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 I can definitely remember times when I would roll for a yes/no question and then be absolutely stumped as to what the answer I got meant to my character. Generally, there are three outcomes, some form of yes, some form of no, and then possibly a plot twist, complication, or interruption. What I am talking … Read more
The reason I included this as solo advice is that a one-shot adventure is the Swiss Army Knife of solo play. You can see that I can make a good case for the one-shot adventure, and at any time, you can decide to launch it into a grand campaign. You lose nothing by starting this … Read more
If you are not familiar with mind maps, they are way of connecting ideas. You start with a single concept in the center of a page and then add in connected ideas. Each idea is typically called a node, and each node can connect to more new nodes or to other existing nodes. If you … Read more
The stock advice of not asking too many questions made me think about how we play as groups. Your GM may say there is a desk in the corner, possibly with a very brief description, old, ornate, elegant, or whatever. If you ask a question about the desk, such as “Is it tidy?” your GM … Read more
There was a question this week along the lines of did we know any games that did not have combat. There were many responses and my own suggestions were for games like Tales from the Loop, Kids on Bikes and Gumshoe systems which emphasise investigation. Another suggestion was Brindlewood Bay by Jason Cordova. [I am … Read more