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Heya, everyone!

Hope you all had a chance to take the CSS Star Nomad out for a spin in last week's Mythic Starters IV

This week I've had quite a few people ask me about how I go about some of my solo actual plays like Tales of the Burrow or Morton Fledgling and the Case of the Murdered Mermaid.

I thought it would be fun to go into some of the different game loops I like to set up for myself and share some of the insights that really helped me create an enjoyable solo experience for myself.

I hope it will inspire new ideas on how to create your own preferred custom solo gaming experience!

Solitary Musings includes:

  • Procedure of Play discusses a basic loop of actual play that keeps the ball rolling by creating new game states for your characters to deal with. 
  • Tiny Stories covers a loose framework for treating sequences of oracle questions as tiny stories within your game.
  • Other Loops sees two different ways to set up variant structures to guide your gaming experience: Goals & obstacles, and Two Portals

I included some pictures from the playtest and lots of examples of play, enjoy!

Cheerio,

John


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POSTEDJul 18, 2021
ARCHIVEDJun 10, 2026