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Thread Question: What was your latest character death like?

>>95970244 (OP)
>TQ
Found a secret city and instantly got into an argument with some sorcerers which triggered the fucking end of the world.

sup ladies

started working on a hack of Usurper for cyberpunk. I hate writing tables so much

>mogs Barbarian Prince

>>95970937
never heard of this
>You take on the role of a Ranger, a protector of the mountain valley you call home: a vast wilderness transformed by monumental feats of science and technology devised to save the Earth from destruction long ago.
ah too bad the concept doesn't appeal to me
bgg says it's best for 2 players

>>95970937
That's not really fair, earthborne has the advantage of all those components/cards, while barbarian can be played with a pdf and a single sheet.
Also it's literally from last century, so it holds up pretty well considering

As promised, the updated adventure of Jaasim/Veiled sands & Iron Vows:

https://mega.nz/file/ndwD0YLL#yUXQk2qRc_fFBiMbhuTErfhPeYwk-PbTtHmIa1le-TQ

And music to go with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYPh-T8S35g&list=PL6649E8FCE8340113

>>95970937
I still prefer Barbarian Prince.
>>95971802
Interesting.

T.Q: my PC was crushed by one of those falling ceiling traps. Fell for the oldest trick in the dungeon.

>>95970244 (OP)
>What was your latest character death like?
I was playing a Level 3 thief in an OSR game. My character had heard that there was some treasure to be found in a nearby crypt. He managed to get to the crypt itself, but he found that the entrance of the place was being used as a camp by bandits.
I thought I'd be able to infiltrate the place, but once I got in and killed a couple dudes I was in too deep and failed a couple stealth checks. immediately got surrounded by bandits and got stabbed and shot on the way out.

>>95971802

>247 pages stuffed full of images
>17 meg

how the fuck lol.
impressive stuff anon very nicely done, looking forward to reading. thanks!

>>95972821
Online compressor.
So, far as I'm concerned; warlock bullshit.

It was originally 300+ MB, but I'm not going to do that shit to all of you.

>TQ
FUCKING BOARS

>>95973054
Heh I remember that.

>>95972839
Technomancy at its finest.

Has anyone here played Nechronica, Golden Sky Stories, or MAID RPG Solo? How did it go, what kind of things did you tack on to make it more fun solo? I always struggle roleplaying social games even though I seem drawn to them at first glance.

Speaking of, are there any Japanese Solo RPG's?

>>95973654
I tried Golden Sky Stories and it didn't really go over well. The game's reliance on other players is a bit too heavy, in my opinion. Most of the game seems like it's social interaction and discussing how to overcome situations. You could run something like that solo, but it would require a whole lot of simulating dialogue and character interactions, which is definitely possible, but too much work.
However, a long time ago I rain "MAID" solo, and that went really well. I used "Player emulation" which is the opposite of GM emulation. I generated seeral "Players" and gave each of them personalities, desires, and motives, then I gave each of them a character. It basically played like a slice of life anime. Each session was a different challenge I would give to them, and they'd each try to do the task in a way that best suited me. Good shit.

May I ask, if anyone knows, what games have a slice of life side? I'm interested in that.

>>95973764
I figured with Golden Sky Stories. I feel like without true conflict in mechanical/gamey terms - it's hard stay focused playing solo. I need dopamine to bring me back to what I'm doing. I like the cute animals though.

I kind of want to do what you did with MAID with Nechronica and have it be less slice of life and more survival.

Because Ironsworn was missing mice men.

>>95974699
But are they bikers from Mars too?

>>95973982
Iron Valley
Magical Life Of A Teenage Witch
Protectors Of Empai Tirkosu
Let's Talk (not a full game but works well for SoL)

>>95974883
Thank you very much.

Barbarian Prince, Cal and his people won the battle, the changes I introduced made the fighting more entertaining (for me at least). They obtained good loot and Cal reached 409 to his funds, he is closer to his goal. But still far from reaching Castle Drogat. Currently, they are exploring some ruins, we shall see what secrets they unearth.

Has anyone played Thousand Year Old Vampire? Seems like a unique TTRPG

Imagine playing this SOCIAL activity alone.

lol. That's it, not even an lmao

The gang encounters a witch. Let's see how it goes, she is not interested, she leaves. That was totally pointless.

>>95975838
now you know there's a witch in the area that isn't immediately hostile

>>95975855
But in Barbarian Prince you don't go back to previous Hexes. At least, that's how understand it.

>>95975837
Kind of late this time, eh, buddy?

>>95971802
Just saw this, like the other guy said yeah i cant believe you somehow made the file size smaller than the other one which was 33mb while adding more pages lmao. Anyway super excited to read this (Its me btw shokol) Ill give you my review again like last time after ive read it. really funny how i saw thi just now, i was bored and was thinking about what to do and then you post this. so i guess i know what ill be doing.

>>95974699
>not cheesesworn
missed opportunity

>>95975838
Think of it as a chance to give the world some flavour.
What are witches like in your Barbarian Prince setting?
Conan style slutty temptresses?
Green with warty noses?
Are they a separate species? If not what do you do to become a witch?

I still think the moment I'm most proud of in my run through was Cal finding the Dawnsword, I swapped out broken box for ancient tomb and did an entire bit on it.
It's the exact same item mechanically, but 'I found a blade carved from the bones of the oldest enemies of mankind, plunged deep into the skull of a long dead and long frozen Devil-snake' fucks harder than 'Magic sword in a broken box my dude'

>>95975753
That's that writing prompt game. I've heard about it and it's apparently good. You have to let go of memories because you're so old that you forget parts of your vampire life.

>>95970244 (OP)
>TQ: playing OD&D
>wandering monsters appear
>spiders
>party gets surprised
>fighter instantly dies on round 1 before the party has a chance to do anything
many such cases

>>95976656
what about both? you find an ancient evil snake/dragon thing's skull, and

>when you're examining it, its massive fang falls out and you're shocked because the fang slashes through your shirt like air as it falls. you pick it up by the root, and it seems to fit your hand as if it belongs there. you take a few swings and you swear you hear the fang hum, its edge sharper than any blade you've ever seen.

you need to get creative with your loot.

>>95976993
You could day the game balance is very "stable"

>Starforged character stumbles across a Megastructure
>Throw on the OG Halo theme song and just soak it in
It really is the little things that make a game

>>95977076
I'm trying to do that, but it's my first time playing so I thought it would be better if I stuck to the letter of the rules till I felt more confident.

>>95978418
If it was good enough for JAWBONE OF AN ASS samson and GOD HIMSELF, it should be good enough and epic enough for you.

hell, using the milestone XP system of dnd 5e, I've turned the Noble Lady Lyssandra Wavecrest into a ftr 1 / rog 1 'Sandra Steelflame' from a basic npc, thanks to the campaign events and what her character did being weighty enough.

Sandra Steelflame
(née Lady Lyssandra Wavecrest)
Race: Variant Human
Class: lvl 2: Ftr 1 / Rog 1
Background: Noble
Alignment: Neutral Good

Ability Scores
Strength (STR): 10 (+0)
Dexterity (DEX): 16 (+3)
Constitution (CON): 14 (+2)
Intelligence (INT): 15 (+2)
Wisdom (WIS): 10 (+0)
Charisma (CHA): 18 (+4)
Hit Points and Armor Class
Hit Points (HP): 19
Armor Class (AC):
16 (Breastplate: 14 + DEX mod +2)
18 (with Shield: +2)
Proficiencies
Saving Throws:
Strength (+2)
Constitution (+4)
Dexterity (+5)
Intelligence (+4)
Skills:
Animal Handling (+2)
History (+4)
Persuasion (+6)
Athletics (+2)
Insight (+2)
Stealth (+7) [expertise]
Acrobatics (+5)
Perception (+2) Passive: 17
Deception (+6)
Investigation (+4) Passive: 17
Tools: Thieves’ Tools +7 [expertise], Gaming Set (Cards)
Languages: Common, Thieves’ Cant
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Armor: Light armor, medium armor, heavy armor, shields

>>95978418
The anon that originally replied to you here. If that's what you want to do for now then go for it.
Just remember, changing fluff isn't the same as changing rules.
Still, no pressure either way. Do what works for you man.

