#soloseptember Bruno is to perform at the park in Stoleby. He's staying in a private area for guests with a Japanese vibe. Drawing a scene like this is like slowly taking in the local; rolling on exploration tables to add details to add for the PC to interact with.
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#soloseptember This map has off perspective since I did not really plan out where things would go. It is a fictional Danish town of Stoleby, known for it's furniture factory and Tivoli Gardens want-to-be. Slowing down my solo ttrpg campaign to draw a map is worth it!
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#soloseptember One part of this hobby I love is drawing maps; they give context enough for your adventure to continue with vagueness to leave room for imagination. They don't have to be perfect, but allow you imagination to blossom.
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#soloseptember : solo september
Hacking and homebrewing campaign prep is like learning to program in BASIC on the Commodore 64, but analog. You can start with tables, maps, lists of NPCs and story threads, but you need to ‘RUN’ the code to find out what happens.
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Solo rpg: Ch 4: Bruno wakes up with bandaged arm using his lucky bandanna he always wears. Eats shortbread cookies, is accused of treating his friend as a servant and detectives tell him that his mother he has not seen in years needs to speak to him.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 3: Bruno grabs the mic and charms the audience into his side, just in case. They perform and a giant rabbit monster appears as a storm approaches. Bruno's rival freaks out and many NPCs band to stop the creature. Bruno get's his arm bit, badly.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 3: at the show, Brother Green admits he wants to steal the magic of the leprechauns and gives Bruno a floral mask with no eye-holes to wear. Bruno smashes in some eye holes and goes 'on stage' to thunderous applause, which triggers a memory.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 2: the leprechaun tells Bruno his rival wants to sacrifice him during the performance to a Pooka so he can steal the magic of the 'wee folk.' This Pooka ain't no Harvey.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 2: Bruno arrives at the stone circle and finds that he must perform with his rival on the high-wire with no net below. It goes bad, no thanks to a leprechaun that only he can see/hear. Later at the hotel the leprechaun tells him...
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 2: Bruno arrives in the village of Cnoic Taibhse and races to the stone circle on the hill for rehearsal. He is delayed by detectives that want to talk to him and the fae biker gang.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 2: Bruno & Graham take the ferry where they find out Bruno is not the headliner at the next gig, it's his rival Brother Green. They take a bus and find the masked fashion designer is following them.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 1: Tip - Roll on the oracle for anything that is important too the character. No tea on Tea Air is a funny moment to have.
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 1: There were late for their train since he wanted to meet a VIP at the airport, a masked French fashion designer, Pierre Mystery. (I am not good with names)
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Solo rpg play-report: Ch 1: Bruno Jet, aerialist and acrobat and his friend and manager Graham (a pig) were flying to Ireland on 'Tea Air.' He ran into a possible future job with an Austrian opera company and met a creepy guy with a pipe. Also no Tea on 'Tea Air.'
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I call my journaling style 'sketchbook-stream of consciousness'. Bullet points, log date/time, logged rolls, drawings of characters/maps/moments, comic book shorthand, writing out thought process, sometimes hard-to-read conversations and notes.
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THE INTERVIEW to start a solo rpg campaign (or new journal) is a great way to figure out the personality of your player character and their backstory. I drew the picture of circus performer Bruno, and wrote an introduction in his voice.
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Hobby time! This weekend I kicked off my new solo rpg campaign with a session zero. The set-up session: formating my journal with character info (tag's for dice pools) and one of my favorite things to do....THE INTERVIEW.
It's a bit messy.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> Concreat is the building material of the future! An eccentric brutalist building.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg>An art retreat, somewhere. A place where audience and artist meet in a mostly rustic setting.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> Sicheres Haus is a Swiss town of freedom. Freedom to hide your money away and freedom for untested medical treatments. Also fondu, cheese fondue.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> somewhere there is a hill side retreat with a fortrace of a building.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> somewhere there is the science circus and carnival; educational and exciting.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> It's said the Irish village of Cnoic Taibhse is very haunted, but that does not stop a famous step dancing contest from happening.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> Liedberg is the Austrian town where music fills the hills and fine folks travel for the best cordon bleu in the country, also masked skiers and a mountain retreat.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> The danish town of Stoleby is known for fine furniture, a large gardens with rides and cheese.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> Veve Vik, a norwegian town on the coast and famous for weaving, trolls and sunken mysteries.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> Canto del mar, the Spanish resort with a big hotel on the beach, wrestling bulls, secret hideaways, and an opera ghost.
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fictional places for a solo ttrpg> Honeywic, a cozy english village witch of course has a big chance of mystery or murder, also honey production, stately manors and surprising music industry.
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fictional places> Let's try three at a time.
The British village of Honeywic; mystery & murders in a quaint setting.
The Spanish coastal town of Canto del mar; luxury beach side hotel and wrestling bulls.
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fictional places> The French village of Rosebourgs (version 2), known for high fashion, cultivated roses, bicyclist, and a mysterious 'phantom'.
d6 table locations for my upcoming solo ttrpg campaignHopefully this new version is better than the last.
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fictional places> The French village of Rosebourgs, known for high fashion, cultivated roses, bicyclist, and delicate pastry.
d6 table locations for my upcoming solo ttrpg campaign
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fictional places> The Italian town of Bhelstrada, known for their masked carnival and auto race.
d6 table locations for my upcoming solo ttrpg campaign
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fictional places> The German town of Apfelwiese, on the edge of the black forest and known for its annual dance competition. d6 table locations for my upcoming solo ttrpg campaign
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And there are the six possible starting location for my upcoming solo campaign. Once I have my character ready I will roll a d6 and see where the adventure starts.
