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Coincackler Well

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Hope you all had fun getting to the bottom of some rumors in Muckrake Keep

Lately, my son and I are playing GMless a lot, using the Basic Fantasy anthologies. When our characters encountered an old well on an abandoned property, that got me brainstorming, and Coinca...

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Muckrake Keep

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Hope you all enjoyed playing around with Fichtean Cycle last week!

This week I finally had some time for some solo games after a long period of grading student papers. I thought it would be a nice experiment to see how much content I could spin-off from a series of interesting rumors using...

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Fichtean Cycle (Jam)

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How are you all doing? Hope you all enjoyed some of the solo setups in Mythic Starters VI!

I really enjoyed participating in a small physical game jam last week where we all got together and brainstormed about narrative structure in games (sadly, just before the Netherlan...

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Mythic Starters VI

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Sorry for being a little late with the upload, I'm in the middle of grading students and that can be a busy time! 

Hope you had fun with Lost Aquifer of the Deep Elves. This week, I've had fun creating Mythic Starters VI for use with the awesome View Post

Lost Aquifer of the Deep Elves

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Hope you all had fun using the Hoary Cockatrice as a home base for solo play last week! 

For this week, I was playing around with the idea of a combined one-page dungeon/RPG because I wanted to have something that didn't need a lot of prep to take with me on an upcoming trip....

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The Hoary Cockatrice

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Hope you all had fun escaping or breaking into space prison using Nemesis Jailbreak!

For this week, I thought I'd try to solve one of the things that arise during my own solo actual plays: my characters are often very transient in nature, moving from one place to another in search of adven...

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Nemesis Jailbreak

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Hope you all had fun visiting Sunkenstone Island last week! 

This week, I've been having a blast using Tiny Frontiers in some sci-fi solo games set in my own setting. I thought it would be fun to use my sessions as the framework for an oracle adventure in the vein of 2021-10-11 12:45:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Sunkenstone Island

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Hope you all had fun generating some interesting locations in the Cataclysm Domes

For this upload, I decided to compile what unfolded during one of my own solo plays into a mini-hexcrawl. Sunkenstone Island features an ancient seamount ris...

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The Cataclysm Domes

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Hope you all had fun creating and interpreting your own versions of the Cathedral of Melodious Death last week! 

This week I had fun returning to a system that I really like, 2021-09-27 13:29:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Cathedral of Melodious Death

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Hope you all had fun getting your feet wet in Waker in the Reef last week!
This week I was inspired by Deathwork's patron suggestion 'Whispers', some nice geomorphic dungeon art I got my hands on, and a resource I made way back when called View Post

The Waker in the Reef

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Hope you had fun last week setting up your own mysteries using Solitary Musings II

This week, I played around with the idea of oracle icons, possibility-space, and a combination of map and story that I've been wanting to try out ev...

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Solitary Musings II

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Hope you all had a chance to help out the wizard Magnolius get past the debt collection golem in Deadbeat Potion Shoppe

Last week, James McMillan asked how I like to handle solving mysteries in solo roleplaying, a...

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Deadbeat Potion Shoppe

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Hope you all had fun escaping the spell realm last week using Mythic Starters V

This week I had fun creating a pamphlet adventure suitable for Solo/GMless play based around one of the adventure seeds found in 2021-08-29 22:10:38 +0000 UTC View Post

Mythic Starters V

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Hope you all had fun generating interesting locations, events, and goings-on in the Soaring Vastness last week! 

This week I've had fun creating Mythic Starters V for use with the awesome 2021-08-23 08:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post

The Soaring Vastness

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Hope you all enjoyed ridding the Cursed Decanter of its rat problem last week. 

This week, I prepared a little mini-setting I really enjoyed discovering through play alongside my son. He's in love with the idea of halfling knights on flying mounts, and who can blame him! 

I...

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Physical tier goodies

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Just wanted to share a quick behind-the-scenes picture! I had great fun selecting the physical tier goodies for this month. These will be packaged and delivered to physical tier patrons by my flying postal monkeys soon. 

Have a nice weekend!

Cheerio,

John


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The Cursed Decanter

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Hope you all had fun using a few hirelings from the Hireling Pack II in your games. Apologies for being a little late with this one, I had to restore it from a backup because my laptop decided to be beyond the powers of my resurrection...

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Hireling Pack II

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Hope you all enjoyed trying out the solo locations in The Troll King's Brood! This week, I returned to the hireling pack format because the first batch sees a lot of use in my own solo games, and I think it's a fun and simple way to play NPCs having a mind of their own!

I...

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The Troll King's Brood

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Hope you enjoyed reading some of my Solitary Musings last week! 

This week I had great fun with the format I used in Pyre of the Ember Lord and writing up three quickstart locatio...

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Solitary Musings

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Hope you all had a chance to take the CSS Star Nomad out for a spin in last week's Mythic Starters IV

This week I've had quite a few people ask me about how I go about some of my solo actual plays like 2021-07-18 18:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Mythic Starters IV

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Hope you all had fun using the Hireling Pack in your solo games. I was thinking about making a similar pack with intelligent magical items so let me know if you'd like that. 

This week I had great fun making Mythic Starters IV for use with my Mythic GME ...

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Hireling Pack

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Hope you all had fun last week breaking the green dragon's hold over the Vale in Wyrmdreamer!

This week I was feeling decidedly arts-and-craftsy (pics attached) and also wanted to show the way I've enjoyed using support characters in my games lately. I usually play a single main c...

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Wyrmdreamer

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Hope you all had a nice weekend and enjoyed using last week's Factions and Favors in your own solo games! This week's upload sees a return to a ruleset I really enjoy for solo play, ...

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Factions and Favors

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Hope you all had a nice weekend filled with (solo) gaming opportunities and maybe had a chance to play around with Mythic Starters III.

This week I've been trying out an interesting mechanic for handling character faction membership. 

I'm a huge fan of organizations and groups...

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Mythic Starter III: Setups for Solo Adventure

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Hope you all had a chance to play around with Rise of the Rad-emental

Last week I had fun playtesting two adventure setups to include in Mythic Starters III for use with the Mythic GME Deck (which I adore), using Jesper Ohlsson's fun suggestion 'subterranean rum...

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Rise of the Rad-emental

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Hope you are all doing well and had fun using Chorus - City of the Minstrel Queen in your games last week! 

A while ago I participated in a fun postcard game jam with a post-apocalyptic/eco-punk game called 2021-06-05 21:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post

Chorus - City of the Minstrel Queen

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Hope you all had fun trying out part 1 and 2 of the Adventure Sites cards!

This week, I've been having fun playing around with Deathwork's creative suggestion 'Enchanting Singing'. After some fun creative oracle questions using the awesome Mythic GME deck, this inspiration...

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Adventure Sites - Part 2

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Hope you all had fun with the first part of the Adventure Site cards, and maybe had a chance to combine them with the Deck of Point Crawl Locations for some fun layered play and interconnected locations/sites.

I find the combination in particularly serves as a kind of game engine to contin...

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Adventure Sites - Part 1

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Hope you all enjoyed Pyre of the Ember Lord! This week's upload is a little late because it seems I didn't schedule the upload correctly. Doh... 

Anyway, as some of you might know if you follow my tweetery , I've bee...

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Pyre of the Ember Lord

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Hope you all had fun with those devious kobolds in Children of Grimetail last week! 

This week I've been having some solo fun with three different adventure locations from my own campaigns, inspired by some of the format I used in 2021-05-08 08:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post