Randomness Masquerading as Skill
The Weight of Mastery — Skill Checks That Actually Feel Like Skill
Solo Roleplaying Buddha
An exploration of solo tabletop roleplaying games from a deeper perspective. Searching for the self, in solo play.
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Step Reduction for Solo players: A Wargamer’s Hack for RPG Mass Battles
Using historic wargame mechanics to fuel your fantasy campaigns
Hunting v2.1: Dynamic Tracking & Archery for Solo Roleplay
Track, stalk, and strike with 2d6-based mechanics and evolving skills
Truth Tables Part II: The Clockwork Conspiracy
Using Bloom Clocks to create organic narrative twists
Truth Tables: How to Uncover Secrets Without a GM
Mechanics for Mystery, Misdirection, and Meaning in Solo Play
Procedural Dungeons with Weighted Dice
How Fibonacci sequencing and bell curves create organic dungeon crawls
Fibonacci’s Banshee: How Weighted Dice & Bell Curves Craft Horror
Designing a dialogue system where probability whispers your fate
Rolling with Chaos: How Weighted Dice Create Drama in Solo RPGs
Fibonacci Weighting: Rigging Dice Without Cheating
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Building Better Tables: An Exploration of Custom Probability Matrices
Programming the Chaos: How to Shape Your Game's Outcomes
The Death of Dexterity: How Player-Defined Skills Create Richer RPGs
How replacing rigid stats with narrative skills + bell curves creates deeper immersion.
Dynamic Foraging: A Probability-Driven Approach to Herb Hunting
A Bell-Curve System for Finding Herbs in the strangest of places...
The Clock is Ticking: Using Tension Dice for Quests, Threats, and Twists
Using Tension Dice to Simulate a Living World
The Power of Surprise: Crafting Unexpected Moments in Solo Play
Surprise Tables - Roll a d6 and get start a story...
From Apocalyptic Solo Journeys to High Seas Adventures: My Current Kickstarter Obsessions
Gardening, Early Summers, and the Joy of Crowdfunded Adventures
Broadcasting into the Void: A Review of VOID 1680 AM
A review and live play of VOID 1680 AM’s surreal radio RPG format
Dice, Traps, and the Art of Unlocking What Should Probly Stay Closed
A Thief’s Guide to Tactile Lockpicking
The Anatomy of an NPC: Personality, Emotion, and Morale
Exploring the Tools and Techniques for Dynamic NPC Creation
Solitaire Illness Contraction for Solo Adventurers Made Easy
Rolling for Risk: A Simple Mechanic for Contracting Illnesses