FOREST CRITTER

In the first episode of this (probably short) solo campaign, a zealous machine and its pilot find themselves stranded on a strange moon.

Wow, I am not very good at posting updates on my projects. I wrote a zine and now it’s available to download! I’m pretty satisfied with the way it turned out, and I'm probably going to write another... eventually. Recipes for the Modern Mage, Volume 1 , vibes pretty heavily with an imagined cooking-based RPG that I’m sure I’ll eventually get around to writing, at some point. I submitted this zine to the Lone Wolf TTRPG Jam, and it’s a pretty quick read. I’d like to think it’s useful and fun, too!  This zine is part cookbook, part spellbook, part adventure hook book that gives you several different recipes and spells you can bring to your table as an in-universe document. Your players are sure to be impressed by that kind of handout! Recipes for the Modern Mage, Volume 1 by Alex Meyer

This is an idea that really relies on a certain kind of narrative structure, one where you’re fine with the concept of your game being like a show on television. One of the things I struggle with sometimes in my solo games is determining how exactly to break up play. Sometimes I can play for a few hours, sometimes I only have 15 minutes. It’s one of the greatest flexibilities of solo play, but I run into this issue where I have a long session followed by a short one, and I have no idea how I would share the short session in an ongoing actual play. It doesn’t lend itself well to the nice, detailed sessions I see on other people’s blogs.  In fact, I have a lot of APs that started out strong in the first session or two, and then I run into that problem. At the end of December, I shared one such session in a solo game of Electric Bastionland, but took it down because I was dissatisfied by how the second session didn’t complement the first, due to being fairly short. It makes it difficult,

This was my first session where I tried playing the 24XX system solo. Here is an actual play, set in the far future.

Well, I thought I would have the motivation to do this for a whole month, but I sure picked a bad month to do this challenge.  Between work and other personal responsibilities, I've been pretty stressed and I don't have the juice to keep up with this challenge. 20 characters, however, is a pretty solid number. I got about 2/3 of the way there, which is more than I was expecting that I'd be able to do. I figured that I'd go for a week and burn out, so I'm pretty satisfied with what I was able to accomplish. On top of the stress, writing a new character every day just stopped being fun, which kind of defeats the point. I'll be writing some different content soon, and I just recently started a solo game of Electric Bastionland. I may post the actual play here, but I'm not looking to take it too seriously.

"Oof. Buhf."