Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery
Solo Roleplaying May Look Difficult, I try to make it easy with unique tools matched to each game.
Peter Rudin-Burgess This is part 9 in a series: The Sticky GM (part 1) Locations (part 2) Personalities (part 3) Encounters (part 4) Stakes (part 5) Plots (part 6) What if… (part 7) Combat Order (part 8) Who doesn’t like having magic weapons, cool alien tech, or simply a bigger flipping gun? At least once, that I … Read more
There is a joke that says role-playing games, where a three-month journey takes 30 seconds, and a 30-second fight takes three hours. We all dream of high drama, dynamic combats. As the characters race through the castle, dispatching the evil baron’s guards with a slash here and a thrust there. It rarely works out like … Read more
So you bought this cool new game, you and some friends want to play but none of you really have the experience to GM. Do you let the game languish on your shelf for years never to be played? Sadly that happens to a lot of games. Soon it is not the newest thing you … Read more
I will confess right from the start that my preferred style of play is an open sandbox where adventure is something that sweeps the character up, rather than a published module that has a defined start, middle and end. At the end of this article is a free sheetsheet download form. You can get all … Read more
This is part 7 in a series: The Sticky GM (part 1) Locations (part 2) Personalities (part 3) Encounters (part 4) Stakes (part 5) Plots (part 6) There will always be a moment when the characters go in a completely unplanned for tangent. Most of the time the pinpoint process I have been describing will … Read more