Over the Christmas break, I finally got out the Star Wars: Age of Rebellion Beginner Game and took its adventure on a solo play run. I love Star Wars. At the time, I was wrapping up a read of Stackpole’s X-Wing: Wedge’s Gamble. I also really like Genesys, having run a play-by-post in the Android…
Category: Solo Play
Session 9-3-2025 – After-Action Report
It happened. The party died. For anyone curious about how that happened narratively, the party returned to the dungeon, lit torches, and beelined for where they encountered the Scarlet Minotaur before. No longer there, they continued checking the room, then opted to leave the room in the direction they could hear a faint breeze. Winding…
Session 8-11-25
This turned out a lot more storytelling than recap than I think I want to do in the future. I’ll probably look for something that’s a middle ground between bullet point notes about rolls and things that happen and this full-conversations approach. Still, I wrote it up to build out what’s happening, so it’d be…
Catch up to 8-11-25
My first couple of sessions had note-taking done on various pieces of paper with limited amounts of narration recorded. As I move to keeping all of my notes (both session recaps and world details) in Obsidian, I decided to do a catch up document that brings those notes into a starting point. While I’ll put…
First experiences in solo play
I’ve finally done the thing. I pushed through my concerns about a stigma of solo play that I had in my head, a stigma other would-be solo players I know share, and finally tried out solo play of an RPG. I’m glad I did. I’ve played or run D&D in a variety of formats. There’s…