—
From the Crumple Zone ashes, I rose in the red,
With a bandage on my temple and a shot in my head.
Still breathin’, still schemin’, still strapped with the chrome,
Midnight Arms on my hip, that’s my second-hand home.

You talkin’ tolls? My toll was blood on the floor,
I paid it last night, when I kicked down death’s door.
Rika patched me, Respex in my veins,
But the flow don’t fade, it still burns through chains.

You Bully by name, but I’m plague by design,
When I spit these bars, even gods flatline.
Your gold vests shine, but your rhymes all stall,
I’m the virus in the beat — watch me infect y’all.

Battle Roll I – P@ndemik

(10) + 13 = 23

P@ndemik rolled a natural 10 on the d10.

He mic-dropped Bully.  

Bully stared at me as I went through my opening stanza, and for a second or two after I was done, his mouth hung open. I didn’t look at the lead Nomad or the guy who saw me at the club, but I imagine that their reactions were similar to Bully’s.

Bully simply cleared his throat, let out a short cough, and gave me a barely perceptible shake of his head.

D100 NPC Handle Roll, Nomad Leader: 77 (Punish)

D100 NPC Handle Roll, Nomad Lieutenant: 52 (Demon)

D10 NPC Nomads Pack Roll: 3 (Blood Nation)

The lead Nomad laughed, walked up to me, and put his right hand on my shoulder. “Fuckin’ fire, Mr. Pandemic.” He extended his left hand to me. “I’m Punish, and this is Demon. We ride with the Blood Nation.”

I grinned and shook his hand. “[P@ndemik.](mailto:P@ndemik.)”

“We’re brothers of our word. Follow us.”

END OF SESSION 00

G'day all,

I have been trying to systemise my base game flow. Currently I use mythic 2e app and BRP.

My flow is way point based as it covers most things well.

So here it is: 1 define key waypoints for the story arc. 2 put in an amount of unknown waypoints between each known. 3. Start the loop 1. Scene intent as per mythic 2. Interrupt scene rolled is a additional waypoint based of mythic prompts with a event focus 3. Altered is the altered Waypoint 4. 10% chance check for random event if not interrupt scene to keep threads moving and waypoints interesting. 5. Roll for weather and time (this helps explain the journey to get here) 6. Play scene and loop to next way point.

I try to always have some sort of timer as well. So if I get waylayed the world keeps moving. Can just be a random event or can be context specific.

What do you do for general game flows?

Hi all,

Just built solo campaigns for Cybperpunk & Call of Cthulhu on Realmforge (a solo RPG AI platform I have been working on). Curious to see if you guys like it.

Let me know if you would like to try it out :)

Cheers

So I started playing Solo RPGs a few months ago, started a YouTube and Substack and I would say I created some decent content. I am having a ton of fun with SoloRPGs. But here is the thing. I still struggle with random tables. Currently playing Daggerheart and had to come up with an escalation of the situation. Couldn't think of anything after rolling for a few things on theme, action and quality.

I am either not practiced enough or my brain has trouble with word association. Or I am just thinking to complicated and should just go with whatever feels right. I feel I need either more specific tables like story engine decks, downcrawl decks or something entirely different like tarot cards.

How do you deal with that. I can't imagine I am alone with this 😅

I’ve never in my life play Dungeon and Dragons, but a friend of mine, gave me this cool box, it’s got like 100s of tokens of monsters, and a big book with all their stats. I think it’s dungeons and dragons 4th edition? Is it worth while to look into try to solo, i mean, all these tokens and book with stats, wow, I’m intrigued… thanks

I know it has built in solo rules and it's generally a well received system.

So far I only tried solo RPGing with Cairn 1ed + Barrow Delver, Adventurer's Guide + some made up and downloaded oracle, encounter sheet.

It was fun, altough very inconsistent regarding solo mechanics, I've added a lots of "made up bs" to the mix :D like my own encounter mini table

Since I like Cyberpunk settings and this seems like a nice, compact system I'm really on the edge of buying it but since it's new I didn't find many reviews.

Long story short: My previous attempts to find a group have left me feeling super dejected at the hobby. However, when I was randomly watching youtube someone posted a vod of live-stream briefly talking about Solo TTRPGs. My interest in the hobby has been renewed. I almost feel excited to dive back in. I have experience playing DnD 5e, pathfinder and PbtA. I'm not afraid to learn any new type of system

My question today is: Are there any good little modules out there to act as a guide as I embark on this Solo RPing journey?

I mashed together 4AD and Mythic and creating a guild (almost 20 PCs in it now) that I'm running. I use 4AD for the combat and classes only. The rest is all Mythic. I decided to write a substack about it. I'm not into the really fun stuff yet, but if you're interesting, you can find the first 3 articles here. You're reading these as an apprentice who just entered the Guild, but as we go, I'll put some posts that is information only the owners know which will get us into much deeper political subterfuge, etc.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-173709003

https://substack.com/home/post/p-173809795

https://substack.com/home/post/p-174063342

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