I've been meaning to try these types of games out. I don't really care for the roleplaying aspect or tabletop games or playing with other people, but still want to play an rpg. It seems reasonable that there'd be many kinds of "solitaire" but for table top rpgs.
How to play tabletop RPGs by yourself: A beginner's guide to solo roleplaying
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Re: How to play tabletop RPGs by yourself: A beginner's guide to solo roleplaying
#32Not even a mention of Tunnels and Trolls? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnels_%26_Trolls We used to joke that it was a gateway drug to making friends who played real games. Together. Because we were geeks. Back when a game master with some recipe cards full of encounters was a better way to spend a Friday night than playing Zork. T&T -> D&D -> nothing else, really, just D&D
T&T was awesome. A group of us in grade school / junior high played T&T and passed the solo dungeons around. A few of us lived within a bike ride of one of the few "gaming" stores that carried T&T and monitored the shelves for new (to us) arrivals.
It was great in a time/place where public transit wasn't a thing and the only way to "voice chat" was to monopolize the only land line.
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#33Seems like a bad idea for anything other than a bit of testing. Back in university a gang of us played all the time and many of us were the prototypical nerds and somewhere on the socially awkward spectrum. But role playing gave us social interaction practice because we did it together. We knew one guy who was so introverted that he would sit in his room and run a dungeon by himself. He did not do that because he was…
I feel it adds a lovely bit of variety to the experiences. Tried a journaling RPG for the first time recently — spending 4 hours imagining experiences, describing them, and guiding my creativity with the game's ruleset / prompts. The game allowed room for introspection, for overcoming internal obstacles, for writing / thinking carefully about how I phrase things. That was a profoundly different experience from my Tue…
I had to google journaling rpg and the first thought I had is that this could be a big part of a creative writing class in high school for some kids.
When I was in high school, I despised the writing assignments and I believe I'm worse off now for never developing that skill.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thousand Year Old Vampire is probably the best single player RPG. https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/ Here's a gorgeous illustrated playthrough: https://www.timdenee.com/A-Thousand-Years-of-Vampire
Ironic that in a thread about shaming how people should be permitted by others to have fun, the first page of that web page is a long rant about the author's demand to gatekeep his purchasers political views, dripping with hatred for his opponents.
"If you stand by quietly as Republicans take the power of the vote from African Americans in Alabama and compete to hurt trans people as badly as possible then you are part of this problem. You are lobbying for the death of my friends and relations, you are pushing for dangerous authoritarians to destroy the systems that let books like mine come to be. And this goes for equivalent groups outside the US–you know who you are."
Ie, don't be a fascist.
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#35Every day it’s just more headlines of the modern dystopia we have created.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel it adds a lovely bit of variety to the experiences. Tried a journaling RPG for the first time recently — spending 4 hours imagining experiences, describing them, and guiding my creativity with the game's ruleset / prompts. The game allowed room for introspection, for overcoming internal obstacles, for writing / thinking carefully about how I phrase things. That was a profoundly different experience from my Tue…
I had to google journaling rpg and the first thought I had is that this could be a big part of a creative writing class in high school for some kids. When I was in high school, I despised the writing assignments and I believe I'm worse off now for never developing that skill.
Yep, I used to teach creative writing and the kids loved these. They can be cooperatively social, too -- I know one of my former colleagues is using a journaling RPG as a framework for a shared worldbuilding project that his students seem to find really engaging and generative.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thousand Year Old Vampire is probably the best single player RPG. https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/ Here's a gorgeous illustrated playthrough: https://www.timdenee.com/A-Thousand-Years-of-Vampire
Ironic that in a thread about shaming how people should be permitted by others to have fun, the first page of that web page is a long rant about the author's demand to gatekeep his purchasers political views, dripping with hatred for his opponents.
Perhaps those who wish to remove rights from people and treat them as second class citizens simply because of their sexual orientation, religious belief or lack of belief, or socioeconomic status deserve to be treated the way that want others to be treated.
I see little wrong with letting people experience a bit of what they, if they could, would force others to experience.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thousand Year Old Vampire is probably the best single player RPG. https://thousandyearoldvampire.com/ Here's a gorgeous illustrated playthrough: https://www.timdenee.com/A-Thousand-Years-of-Vampire
Ironic that in a thread about shaming how people should be permitted by others to have fun, the first page of that web page is a long rant about the author's demand to gatekeep his purchasers political views, dripping with hatred for his opponents.
Frankly, those that "have fun" by punching down the already-downtrodden deserve everything they get, especially when one side is a lone politically powerless nerd. Suggesting an equivalence between the entire political right, with its glorious machinery designed to disenfranchise, and some guy who writes simple RPGs, is a false equivalence at best. Remember that politics is the study of who gets what, where, when, why, and how they get it -- this lone nerd isn't even preventing anyone from anything, he's just spewing helpless vitriol. The grand array of the political right is actually actively taking, right now.
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#39Seems like a bad idea for anything other than a bit of testing. Back in university a gang of us played all the time and many of us were the prototypical nerds and somewhere on the socially awkward spectrum. But role playing gave us social interaction practice because we did it together. We knew one guy who was so introverted that he would sit in his room and run a dungeon by himself. He did not do that because he was…
Just because you engage in solor roleplaying doesn't mean you shun communal roleplaying. Another comment asks what's the difference with sitting along in your room and playing a computer game. Well, yes.
Also, another comment in another thread reminded me of Choose Your Own Adventure games that were popular in the '90s and I suppose they were popular among the same crowd that played D&D with each other.
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I had to google journaling rpg and the first thought I had is that this could be a big part of a creative writing class in high school for some kids. When I was in high school, I despised the writing assignments and I believe I'm worse off now for never developing that skill.
Yep, I used to teach creative writing and the kids loved these. They can be cooperatively social, too -- I know one of my former colleagues is using a journaling RPG as a framework for a shared worldbuilding project that his students seem to find really engaging and generative.
If you wouldn’t mind sharing any teaching resources, I would really appreciate it! Email is in profile.