Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery
Solo Roleplaying May Look Difficult, I try to make it easy with unique tools matched to each game.
Have you ever played with a DM/GM that would roll a dice behind their screen, apparently for no reason, and then maybe make a sound like they are worried or just look at a specific player as if the roll would impact that character? Once in a while, the roll would be legitimate. I can … Read more
I have put this idea in many of my solo booklets. The core of the idea comes from theatre. “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t going to go off. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.” We are not writing plays when we solo game, … Read more
A role-playing game is one where a three-month journey can take 3 minutes to play, and a three-minute combat can take two entire sessions. But it doesn’t have to. I find solo combats tend to run faster than group game combats. There are a ton of reasons for this. Firstly, the number of combatants tends … Read more
Last year, I listened to a podcast called A Year to Change Your Life. The presenter was a psychologist, and for each ‘month’ in the title, she described a different psychological technique or method to achieve a positive outcome. That all sounds rather vague, but it was better and more interesting than I made it … Read more
I have a couple of packs of dry-erase blank playing cards, but this idea works just as well with a few cut-up index cards, or you can just take a regular old deck of cards and a glue stick and paste blank paper over them. Whatever way you do it, you can make a custom … Read more