I haven’t solo played any D&D for 3 or 4 years.
I have the setting core book for Arkadia [Arcana Games LLC] and the adventure Fate of the Oracle. I have also have the free D&D basic set PDF. I am hoping, in theory, that with rules in the basic set, and the setting-specific rules, classes, races, monsters, items, and so on from Arkadia, I can run a game.
Greek settings lend themselves well to both groups and solo heroes. Heraclese was very much a solo hero, Jason and the Argonauts was a team epic, Odyseus was a solo epic, Agamemnon’s fleet was scattered and every ship that survived the storm had its own adventures trying to reach home.
Many of the monsters that have become D&D classics come straight from Greek myth; skeletons, harpies, Medusa, the hydra, and the minotaur are classic examples.
In Arkadia, one should be able to play absolute classics, clichéd adventures, and it should simply feel right, because we are going back to the source. Of course, Arkadia isn’t historical Greece or the Hellenic world; it is a fantasy interpretation of it, and that gives us carte blanche to run roughshod over anything that doesn’t quite fit.
My solo toolbox has undergone considerable changes in the years since I last played D&D solo. I have also recently been dabbling with some different improv. theatre techniques.
Whether the experience generates enough new content to make it worthwhile to create a new edition of my D&D solo rules remains to be seen. I will try and feed back what I discover.
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