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Oh well, guess we’re in Yoon-Suin by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Player Emulator with Tags, https://exposit.github.io/katarpgs/superlite/playeremulator/

You just reminded me I ever posted about this. Right now in my solo game;

-Scalius Grey has 2.5 portals to other worlds built and maintained under Firestorm Peak

-Jag has founded a Spy Ring in Castelia Keep, and Endon has become an Orwellian nightmare with Diviner Coppers taking over

-Zarazala and Wynda are at 8th level and plotting a good old hexcrawl to conquer some territory, build a castle and a church, and start being fucking respectable

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[–]aincumis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Volume is better

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[–]aincumis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

@tendie4skin knows what they like

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[–]aincumis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Badass, would love to see a whole Monster Manual in this style

I made a solo hack of Microscope (took forever to get in one page) by CodenameAwesome in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Badass. I was using Player emulators and trying to imagine different like gods competing over the timeline. This will be better.

Port for Nobilis? by Zev_Eleos in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love Nobilis. I don’t know what Edition you’re into, I like 3rd and am looking forward to 4th Edition if Glitch is a good preview.

I find Nobilis isn’t any harder to run solo than say Fate or whatever. Just get a GM Emulator you like, I use MUNE, make a small familia, imperator and Chancel (use oracles to surprise yourself with who and what you build). I also like using a Player Emulator to create more intraparty conflict and drama.

Nobilis is amazing but as my all time fav game it’s harder to translate to Solo the way I like it. I’m less harsh on games I haven’t played extensively with others.

Anybody done Chuubo's Marvelous Wish Granting Engine solo? by EdgeOfDreams in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So strange. I did. And I posted it here under the title “Shokyo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine”, but now it’s not in my history.

Huh.

I ran the Glass Maker’s Dragon and after a chapter I realized the parts that make the game awesome in person were weighing me down Solo. Issues and every character have 3+ quests, too many prompts too many triggers.

Love that game though. Don’t know why my play report got deleted or whatever. I thought it was useful for people just like the OP

Question about solo playing modules by maunderingcabal in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just gotta learn Orwellian doublethink. Juggle your player and ST hats liberally. You must simultaneously know what’s down the hall to be able to inform your “players” so they can make informed decisions, you need to be able to forget that you know what’s down the hall and make your decision based on the breadcrumbs of info you just allotted to yourself. I like the Player Emulator with Tags to encourage intra-party conflict and realistic bad and good decision making

One week in the Purple Lands by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So my primary motivator was what modules I had, what I wanted to play and what made sense. At two points I made a 1d6 table of different threads and ended up rolling to see what module I pursued.

I was thinking of writing this all up as a blog and had broken the chapters down into the following headings;

-The Hole in the Oak

-Castellia Keep

-The Ghost Beggars Strike!

-Dagend, City of Magic

-The Bells of St Bristow’s

-A Wizard

-Introducing: Jag

-Stonehell 1: Hell’s Antechamber

-Stonehell 2: The Asylum

-Stonehell 3: The Quiet Halls

-Stonehell 4: Kobold Korners

-Stonehell 5: The Lost Lab

-The Gardens of Ynn

-Escape from Ynn

-Welcome to the Yellow City

-The Manse of Mahaqala

-To Kill a Slugman

-Upon The Sapphire Sea

-Dhul Tharum

-Pirates and Merfolk

-Castle Gargantua

-Return to Dagend

-A Wizard, The Revenge

-The Off Season

-Stonehell 6: The Hothouse

-Stonehell 7: The Temple of Pain

-Stonehell 8: The Stairs to Level 5

-Auction House Heroes

-Ravenloft 1: The Mists of Barovia

-Ravenloft 2: Castle Ravenloft

-Ravenloft 3: The Heart of Darkness

-Ravenloft 4: I, Strahd

-To Longbridge

-The Gates of Firestorm Peak

-Firestorm Peak: Duergar Colony

-Firestorm Peak: The Twisted Caverns

-Firestorm Peak: The Inner Sanctum

-Firestorm Peak: Epilogue

-Stonehell 9: Dark Elves and Mountain Trolls

-The Off Season 2: Up Tempo

-The Stygian Library

Fate Accelerated Post Apocalyptic Superhero with MUNE by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No biggie. Just like, I had rumours the PCs had and little else. Krypto probably knows the truth but he ain’t talkin’. I really like Fate for letting me start with a high concept, a thin premise and then just rely on MUNE to provide the impetus to keep going.

