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Coincackler Well
Heya, everyone,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 Coincackler Well is the result!Coincackler Well features an old wishing well, where, centuries ago, a 'dweller in the well' used to grant wishes in exchange for droppi...
Muckrake Keep
Hello everyone,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 a simple encounter loop and some oracle input. The result is the mini-system I used for Muckrake Keep.Enjoy using this resource in your own solo ...
Fichtean Cycle (Jam)
Heya, everyone,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 Netherlands went into semi-lockdown again...)A fun subject for sure, and something that interests me very much! My jam contribution was a fun little experiment trying to use...
Mythic Starters VI
Heya, everyone,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 Mythic GME. If you haven't checked out this little series, you can find them here.Of course, you could also use them as small adventure seeds for use in whatever system you prefer...
Lost Aquifer of the Deep Elves
Heya, everyone,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.Lost Aquiver of the Deep Elves features an infestation of spider eggs contaminating the water sources in the Dark Beneath, my version of the Underdark. Havin...
The Hoary Cockatrice
Heya, everyone,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 adventure, never really belonging somewhere.The Hoary Cockatrice adventuring lodge presents a home base for solo characters stocked with some NPCs ...
Nemesis Jailbreak
Heya, everyone,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 The Cursed Decanter.Nemesis Jailbreak features a violent prison riot on board a space penitentiary slowly falling towards a dying sun. However, are they trying to es...
Sunkenstone Island
Heya, everyone,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 rising to the surface after a huge seaquake, and finding the damaged seals to the ancient prison containing Nagata, the Gorgon Queen, before her degenerate 'gorgonites' get to them first.It s...
The Cataclysm Domes
Heya, everyone,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, The Location Crafter, to create two interesting interlinked randomizing locations based on combining some of the creative suggestions made by Martijn Jansen, James McMillan, Greg Hunter, and Jesper Ohlsson.The Cataclysm Domes features the mad wizard Zaster using...
Cathedral of Melodious Death
Heya, everyone,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 Death Halls of Cragar-Dur.I really like the tiered area/room approach there, and use it quite often when making dungeons, but I wanted something that made the area emergence a little m...
The Waker in the Reef
Heya, everyone!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 ever since making Hillcrest Village.The inspiration for this semi-Lovecraftian romp came indirectly from my awesomazing patrons Jesper Ohlsson and James Mcmillan, who both came up with 'Cataclysm...
Solitary Musings II
Heya, everyone!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, and Greg Hunter offered 'detective' as keyword inspiration. That got me thinking about what I like about mystery or investigation-type adventures in solo play, so I thought it would be interesting to make another So...
Deadbeat Potion Shoppe
Heya, everyone!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 Modular Notice Board I.Deadbeat Potion Shoppe features a rusty debt collector golem, a bunch of goblins drunk on fermented potions, and the broken dreams of a wizard, poor guy.While the stats used are compatible with Basic Fan...
Mythic Starters V
Heya, everyone,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 Mythic GME. If you follow me on twitter, you might have already seen the playtest pictures. Don't forget to check out the previous Starters in the series here.Of course, you could easily treat them as adventure seeds for use in whatever syst...
The Soaring Vastness
Heya, everyone,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 had fun converting the events of our mini-campaign into the little random tables that make up this setting toolkit. While these come in the format of a little p...
Physical tier goodies
Heya, everyone,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
The Cursed Decanter
Heya, everyone!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 spells!Anyway, the Cursed Decanter is a small 10-page adventure booklet that uses a variant of the keyword system I often use in pamphlets to generate a custom solo experience. It should be set up to...
Hireling Pack II
Heya, everyone,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 even considered just using them all as my main characters and have them surprise me with their actions, as well as the game world around them. The concept ...
The Troll King's Brood
Heya, everyone,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 locations I used to test out some new rulesets (Beyond the Wall and The Hero's Journey) I really like the way play spins off from the selected keywords in this method.One of these quickstart locations revisits the spacefaring fantasy of Visitor from the Maelstr...
Solitary Musings
Heya, everyone!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 Tales of the Burrow or Morton Fledgling and the Case of the Murdered Mermaid.I thought it would be fun to go into some of the different game loops I like to set up for myself and share some of the insights that really helped ...
Mythic Starters IV
Heya, everyone!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 (deck). I don't make a lot of Sci-Fi resources, but you could certainly set Mythic Starters IV in the same universe of Project Darkshard or any other setting you prefer for yo...
Hireling Pack
Heya, everyone,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 character (or two) and add support characters (henchmen/sidekicks/hirelings etc) whenever the need arises.I thought it would be nice to make a cute ...
Wyrmdreamer
Heya, everyone,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, Heartseeker by Scott Malthouse.Wyrmdreamer is a whimsical little pamphlet adventure suitable for solo play that features the cruel and petty dreams of an unwilling slumbering green dragon corrupting a remote mountain vale.While the stats used ar...
Factions and Favors
Heya, everyone!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 in settings because they really give a sense of a living breathing world. However, I always find it challenging to have that sense of belonging when I ...
Mythic Starter III: Setups for Solo Adventure
Heya, everyone!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 rumblings' as inspiration for one of them.Although both are set in a post-viking/norse world, these should easily convert to other settings or genres. Also, you can...
Rise of the Rad-emental
Heya, everyone,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 Rangers of Old Roarke.I've been meaning to expand on that game for a while, so this week I had great fun creating a hexflower point crawl generator based in the world of Old Roarke, specifically the overgrown wilderness of the...
Chorus - City of the Minstrel Queen
Heya, everyone,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 turned into the one-page adventure setting Chorus - City of the Minstrel Queen.The Minstrel Queen of Chorus plays the Starsong in her Palace of So...
Adventure Sites - Part 2
Heya, everyone!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 continually generate fun situations and interesting interconnected encounters. This week's upload sees a lot of new cards added to the mix, which I ...
Adventure Sites - Part 1
Heya, everyone!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 been working on a (stand-alone) dungeon/adventure site card followup/addon for my Deck of Point Crawl Locations!I attached a pic to this post to show you the work in progress and the interconnectedness of the car...
Pyre of the Ember Lord
Heya, everyone,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 the Whispering Church and Cogpustule's Workshop. I think it is a nice way to have locations quickly spin off into more content during play.Pyre of the Ember Lord features a pillar of flame coming fr...