Feats and Features
Variant Human Bonus:
Skill Proficiency: Animal Handling
Feat: Observant
+1 to Intelligence
+5 to Passive Perception and Passive Investigation
Ability to read lips if visible and language is known
Fighter Features:
Fighting Style: Dueling (+2 damage with a single-handed weapon)
Second Wind: Regain 1d10 + 1 HP as a bonus action, once per short rest
Rogue Features:
Sneak Attack: +1d6 damage once per turn with advantage or an ally within 5 feet of the target
Expertise: Double proficiency bonus for Stealth and Thieves’ Tools
Thieves’ Cant: Secret rogue language
Equipment
Weapon/s:
Arming Sword (Rapier): 1d8 piercing, finesse (for Dueling and Sneak Attack)
Armor:
Breastplate (AC 14 + DEX mod, max +2)
Shield (+2 AC)
Gear:
Thieves’ Tools
Explorer’s Pack
Fine clothes
Signet ring (Wavecrest family)
Lineage Scroll (Wavecrest family tree)
Gaming Set (Cards)
Skills and Abilities
Passive Perception: 17
Passive Investigation: 17
Initiative: +3 (DEX)
Speed: 30 ft.
Attacks:
Rapier: +5 to hit (DEX +3, Proficiency +2), 1d8 + 5 piercing (DEX +3, Dueling +2)
Sneak Attack: +1d6 damage (once per turn under conditions)
Personality and Background
Personality Traits: Confident, charming, and a touch reckless; eager to shed her noble past for adventure.
Ideals: Values freedom and proving herself over noble duty. being valued as an equal is her overriding ideal.
Bonds: Tied to the Wavecrest family by heritage, but forging a new path as Sandra Steelflame. Her Husband is her Primary, overriding bond.
Flaws: Occasionally entitled, arrogant, naive; still adjusting to the rugged adventurer’s life.

and time to make the reeeeeeeeetards scream.

>>95978617
>>95978625
God damnit man, pastebin that shit instead of posting it directly.
It's not much to ask.

Sandra Steelflame
the Golden Goddess
Sandra Steelflame, once the noble Lady Lyssandra Wavecrest, has cast aside her fine dresses and glittering jewellery for a life of adventure and love as the wife of Garran Steelflame. Her curvaceous, devastatingly beautiful body remains a vision of allure, with golden bronze skin that shimmers under the sun, amber brown eyes alight with determination, and long silver hair flowing like a river down her back. Her Full, heavy and heaving breasts with dark nipples and areolae draw Her husbands hands. Thick heart-shaped luscious lips kiss him or pleasure him, ever eager to be with him. Wide hips, and plush full rear draw his hands and displays her sex, framed by her wide set thighs, with its silver haired mound concealing her dark lips and red-pink insides.
She now wears bold new attire: tight black leather breeches that cling to her curves, a light blue cotton blouse that softens her warrior’s edge, and a bulging breastplate to fit her prodigious breasts, paired with an open sallet helm to protect her head. Her hands are protected by soft kid leather tan gloves, and her feet by soft tan kid leather boots. Though she is new to the arming sword belted at her waist and the round wooden shield she carries, her eagerness to learn under Garran’s patient guidance shines through, even if her confidence is still budding.

Adorning her neck is a snug black and red leather stock lined with brown fur, its silver-set tiger eye gem gleaming at her throat, framed by silver-set sapphires—a symbol of her unbreakable bond with Garran. Over this rests her silver and gold torc, her marriage band, with bear’s head ends nestled just beneath the stock’s sapphires, marking her joyful transition to Mrs. Sandra Steelflame. No longer the entitled noblewoman of her past, she revels in her new role, her heart set on becoming a mother and building a family with the man she adores. Her love for Garran is palpable, her giggles of glee ringing out whenever he digs his hands into her hips and rear, their playful affection a constant dance of devotion. Sandra’s journey from noble constraints to warrior’s wife is etched in every step, her beauty matched only by the strength and passion she now embodies.

>>95978638
never! suffer text blocks! devoid of the nice readability formatting they enjoy in their actual document!

>>95978617
>>95978625
>>95978642
>>95978645
Anon the Laconic (AC 5 MV 6 HD 3 hp 14 #AT 1 D 1d10 with 2 Handed-sword)

>>95978700
soul
>>95978617
>>95978625
>>95978642
>>95978645
soulless

>>95978928
>>95978700
cry more you samefagging tranny

>so bland it gets no reaction in /lewd
>pastes it somewhere else to seek attention

tragic.

Do the rpg magazines have good material for solo gaming?

I'm not reading allat
>>95979162
What did he expect, really? Someone to furiously masturbate to his text-only OC?

>>95978645
I can tell you wrote this with some stupid Ai slop machine as well, Sadly the jannies wont erase your gay offtopic stuff so we are gonna bully you until you learn not to post your gay shit in here for attention. take this to the lewd threat faggot, we dont want to see this shit here.

>>95979238
no. srpg goes reeee if you post the lewd here. so only the non lewd parts go here.

see the >>95979255 faggot.
no actual /lewd/ content but still REEEEEEEEtard going to reeeeeee like the shitcunt they are.

at least fucking admit you don't actually WANT any fucking content here at all, loser. instead of making up nonsensical un-reasons.
fucking thread hall-monitor.

>>95979342
>at least fucking admit you don't actually WANT any fucking content here at all
Notice how no one has said a negative word about the 250 page doc posted earlier.
Have you ever considered that your content is dogshit and no one, even the hungry, desires to consume dogshit?

>>95979356
you mean the link? meaning its NOT something posted ITT at all? its offsite.

>>95979365
>Dude just post the 250 page pdf in thread
Yeah, sure I'll just repost the entire thing across the next
>200k words
>Average of 7 characters per word including space
>1,400,000 characters
>2000 characters per post
>700 posts
4-ish threads shall I?
Retard-kun?

>>95979365
Alright, know what, that was too harsh. I don't want to stifle you participating in threads.

If it's going to be big blocks of stats or the like though, here's an idea:
Write them up, then screen snip them and post them as an image.
How's that sound? That'll stop it taking 3-4 posts any time you want to post something at least.

Meet us half way here.

>>95979381
guess what faggot. we are talking about content ITT. you're the faggot who decided OFF SITE content magically qualified as content ITT... because you just fucking said so.

don't claim something nonsensical if you don't fucking want to get mocked for it. you giant tarded faggot.

just admit you do not want ANYTHING to actually ever be posted ITT. you want YET ANOTHER constantly off-topic UN-Thread in which you can shitpost and faggot troll like a god damned cunt forever.

DO YOU EVEN fucking play any Solo games? because I don't fucking see YOUR session recaps or characters or fucking anything at all. Just fucking faggoted REE posts.

NO fucking games, NO fucking opinion.

>>95979401
Know what, ignore that last post I made.
You're a cunt and I'm not going to be polite.
Here's your (You), cocksucker, don't spent it all in one place.

>>95979412
bitch and moan. cunt. NOGAMES.

>>95979439
oh wow. so brainfaggoted you have to even bitch at others.

MEANWHILE, my barbarian and his wife just fucking recovered a stolen icon relic of umberlee from kuo-toa in the sewers and then hunted a basilisk, using the classic mirror trap to stone the fucker.

the entire time you've been crashing out and faggoting about, I've been Playing a solo rpg, following the rules and not even fudging dice.

so go forth, you glorious faggot, and continue in the sucking of all the penis.

No matter how hard he tries, he will never be drowanon

>>95979465
Holy shit you are seething so incredibly hard lmafo

>>95979571
>i'm not seething, you're seething!
so not only are you playing internet tough guy, you're playing the NUH UH U! you are definitely like fucking 12.

>>95979401
>its not lewd even thought i describe her big Breasts and how she gets groped every time i describe an aspect of how she looks like
>Its bad to post a pdf instead of spaming giant chunks of text because its le off site even thought someone is posting the link to it in the thread
>everyone else if a faggot except for me because im have temper tantrums when people call me out on these things
Kys nigga lmfao

no games, no opinion

Prepping for a couple of solo campaigns but I'm not sure which to run first
>Wars of the Central Powers, a horse and musket game focused around cascading alliances and major political moves, with massed battles between large armies and naval races. The fate of kin

Nations are decided
>A sci-fi game focused around a squad of UNITY soldiers on peacekeeping duties on a planet that's recently been drawn into the conclaves fold and was torn by war beforehand. Lots of exploring, cleanup, and hunting down bandits, raiders, and remnants. And alien monsters. More of a personal focus on squad members and their lives.
Stuck between the two

>95979401
Your wall of texts are unwanted here, either condense them to greentext points or post offsite with a link. Most of us still won't read your slop though.

>>95979762
I cannot post apparently. Maybe sleep is needed.

>>95979762
Think the Sci-fi might be more interesting/ Plausible since im not sure how you want to try to do a geopolitical simulator solo game. Not that the first isn't interesting it is and i think that one is good. but idk how you intend to do it since most solo stuff is centered around your second idea.

>>95979843
Maybe.
The geopolitical stuff does involve painting many 2mm armies and tracking movements of corps/armies and ships/flotillas on a hex map.

>>95979863
Yeah i guess it'd be more of a solo war game with rpg elements than a solo ttrpg. so whatever you think you want to try i suppose. both are cool ideas but its if youd rather play a war game or a squad of people with more character to them.

>>95979882
Yeah. The larger scale conflicts would be less personal though there would be some focus on officers, especially generals, and on nation leaders.

The sci-fi squad might be easier

>yet another month passes with the local lord doing fuckall to push back against the enemy
>check the logs from this time last year
>"forces are gathering nearby, looks like we're getting ready for a big attack!"
>mfw

>>95979342
>no actual /lewd/ content
>describing the "joyful wife's" nipples and vagina in detail.

