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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 r...
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 u...
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 s...
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 ch...
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 Aq...
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 ...
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 Deca...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 collecto...
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...
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 co...
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-...
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 ...
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 p...
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 Mermai...
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 lo...
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 mai...
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 fo...
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 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 ...
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, ...
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 inspirat...
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 co...
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 fo...
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....
