The Library of Wandering Journals

Wandering Alone, Writing the Unknown

Goals

  • Half-way Point

    Two reflection posts back to back might be a lot but I realized after I wrote the last one that we are half way through 2025. So while New England is in a heat wave, I’m inside writing blog posts and playing solo RPGs. I started this blog at the beginning of the year in Read more

  • May, Month in Review

    This month’s moon challenge was to play games that use cards in their system. I hadn’t played a lot of games which used tarot cards, so I leaned hard into those systems. I was successful this month, having played four different games which use cards. It also taught me a lot about tarot cards and Read more

  • April Month in Review

    Let’s just start with an ufff. This month has been a lot. I’ve still been playing a little bit every day and getting in 6+ over the weekend, but in terms of my Moon Challenge I was an epic failure. The plan was to play 4 games that I found in itch.io which were free. Read more

  • March Moon Challenge Reflection

    This month my moon challenge was to play games that were created for multiplayer. I got in a session of my Legend of the Five Rings, 5e campaign, multiple sessions of Be Like a Crow, and a ton of time playing Old School Essentials. Overall, I would mark that as a success, not that this Read more

  • Against the Wind Review, a Gift of Tables

    This month’s Moon Challenge was to play 3 games where you had to roll dice. My plan was to play Against the Wind, Ironsworn, and Legend of the Five Rings, 5e. But I ended up spending almost all of the month playing Against the Wind which does use dice so I wrote up a review Read more

  • January Moon Goals

    My first Moon Goal is complete. It was my goal to play four games this moon cycle which I have owned for a while but hadn’t taken the time to play. (You can learn more about my Moon Goal here.) I was able to find time to play Apothecaria, Epitaph, and Mappa Imperium. I had Read more

  • Solo RPG Adventures: Sharing Insights and Goals

    This page contains affiliate links. Somehow I completely missed solo RPGs for the longest time. I’m not sure how. I had picked up a one-shot here and there. Ran a 6-month campaign, but hadn’t had a real long standing RPG group since 2018. It wasn’t until 2022 that a friend of mine introduced me to Read more