Easy Ways to be your own GM (solo RPGing)

Easy (and cheap!) tools to be your own GM (intro: 0:00); what you need to be your own GM (5:07); generative resources (6:31); suggestive resources (22:38); a rubric (35:54); something restrictive (39:07); putting it all together to be your own GM (42:23).
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[mayanightstar]

omg pointing at things with a crochet hook is such a mood.

[RichardFriendartist]

I was an only child and as a kid lived with my grandparents who were both in pretty ill health. I played SO many games by myself. Even clue and monopoly...Dungeons and Dragons is always amazing and there's always a way to play solo!! This is great~!!

[CptRoboto]

I would have paid money to sit in on this as a seminar. You need to write a beginners guide ebook for Drive Thru. Thanks so much for this. The dice roll on the novels was great!

[sandeh_g]

When she pulled out the books for inspiration, I was blown away. That's so creative and it's GENIUS!! 😭😭

[PhilipDudley]

6 years later. Definitely grab her book! Great start there and helps you be guided with solo-rpg.

[scottejacobson]

A masterclass in solo rpging. Thank you.

[greystorm]

The repurpose of other games is one of the most brilliant advice I have seen in this sphere

[DreDredel]

She should write a book on solo RPGing....like a step by step guide for beginners and extra things one can do for solo GMs/solo players. I would definitely buy it because of how clear & concise the teaching is.

[ancubMike]

Thank you for this wonderful Ted Talk, “Ways to Explore Your Imagination”.

[donnysmurf]

Amazing video. Anyone who is interested in solo RPGing needs to watch this. This would have saved me an awful lot of time in my quest to play solo effectively over the last year.

Thank you!

[enriquekenobi]

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[ladyelfstar]

I just love this so much. What wonderful style you have with your fancy tea cup, 3d10 and Anne Radcliffe! Solo play is a lost art, you have excellent tools this is lovely. I use solo play as a creative writing method but also sometimes it's just nice to have your own personal choose your own adventure. Well played!

[johncartwright]

I just found this and I just wanted to say thank you. Where I live and wanting to play D&D it's like a man in the Sahara Desert who is lost and looking for water. Playing by myself may be my best option. I did play some Adventurers League but I had to go over an hour away and it had it's pit falls (Not knowing who was going to show up, Not being able to have much if any continuity, Trying to work people in then never seeing them again, I got to the point where I just said you turn the corner and here is so and so. Then my work changed my hours and that ended that.) So your work on this is most helpful.

[Infyra]

I read somewhere a few years about about your "something restrictive" system a really simple idea: you roll a 1d6 to a Yes/No question when trying to find out details about the situation, in this case each results means: 1: No, And. 2: No, 3. No, But. 4. Yes, But. 5. Yes. 6. Yes, And. meaning you get a yes/no answer to your question and a possible "And", or "But" result. For example when trying to jump over a cliff and you ask the die if you managed to do so it will possibly say: 1. No, and you fell to your death. 2. No. 3. No, but you managed to grab the opposite end with your hands. 4. Yes but there was a nasty surpise on the other side of the cliff. 5. yes. 6. Yes and you managed to land specteculary with some kind of extra advantage. I played whole session in the world of Nod like that :)

[lesliestevenson]

Came to this after the modiphius announcement….great stuff. I particularly enjoy the crochet hook pointer! Repurposed suggestive items from another game, what a great idea. (I have the warhammer quest card game so they popped out when you used) Love it. Definitely preordered your book.
More power to your elbow!

[pinkskin]

I am so very much inspired. Not only for rpg's in general but in being more creative. Excellent, excellent video. You've earned a new fan

[georgerahm]

You took me back to D&D Blue Book with the instructions to wander on the Outdoor Survival map, lakes as castles. Two dwarves searching for Black Dragons. We died often, but lots of fun. I salute your ingenuity.

[nealsterling]

This is what i was looking for so long!
I was working on my own Solo RPG (just for my own pleasure). I LOVED the old AD&D PC games (goldbox) and one day (i think it was two years ago?) i decided to create a Solo RPG Pen&Paper game that allowes me to play a small party of heroes travelling around doing adventures. I initially wanted to use D&D rules but i found out that this was almost impossible to do because of the complexity of the characters and combat variables, so i started to create some sort of RPG/Wargame hybrid ruleset.
My goal was to create a Fantasy world and use it as a open ended Sandbox for my characters adventures.
The biggest problem always was to get some kind of event generator/cards/table to see what happens at various situations (travelling/entering a city and so on), that was the biggest obstacle to me.

But sadly due to a computer crash last year i lost almost all the work i had done (heck even the maps i created where lost).
Seeing this video motivated me again to work on my system and (Sword&Sorcery) Fantasy world. Thanks for the motivation!

[ErinsAaron]

Discovered your SoloRPG guides a few months back, this was first video I watched so came back to it to Subscribe.
Your videos have been very helpful and informative.