Solo Tabletop

I'm using Tabletop Simulator as the example because it's what I use. There are plenty of other online platforms for board games.

It's probably the best way to play as an entire faction and it works with most RPGs out there.

There is an endless amount of premade adventures and campaigns out there - this is how I use them.

Don't believe the hype.

Something a bit more in the direction of general GM advice for today. Learning the rules through solo play.

Shelves full of books and hard drives overflowing with PDFs. So many choices, but what to play? Embrace randomness and let the dice decide!

Playing in existing settings can be a ton of fun, but many of them have been developed for several decades, and it might feel like there isn't any room for the kind of random generation that is so fundamental to solo play. Here are some tips and methods for how you can approach these settings.

Over the years, I have accumulated quite a large collection of RPG books, PDFs, zines, and other random supplements. While I have read or flipped through most of them, barely any of them used to get any playtime at my table. It's just not feasible to interrupt my session just to look for that one table/encounter/location that I read about weeks or months ago and therefore aren't quite sure where to look for exactly. I  want  to use all these resources, but in the end It's just easier to fall back on the same few books. In order to change that, I relied on my favorite aspect of tabletop games: random tables. The very heart of solo RPGs is randomization. Not knowing what's next keeps the games fresh and interesting for me. Interpreting these random results and placing them in the context of the world is the real fun for me. So why not do the same with my books? Concept Create random tables for each category you have books or resources for. When the relevant category comes...