Heya, my wonderful patrons,
I trust the weekend treated you well as the holiday draws to a close (at least in this neck of the woods). During the past week, I focused a bit on playtesting new additions to my swingy (I like swingy) d6 micro-GM emulator system, a staple in my own Solo/GMless pick-up games and the pamphlet adventures I've crafted previously.
I realized that...
2023-08-22 14:14:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there, my amazing patrons!
Hope you had an amazing gaming-filled week with lots of opportunities for solo or GM-less gaming. I have been enjoying getting back into White Star, one of my fav rulesets for pulpy sci-fi-themed solo gaming....
2023-08-13 13:51:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my lovely patrons!
With all the bad weather we are having in the Netherlands at the moment, I am very much enjoying starting up some mini-campaigns. One of which is a GM-less Underdark game I’m running with my son, and the other one is some experiments with starter seeds for Mythic in the style of my 2023-08-02 14:40:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my lovely patrons,
Hope you are all doing splendidly, and that you have a chance to fill your summer break with some fun gaming. While prepping for a solo game last week, I had no clear idea of a setting to play in. For me, figuring out what makes a campaign setting tick is a fun part of solo gaming, because I have the time to explore the stuff that I find fun.
I decide...
2023-07-25 13:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostCalling all patrons!
I would love to have your help in shaping my content in the right direction by learning more about your personal preferences. This will help me to better tailor the experience to your own solo gaming table and setup. So, please let your voice be heard as I value your input in doing what I love :)
Happy gaming,
John
2023-07-15 22:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, my incredible patrons, and thank you all for your kind words of encouragement and reassurance during my long absence. After what feels like a long and arduous journey back to a semblance of normalcy in my life, it is good (and a relief) to feel my creative juices returning again.
I now find myself with both time and opportunity to return to one of my favorite activities: creating r...
2023-07-14 10:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostHeya everyone,
You might have noticed that I have not been as active (as I would have liked) this past month with uploads. Unfortunately, this is because I am dealing with a personal issue that is causing me heaps of stress.
I decided it would be fairer to pause my billing cycle for a bit this month. This will give me some breathing room to catch up and hopefully have stuff sorted o...
2022-09-30 12:07:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all enjoyed the first part of the OSR Retroclone Monstrous Action cards! So far, these cards have been a great way for me to supplement and spice up my retro-clone solo battles with a fun mix of tactics and wacky on the fly GM rulings.
Took me a while to playtest th...
2022-09-03 10:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone,
I often use little cards with random tables on them in solo play, as you might have already guessed from the Deck of Point Crawl locations and other card collections!
Having played through a lot of OSR Retroclone adventures with my son during the holiday break, I made a sma...
2022-08-19 09:24:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone!
I hope you all enjoyed exploring Dark Edwardian Garden Crawl and had a chance to consort with some very lovely Faeries.
For this week, I had some fun creating a new pamphlet adventure featuring, spoilers, I guess, maybe, a doppelganger plot based around the Copper Crows, a thieves guild I like to use a character background for my city adventures, and its leader, Moth...
2022-08-06 14:11:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone,
Hope the start of the holiday is treating you right, with lots of rest and relaxation, and hopefully, some nice opportunities for some solo roleplaying.
I had great fun preparing a little longer resource for you than usual. Since creating Orchid of the Ages as part of Mythic Starters II, I ...
2022-07-26 22:41:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone!
I received some requests lately to expand a little on Planar Punk, which is a 24xx game jam entry I made a while ago. Planar Punk was basically a little love letter to Planescape, combining it with a bit of a punk vibe.
I think all the 24XX micro-systems are great to use in solo play, because they match great with any 'What happens n...
2022-07-07 12:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you are all doing well and had some fun using a deck of cards to draw up some interesting wizardly journal entries using Tower, Toil, and Trouble!
I don’t know about you all, but I am soooo much looking forward to the holiday period :) I plan on doing some hardcore solo roleplaying, maybe starting a new campaign, and doing some catching up for my Patreon.
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Heya everyone,
First of all, apologies for the late upload! Life got a little in the way of things and decided to throw some nasty curve balls in my direction. Definitely looking forward to the start of my vacation period in a few weeks!