My brain wants to start to tell a story, but better to wait for the math bones to show me the way.
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Location six is Tea Air-lines. A 'calming way to fly' A small plane covered with flower patterns intended to be reminiscent of blue china patterns.
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Location five is a quaint pub/inn that could be 'anywhere'. Truthfully the style is not generic and if I was to randomly start my gamer here I would redraw it in my journal.
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Location four is The Mystery Train. Dangerous, Illicid ,Rough.
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Location three is Molly's Mod Ship. A blimp based flying ship covered with colorful painted designs.
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A solo rpg game is a great hobby: a pause from reality with dice rolling, creative problem solving, emergent storytelling, take on a roll of someone different, low cost, reason to doodle n draw, sometimes meditative, and fun your way.
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I finally finished my solo campaign and drew an final drawing featuring at least 15 characters. Started the game in May 2024, played off and on and learned a lot about how I like to play.
219 hours - 101 sessions - 62+ characters - 309 pages
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One of the first custom tables I created for playing my solo games. I wanted a #pointandclick adventure game vibe. I roll for each of 6 elements and get a memory or opinion, trigger action or scene. Love the exploration feel.
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Here is a sample visual table of Knight #NPCs. Drawn quickly with ballpoint pen.
"Who is staring at me?" combined with a d6 on this table could provided a scene that could go all sort of ways.
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Here is a visual table of #NPCs, patrons at a bar.
This is just a made up example to share this technique, but my brain allread wants to interact with these characters. "Bartender, who has come into a lot of money recently?" (d6 on table)
#sketchbooksolorpg #solorrpg #ttrpg #visualjournaling
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#hobbytime ! A favorite technique for freeform solo rpg games is creating visual tables during play.
I use spark tables to generate 6 elements (like NPCs) and draw them out. Then I roll on the table for a random clue, interaction, etc.#sketchbooksolorpg #solorrpg #ttrpg #visualjournaling
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This year I have been working out ways to interact in my game with the NPC's which is a lot of fun, especially when the dice make things un-predictable.
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I love taking time for world building in my game and having the character react and interact with all the weirdness. I usually only have 6 elements and I roll a dice for each one to see if it triggers feelings & emotions, clues & directions and events.
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My fourth journal and it's self contained, so I usually spend time re-writing all the notes, trackers, lists in the first pages. It's a lot of work, but I kind of enjoy reviewing what has come before and catching some plot points that got forgotten.
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Over the weekend I had another #solorpg session with a new journal. This time back to the square sized, 81lb paper Moleskine Art Sketchbook. Great for using ink pens (the last the paper only took ballpoint pen)
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Finished journal no 3.
A challenge when at the end of a game journal is trying to make sure there is no split of scene/chapter so the continuation is clear. This time I establish a clock ticking down to a deadline which kept the game moving. -
Sometimes my solo rpg games get complicated and bogged down, and so it's nice to have a moment where the PC goes through all the things that are going on, just like we do in real life.
Bonus to draw thought bubbles.
Ballpoint pen, doodled quickly.
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Sitting down with some physical dice is wonderful. There is some magical quality of rolling dice with a clicky clacky sound of them hitting each other as you roll them.
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When I started playing solo rpg games as a hobby I knew I wanted systems with less bookkeeping. But each campaign I play is longer and more epic which means more book keeping. Sometimes you need to say "NO MORE STORY THREADS! (for now)" (also NPC's)
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I am always surprised how enjoyable it is to have to rewrite all my character/threads/chapter info for a new solo rpg journal. It gives me time to process the previous chapters and make alterations/corrections/deletions to proceed with the game.
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It's always a nice moment when you get to draw on the cover of a finished journal.
#solorpg #ttrpg #illustratedjournaling #sketchbooksolorpg
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A big challenge when I am playing a solo rpg is what to do when I get towards the end of my current sketchbook/journal. This game is still going on, but I don't want to have a game chapter that is cut in half between books.
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As I finish filling in my current Solo RPG journal I choose to have a cut scene triggered by progress clocks. My PC get's one of his goals: to exist with a record and ID card, but his family is threatened by different factors and a new thread to follow.
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I am journaling my game in a Moleskine notebook, but the paper is too thin for anything but a ball point pen which means it does not look as clean as previous games. I am sort of stuck filling out the book.
This is 47 lb paper and I would prefer closer to 80 lb when possible.
#solorpg #journal #sketchbooksoloRPG #drawing #supercity24
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I play #solorpg games throughout the year when I have the energy and time and I love the world building and surprises. The game also gets more complex the longer it is played, which makes me appreciate the folks who GM long-running group games a lot.
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Each chapter is a one-shot game session and the PC can have a specific goal, but also ongoing plot threads.
For this one my superhero PC had to attend a fancy party and had a ticking countdown of each fux-pa before something happened. I wanted to work with NPC's more.
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Finished chapter 8 of my ongoing Superhero themed solo rpg campaign.
I love to doodle and draw as I play, but I don't share much since these can sometime by quick and rough and not always represent my artistic skills. It's fun to have a hobby that can be just for me.