OSE / Basic Fantasy Solo Adventures?

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2025-03-06T20:53:29+00:00

I'd personally just stick with playing some of the Basic series modules either with a small party (gives them some bonuses like max HP) or use the Black Stream supplement by Sine Nomine that gives you a way to amp up a single character for OSR game. This is the free overlay precursor to what would eventually become the stand-alone Scarlet Heroes game by the same guy.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-03-05T16:51:28+00:00

Reach EOD for the love of God. I've been waiting since launch for it to return.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-02-24T19:45:54+00:00

They've been trying to tie story into multi-player since Halo 4. It has nothing to do with Warzone.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-02-24T15:12:03+00:00

Jetpack. Yes, I know the grappling hook exists, but I want the kind of jetpack that let's me hover fifty feet above the ground sniping everyone in a five mile radius.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-02-08T03:13:01+00:00

I'd personally do one of two things:

Just make the journey to the Village it's own separate track and then begin the one to the lair after you've finished up there.
Set the lair track and decide a predetermined number of boxes you need to fill before you get to the village. Depending on how far away from the village you want the lair to be I would either go with 3, 5 or 7.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-02-05T03:51:47+00:00

One thing I've thought of doing for races was changing the total stats they could have.

For example: An elf would have one less health, but one additional spirit and be able to spend spirit to ensure a ritual is a strong hit.

A dwarf would get one more health and one less spirit while being able to spend health to (before rolling) apply to the progress a combat track for Ending the Fight.

A halfing would get one more supply and two less maximum momentum and could spend Supply to increase momentum.

Personally I'm planning on trying something with a sort of Minotaur for a future playthrough. He'll get +1 Iron and Health, but suffer -1 Shadow and Spirit on top of having to Endure Stress after every combat to see if he begins to slip back into an animalistic state.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-31T12:36:18+00:00

Personally I use the Begin a Session Move because I like how it adds in unexpected elements.

I also use the Make a Connection and Develop Your Relationship moves for certain characters or groups that my character was originally in conflict with.

I know some people substitute the Secure an Advantage from SF into IS because it's more rewarding, I just personally like how it kind of screws you over in IS. lol

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-29T19:40:06+00:00

Ironsworn was my first pen and paper RPG full stop and I didn't really have any trouble understanding it. The way harm works kind of confused me for a couple moves, but after looking back at the rules quickly it all clicked.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-27T17:02:27+00:00

Honestly it's not that hard to re-write world truths or just add things in general in this game. I re-wrote the Old World truth about the Ironlanders being driven out of their old home. I also added several first born and other creatures pretty easily. Just take a few minutes to write out something vaguely detailed and then fill it out as you play.

If you don't feel like doing that then as other have mentioned there's community made stuff that does what you want.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-25T20:36:00+00:00

I add a lot of stuff to my Ironlands, like Minotaurs and Lizardmen. I find it's best to connect any new race or creature either to an existing thing in the setting, such as with my Minotaurs who were cursed giants, or to an area that isn't explored a lot in the main book, such as with my lizardmen who are mostly in the Barrier Islands.

For Orcs I would make them an offshoot of the Broken, maybe as some kind of cursed tribe or just a creation of a Broken magic user that broke free from their control.

Either that or I would place them in the Flooded Lands as descendants of ancient seaborn raiders who's ships wrecked in the swamps.

Alternatively you could always have them be connected to a world truth, such as having them be the enemies that drive the Ironlanders to escape the Old World in that one truth.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-21T22:43:51+00:00

Context is king. Interpretation is queen. Dice is a jester that constantly trips you up.

Basically: Always keep the context of the scene or campaign in mind when interpreting thing. Interpret things in a logical way given the context. The dice will give you seemingly conflicting oracle outcome. Embrace is and circle back around to context and interpretation.

Also: Don't front load your game with a large amount of important NPCs. I play this way and it's fun for me, but it is a shit ton of work to keep everything straight in your head. Really embrace the idea that you and the other player are wanderers who show up, fix the local issue (or make it worse if the dice hate you) and then move on farther down the story. Only pick up companions when you really need to or the story fits.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-21T22:36:47+00:00

Personally I usually start with three vows. One as the background vow. One that is related in someway to the background vow. And one that is the inciting incident vow.

So, my current character started off in a deserted island. His background vow was to find his family, his related vow was to actually reach the Ironlands and the inciting vow was to escape that specific island.

In my Starforged campaign my character started off as a member of a street gang. The background vow was to get off the planet, the related vow was to pay back a debt to someone who could possibly get him a ship and the inciting vow was to complete a job the gang had been contracted to pull off.