I participated in a solo journalling game jam recently and thought it would be fun to share the result: Tower, Toil and Trouble 2022-06-12 07:21:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope everyone is doing well, and that you don’t mind I took a little extra time working on this upload, expanding it to about 14 pages, including the one-page GM emulator I mostly use these days (I kindalike swingy tables in solo play!).
Grimsbury Secrets is an experiment using the same kind of possibility space I used previously in 2022-05-23 21:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you are all doing well!
The freeform aspect of solo roleplaying has always fascinated me for its ability to create an interesting story out of thin air with a few die rolls. I think there is something profoundly exciting to trying to answer that 'What Happens Next' question.
However, that also makes solo roleplaying often focus on the immediate...
2022-05-08 12:54:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you are all doing well and that you enjoyed your own adventures Underneath the Barking Tree!
I had fun experimenting with a few solo games (mostly using World of Dungeons and Heartseeker) and the 2022-05-01 10:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all had fun battling degenerate giants and frosty wyrms in the now complete Frostmist Mountains Feud!
Recently, I have been running a kind of Ravenloft-lite in a few GM-less games tying in from my previous solo pamphlet adventure 2022-04-20 13:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all had fun last week using Chance Meetings in some of your own games!
This week, I returned to my Frostmist Mountains Feud mini-campaign which surprisingly concluded in an epic but icy battle with the betrothed of...
2022-04-12 14:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone!
Hope you all enjoyed using the first two parts of Frostmist Mountain Feud in your own solo games.
My playtest for the third part of that series was interrupted by a very fun GMless pickup game I ran at the university I am teaching at.
I thought it woul...
2022-04-04 11:41:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all enjoyed the first part of Frostmist Mountains Feud! I really like adding simple flowcharting systems like this to the (original) Location Crafter made by Tana Pigeon.
It makes it way easier for me to se...
2022-03-19 07:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone,
Hope you all enjoyed crawling around the Spidercrawl Frontier adventure hex last week!
For this week, I thought I'd have some fun with one of my absolute favorites for solo play: the (original) 2022-03-06 22:06:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all had fun exploring Elderwick Manor and confronting the Lord and Lady of the manor!
This week I had some requests to revisit the old adventure hex system I used quite a while ago (in Valley of...
2022-02-24 22:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Unfortunately, It's been quite a difficult few weeks for me, with most of my family testing positive for Covid. This left me with a ton of day job work to coordinate next to taking care of everyone!
I'll do my best to make it up to you all during the holiday break, in which I plan to do some heavy solo gaming and write-ups.
I did have some fun with a few hexflo...
2022-02-14 10:30:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all enjoyed using some of the new Point Crawl Location cards!
Last week, I enjoyed playing through a small side-adventure that actually occurred between locations while using the deck, and I decided to write it up as an oracle icon adventure in the vein of 2022-02-01 22:59:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you all enjoyed rolling up some interesting characters for your solo games using Creating Conflicted Characters! I might use it for a small actual play soon to show some character interaction examples. Let me know if you would like that!
For this upload, I have added an extra print sh...
2022-01-26 11:39:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone, and welcome to new patrons!
I was prepping to run another solo tavern crawl (like dungeon room crawling but going from tavern to tavern in a single explosive night of urban side-questing) and I thought it might be fun to tidy up and share the NPC generator 'add-on' I often use to spice up NPCs my characters might encounter during their escapades.
Creating...
2022-01-18 22:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya everyone, and happy new year!
Hope you all had fun giving Points on a Planar Compass a whirl in your games.
This week, I was inspired by some of the earlier micro-setting I created (The Dread Realms...
2022-01-09 23:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya, everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying your holiday break and are able to find time to enjoy some solo/GMless gaming! I decided to dive into the Planes of the Multiverse for this resource and create two (semi-connected) adventures using the solo keywords system that I like to use when playing published modules.
Points on a Planar Compass includes:
Heya, everyone!
Hope you are doing well with the Christmas break approaching and lots of countries going into lockdown.
A few weeks ago, Yukiko asked me if I had any ideas for a kingdom management mechanic. This actually got me thinking about one of the things I enjoy so much when reading through campaign setting books: timelines/history of kingdoms.
I just lo...
2021-12-22 13:37:38 +0000 UTC View Post