Does anyone know of any reviews or play through blogs/videos for Doppelgänger Publishing games like “5’ Into Space”, “The Wandering Knight” or the Daydreamer games? I would like to take one for a spin but I have trouble parsing rulebooks on my own, even simple ones. Any advice that people familiar with them can give would be appreciated!
If you're on Reddit still, and you #SoloRPG I'd love to see your answer.
Also, OMG some of the ways people do this sounds ... so painful. Like OMG WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO YOURSELF, but it just goes to show how different our 🧠s are.
Seeing how radically differently people approach #SoloRPG is also insightful in that it gives us a clue as to why some people find so much more enjoyment with solo play AND an frustrations in group plays
We don't just enjoy different types of games (trad vs narrative vs whatever) and settings. We also want to interact with our games in different ways at different speeds. There will always be some degree of "impedance mismatch" when playing with others.
"Why We Fight is a solo+ narrative TTRPG where you play a crew of eco-punks fighting fascism to build a brighter, greener future."
"(...) help struggling refugees and the havens they’ve made, and build a thriving, self-sustaining solar-punk community, all while pushing back against a force that seeks to blame the powerless (...)"
Introduction post now that I'm on a server that fits me better.
I'm a Gen-X Southwest-Louisiana-born Cajun living in South-Central Kansas. I have an amazing wife and two children (all of us Autistic). My education is in Physics/Astronomy though I'm currently looking into moving to Philosophy for the future.
My interests tend to be varied, deeply researched, and cyclical. Some of them are listed in the hashtags below.
Currently, I am a very left Communist in politics though I am never married to an ideology. Nothing I've researched so far includes as much of my morality and ethics but Capitalism is plainly evil. In religion/spirituality, I am a firm (though not fundamentalist) agnostic atheist.
I had my first personal computer in 1991 and was forever tech-focused since that time. Soon after, I was introduced to Linux through Slackware and have been an on-again off-again user of it. I am in the Information-should-be-free camp. The Hacker Manifesto by The Mentor has always been my life.
Above all of that, I am a voracious reader with not enough time to read it all.
With all of that said, I am not a "content creator" (really dislike that new phrase)! I am just an individual that occasionally posts about interests. So, unfortunately, if you gravitate towards that, you should probably look elsewhere.
My journaling game about going on vacation, Souvenirs, just received its update! ✨
It's a visual update that doesn't change the content of the experience but makes the rulebook more beautiful and pleasant to play with, with a colorful & improved layout and some new illustrations.
ICYMI, Souvenirs is a solo role-playing game about writing the journal of a character that goes on vacation for a week, discovers charming places and gets items as souvenirs of their visits. It's an introspective game about the memories we associate with objects and places!
Happy new year!! 🥳
I hope everybody had an amazing time!
I want to kick things off this year by posting my favorite #art of my solo RPG, Dungeons of Galora!
Thanks everyone who took an interest in my work, reacted to it, and shared their thoughts here in dicecamp! it meant a lot to me!
Now on to more #ttrpg stuff! @rpg@RPG@ttrpgs#soloRPG
O.M.G.Squeee! I just stumbled across this amazing video by Howard Abrams about "Crafting Ironsworn in Emacs" which discusses how he's integrated all the moves, tables, and mechanics of Ironsworn into Emacs, allowing him to easily play solo Ironsworn games.
THEN he went and genericised the system to play other games.
Regardless of how you feel about #emacs you should check this out. Every solo playable game should have a tool this awesome.
It’s been a while since I inked any of my fountain pens, but picked up some Bungubox Ink of Witch recently on a whim. Feels perfect for a new solo narrative RPG that arrived recently. Looking forward to trying it out. #FountainPens#TTRPG#SoloRPG
So I'm interested in trying to find something I can use as counters for #SoloRPG purposes.
I'd particularly like to find some flat disks, roughly about 2cm across, that I could glue paper to. I got some printable sheets with counter designs and they're about that size at the smallest, so that would be ideal.
I imagine there must be some #boardgame pieces I could seek out, preferably cheap ones, but no luck finding any so far.
Anyone with any clue where I could look? #Craft stores maybe?
Did some sketch painting tonight. It's prep for a Solo RPG called Apothecaria. Decided to paint the little cottage my Witch is gonna inherit.
I think it's done, gonna let it fully dry, then maybe go in with some shadows but we'll see. Don't wanna over-work it. The point is to be a quick sketch.
quick #introduction here on #mastodon !
I'm working on a #soloRPG with its own setting. it tells the story of people rediscovering their heritage through a fast-paced dungeon-crawling-focused gameplay. Ah! worth mentioning the intention to stick to a very vintage-like #art direction, slightly inspired by Russ Nicholson. #ttrpg@ttrpg@rpg@RPG@rpg@ttrpgs
I mostly GM, and don’t get much play outside #SoloRPG, so the first game I played this year was Worlds Without Number.
However, it got me thinking about my first ever game as a player. It was sometime in the early 90s, and it was either WEG’s Star Wars, in which I played a lumbering Gamorrean brandishing a thermal detonator, or Palladium FRPG.
I remember the system was meh, but Palladium’s campaign world was/is really interesting.
Spent the evening last night working on the second edition of "Fable on your Table", my #papercraft#miniatures skirmish #solorpg.
I've whittled down and codified how companions work in this edition, giving them a simple stat block that is easy to track and gives a lot of flexibility. Really happy with how it's turning out!
(Interested? Check out the first edition and follow for updates at lonespelunker.itch.io).
Printed out one of the cards I mentioned yesterday in the little heartbreaker #rpg#solorpg#miniatures game I am working on. Took a few iterations but I think it has an approachable layout now. Was worried the text would be too small but it’s okay. (And it will be PNP so people who want to print it larger can.)
The frame elements are derived from a layout resource offered by penflower ink - you can find it on itch.
Why are you playing #solorpg systems? #ttrpgs are living off their social interaction and emergent storytelling, which is not-existent or strongly diminished when playing solo. Which system do you play and what makes them work for you? #rpg#pnpde#pnp
My #soloRPG#rule0 “Resist the TRAP of too many tools!” Instead I build a minimal kit of essentials + some odds. I like to include something fun and assign it for specific functions and mechanics (it should always be 1. Faster & 2. Fun. Unique dice can really spark up some good soloin’ lickity split! Trap dice for instance! What “unique” tools live in your #solokit? https://www.etsy.com/listing/697341334/
There's also the Solo Game Master's Guide, which I picked up at #GenCon in 2023, started reading, but got distracted by life/work/other projects Given a certain solo/co-opt #Starforged game we've got cooking, now seems like a good time to pick it up again (and to use the Summer Reading list to finish it). #Solo#SoloRPG
Continuing to replace the AI-generated images in my game now that I understand how problematic it is.
It's turning out to be making my game better. Below is a comparison between the AI image I'd generated (on the left) for a snowy outpost and what I drew (on the right).
The AI version is evocative enough, I suppose, but it's obviously AI generated. And the image on the right is MUCH closer to what I envisioned for the scene (despite my art skills). I like mine better.