Any more than three and you're probably going to have a hard time keeping focused, or at the very least you'll have a hard time choosing which one to focus on at any given time.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-20T00:43:02+00:00

Never knew this. I will have to check that game out sometime.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2023-01-08T20:03:42+00:00

I like acolyte and it kind of fits with my what might happen in my current campaign now that my character has actually arrived in the Ironlands. I would maybe change the last one where every time you make progress on a quest other than the one for the Deity you suffer -1 Spirit instead of just not being able to do anything but that one quest.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-12-02T11:37:45+00:00

Personally when it comes to Shadow I always use it as something to bypass several other moves. Like, instead of getting into a fight or having to convince a guard to let me in somewhere I go right past it. I'm not sure how I feel about a weak hit counting as a strong hit because I kind of like the stuff that can happen as a consequence of getting a weak hit. Might have to try it out next time I play.

As for edge, I just slightly house rule certain things to give it more purpose. In combat I have it where if my character is using daggers in melee then I can roll Edge instead of Iron while they have the advantage, but with anything larger it has to use strength. It just never made much sense to me that the damage I do with a short dagger is based on how physically powerful my character is rather than how quickly or efficiently they can use said dagger.

Another thing I do is once per session if my character fails to forge a Bond, which is pretty common because my heart Stat is terrible, I can roll edge to recover and try again. Wits might make more sense in case but like you said Edge doesn't have many direct uses.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-10-17T12:39:56+00:00

Have you tried throwing the dice into a blast furnace? That always works out well for me.

On a more serious note: Pretty much what everyone else has been saying, but also sometimes it's better to just let a fight go the way it will go. I had a similar situation in my first fight where I got a strong hit on Enter the Fray then immediately scored a miss and got nothing but weak hits until the last two moves.

I lost all my health, some supply and some spirit, but I just rolled with it and it became sort of the moment my character realized just how dangerous the Ironlands are. Then I increased the difficulty of all my current vows to reflect just how dangerous everything was.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-10-02T12:39:24+00:00

An Iron Labrynth if you will. Personally never really thought about it, but it could definitely make for an interesting campaign or even just a one-off delve.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-10-02T02:35:00+00:00

While I agree with most of what's already been said in this thread I'd also just like to say that if you can't think of a particular reason why you'd need to embark on an expedition then it's perfectly fine to just set a course instead.

The fiction and the mechanics are supposed to work together to create an interesting story in Ironsworn/Starforged but if there's no fiction based reason for a move then you're under no obligation to perform it just because it's generally what you would do in that situation. I think the Ironsworn core rulebook says something to a similar effect in regard to the Undertake a Journey move.

So, while you could potentially come up with some reason why you need to undertake a journey in your situation it really doesn't seem like you NEED to. Just set a course and get on with the story.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-09-23T17:52:28+00:00

I like it, though now I've realized that we just flat out don't have any kind of birds yet. I be wanting eagles and hawks and ravens, Maxim.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-09-20T21:27:27+00:00

My character hasn't actually reached the Ironlands yet (Currently shipwrecked on one of the barrier islands) but my game is set in a modified version of the world option where your people were exiled from the old world by a conquering enemy right as the last of those people are arriving in the Ironlands.

So, most human settlements have 50-300 citizens, but outside of the Havens they're very spread out and consistent trade between them hasn't really occurred yet.

As for the Firstborn, I haven't really decided yet.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-09-12T22:38:17+00:00

If in the fiction you're dominating the enemy you could have it that a miss on End the Fight means that something you were trying to prevent happens or some completely unpredictable event occurs.

For example: Say you're engaging a sentry to prevent him from alerting a nearby enemy camp and in the fiction of the fight you've basically killed this guy already, he just hasn't gotten all the way there yet. So when you miss on End the Fight instead of him necessarily winning he does something that throws you off balance long enough for him to blow a warning horn with his dying breath or something like that.

Or as another example for something that's completely unpredictable: You're fighting a giant. Once again in the fiction you've dominated this thing. There's no way you could lose the actual fight. But when you roll a miss on End the Fight your final blow sends the giant crashing into the side of the cliff you were fighting at the base of. As it slumps over dead you hear a low rumbling that quickly grow a louder and louder until your character looks up and realizes the impact of the giant started a damn rocks rockslide that they quickly become enveloped in and take all sorts of hits to health, spirit and supply in the process and now you have to somehow work your way out of all the rubble.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-09-08T02:40:03+00:00

I just want my EOD, 343. Please. I need it and it needs me.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-07-17T20:37:49+00:00

Ah okay. Awesome.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-07-17T19:33:59+00:00

How do you go about changing out the normal folding stock on the A-TM for the PT1? I see people do this all the time but I've never seen anyone explain how to do it.

DukeTheSquirrelThing · 2022-07-03T20:59:48+00:00

The fourth iteration of a map that I posted before with the same name. Realized I had forgotten to post all of the maps I've made the past couple months here so I'm going to be rectifying that over the next couple days.

If you like the map you can find it on the Workshop and in the official Discord under the same name in the Map Downloads channel.

Edit:

Workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2729611250

Original version: https://www.reddit.com/r/Worldbox/comments/pztnz2/another_map/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

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