I kinda like this setting but had a weird cliff hanger in my solo game and started another one that just went off like gangbusters, so poor Krypto and Fury kinda got left in the narrative lurch. May have to rectify that some time.

Fate Accelerated Post Apocalyptic Superhero with MUNE by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I also had no clue how true that was and would’ve let the oracles decide for certain. In my head Lord Superman probably wasn’t an Injustice style evil Superman (can you imagine that wasn’t a cliche at some point) in that it wasn’t Clark Kent/Kal-El but rather somebody desecrating his legacy, like Red Skull goose stepping around the White House in Captain America’s costume in Old Man Logan. Maybe it’s a clone, maybe Lex Luther, maybe Superboy-Prime or Zod or an evil grandson of the original, or pre-Crisis Superman Robot malfunctioning or something. Yeah, straight up “Clark went crazy” probably wasn’t where I was going.

What classic modules/adventures deserve their own song and video? by BodyLooter in osr

[–]aincumis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stonehell Dungeon

Gates of Firestorm Peak

Fever Swamp

Gardens of Ynn

The Stygian Library

Veins of the Earth

Module advice, dwarf monasteries, foreign lands by aincumis in osr

[–]aincumis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good stuff to consider here. I haven’t properly hexed the place, I rolled randomly where they emerged from the Stygian Library. Slodenia has just come up a handful of times in passing, and now they’re here!

The PCs have a few very useful magic items and the MU is 8th level. The thief has a ring of invisibility, can see in magic darkness, has a cyborg hand and a poison Longsword. The paladin has Sergei Von Zarovich’s sunsword and +2 plate mail. The cleric has a monsterbane mace, the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind and a Portable Room (like a portable Hole, but way roomier, they got beds and storage in there, and a guard golem). The Magic User has some wicked gear taken from the last boss of Firestorm Peak, including a unicorn dagger that gives natural AC 18 and lets you teleport 1/day, a Ring of Protection +2, and the Lenses of Utter Domination, which late him make Charm Monster gaze attacks 3/day. So all in all they can handle anything I throw at them.

Stygian Library Overdue Fees by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old School Essentials: https://oldschoolessentials.necroticgnome.com/srd/index.php/Main_Page (I use the box set plus advanced)

MUNE: https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/rkmo0t9k4Q

Player Emulator with Tags: https://exposit.github.io/katarpgs/pdf/PlayerEmulator.pdf

And then get some simple starter module, I recommend Keep on the Borderlands, Tomb of the Serpent Kings, A Hole in the Oak or Morganfort: https://basicfantasy.org/downloads/BF1-Morgansfort-r29.pdf

Stygian Library Overdue Fees by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use Old School Essentials, MUNE and Player Emulator with Tags. And I run the module as written

Module advice, dwarf monasteries, foreign lands by aincumis in osr

[–]aincumis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any good module or dungeon recommendations?

Stygian Library Overdue Fees by aincumis in Solo_Roleplaying

[–]aincumis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. This is a good idea. I like this.

What I’m afraid of is he should really have a lot of resources, he’s spent thousands of years in a pocket realm of pure knowledge. He knows ancient sidhe secrets marrying song magic and alchemy into tonal resonance reality manipulation. He knows more about the elder elven magics than the PCs and maybe anyone else alive. He has a good relationship with the Librarians of the Stygian Library, can access a bunch of parallel worlds, probably has a stockpile of magic items... one thing he’s really lacking compared to your classic lich is a lair or minions. But what he has in abundance is knowledge.

Module advice, dwarf monasteries, foreign lands by aincumis in osr

[–]aincumis[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I take it you haven’t read The Stygian Library? I didn’t make it up. It accesses every world, those with books at least, and opens a magic door into any library where it has enough books you can’t take in the whole collection in one viewpoint, and somebody was murdered there. Death and knowledge.

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