>>95980030
The fact he immediately goes thermonuclear over being asked to have even a smidge of class or restraint is wild.
Not even 'You don't belong here, fuck off', just 'Can you dial it in a little' was enough for him to have a tantrum.

>>95979762
>Nations are decided
Sounds quite interesting.

>>95980054
I don't really give a fuck that it was lewd, but it was just a dump of a character sheet. Who gives a fuck?

>>95979486
>drowanon
Now there was a TRVE solochad, I wonder what he's up to these days. Hope his harem is doing well.

>>95979486
Man, I miss drowanon and his writeups

>>95980499
Remember how his oracle used to give him the horniest of options and he used to fight against it? Man bent over backwards to make none horny interpretations.

alright. So I got my cepheus solo game going.

>guy 1, some autist who joined the scouts and made a name quickly. His boss asked him to poke around and figure out what the other scout company was talking about with some super secret system. His snooping got discovered and to appease the Other Team(politics) he got canned. His boss, however, gave him a scout ship and some money and told him to investigate further.
>girl 1, stacy(SOC A) who made it through the scouts alright, learning a few engineering tricks here and there. Got fired under suspicions of corporate espionage.
>guy 2, big ex marine, always wanted to be a scout. quit as soon as he could, which was after gaining quite a bit of experience(4 terms) in the marines.
>girl 2, science type who has done well in the scouts. guy 1's boss paid her to join the expedition

guy 1 assembles the team and the head to this mysterious system nobody wants to talk about openly. on arrival, everyone wakes up(assuming tech level 10ish) and during system checks someone notices they have a large object in their cargo hold that wasn't planned. Guy 1 starts sweating balls and girl 1 freaks out. she checks it out with cool guy 2, who decides it's some failsafe data/sample return pod thingy, but nobody knows for sure. Seems reasonable since this is a company ship and the mission is somewhat important to at least one important guy. Guy 1 is entirely beat down by Girl 1's stacy-isms during all this(he's got SOC of 4) and Guy 2 has stepped in as a leader figure. Guy 1 is ok with this. Crisis resolved(or is it?) they move into the system and Girl 2 starts the system survey.

8 planet system, details don't matter to you. Most notable thing is an outer system gas giant has a weird sensor reading. Zeroing in, turns out theres a lifeboat in orbit! wtf, this is supposed to be an unexplored system. The crew(meaning guy 2) determines to plot a course for the planet and the lifeboat.

>>95978645
pathetic

>>95981128
>quit as soon as he could
>4 terms
Surely "as soon as he could" is the end of 1 term. I procrastinate a lot, but 16 years seems excessive.

>>95982659
depends. the terran federations' mobile infantry cap troopers served a term of 2 years.

>>95983090
Traveller/Cepheus terms are 4 years. Regardless of how long they are, 4 is not the smallest whole number greater than 0.

The biggest thing that has helped me solo RP is the section titled "everything is play" in the solo GM guide. Realizing that it's fine to just enjoy collecting tokens and setting up sheets and having fun is a huge help.

Anyone tried "Across a thousand dead worlds" ? What did you think of it? Any bad points while playing?

New Solo Mork Borg update

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thesoloist/solo-borg-a-toolkit-for-playing-mork-borg-without-a-gm/posts

>>95970244 (OP)

>TQ
>Two recent deaths
Started a bar fight. Guards got involved. Got my throat cut by a random blow.

My second was just an ambush gone wrong. Managed to take down three of the goblins, but missed the fourth, and got scalped for my troubles.

In both cases, I just rerolled a new character, and picked up the day after, following the consequences of the deaths.

How do I get started bwos? I have everything that I need except for a Hex map

>>95987852
What system are you using? And honestly, I'd say just start.
I know that seems like shit advice, but just drop your character somewhere with a bit of a goal in mind and roll onwards.
What's your setting, I'll give you a plot hook to start the game rrolling.

>>95987928
>What system are you using?
Shadowdark

>>95988152
In that case;
>Rapegoblins from the Badccaves had kidnapped the Daughterwife of the Mayormerchant, save her and he'll give you goldgold.

>>95988198
I read that in a goblin's voice

>>95988248
>Das Rapesgoblins frvm der Badcaves hatt kidnappen ze daughsseranglengleshlossenrubabenfuhrer of the Margref wiztout ze proper Pa-raper-work. Enforce the Obenwill upon zem unt you will get permits!

Better?

>>95988264
Much better

>>95987669
is mork borg actually any good? I kind of thought of it as a coffee table book that you technically could play

>>95989032
>I kind of thought of it as a coffee table book that you technically could play
that's exactly what it's like
"good" is hard to measure, but it is pretty generic osr lite gameplay + an artbook / setting flavor that's decently inspiring for solo.

>>95989032
Its an art book pretending to be a game
(Its not really that bad but its very lite)

>>95985750
>the solo GM guide
Which one exactly?

>>95990416

ntayrt but Solo Gamemasters Guide by Geek Gamers/modiphius

ok you tards have got me interested in trying Barbaran Prince. obv its out of print so whats the best way to give it a go these days?
print out the scan on the dwarfstar page?

>>95990729
Just play it from the pdf

>>95985750
What is collecting tokens like?

It happened, I arrived at the end of my campaign, Cal Arath and his people reached Castle Drogat, unmasked the evil Count, survived his dastardly tricks and battled him. Sadly, Udoh, the Wizard's servant couldn't stand the Count attacks, but the rest managed to destroy him and liberate Drogat. Cal not only gained a sizable reward, enough to complete the game's main objective, but even got a contingent of Drogat warriors to fight alongside him. Cal Arath reclaimed his rightful place as king of the Northlands. But he did not rest in his laurels, he knew the true battle was coming, he was preparing for the kingdom a complete tax reform.

>>95994895
You planning to do a full write up? It's well worth it if you have the time/knack.

>>95994912
Kinda busy at the moment. But that was really fun,the most fun I've had in a long time. Thankfully, there is so much games to choose from. So many options, so many oracles and tables, core and rulebooks. The creators of Barbarian Prince also have several interesting games to try. I'm all in this hobby.

Modiphius's rpg's are mechanically simple enough to be run easily solo. especially insofar as basic LLM's can DM. help you design extended tasks etc.

>>95995478
DM is dungeon master, dungeon mastering, right? What are LLMs? Pardon my ignorance.

>>95995513
the basic AI we have now. they're great for automating fiddly mechanical shit, letting you focus on neat campaigning and shit.

>>95995520
This thread taught me AI is not complete brain rot bullshit.

>>95970244 (OP)
I never jived with most basic yes/no good/bad gm emulators for most things. Ive found it much more intuitive to think in terms of more/less likely. come up with the most likely event and the more extreme the roll, the further the event breaks from that expected event. When I gm for others, I dont try to think what is good/bad for a character, but what is a believable outcome as an arbitrator. Unlikely events are the little exceptions that spice up the rule, the natural 20 for seeing a gold bulion in a bank already robbed clean, a dragon comming out of nowhere breaking the boat you are on in two.

I do this: d12
1-6 most likely event
7-10 unexpected, but understandable event
11-12 totally unexpected event
12+ second roll of a 7+ (1 in 24 chance) completely out of left field thing happens.

Current test party for rangers of shadow deep.

From left to Right:
>Dain
, some say Dune, doesn't talk much, but said once he was from some noble kingdom that collapsed. good woodsman though.
>Zigfred
arnold schwarznager sounding mf who knows his guns (metaphorical, muscles) and his guns (also kind of metaphorical, weapons in general, idk if hes ever even seen a real gun)
>Henry
The plainest lad you ever met, always fiddles with little trinkets. Some say hes the bastard son of somewhere called "skalitz" whatever that means
>Jessie Alm
An inquisitor who acts like your dime a dozen hardboiled private eye, full with mellow dramatic voice over and black coffee. he will call you a fink and a heretic and other obscure 1920's slang words, but only after a thorough Aristotelian approved investigation, damn it.
>Copperkneekiss
Is right 100% of the time 30% of the time on a good day. rambles off obscure prophicies someone will no doubt quote 600 years from now. But is good with a fireball and is reliable enough as a magical advisor if you can get past the twitching
>bluebeard
has no beard. He just kinda talks like a pirate and we think he was once a sailor, so bluebeard stuck.

>>95995629
I played enough OSR games that for me the easiest thing is to just ballpark some X-in-6 odds right of the top of my head and chuck a d6. If it takes me more than 3 seconds to ask and answer a yes/no question then I need to streamline my process

>>95996002
Also ran Rangers of shadow deep for otherrs, and plan too again, but thought it was a good idea to practice solo since its also a solo game

here's the terrain I made for mission 2 scenario 1

>>95995566
it's as good as the information you give it and the constraints you get it to operate under.
the better YOU the human are at communicating in text, the better the results you get from it. think of it like fast adapting, changing oracles that reflect and adapt to you and your requirements, encompassing any degree of complexity or specificity you wish, or as little.

