Return to Latter Earth - Part 3
March 20, 2023
Scarlet Heroes & Worlds Without Number & Numenera & Tome of Adventure Design
I have done some work to embed this campaign more firmly in a science-fantasy Latter (Dying) Earth setting. As I go through, there will be more
Thoughts on Scarlet Heroes
March 19, 2023
Scarlet Heroes
I played Scarlet Heroes when it was fairly new and decided to revisit it recently after a few years away. Now that I have a lot more solo
Return to Latter Earth - Part 2
March 18, 2023
Scarlet Heroes & The Monster Overhaul
Amina’s out lost in the desert with not enough food for herself, much less for the folks she hired for the expedition. Let’s see if she can deal
Return to Latter Earth - Part 1
March 17, 2023
Scarlet Heroes & The Monster Overhaul & Worlds Without Number
Lately I dug back into Scarlet Heroes (SH) by Kevin Crawford. Before I write a longer piece about how well it holds up, I thought I’d document a
Ruins of the Undercity
March 10, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Ruins of the Undercity
In my ongoing experiments with lightweight solo dungeon crawling, I dug out a supplement I haven’t used for years: Ruins of the Undercity (RotU) by
Bucket of Stars - Part 2
March 7, 2023
Ask the Stars & Bucket of Bolts
I’m playing Bucket of Bolts (BoB), a sort of world-building game in which I’m writing the history of a spaceship. I’m also using Ask the Stars (AtS)
Bucket of Stars - Part 1
March 5, 2023
Ask the Stars & Bucket of Bolts & Any Planet Is Earth & Stars Without Number
I’ve spent the past several days experimenting with other types of games, and one that landed my attention was Bucket of Bolts (BoB), which I backed
Solo Gothic - Part 8
March 1, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul
Our group is entering an ancient ruin that used to be some sort of airship hangar. The airships are long gone, but a senior leader in the Incendiary
Solo Gothic - Part 7
February 27, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine
The group re-entered the Sleeping Vault after burying Cethegus, later finding the Chamber of the Damned with its portal to the infernal underworld.
Solo Gothic - Part 6
February 26, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Tome of Adventure Design & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul
The group has just finished burying one of their own in the Silent Forest outside the entrance to the Sleeping Vault. They didn’t get farther than
Solo Gothic - Part 5
February 25, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & Perilous Wilds & The Monster Overhaul
Things took a pretty significant turn in the last session. I’m going to sit with the current situation first and figure out what’s happening, what
Solo Gothic - Part 4
February 22, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & The Monster Overhaul
Diving right back into the narrative from where I left off after the rules discussion in the previous post. And as you’ll see, nothing goes as
Solo Gothic - Part 3
February 21, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Into the Odd & Worlds Without Number & The Monster Overhaul & A Place Underground & Perilous Wilds
Still in the Monastery of St. Othric, our three members of the Labyrinth Dredgers (Ataulf, Melisanda, and Cethegus), plus a temporary companion
Solo Gothic - Part 2
February 20, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & Scarlet Heroes & The Monster Overhaul
Our explorers (Ataulf, Cethegus, and Melisanda) have travelled to northwest Krevborna on a mission from the Labyrinth Dredgers to explore one of the
Solo Gothic - Part 1
February 19, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Cthulhu Dark & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & The Monster Overhaul
Most of the previous post dealt with setting things up, although we did set up a starting situation. The explorers entered a Grail Tomb looking for
Solo Gothic - Part 0
February 17, 2023
Searchers of the Unknown & Cthulhu Dark & Krevborna & One Page Solo Engine & The Monster Overhaul
I’m going ultralight this time. Searchers of the Unknown (SotU) is a game that takes the D&D B/X stat block for monsters and assumes PCs don’t
Latter Earth 6
February 16, 2023
Abenteuerspiel & Numenera & Perilous Wilds
I expect this to be the last session in this arc or even campaign, and of course I’ll say more on that at the end. For now, the group is camped just
Latter Earth 5
February 14, 2023
Abenteuerspiel & Numenera & Perilous Wilds
I’m quite tired so at the moment I’m just going to write some notes and let ChatGPT do the work from there, with a bit of editing or rewriting to
Latter Earth 4
February 13, 2023
Abenteuerspiel & Worlds Without Number & Numenera & Perilous Wilds
The group is stopped at an ancient defensive ruin just south of a tower ruin. Sarca and Kasciuto accidentally activated the guardian “spirit”
Latter Earth 3
February 11, 2023
Abenteuerspiel & Worlds Without Number & Stars Without Number & Numenera & Perilous Wilds & Ultraviolet Grasslands
Last time, the explorers trekked up from the city of Kheyus following the river up through the Corrose Woodlands. This time, I’ll keep doing some
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