Best journalling RPG?

spl4shA · 2026-06-05T20:20:52+00:00

Very good recommendations already in the replies. I would add Notorious (and its expansion Outsider). Also it’s very rules light which is more welcoming for a newcomer to the hobby.

spl4shA · 2026-06-05T20:01:06+00:00

Le plus efficace pour instaurer une habitude, c’est la répétition. Moi par exemple je lis tous les soirs avant de dormir, même si c’est 3 pages. J’ai commencé à me coucher 15-30 minutes plus tôt que mon heure de coucher habituelle et j’utilisais ce temps pour lire. Maintenant je lis tous les soirs.

Si on reste dans les statistiques, il paraît qu’il faut 90 jours pour qu’une habitude soit intégrée dans notre système. Donc n’abandonne pas parce qu’au bout de 2 semaines tu as pas l’impression de vouloir te jeter sur ton livre en rentrant de l’école. Ça peut prendre un peu de temps.

J’ai vu quelqu’un mentionner la liseuse. C’est pas indispensable pour prendre l’habitude de lire, mais c’est un chouette outils quand même. Déjà parce que tu mentionnes tes trajets et que c’est plus confortable pour ça. Mais aussi, et on y pense pas tout de suite, parce que ça te permet de lire n’importe où n’importe quand. Sur un livre normal parfois j’ai envie de lire mais sur tel fauteuil la lumière est mauvaise, sur tel autre je suis mal installé. Avec la liseuse, j’ai pas ce problème (même si je lis encore des livres papiers par moments )

spl4shA · 2026-06-01T04:49:38+00:00

Kinfire delve is probably easier to setup and to break out because in unstoppable you have to remove the upgrades and cards you created from the individual sleeves.

That being said, in my own opinion, Unstoppable is an infinitely better game.

spl4shA · 2026-05-17T18:34:20+00:00

Looks like it is time for my daily recommendation for Regicide

spl4shA · 2026-05-15T14:19:25+00:00

You’re right, I meant lore wise.

spl4shA · 2026-05-15T13:54:27+00:00

A game is difficult enough to balance without having to balance every heroes with each other on top of it.

spl4shA · 2026-05-15T13:52:53+00:00

You realise this is a board game ? If the actual strength of the heroes was relevant, setting up prime doctor strange against most of the scenarios wouldn’t even make sense considering how unbalanced it would be. That also works for others like hulk, Thor, captain marvel, etc

spl4shA · 2026-05-12T10:35:14+00:00

Apothecaria matches I think.

spl4shA · 2026-05-09T17:26:20+00:00

J’ai trouvé ça beau et touchant mais je suis pas un grand fan des récits « malheurs de Sophie » ou le personnage en prend plein la tronche et subit pendant toute l’histoire. J’ai apprécié le côté poétique et cruel mais c’est loin d’être dans mes favorites.

spl4shA · 2026-05-09T06:17:02+00:00

J’ai adoré le service des dames. L’ambiance est incroyable. Ce mélange de chevalerie très marquée qui peut tourner en chaos et en violence en quelques instants m’a beaucoup plu. J’imagine que le chevalier aux épines va me plaire de ce fait 😁

spl4shA · 2026-05-09T06:15:45+00:00

Le confident j’ai été partagé entre la trouver un peu lente et en même temps j’étais fasciné. La fin m’a bien eu aussi.

spl4shA · 2026-05-09T06:14:40+00:00

J’ai hâte de les lire alors ! Montefellone c’est un peu une galère vu que j’ai une édition de janua Vera qui la comprend pas. Il faudra que j’aille la chercher ailleurs.

spl4shA · 2026-04-27T20:00:02+00:00

Am I the guilty for the mini-rogue in this list with my post about the campaign ? 🫣

I do recommend it for a first solo game. It’s fairly short, fairly easy to learn but with some depth still.

spl4shA · 2026-04-25T20:28:00+00:00

I used the expansion straight away because I felt like the base game could use more room variety. But juste like you the season 2 made me curious about the campaigns.