>>95996013
>paper terrain
based
I've played a ton of wargames solo by just scribbling terrain and units onto little scraps of paper, and gluing them onto cardboard to keep them from flitting around. Even cutting out paper standees when I'm feeling really adventurous. I spent ages cutting out a ton of Peter's Paperboys for the Roman conquest of Britain and managed to play a few games of DBA and To The Strongest with them before they got squished under a book

>>95996063
dank u
here's a close up on the camp

> Even cutting out paper standees
been meening to do that for generic monster's enemies. Only got 4 gobos 4 kobos and 1 orc painted.

>>95996063
use things like the alpha strike box and so on from /btg/. paper buildings, tree standees etc.

>>95996013
>>95996104
Neat.

>>95996119
yeah? In one of the troves? I've been just using flat cardboard and scraps of green felt
I grabbed a pdf from "fat dragon" that has some papercraft medieval buildings and trees and stuff but I haven't gotten around to printing it out yet

>>95996196
that too but if you get the physical boxes, you will be set up with maps, standees for even more mechs, miniatures, terrain standees, building standees.

and coming SOON (TM) is 'battletech ACES' which lets you fully automate mechs by their AS card's role, so you can SOLO rpg yourself some stompy motherfucking robitts.

I am going to get me a bunch of ACES decks and SRPG a bunch of fucking campaigns.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech:_Aces

>>95996212
>>95996238
sick, I could get into some battletech
I played a bunch when I was a kid but we never had any minis, just the little cardboard standees that came in whatever starter box we'd bought like 20 years ago
Is there like an RPG style campaign you can play out or is it like a bunch of stand-alone battles or something?

>>95996292
yes. there's the chaos campaign.
https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Chaos_Campaign

with aces the the various box sets
BATTLETECH: A game of armoured combat
BATTLETECH: Alpha Strike
plus the 'rules' which you totally have to buy and cannot YARR HARR HARR at all ever! nope never! we swears

you can run yourself any number of campaigns.

>>95990729
There's lots of handy stuff for Barbarian Prince on the BGG page. There's the Arnold Hendrick new layout which is nice.
I'm working on getting Arne's map keyed and then going to get it printed on a custom game mat.

>>95996781
Guilherme Gontijo new layout, sorry, copy paste mistake. Arnold Hendrick is the original creator.

>>95996781
That's a neat map.

And now, after Barbarian Prince, another quest begins, what game play next? There is an abundance of options, thankfully.

>after more than a year I decided it was time to use my dark elf character again
>she's a Frankenstein's monster-type
>has free will
>killed her evil maker
>wandering monster hunter (more accurately monster maker hunter)
>she can replace her limbs and most of her organs, except her brain
>RPG: Classic Fighting Fantasy, not even Advanced FF. She was my first solo character and I used the simplest rpg I knew of at the time
>Solo Tools: Zathrum 3rd Edition
>she knows 12 spells, has 11 SKILL and 22 STAMINA. 7 LUCK
>random adventure/mission
>some cult kidnapping people in villages
>turns out it's not a cult, it's Puppet Masters (small tentacle critters that burrow into your skull and take control)
>she gets taken over by one
>it doesn't work too well because she's made out of different parts from different beings
>jerky movements/still able to think and talk by herself
>she managed to rip it out
>losing parts of her brain in the process
>use oracle to determine the consequences
>lose ability to understand, read and speak all languages
>this means she can't use her spells anymore
>STAMINA maximum lowered to 16
>SKILL stays at 11, but if she rolls doubles in a fight she has some involuntary movement/spasm and her next SKILL roll is at 1/2 SKILL
From badass to dumbass...

>>95997032
Drifter and Star Drifter are two new takes on the Barbarian Prince premise. Some slightly different mechanics but similar enough that you could jump in easily. Drifter is a Western, Space Drifter is sci-fi.

>>95998068
nta but I'd actually recommend against Drifter & Star Drifter.
Both take too much control out of the hands of the player to be fun.

Where as each event in Barbarian Prince ends with a 'What are you going to do' before you roll for response (Attack them, chat, ect), the Drifter writer decided, for god knows what reason, to make it so you random roll for your characters actions instead of deciding yourself..

So you could meet a rando prospector and just decide for shits and giggles to steal his boots rather than you deciding that's who you're playing.

It takes a lot of the fun and value out of it.

I think to some degree meta currency is necissary for solo one pc play, but i personally like the idea of two degrees of spending, one that simply mitigates/pushes a roll further, and one that cancels out a roll.

For example, in Scarlet heros, the defy death syustem, I think it would be nice if there was an alternative to just negating an effecrt by rolling your defy death die and taking damage. Like instead of full on paralysis, you get a slowed effect.

>>95998153
What's stopping you from simply choosing from the table, aside from "playing it the intended way"?

I need to try Zathrum. Perhaps along with those old Marvel or DC Rpgs.

>>95981128
How's Cepheus anon? I am currently waiting for Retro Sci-Fi Rules in the mail. Never played Traveller or anything but I am excited to space truck.

>>95989032
I'm quite enamored with it myself. Easy to hack, a shit load of free material and the vibes are immaculate.

I prefer lighter systems with room to interpret and bolt things on with little fuss; and it fits the bill.

I'm planning on restarting my solo MB campaign, but decided to give myself an appetizer with a mini Dark Fort campaign. Got 10 dungeons and I'm stringing them together with the Knightsblood rules hack. I can't leave the dungeon until I kill a Boss monster or a Tough monster if there is no "real" Boss. I Plan on trying to get to max level (6) to call it a success.

I got my first dungeon cleared here, and did NOT get petrified by the Gorgon (which happened FIVE times in a row.) Hopefully my luck will hold up.

>>95989032
It is a style over substance game, and game's creator agrees it is so. If you don't like the general doom and gloom vibe, it does not offer much.

>>96000201
Your drawings skills are much better than mine.

I'm suffering from indecision, I want to play so many things. Maybe I need to try Pink Mohawk, I like the Cyberpunk aesthetics but without the depressing part.

trying to set up a character sheet format for a game of scarlet heros. I think I like how Gilly Glibs looks. Main chrunchy stats are all up top like an npc stat block, but then core 6 atributes are in the middle left, traits and atributes middle right, and gear at the bottom.

I find a readable and efficient character sheets really important

>>96000542
fuck, forgot about iphones

>>96000299
Aw you flatter me anon, I can only muster scribbles really.

Never played World of Dungeons, but you can't go wrong with Cyberpunk in my eyes.

>>96000979
Is that image a cover for a supplement campaign or something? Looks great.

>>95982659
cut me some slack I had slept 3 hours and was coming off a week of 12 hour night shifts
>>96000024
I like it honestly. I'm just kinda picking a nd choosing what rules I use right now, easing into things but I really like 2d6. I got retro printed too, I was using cepheus light but the book is really poorly laid out and a bear to reference. So I printed retro and will just reference the SRD PDF if I want more detail in something
>>95987023
I've tried starting it a few times now. I just always lose track flipping around the pdf generating my locations and enemies and crap and give up. I just printed off the SRD on a5 paper and put it in a binder, so I'm gonna give it a try again. This way I can pull out pages I need to reference easy. Spending half my play time finding the darn tables was a real buzzkill

Thanks to these threads I learned about play-by-mail games. Each day a new interesting thing. I want to try one of those, along with gaming with a teletype.

>>96001679
It's from a '93 MSX Turbo R game called Illusion City. I agree it looks fucking sick.

>Captcha: 4G TPK

Well that's not a good sign.

>>96002204
Forgot pic

>>96002204
>>96002215
Those games had great visual art and music.

>>95971802
Just checking in to see how people found the update.

>>96002215
This reminds me of S.N.A.T.C.H.E.R.

>barbarian keeps using himself as bait
>letting the wife do all the shanking
>she's about to blast through levels 2-8 from being ignored and getting all the kills while barbarian husband rages out with the 'rawr look at me rawr'

I have introduced a houserule for dnd5e.

A longsword has finesse, if being used two handed.
So one handed it is

+ proficiency + str bonus to hit
d8+ str bonus damage.

But use your other hand too
+ proficiency + dex/str bonus to hit
d10 +str/dex bonus.
This allows you to apply 'sneak attack' damage when using a sword properly, to mechanically reflect HEMA shit like the good ol Scarmaker etc. For the narrative flair. Now i can have far more dramatic 'fights' with my guy going into a bind 'vom tag' and getting in a cross guard strike to the enemies head. BAMF. Sneak attack secured. And i can parse out the mechincs and have a real swashbuckling time except more IRL historical than errol flynning.

haiii, i asked around in the osrg and they told me that scarlet heroes is based on B/X, BECMI or some version of it

i wanna import some 1e/2e stuff but i dont get the rulebook conversion rules???
did anyone here do it already cause i think its just simple drag and drop but im unsure xD

Solo-chads, hexhunt anon here!
This is to let you know that I've not failed you. Finally hexhunt 3rd booklet (of men and monsters) is ready.
You can download the whole thing at https://hexhunt.itch.io/hexhunt
Note: 4channel is banned hwere I live so it's hard to reply (fast).

