Rituals

There are so many ways to set a scene when playing solo. Mythic and many others provide the necessary tools for keeping things fresh and surprising. But there are so many more. This week we are going to be looking to music for our inspiration. Put a playlist on shuffle. The first song that plays Read more

For those of us in the United States, our country’s independence day is celebrated this week on July 4th. Throughout the country people will be grilling, drinking, having friends and family over, which all culminates in a firework display. This week, think about the world you are currently playing in and create a local holiday. Read more

For this week’s challenge we are going to create something which almost all solo players need, a random table. But not just any random table try to create a random table around something super specific. Something like Ancient Coins, Pill Shape and/or Color, or Spice Containers. Use whatever die or dice combination suits you and Read more

This week we are going to play with progress tracks. They are handy to use when solo role playing to give your character some direction and to know how close or far they are from completing their quest. They can be used for tracking resources and the over lap between tracks and clocks is significant, Read more

In the game Epitaph one of the prompts which can happen asks the players to tell a moment in the character’s life from the point of view of someone close to them. It can be an interesting and insight exercise to think about your character from another perspective. This week describe your character from the Read more

Starting this week, I’m going to post a weekly Solo RPG Challenge. These will range from character development, world building, conflict, mechanics, magic, emotion, symbolism, and other odd little bits and bops. This is very much inspired from the sites I talked about Feb 6th and should be thought about as fun little exercises to Read more