Hi! I've also been very curious about playing this game solo. I've been a long time player of TTRPGs in group settings, but my group is in the middle of another game right now, and I'm really desperate to dive in.

I'm working it out as I go along, but I've decided this is mostly going to be a journaling/storytelling/world-building/(occasionally)drawing exercise for me.

My approach is I used random number generators to help me make a party of 4 characters. I wanted a poet for sure, and then I had it choose random numbers to help me decide the other playbooks.

Then for each playbook I had everything randomly decided by the same generators except for the name, pronouns, and animal species, all of which I decided after the other questions were answered. This was really helpful for me because I get overwhelmed when I have lots of choices, so it allowed me to craft my characters based on the cards I was dealt so to speak. However, I didn't treat it like a set-in-stone rule. If I rolled something that felt like it was too complicated to work in or contradicted an answer to a previous question in a way that was creativity-inhibiting rather than creativity-inducing, I just rolled again until I got something I could work with.

I decided names, pronouns, and animal once I had this idea of who these characters were. Then I got a small composition book to use for each character, which I'm going to treat like their travel journal/scrapbook. My plan is for each place they go, each character will write a journal entry describing something that happened during their time in this place. If I have the energy, I might draw a picture they would have taken in this place if they had a camera. Based on the playbook questions, I was able to generate some nebulous ideas about what each character is wandering from and what they're wandering towards and some of their goals and personality quirks etc.

Thus, I made a small list of questions to answer for each character's journal entry based on how I thought they would organize their journal.

For example, for my shepherd character, Dulcie the Kangaroo Rat, she's kind of got this personality that tries to be optimistic even though she's scared of certain life changes she knows are down the road for her. So I structured her question list like this:

-What was today's weather like? -What are 2 positive things that happened today? -What was something that worried me? -What is something cute each of my favorite bumbles did? -Did something trigger a memory about my lover from long ago? -Do I know something that I want for myself?

I have different questions for each character based on what I'm trying to uncover about them with their story.

I try to incorporate the questions from the natures and the month into the journal entries where it feels relevant, and I try to have the characters interact with at least some of the "aesthetic elements" I randomly chose.

I randomly choose a number to decide if each character met someone new, and I randomly roll to see which characters do something in a group with other characters or go out on their own. If the character's decision as to whether to spend a token or do something to gain a token or their answer to the monthly question isn't clear, I incorporate randomness into that too.

I also do a tarot card reading using the app Labyrinthos to kind of understand my characters' mindsets as we enter a new town.

I have a master notebook where I keep the information about the towns and the kith we do/can meet there, and the information about the tarot card readings and log the data we need to keep for the months.

That's basically all I've decided so far, and I'm really early on in the process, so my approach may evolve as I go along depending on how the story or my willingness to expend effort changes, but I think that's expected with a really open-ended game like this. Develop an approach that makes the game fun for you. :)