Hello guys!

Other day I found this magazine, the “Strategic Review Number 1”, from TSR, from 1975, and found that here, just one year after the first RPG(D&D) release, there is a Gary Gygax article called “Solo Dungeon Adventures” (page 3) with rules to play D & D solo!

The creator of the RPG himself was interested in RPG alone, and this creation was almost at the same time the RPG “in group” creation!

I put it here because I think that this is the definite argument for every time someone is surprised to play this game in a solo way … here is the magazine!

https://annarchive.com/files/Strv101.pdf

https://annarchive.com/files/Strv101.pdf

I’m a long time solo gamer. I just recently joined the group. I’m surprised there has been no mention of the solo games by Two Hour Wargames. These are all solo designed self contained story telling games with several different genres. They boil down all the basic RPG concepts into simple tables, (no oracles), with a full campaign system so it’s easy to generate fun unpredictable narratives. Although each rule book can create a good story, it’s also easy to combine several of these rule sets for more story details and a larger universe to play in since they all share the same mechanics. In combination with these rules books, Lovecraft’s Revenge is my favorite solo story telling game.

I had already been eyeing this on Drivethru. I suspect it could be a lot of fun solo, as regardless of how bizarre & nonsensical the results of your oracles/random charts, they should most likely fit somewhere, as that is a a design feature, no?

Originally shared by Seamus Conneely

Shadow people stalk the back alleys. Reptilians disguise themselves as humans and prowl through our society. The Grays descend from the stars to carry out who-knows-what kind of experiments on whatever people or animals they can seize. Behind the scenes the Illuminati manipulate all this and more to an end known only to them, and it’s your job to keep it all under wraps. It’s not going to be easy, with all the cults and conspiracy theorists running around. Especially considering the only mission briefing you got was a red d20 with every face reading 9. You’re caught in the web of madness that is Conspiracist: The Game THEY Don’t Want You to Play!

https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2017/09/30/the-independents-conspiracist/

A step by step of using my city generator and the sort of story you can get out of it.

Give it a read if you’ve been curious since I mentioned it.

(and as a few people have suggested, it really ought to have been called a City Story generator, since it’s aimed at story seeds, rather than the physical layout of the city. unfortunately changing titles on onebookshelf sites like rpgnow has a bunch of issues, so it shall remain as it, even though those people are totally correct 🙂 )