hahaha, a few years ago I was in a Dungeon World game and one of my friends decided he wanted to play a magic sword. It couldn’t move independently, so a lot of the game was spent lobbing this sword back and forth to fight for us because neither of the other player characters could fight well.
Anyone ever played Stars Without Number? A friend of mine is going to start a campaign in that system and I’m hoping there’s some kind of auto-fill sheet I can use for character gen.
Since it’s in the future with aliens, I will of course be playing a character that’s a hybrid between red coat Iria from Zeiram and The Stalk from Saga. Both are essentially the coolest bounty hunter designs there are, so, might as well merge em.
I need a good name for this six-armed cloaked half-spider bounty hunter.
Stars Without Number is cool! One of the best game designs to come out of OSR
Who knew that just mashing together D&D and Traveller could work out so well
I bought a bag of cheap orc minis to uses as stand ins for whatever the GM was throwing at us, and I got tired of the bland descriptions of who was moving to/attacking what
Those look a lot like the old Hero Quest orc miniatures. I wonder if someone knocked off the molds, or did GW/MB reissue them?
I had a spare Fimir blow in from my pile of HQ extras at the front but the rest of the sculps are completely novel
Oh yeah! I didn’t even notice him. I love the psychedelic paint job concept.
I used to grab some card stock and some colored pencils and draw up little tent folded monster markers for each of my sessions back when I was DMing. It was fun but I missed having something more meaty, and I’m no artist.
what are some good solo rpg systems?
is it possible to make solo rpgs that don’t centre around fighting fantasy/choose your own adventure page-turning?
Yes, but it may not be what you’re looking for either.
Most single player RPGs tend to be experimental stuff that’s like…a creative writing exercise as much as anything else. Most of the ones I’ve seen are structured like ‘You see an object that makes you feel a sense of profound sadness, what object is this?’ that kind of thing.
all the ‘good’ single player RPGS ive played are literally writing prompts, i dont get it. i guess creative writing is roleplay
hmmm, ok.
i was thinking of trying to make a solo system about being a lone nomad, based on a setting i’ve had in my head for years. but i have no idea how such a thing would even work, so i was hoping there might be something vaguely similar out there
The few things that come to mind are CYOA novels/IF, AI Dungeon which is just “the DM is a crazed robot”, and that ancient text version of Oregon Trail which is like CYOA plus bookkeeping.
control two characters while playing Mage Knight co-op
Yeah it might not be what you’re looking for but there’s lots of cooperative board games you can play by yourself, some have explicit 1 player rules and others you can just play 2 or more characters yourself
I am going to dig through my game library for solo rpgs tomorrow
I keep self promoing but Armistice, my sad mecha jam game can be played solo but its more a structured writing prompt when played like that
I see a lot of card-based adventure games about exploring and journeying that are solo-friendly. Osprey have a sale on and the Judge Dredd one is like £9 atm
This seems like a pretty comprehensive list of solo rpg games and resources, browse through here and see if anything jumps out at you
It’s mostly going to be solo writing style games or gamebook style or ‘virtual gm’ style, which is mostly just rolling dice and consulting a chart to get “yes, and”, “yes, but”, “no, and”, “no, but” results while playing another system