DriveThruFiction [DTF] is OneBookShelf/Roll20’s fiction ebook site. It is identical in almost every way to DriveThruRPG except for the books on sale, and it has a purple or is that lilac color scheme. At the moment, there is no sign of PHNX, which is a good thing. I assume that once they are satisfied with ... Read more The post Designer Diary: DriveThruFiction Experiment first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

You may well have missed my literary translation debut! Last week I am kind of went down a rabbit hole while thinking about Grammarly. What I did was take a text and then let Grammarly loose on it and agreed to everything. Once I completed one pass, I went back and did it again, and ... Read more The post Literary Translation Challenge first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

*If*, and it is an if, DriveThru’s new site does not get its act together and start to serve the smaller publishers as well or better than the previous site does, many small publishers are going to have problems. During the pandemic we had a little bit of a golden age for RPG creators. People ... Read more The post Designer Diary Pod Everything first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

I meant to post the blog last Thursday, but the audio wouldn’t upload correctly, and things got complicated. Before I knew it, it was nearly a week later. Before I made solo RPG stuff and before I was a writer of anything resembling a book, I was a blogger. I enjoy blogging. Everything I do ... Read more The post PHNX Hell : Designer Diary first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

Blackout poetry is often lumped together with cut ups as a non-authoring solo technique. The goal in this posts is to demonstrate how to use black out poetry for solo play, and give enough pointers for you to be able to give it a go yourself. Firstly, non-authoring solo. This is a style of play ... Read more ..read more

This is another shoutout for Champions. I don’t really care which version, from 1e to 6th, they are all good. I try and play Champions every Christmas in an ongoing campaign made of stringing one shot adventures together. Sometimes I swap out the villain in the published adventure and insert some of my own favorites. ... Read more ..read more

Firstly, I will point out that it really is the 10of August and I am finally back on time! I am reading this question as games based on a fiction, and which game I think has done the best job. For me, it is a too up between Modiphius’s Star Trek Adventures and Free Leegue’s ... Read more ..read more

I am torn on this question. I think the humble d6 is the king of all dice. There must b more games that run of the d6 than anything else, despite the profile of the d20. But, I am not keen on any physical dice. I do own a set of polyhedral dice, just the ... Read more ..read more

I have a character that gets reincarnated again and again in different game systems and campaigns. He is called Kallen, Callen, Kallan, or Callan, or in a fantasy setting sometimes Kal’an, or K’lan. He is actually named after a TV character, Callan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callan_(TV_series) My Kallan tends to be a Scottish private detective, a little disheveled, ... Read more ..read more

This is a hard one again as this is a problem I don’t really suffer with. There are games that I would like to run for my face to face group that I don’t think will ever happen. We only get together every six months or so, and not at all during the pandemic years. ... Read more ..read more