The Solo Scribe: Solo TTRPG Adventures

Introduction A long time ago in a glaxy far, far away... Welcome to the first episode of my Actual Play mini-campaign of Black Star from LakeSide Games. For those not familiar, it's a rules-light, Star Wars with the serial numbers filed off, table top roleplaying game. It's not specifically designed for solo play, and yet the simplicity and design choices mean that it lends itself very well to solo gaming. It also makes playing a game in the Star Wars universe absolutely effortless, all you need do is rename a few things and there you have it. I'm also using the fantastic Mythic GME 2e, to drive the story forwards. I'll preface this by saying this Actual Play is my first time playing with this system, so I will make mistakes. It's also my first attempt at writing my game into a tangible, readable format so again, I'm probably going to make mistakes. But let's not wast anymore time and jump into the action... Episode 1 - Scene 1: "A Little Busy..." ...

Scarlet Heroes - Review T his post is going t o be a review of my experiences with the Scarlet Heroes TTRPG written by Kevin Crawford, and published by Sine Nomine Publishing. The aim of the review is to briefly overview the system and what I like and don't like about it, from the point of view specifically as a solo roleplayer. So let's begin by talking a little about the system. The System The system is a classic OSR Sword and Sorcery style game, drawing heavily on the mechanics and themes of old school D&D and similar titles that use hit dice, classes, hit rolls on 1d20 etc. The game actually incorporates the "Red Tide" setting from Labyrinth Lord so is fully compatible with existing material for that game. Monsters, spells and other mechanics from Labyrinth Lord and other OSR titles that meet the aforementioned criteria, can be implemented with little to no conversion. The philosophy of the game is designed around having a single Player Character (PC) and a si...