Roleplaying

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, … Read more

Sometimes, a solo sandbox game can lack a bit of drive to push it forward. If the adventures don’t exist until you are generating them on the fly, you may need some ignition point to get the adventure going. Once you have finished one adventure, you start the process again. Where does the next adventure … Read more

I am a big fan of mini tables. Mine are typically 4 options, two more common and two less so. My tables start out looking like this. d6 1-2 Option 1 3-4 Option 2 5 Option 3 6 Option 4 I like the inherent bias because it means I can change the feel for an … Read more

So, there I was happily laying out an anthology of short games. It wasn’t massively exciting, it was mainly just laying out page after page of other people’s work. When someone said “Why didn’t I have a Cypher System book?” The short answer was that there was already a Cypher System book called CHAOS, which … Read more

The storytelling collective ‘course’ is delivered as a series of letters. The last letter covered two ideas. The first is about the spectrum of options between planning your story in great details at one end and writing by the seat of your pants at the other. Most of us will naturally be somewhere on that … Read more