>>96005092
Congrats, looking forward to reading it!

>>96005092
Hey, the Solar Sign guy! Keep up the good work.

>>96005092
Good on ya man, and thanks for risking the wrath of the law to keep updating us

>>96005092
>slop
Very based.

>>96005174
>>96005247
>>96006038
Thanks, guys. In the meantime, I've grown into the habit of playing B/X solo. I'll be putting out a sandbox hexcrawl for B/x for levels 1-to-9 followed by a series of dungeons on that setting. This will come with solo rules and procedures for B/X. (I'll probably put up some gameplay videos, currently painting some minis.) This will be called OCKVULT.

Next, I'll be putting out a sort-of porting of Warhammer 40k to B/X --but it's slightly different as a setting; for obvious reasons. I've started doing some reading on this including Rene Guenon, and some religious texts as well. (There's a long way for that.) So, it'll be B/X with sci-fantasy setting. This will be called OCKVLT: 1000 Suns.

Currently, I'm working on a retro-clone of Warhammer Fantasy Battles 2e in my native language. I'll try to promote the non-existent hobby here --with it I'll put out some youtube videos. I hope what I learn from doing that will help me put out better B/X solo videos afterwards.

>>96006392
Yeah, sorry aboutr that. I can't draw. I bought a vacuum-like tablet to draw but I suck at it. Now I bought myself a how-to-draw kind of book; but don't expect miracles.

Further streamlined and standardized my Character and NPC stat blocks

comments and recommendations for formating appreciated

>>96006521
Copernicus once said, better to slop then to not try at all.

>>96006521
>sorry about that
Not at all, I wasn't being sarcastic. Despite what many people say, art is fundamental to a game manual, it's laudable that you recognize it and endeavor to put something in as best you can.

>>96006521
>vacuum-like

wtf does that mean? is that some wierd bastardisation of Wacom?

>>96005092
I haven't given this any attention before, but I like what I'm reading. Really like the potion crafting/lockpicking, is that original or is it based on something else?
Also, what did you use for typing it out/formatting? Just a word doc?

>>96006889
yea wacom --there you can understand my relation to drwaing...

>>96007026
I made thsoe rules myself because I thought people would enjoy such mini-games when playing solo. Also pentgram is 'evil' so I had to use it.

>>96007026
M$ Word (cracked)

>>96007052
>I made thsoe rules myself
Based and game-design-pilled. I can only hope to homebrew such innovative systems one day.

>>95971802
How the hell did you make this? AI? Man if you could make a guide to show us how you made this I'd be supremely greatful.

>>96008534
There's a site called the Homebrewery that was designed to let people do homebrew 5e content.

Everything I did was Markdown and the stains from this site: https://watercolors.giantsoup.com/phb/

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/

You could probably get an AI to set up the pages for you and so on actually, but I'm just a simple grug who did it all by hand.
My basic process is
>Grab raw chapter
>Add markdown for question boxes, vows, ect
>Throw into the homebrewery editor in a block
>Find where there are natural breaks and either new column or new page it
>Check for where images seem to fit in naturally
>If there's something that really needs an image like an NPC (pic related) then break it up intentionally to fit around those things or do a new page for a full page image
>Once satisfied a chapter hits my https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjUqUVrXclE requirement move on to the next one

The next 30 pages took me maybe 2-3 hours of half-assing it, which included image editing and so on.

Hope that helps?

>>96008603
Thank you, this looks great. I might get off my ass and actually make something now.

>>96008653
Eye of the Tiger man, when you do, post it here. I'd love to read other peoples shit.

I have taken a decision, I'm gonna play 5 Parsecs from Home, soon I will have more free time. I need to immerse myself in a Space Opera.

>>96006392
i will now not play your game

>>96004516
can you give an example specifically of something you're trying to convert? scarlet heroes is close enough that I've used tons of B/X monsters and magic items with almost no tweaking necessary

>>96000201
Session 2! Got another Clear with two level ups! Got lucky that I found the boss room right after I got the key.

>>96006610
It can work but I feel like fluctuating things like inventory should be kept lower for a character in the page as you might always gain new traits for your character.
Also the character stats could work better in a long row or column if you ever feel like adding anything else down the line like luck or even trade skills. As for adding things in a long row like HP and AC it could work better if the number is under it and not next to it that but honestly that could just be my preference but it makes it easier to erase and replace or temporarely append something, unless of course you use ink to keep things like HP or STR on paper.
If you use this for simple short runs, sidekicks or more important NPCs (Characters) you can just disregard what I just said.
As for the NPC that's just fine, it's easy to read and get into the action, maybe use some commas for the stats.

Or just don't go down the path of perilous perfectionism like me and just play the game.

>>96010389
ummmmm so far i want to incorporate the 2e book of humanoids to expand character race options, cause im not feeling the classics for a solo run :p

after that come the classes which should be ezpz like you said, cuz the damage dice roll over nicely
BUT i dont know about the + modifiers since SH lowers the "range" of to-hit and damage so far that ive seen
having a group of like five 2 HDs with a 4 HD baddie makes it dangerous to a big boy but i guess thats the point :p

so far the base 1e classes that ive read feat very neatly into SH and would require little to no tweaking

im sure i missed something vital and obvious, but theres a lot of pages to go through and gaygax writes kinda weird so its gonna take time to slog it xD

As a total n00b with zero RPG experience, where should I start my learning adventure?

I don't know anyone into gaming, so I figure Solo is the way to begin. I've been lurking around a bit, have read and generally understand Da FAQ, and I bought some dice too, so I think I'm ready to try my first game.

Any anons got advice or suggestions to share? I'd appreciate it much.

>>96011391
Barbarian Prince is a good first shout. Someone who is new already gave it a pop further up the thread and they had a good time with it.

>>96011391
Oh man, zero? You just have to get experience playing RPGs and overtime you'll learn what you prefer. Start anywhere with any game, get a taste of something and develop your opinion. Try reading some rule books and then try running a game. Oracles and GM emulators are like training wheels for me, very helpful when starting but limiting. But since you are new you'll appreciate having a structure that emulators give you.

>>96011391
I started with maze rats.

>>96011391
I'd suggest starting at one of the "extremes" of solo RPG play: either "writing with dice" or "board game with imagination".
I don't care for the former, but games like Thousand Year Old Vampire basically give you writing prompts to create a story. The "game" is just randomising and structuring the prompts.
The latter includes Barbarian Prince, Notequest, 2D6 Dungeon, Star Smuggler, and to some extent any RPG with dungeon and encounter tables. You can run them mechanically, but use things like word tables to inspire your imagination. Don't worry if your imagine gives you nothing; it just needs exercise. Once you're confident with the rules you're using, let your imagination overrule them. Get used to that and you should be be ready to try less structured adventures.

>>96011824
>Oracles and GM emulators are like training wheels for me, very helpful when starting but limiting
What do you use instead?

>>96011391
A Thousand Year Vampire, its more a journaling RPG than a crunchy RPG and it holds your hand a lot if your willing to sit down and read. If you want something more freeform, quick and flexible try Artefact or Bucket O' Bolts by Jack Harrison. Those games will hold your hand less and you might be a tad lost if you don't have TTRPG instincts.
Oh, and don't be intimidated by the page count of Thousand Year Old Vampire, the majority of it is kinda a "choose your own adventure" where you roll, read a prompt, journal about it, then roll again.

>>96010724
thanks for the feedback!

Yah, fluctuation elements that dont have a definitive end shuold be in places where expansion is possible. Thats why gear is at the bottom withuot a definitive end. Hypothetically in Scarlet heros traits are also not finite, but on the given sheet it is also religated to a space roughly the size of the ability score block.

Both the stat number being under the indicator and adding commas are both good ideas for legebility.

Scarlet heros is essntially OSR compatable, so I dont think ill need to add anything more to the stat block (fv is melee(fight) value and rv is ranged value, the two to-hit rolls you need to know)

pic related is the og character sheet. with it had a few things like movement.

>>96012783
fug

>>96011391
Maybe Kal-Arath, solo sword and sorcery that has the play procedure set up in order.

Is there a website where you can generate terrain?

>>96008603
Where do you find art for your journal? They all seem to be fairly similar in style.

>>96012970
What scale? World maps there's Azgaar, Region maps there's Perilous Shores. Donjon has a few that might count.

Anyone is running space horror lately? Nor sure what system or setting to use. I want a group of characters to explore around with.

>>96012787
Yeah that looks good, you could probably just move treasure as a smaller section under gear or above it if it's only money and valuables and gain some space for derrivate attributes if need be.