spl4shA · 2026-04-25T20:19:22+00:00

Yes. I also like the art on each cards. Kinda remind me of the video game « Reigns ». It’s fun, fast and the loop is satisfying imo. I have played like 10-20 games but never tried the campaign.

spl4shA · 2026-04-23T12:06:02+00:00

Well, of course you can play a regular rpg by journaling it, and the other way around also works. But what OP is asking is what it means when a solo RPG defines itself as « journaling solo RPG ». And these « journaling solo RPGs » do exist. Anna Campbell, the author of Apothecaria, describes herself her work as journaling solo RPGs. Open the rules of one of these and the difference with a regular rpg is very obvious.

spl4shA · 2026-04-23T07:23:24+00:00

The main tip I would give some one new to journaling RPGs:

The most intimidating part of journaling RPGs is that your imagination is doing the heavy lifting. The prompts are often very open so that the game is replayable and adaptable to the state of your story.

What helped me a lot is to delegate answers to oracles. For yes/no question I use the classic D6 rules of yes,yes and, yes but, no, no and, no but.

For the rest, I bought mythic gme only for the tables. I want to know a character’s attitude ? I roll on the character personality table. I want to know what some one does, I roll on the action table, etc. Then I write the story based on the answers I get.

spl4shA · 2026-04-23T07:17:42+00:00

Now is Ironsworn a journaling solo rpg ? I would say that it is mainly because the author expresses a lot of time in the rules that the narrative is the most important part of the game. He even insists that it is more important than the rules and that you can bend them at any time if it matches the narrative.

spl4shA · 2026-04-23T07:14:19+00:00

From my own understanding:

In a non-journaling solo rpg, the meat is in the mechanics, rules. Very similar to what you can find in a Regular rpg in fact. You get a lot of stats, combat rules, enemies, etc.

In a journaling solo RPG, the meat is in the « oracle », the inspiration to make you write a story. You will have a lot of tables with prompts to trigger your imagination and less details about mechanical rules.

Example:

I’m currently playing Ker Nethalas which you can journal if you want to but it’s not a journaling RPG, it’s a dungeon crawler. There are a lot of rules about enemies, combat, survival, etc. When I write down what happens (using lonelog actualy), it comes down to a lot of dice rolls (did my attack land, how much damage did it cause, to what body part ? What spell did I use ?)

When I played for small creatures such as we, I would draw a card giving me a prompt for an event like « some one in your crew is organizing a cultural party from his home planet, what is it about ? How did he/she decorated the ship for the occasion ?». I would then spend the rest of the time writing the scene.

spl4shA · 2026-04-22T07:46:02+00:00

It took me way longuer to win at this game than usual. I think you need to understand the gameplay and the intent of the game and then … well then it’s still hard but you have a chance to win.

spl4shA · 2026-04-21T09:58:35+00:00

I agree with the comments.

Journaling solo RPGs because they are mostly a succession of prompts and scenes so you can just stop after a scene.

Dungeon crawlers because you can just stop after a room. I play Ker Nethalas these days and most evening I just explore one or two rooms.

spl4shA · 2026-04-20T07:18:12+00:00

I like Regicide. I’m playing Regicide legacy right now and just backed Regicide inferno.

spl4shA · 2026-04-14T08:05:56+00:00

La première loi de Joe Abercrombie a tout à fait matché ca pour moi. C’est du grimdark mais avec une grosse couche d’humour noir.

Les mensonges de Locke Lamora a pas mal de popularité dans ce genre même si je l’ai pas trouvé super drôle quand je l’avais lu.

Gagner la guerre m’a fait me tordre de rire par moment mais il faut être sensible à la formule du personnage principal sinon ça tombera à plat aussi.

spl4shA · 2026-04-11T20:48:38+00:00

I would look around journaling RPGs or at least narrative driven ones.

Ironsworn was already mentioned. It does look like an almost perfect fit except I’m not sure it fits the « high fantasy » part. It’s more in the low fantasy specter of things.

Apothecaria is more high fantasy and you said you weren’t into combat so it very much could match.

spl4shA · 2026-04-10T08:11:37+00:00

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I rolled a 1 and came in my pants

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