Solo Tabletop

Celebrating D&D's 50th anniversary by dusting off an old relic from my shelf, and playing the included solo adventure.

Dune. So much Dune.

What's a few more thousand pages if I'm already going through several decades of releases?

All credit goes to BGG user @terjebr777

A free print & play game for very short breaks.

The end is finally near. Only a few days of grueling heat left. Let's use that time to look at a few things I've been doing over the summer.

Most major RPGs have more content than you could ever hope to experience in a traditional multiplayer environment. Let's use the advantages of solo play to explore one of the most content rich franchises out there: Pathfinder.

Too many games, too little time. Here's a quick overview over what I've been doing the last few weeks.

Dedicated solo books by big name publishers are a rarity. Especially when they are authored by the very person that got you into the solo hobby.

Sometimes it's just nice to daydream a bit.

A tiny game for tiny breaks.

 My 2nd favorite game in my collection and probably one of the best boardgames of the last few years.

With a small footprint and barely any rules, Cartographers is perfect for small breaks or as a warm-up game.

Claustrophobic tunnel systems, lethal traps, animals, and enemy soldiers around every corner. This is the hell that Tunnel Rats need to enter, map out, and destroy. Welcome to Non Gratus (Anus) Rodentum "not worth a rat's ass".

During my childhood, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit made me fall in love with fantasy and reading in general, so I was really excited to finally have the 2nd edition of The One Ring RPG from Free League Publishing in my hands. I bought both the Core Book and the Starter Set, but for this post I'm only going to look at the latter. Starter sets have been a mixed bag for me in the past, but the Forbidden Lands box (also from Free League) had such fantastic production values that I trusted them to deliver another quality product. My blog is focused on solo gaming, so that is the lens through which I'm going to focus my first impressions. At the time of writing this post, I have not yet read anything from the core book, but the beautiful hardcover alone makes me really excited to give it a go. I just thought it would be interesting to approach the starter set without any preconceived notions of how things 'should' be. The bullet points and pictures should be enough to giv...