>>96013293
Hostile from Zozer is Cepheus (ie Traveller) based, inspired by Aliens and the like, and has a dedicated solo supplement. I'd use that if I fancied some space horror. There's also Mothership but I haven't tried it.

>>96013344
I saw the character sheets for mothership 1e got "pronums" on it..I'm not sure it's for me. I'll check "zozer"

>>96013140
Places to have battle, like a street or building, a middle ground between world map and dungeon. I will check Donjon. Thanks..

>>96013436
Gozzys has a dungeon generator and similar scale outdoor and cavern ones, so that might work.

>>96013028
Pinterest and a lot of being picky and autistic about it. I have a big-ass gallery of images that I've gathered on there that I pull from for refs. Sort of an inspiration board.
Also
>They all seem fairly similar in style
That's incredibly kind, but clearly you've not run into the horny rat image yet.

Mainly I just kind of go for what feels appropriate in the moment though. There are some images, pic related, that I absolutely want to use at some point but mostly it's just vibes.

But yeah, glad people are liking it. It's always nice to have a positive response when posting.

Are there any variation of the Deck of Many Dungeons, or should I print a second copy to increase versatility of rooms?

>>96013527
Thank you.

>>96013418
The official Alien game by Free League is supposedly pretty good, and doesn't have pronouns on the sheet iirc.

>>96014195
The rules are usable as default? I need to check it I saw there's a revised version or something maybe have updated rules.

'Bout to play BFRPG solo. I have a couple of adventure modules printed out and a character rolled up. "Aran, The level 1 Fighter/Magic User". Let's see if he can survive at all. He only has 3 hit points, but I think he's also gonna start with a buddy to help him out because I noticed this adventure module starts with a friendly hobgoblin that wants revenge on an ogre that lives in the area.

>>95970937
do you have a pnp file for it?!

>>96018721

You could try the extra rules from Scarlet Heroes/Black Streams (fray dice, dealing more damage etc) to make it a little more survivable.

>>96018721
This is the world so far. Interested in seeing where this goes in the future... A couple of towns, an ogre's cave, a mine overrun with goblins, and an ancient burial demi-human burial chamber.
A week to the north is a major city, and two weeks to the south is another city. So I'm kinda in the middle of nowhere.

>>96013933
Well you've inspired me to make my own in a similar style. Im going to be doing a combination of Ars Magica rules in the Yoon-Suin setting. It'll be about the mage searching for the secrets to creating the Elixir of Life.

>>96021132
Rock on. My only request is that if I inspired you?
Post it here.
There's not enough getting shit done on /tg/ these days and I miss it.

>>96020874
How do you decide which new hex you move if you don't see what's there beforehand? I'm assuming you don't because the hex next to the 3 towns isn't drawn in.

How does one start playing those things?

>>96021416
It's sort of complex.
To explain it in the simplest terms. A character can devote time to researching and discovering what's in a given direction. They can ask NPCs what lies in a specific direction, or if there is something of interest in an adjacent hex. Most NPCs only know a certain amount of info based on their profession (A farmer knows the layout of his immediate hex, while a merchant may know everything along the road to the next town.)
Furthermore, it's possible to learn what's in a hex through simply exploring. You can learn everything that's in a hex by devoting an entire day to surveying the land. Also, if you have someone that's particularly skilled in wilderness travel (Like a ranger or a druid) there is a 1 in 6 chance that you get to learn of a landmark in the next hex for free, (if there is one.)

>>96000979
From where is this image from?

>>96011423
>Barbarian Prince is a good first shout.
Thanks, someone else mentioned this game too, I'll check it out.

>>96011824
>Oracles and GM emulators
Can you recommend any good ones I should try?

>>96012183
>maze rats
Looks interesting. Is this all I need to play, or should I check Da Archive?: https://archive.org/details/maze-rats-rpg-game

>>96012314
>"board game with imagination".,,, Barbarian Prince, Notequest, 2D6 Dungeon, Star Smuggler,
That sounds like what I'd prefer too, I'm not really interested in "journaling" or a lot of reading and writing. Someone else mentioned Barbarian Prince too, I may look into that game first.

>>96012328
>If you want something more freeform, quick and flexible try Artefact or Bucket O' Bolts by Jack Harrison.
Thanks for the tip, I'm not looking for a lot of "journaling."I will look into those.

>>96012923
>Maybe Kal-Arath, solo sword and sorcery that has the play procedure set up in order.
This looks pretty good. Can you tell me what you mean by "play procedure set up in order?"

>>96022418

read the thread, filename, or image to find out.

>>96021438
By reading the op and following links

Reposting this because I have no idea why the Janny deemed it deletable:
There's a site called the Homebrewery that was designed to let people do homebrew 5e content.

Everything I did was Markdown and the stains from this site: https://watercolors.giantsoup.com/phb/

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/

You could probably get an AI to set up the pages for you and so on actually, but I'm just a simple grug who did it all by hand.
My basic process is
>Grab raw chapter
>Add markdown for question boxes, vows, ect
>Throw into the homebrewery editor in a block
>Find where there are natural breaks and either new column or new page it
>Check for where images seem to fit in naturally
>If there's something that really needs an image like an NPC (pic related) then break it up intentionally to fit around those things or do a new page for a full page image
>Once satisfied a chapter hits my https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjUqUVrXclE requirement move on to the next one

The next 30 pages took me maybe 2-3 hours of half-assing it, which included image editing and so on.

Hope that helps?

/tg/ jannies are notorious trannyfaggoted assclowns who hate any actual on-topic posting. they're actively trying to kill the board.

I have bought the Goblin slayer (sword world lite) TTRPG for soloing.

should i get deck of many dungeons?

>>96023563
>implying this board -- nay, this website -- isn't a zombified husk already

>>96023330
Thank

>>96021416
>>96020874
You should be able to see into adjacent hexes. The horizon is about 3mi away.

>>96023492
Jesus fucking christ. THIS is what they pause their cock choking session to delete??

>>96023665
yes. If you dare post actual content, the jannies and mods get angery. so stick to posting big black futa cocks raping white people and they will keep jerking off instead.

>>96013344
I dunno if I'd call it "horror" exactly, it's more like blue collar sci fi. Easy enough to slip horror in though but AFAIK it doesn't explicitly have horror elements built in. its good though, has anything youd need to play in.

I got Retro sci-fi rules printed on Mixam for about 8 bucks, just came in the mail. really good quality, would recommend if anyone needs something printed. It's nice to have this because zozer only has big honking 9x11 books available on lulu.com, and they really don't need to be that big.

Also been printing some other stuff at home and putting it in a 6-ring binder with dot-lined paper in the back. Having things printed off has been really nice for focused playing

>>96023083
Basically you roll up a character, a goal, and have a basic Oracle to resolve simple situations. During play, the daily travel procedures are set in order:
1. Roll for weather
2. Roll for getting lost
3. Roll for point of interest
4. Roll for encounter
Etc etc, however you can be as strict or freeform as you like, such as finding a settlement in step 3, rolling up all the details and deciding to stay for a few days rather than traveling or whatever. It works well as an all-in-one game with a notebook when on a plane or something. Lemme know if you want to see my after action report! I played three sessions this weekend.

>>95971802
By the way, still waiting to hear if anyone has any feedback on this, positive or negative.
Old chapters or new.

Starforged game is going well, but I had to double back a chapter and edit since I realized I'd fucked up a bit of continuity

>>95970244 (OP)
What are people's favorite solo specific metacurrencies/ ways to make solo play viable as compared to usually cooperative games?

I really like scarlet hero's fray dice allowing you to attack more at lesser enemies and defyinging death die converting debilitating damage/circumstances into lesser damage.

Especially that later one I find interesting, converting stuff that would usually require a party to adress into a lesser penalty. I like it when there are in game consequiences instead of purely meta narritive bean counting. I want to try something like that, but instead of always converting into damage, it converts into a lighter more managable version of whatever the original effect was.

Instead of falling into a bottomless pit, you loose a turn as you grab a ledge, instead of being paralyzed, you are slowed, etc.

>>96027414
Sounds like a meta currency that can make things one degree better/worse. Call it "nudgecoin™". Converts death into a serious injury, leg caught in an iron vice to leg caught in a rope loop, convert a near miss into a hit, or a hit into an exceptional hit.

very bad
bad
good
very good

1 nudgecoin™ allows you to go down one on the above scale, and you can only use 1 at a time. give 3-5 per session.

>>96024414
Thanks for the reply, Anon. I'm climbing this steep learning curve as best as I can, and your help is much appreciated.

>have a basic Oracle to resolve simple situations.
I don't know anything about Oracles. Can you refer me to one, or some resource on them?

>daily travel procedures are set in order:
Oh, I see. The game will basically guide me through the steps for making decisions, telling me what's next. Like, it will tell me what to ask an Oracle, which will resolve it. Do I have that right?

>Lemme know if you want to see my after action report!
Yes, please! I would love to see how others play, and see what I can expect from a game. Is it common to record game sessions?

