Just Saw Five Leagues from the Borderlands and Wonder What Other Solo Games?

Greentongue · December 27, 2019, 11:41:37 AM

I like to use solo games to generate ideas and do some play through for setting filler.

Five Leagues from the Borderlands is good for overland where as Four Against Darkness works for dungeon crawls.

What other solo games are out there that I might have missed?

Thornhammer · December 27, 2019, 02:13:12 PM

Have you checked out Rangers of Shadow Deep? It is solo Frostgrave rules, written by the same guy. Good stuff.

Gonna have to look at Five Leagues, too.

Greentongue · December 27, 2019, 03:03:30 PM

Looks very interesting.
How locked into "Shadow Deep" is the game?
Can the "Evil Influence" be reconned into something else easily?

Thornhammer · December 27, 2019, 06:04:20 PM

Quote from: Greentongue;1117505Looks very interesting.
How locked into "Shadow Deep" is the game?
Can the "Evil Influence" be reconned into something else easily?

Sure, the Evil Influence here is just an excuse for monsters to be there. The author of Rangers purposefully leaves his settings light on details so the players can set things up as they like. Moving the rules to a completely different setting shouldn't be a problem at all.

Omega · December 27, 2019, 09:07:12 PM

There are alot of solo adventures old and new. Some for specific systems and some that are either standalone or somehow open ended.

Greentongue · December 28, 2019, 02:10:53 PM

Scarlet Heroes looks interesting as an option.
Lot of knobs and levers for generating interesting options.
Not sure I'm sold on the default setting though.

Omega · December 28, 2019, 04:55:23 PM

Quote from: Greentongue;1117547Scarlet Heroes looks interesting as an option.
Lot of knobs and levers for generating interesting options.
Not sure I'm sold on the default setting though.

Scarlet Heroes uses a oracle system similar to FU's. But with a much more robust set of tables to garner ideas from. It is not as developed as Mythic's GM emulator engine. But both, and FU for that matter, are adaptable to other sustems. Especially FU and Mythic.

Greentongue · December 28, 2019, 07:20:27 PM

Quote from: Omega;1117550But with a much more robust set of tables to garner ideas from.

Very handy to have spring boards that are more unexpected than just your own imagination.
The Mythic GME does work surprisingly well for progressing a story line.

Omega · December 28, 2019, 07:49:31 PM

Not so much progressing a story line, as there is none as it were. But more to give you something more to springboard your interpretation of the answer you got to your question to the DM oracle.

Player: Is the door locked?
Basic GM Emulator: Yes - but.

And you could read that as Yes the door is locked. But it looked like it can be forced. Or you see an air vent that should get you through. etc.

Robust Emulator: Yes - PC Negative - Mistrust Portals

So you could read that as the PC thinks the door is trapped. Or the PC notices ominous runes carved into the doorframe. etc.

Greentongue · March 29, 2020, 05:58:54 PM

Quote from: Omega;1117559Robust Emulator: Yes - PC Negative - Mistrust Portals

So you could read that as the PC thinks the door is trapped. Or the PC notices ominous runes carved into the doorframe. etc.

What is this "Robust Emulator" of which you speak?