Thanks again, Anon!

Finaly encounter of scenario two for this character:>>96012787
A well known folk hero called "Imrie the Eyeless" was kidnapped by a cult dedicated to erodition and high culture. My character jessie alms but on his slueth cap and used his inquisitor training to track them down to their den in an exotic tea house. He was subtle enough to not alert them. They are currently trying to extract information about the local ruins and places of interest that Imrie has no doubt plundered, but she has stayed tight lipped so far. Lead by a Foppish dandy cult leader with a fencing blade and an exotic poison knife, two thugs in uncomfortable looking monkey suits flank him. and behind them all is a semi-functional golem the fop probably got on some sojourn to some distant land. it is up to Alms to free the Folk hero, escape, and possibly bring down this orientalist eyesore.

>>96027886
>Finaly encounter
final encounter

>>96027647
The most popular oracle (I think) is Mythic GME, essentially it's a table/ resolution mechanic that allows you to play without a game master, or in this case emulate one. Some oracles differ in their mechanics but it's the same principle, you typically ask it a yes/no question, determine how likely it is to be a "yes", then roll. The oracle will typically say:
1. yes
2. yes and
3. yes but
4. no
5. no and
6. no but
If it's a "and" in this case, your "yes" also comes with an additional thing. Typically a stronger yes or something else happens. "Yes, but" can be construed as you getting your wish, but there is a caveat/downside. They're super interesting and there are a lot of them out there, even free. Solo games will come with them tacked on for the most part.
>Oh, I see. The game will basically guide me through the steps...
In a way, though you don't have to follow it. As you can see, the requirements for running solo are pretty complex so there is a lot of systemic heavy lifting being done to get the mechanics to flow, such as in ironsworn (that game is free, I recommend watching Me, Myself, and Die on youtube to see that game in action). It can be hard to parse at first but once you understand it's pretty cool.
>After action report
Let me write something up so you can read it here, I journalled them rather than recorded them, see picrel.

Mirriennelle
15, Woman
languages: trade common, elven.

Class: Marksman 2 Scout 1
500 xp

Dexterity 23 (+3)
Agility 23 (+3)
Strength 11 (+1)
Vitality 16 (+2)
Intelligence 19 (+3)
Spirit 19 (+3)

Fortitude: 4
hp: 22
Willpower: 5

Racial
[Darkvision] [Sword’s Grace-Gentle Water]

Combat Feats
[Precise Shot]

8 g
[Normal Bow]
min str 7, 2H, power 17, crit rate 10.
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 5 6 7 7 8
[Soft Leather-Armour]
def +3, min str 7
[boots] [Adventurer Set]
[arrow case] [arrows (12)]
[arrow case] [arrows (12)]
[scout’s tools]
[tableware set] [preserved food 1w]
[Healing Potion (7)] power 20
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 12

>>96030612
??

>>96027886
Oh yah, something else. Each of the blue squares here was 1/4 inch, which was super small, however, 1 full inch per 5 feet seemed like it would take up a lot of speace for solo play. I really do think 1/2 inch movement blocks is a pretty perfect size for solo play since most areas can be represented on a piece of paper, but its not so small to be overly fiddily.

28mm minies tend to fit in an ich square, what tends to fit on 1/2 inch bases, 15mm or 10 I wonder?

>>96030696
probably his solo character

>>96031376
an experiment with sword world. thats a rooty tooty hang in the ass and shooty character.
the sworld world equivalent of
>elves make the best stealth archer

>>96031465
Let us know how it goes, I've been interested in seeing how it is to play sword world

>>96035083
so far it's wierd. like, no where in the book does it tell me WHAT spells my character got. so for sorceror 1 character. I jsut gave them all the level 1 spells.

for the priest 2 I gave them all the level 1 and 2 spells. and then the water god spell at level 2 as she's an elf and a priest, so I leant into the elf thing. sword world 2 + elves have a water thingy.

>>96035253
You can cast any spell up to your level in the relevant class. It doesn't tell you about learning specific spells because you don't have to.

>>96036988
that's what I figured.

About to start writing, and I am still torn between writing it journal-style as if the character themselves are writing, or from a more omniscient perspective. What do you all think?

>>96039893
I find writing as the character themselves makes twists easier.
It's not that you weren't telling the reader that the orcs aren't behind the attempted coup, its that your character didn't realize Lord Blackthorn Darkevillaine was up to no good.

Any superhero game for solo playing? I got the tables from City of Crime, and I wanna try to create some adventure like my 1930s radio serials.

>>96039912
Think I should write it as the character's actual journal as if he's writing after the fact, or just make it a first person account?

>>96039893
Try both and see which you prefer. I just use bullet points.

>>96040226
First person account, journals can get convoluted in a 'Wow, that was fucking crazy, let me just take a minute while being hunted down by the rape-trolls to write down my experiences' kind of way.
A journal is always written in retrospect by someone who has gotten away safely, thus removing the tension of the moment unless you write it from the very end of things and go into gothic horror 'alive, but at what cost' territory.

>>96040337
You aren't creative enough, you can easily write it in 2nd or 3rd person as a magical witness, like a sentient book or a magical being observing the player's character. Or it could be a spirit that has no sentience of its own but is bound by the user that has access to all of their thoughts and writes in the first person.
There are workarounds if you are willing to wave off things or explain them before starting.

>>96039893
I make bullet points for my future self.

>>96040948
>There are workarounds if you are willing to wave off things or explain them before starting.
The fact you outright admit 'Yeah you can do this but you've got to engage in mental gymnastics to justify the bullshit' rather than just going with the clean and obvious option that doesn't require any of that makes me quietly satisfied.
Yeah I could do all those shenannigans.
Or I can just write in present moment first person.

>"Hell yeah, time to play some fuckin solo"
>Play out a couple scenes
>Get bored
Why, dammit? Why do I burn out so quickly nowadays?

>>96041019
>'Yeah you can do this but you've got to engage in mental gymnastics to justify the bullshit'
My dude... You're playing by a game by yourself, not writing a screenplay or a novel, fucking relax.

>>96041095
>Relax
Anything that gets in the way of getting on with it is unreasonable advice to give a newbie, that's all I said, I'm not mad, I'm just bemused.

>>96041205
Yeah, but don't pretend that there's standards to this. Maybe if you are playing with friends, but alone you can literally do whatever.

>>96041060
You need to feed the furnace. Read some lit or go outside in nature.

>>96041060
I don't get why so many people don't understand what burnout is, its completely normal to burnout with both work and play, it happens all the time. The difference between the burnouts is that you need to work through and manage your work's burnout, but play burnout you don't too. Just find or do something else until you miss it again and gain inspiration. It's completely normal to pick up and drop hobbies in a person's life. Don't be afraid to experiment or try new things and pick up this one again later.

>>96039925
I think someone last thread was taking about this, Try looking there. if not ill send some stuff later when i get around too it. sorry if i forget tho

>>96039925
Masks but you'd have to adapt it, David Theaumavore does a lot of Superhero TTRPGs, I absolutely hate the idea of a TTRPG because I'm not big into capshit but hey, maybe you'll find something you like.
https://www.youtube.com/@DaveThaumavore/videos

>>96042577
I see. Thank you.

>>96042660
Thanks again.

>>96042660
>Hates "the idea of a TTRPG"
>Is on /tg/
what?

>>96042675
no problem.
>>96042699
The idea of a superhero ttrpg, please be patient I actually have brain damage and I'll sometimes skip words while I'm writing.

>>96039893
Past tense, with present participles. Present tense dialogue.
Limited omniscience. Characters only now what they know, as they know it
3rd person.
It is used by almost everyone forever for a reason.

>>96042856
I feel like the "historic present" is appropriate.

Not "I ran down the hall", "He fled the guards, down the hallway, cape billowing behind."

not " Jacobi leaps, jumping the balcony, to the parkland below"
instead " He sheathed his dagger and turned, getting a run-up. He grunted as he leapt, flying over the balcony railing. The strapping thief landed heavily on the grassy parkland, before he fled into the shadows."

>>96043421
"Jacobi falls to the floor, hits his head, and instantly becomes gay."

>>96043950
No he doesn't. that's retarded.

I've done both first person and 3rd person
1st person and prose-heavy was best for investment but abysmal for keeping a campaign going. getting locked up on "I just used this word 3 sentences ago" shit doesn't result in playing for me
3rd person prose-heavy was low investment and had the same drawback. 3rd person and terse was actually higher investment because stuff was HAPPENING very quickly. also with 3rd person I tend to play far more cruelly to the PC/s
I can't say I'm cool with saying any one of them is objectively the way to go

Anyone got system recommendations for a solo zombie apocalypse game? Ideally something for (mostly) one character. Ideally something that leans more into horror than post-apocalypse action.

Playing Runes and Ruins, short, abstract, simple, pretty neat for quick sessions.

>>96043958
"The poster also falls to the floor, hits his head, and instantly becomes gay and retarded."

>>96044314
ok gaylord trannyfaggot. go forth unto retardia and fucketh thine own face

>>96044159
blood moon apocalypse isnt an RPG but it's still fun and worth checking out

>>96044571
See, it became reality so everything I wrote ended up being canon! You can't stop thinking about gays and transgenders now!

>>96044184
Continuing with Runes and Ruins: one thing I liked of this was by the its lean and laconic nature, I could add a lot of my own, for example, I added a trapdoor in a room of the dungeon that lead me to a basement with a monster in it, I didn't have a weapon because you use them to destroy the monsters and the only way to obtain one is rolling it when you enter a new room, so I was unarmed, a lightbulb turned on, I asked, is there a trap in this basement? Roll 4, yes (taking the simplest even=yes;odd=no), so I had my adventurer luring the monster to the trap, and the big brute fell for it. I got quite of gold, so the only I need now is one rune more so my adventurer can teleport to the nearest town. I'm thinking of making it less abstract, but perhaps that would take away the charm of this little game.

>>96043950
>>96044314
kek, I hate when I get the “gay” and “retarded” status effects.

>>96027886
Nice to have a concrete goal instead of being on the road to Imr(i)e

hey anons, new to solo here. how do you handle dialogue between characters? I feel ridiculous talking to myself lol

>>96050263
A simple way is to summarize generally what gets talked about. It's faster too. Or you can do what I did and study linguistics to learn the mechanics of dialogue. There's surprisingly very little to learn and it's easy to pick up.

>>96050384
NTA, but what do you mean by the "Mechanics of dialogue" and how does linguistics play into it?

>>96050500
There's sentence functions, conversational scoreboard, anaphora, and deixis to name a few mechanics from linguistics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JKJ48mC45I

>>96047391
I finished my brief Runes and Ruins session, my adventurer decided to go down the hole made by the monster, he ended up in an underground cave, with many chambers, almost got squashed by a stalactite-trap, crossed a river, fought a monster centipede, while winning runes and, more importantly, gold in the process. I deviated a bit from the original rules, but it was fun. During the fight there was a moment when the centipede lunged at my PC, with a strength of 5, it could've crushed him, but I rolled a speed of 6 and the adventurer avoided disaster. He found two keys that will be useful in another session, and a rune, which along with other two allowed him to return to the nearest town. I'm thinking of using a dwellings table to make the town more robust, a base of operations, if I can. Overall,it was fun. I enjoy of some degree of creativity, and I like narrating stuff. Nice to see how much you can do with two pages of rules.

>>96052505
Is that game a one time experience since the cards are scratch off?

So, gpblin slayer TTRPG. I have an elf.
Considering either
Fighter 2, Ranger 1
OR
Fighter 1, Ranger 1, Shaman 1
To make use of elven racial skills
'Beloved of the fae'(cast spirit magic without a catalyst) and 'weapons:bows'.

BUT. I cannot see if I can cast spirit magic in heavy armour / metal armour.

I only see that if my class is JUST Shaman, i can't do it. Fighter SEEMS to allow me to cast and such in real armour, because I can wield that as 'proper equipment'...

But i can't find an exact ruling.

IS it munchkin as fuck if I just declare my character can wear armour (say chainmail) while wielding (longsword) and (longbow) with a tiny bit a shamanic spirit magic?


The game SEEMS to be built around allowing you to build 'custom' classes instead of set
>UGH DO THIS.

>>96052926
Isn't it Sword World based? Classes are basically skills. Nothing about the fighter class affects your shaman abilities. If shamans can't cast in armour, no one can use shaman spells in armour, though you might be able to wear and fight in it.

>>96053439
Dont worry. Found it. Instead of being in the class section, it was in the spells. Shamans can wear light armour and stuff. So as long as I dont put the elf in jeavy crap, its fine.

After some +str or otherwise skilling him up, looks like a Breastplate is the way to go.
Booo.

>>95970244 (OP)
TTRPGs, specifically free ones but not necessary, that focus on Robots and Artificial Intelligence? I find that lots of sci-fi focus on giant robots and/or space travel at its core, which is fine, but I want to more explore a sci-fi world that is coming to grips with synthetic life.

>>96052672
It's very brief compare to others. You only used a 6d for everything. You can tweak it and make as complex as you want.

>>96052926
Goblin Slayer, the anime?

>>96055445
nta, but yes there is a TTRPG based off of it.

>>96055501
Is better than the animu?

>>96055622
I haven't see either or read the manga, I'm just aware of it.

>>96039893
I like to write journal entries, but only when it would be appropriate for my PC to sit down and write stuff. Thus, I would probably not write anything for a day of adventuring until evening comes; forgetting parts of it just makes it more immersive to me.

>>96039893
Do both in two books, a gameplay log and a diary when it makes sense and you can even turn it into a game where if you roll low, you distort what happens and if you roll high you roll collectively, it would be a neat little way of having both books your writing interact with each other. "Did the witch need a Crawfish or a Carlfish?"

>>96055829
>roll collectively
remember correctly*

>>96055622
animu is a fair bit lesser than the manga. but not like, a big amount. and the ttrpg seems to be neato.
it's mechanically simple... Only not.

for example i have a dodge check of X. but that includes all sorts of factors written in on your sheet so you KNOW where the one number came from.
also, as it is sword world derived, you beat the monster stats, you beat it. the GM does little rolling. and the entire game is in ONE A5 super manga omnibus edition sized volume. ONE book.

I highly recommend you all buy it, since its cheap as sin, and rather fucking nifty.

>>96055891
Interesting. Good thing we don't have to be fans of the franchises all these games are based on.

Is it possible to play the Star Wars d6 solo? If so, what all do i need to print out?

>>96056830
If you know what you're doing you can play pretty much anything solo.
If you're asking this question you probably don't know what you're doing.
Traveller is probably easier - it has a lot of systems for generating stuff and procedures for common tasks. Also Zozer has a solo guide for it that covers a number of common campaign styles. Converting things from Traveller to D6 probably isn't hard but will take practise.
Womp Rats also exists if you want a few Star Wars themed D66 tables, which you probably do.

>>96056304
that's the best thing about the game. you can uttrly ignore the manga. the tv show.

it does have cool mechanic through. fatigue. you have to try and fight smart. efficiently. unlike dnd etc where you're totally fine for 11hrs and 59 minutes on 1 hp. and then DING 12 hours ticks over and NOW you're exhausted and you just failed that save so now you're dead...

fatigue, attrition and wound mechanics are in the gobslay TTRPG. so if you try and just bumrush everything you're going to be buggered, when it's boss time. like IRL, you can't fight for hours constantly.

>>96056996
I'll give it a try, thanks.

What's a good, simple system to have a single character dive into the dungeon and fight a reasonable amount of enemies? Was looking at notequest but I'd like a bit more crunch, like ad&d but for a solo run

>>96058011
Scarlet Heroes.

>>96056968
Part of the reason i'm asking for SWD6 specifically is because Heavy Gear Bravo, which is a D6 conversion of HG4e, uses the SWD6 system. Also, i'm planning on running a tweaked version of the Darkstryder/Farstryder campaign, so thats two reasons to learn SWD6. And i'm gonna have to do it alone. What do i need to read/watch to know what i'm doing?

So, I was curious, made one of those random generated towns, not bad. But one of the Npcs was Here, human knight, consumed by the search of the legendary Cyst of Awesome Ages (sounds like a Ren and Stimpy thing). Can't think of a better high fantasy name.

>>96059627
"Excuse me can you tell me where is Here?"
"What?"
"I'm looking for Here."
"Well you found it."

>>96060025
If Abbott and Costello were an Elf and Dwarf comedy duo.

>>96020000
>>96012787
on the topic, wouldnt defy death die be more important to record then fray die? If I remember correcly, fray die stay consistent , while defy death changes and is more immediately important to know if it has changed

>>95970244 (OP)

First priority: have fun
second priority: being a fair judge
3rd priority: to win

In
That
Order

thats the best way imo to conceptualize solo gaming and get the most out of it. I think these things come more naturally with other people, so you you to synthetically remind yourself of these priorities when you are alone. Bend the rules if it means something is more interesting. Be fair when things dont go your characters way, dont cheat yourself, it never feels good. And finally, still try to win, just keep the first two in mind. that's what I have learned.

>>96061120
I'd like to add: take your time to figure out how to play. Go slowly, there's no rush. Just make slow and steady progress, step by step.

>>96058053
>What do i need
The simple but unhelpful answer is "practise". I know even less about Heavy Gear than I do about SWD6, which is already not much. And I've never heard of the other games.
You basically need GM advice and tools. Which starts with reading the rule book for your chosen game. I'd suggest just generating some PCs and NPCs and just running them through some scenario for each section of rules. Oh and locations. Don't worry about anything being good, just practise inventing shit and applying rules to resolve things. A dungeon crawl gives you a very basic structure for doing that repeatedly without much extra stuff getting in the way.

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new bread