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"Be a fan of the players" isn't just good advice for GMing, it's good advice for playing too!

I just look at the cloud storage account where I keep all the PDFs. Almost everything I have a physical copy of that matters, I also have a digital copy. I can remember the couple of exceptions.

The citation on Wikipedia is from the Oxford English Dictionary (though the direct link on the original citation is now dead). The OED is a pretty good authority in my eyes.

I know, that's why I said it (raised Catholic). Wikipedia said it's because the design resembles prayer beads on a string, but just because it's on Wikipedia doesn't necessarily mean it's true, so your version is plausible to me too.

I prefer games that are relatively light on rules, and theater of the mind. My VTT should also be pretty simple. What I want in a VTT: Rollable character sheets that are easy to create Chat (text & voice, maybe video) Dice rolling and card deck support (including custom decks). Has to support...

Pater Noster is presumably also a prayer a Christian might say before getting into one of those apparent deathtraps.

If you're down to four options that are equally appealing to all, you could just roll a d4 at that point. Maybe it's the solo gamer in me that's perfectly fine leaving impactful choices up to the roll of a die...

VTT play definitely requires more comms discipline than FTF. We put all the humorous asides and peanut gallery comments in text so that the people speaking can speak uninterrupted. We've been playing online for years so we have it down to where nobody talks over each other. It's true that the...

If you like PbtA-ish games, Ironsworn is built for solo play and does a good job of hex crawl type stuff (even if there aren't necessarily actual hexes).

D&D 5e Defeated archdevil. Campaign nearing conclusion.

For me, it depends mostly of what I think of the edition I have, and what's changing. For example, I have the BRP Big Gold Book, tons of RuneQuest stuff, etc. I don't really like the BRP system anymore, and won't play it or any of its spinoffs or incarnations, so why shell out for the new BRP...

The IPAs of the RPG world. There are already umpteen bazillion of them, and odds are good that whatever you're thinking of making, someone's already made it, or made something so close it that the difference is almost indistinguishable. A second vote for Stone Age.

I highly doubt this based on anecdotal experience. Most people I know who say they have very active internal monologue have strong language skills. From personal experience, my internal monologue will be in Spanish from time to time (which is not my first language). You also proceed from a...

MM&D is awesome. It's the only "actual play" I watch... I find most of them pretty boring. But Trevor is just so damn entertaining and so into it that he can really hold my attention. Given my usual thoughts about APs, I wouldn't have thought that watching a guy play all these characters and...

Tunnels & Trolls was designed with the idea that it could be played solo from its first edition (1975) and started publishing solo adventures in 1976, that's the kind of thing you're talking about. So it's pretty much as old as the hobby. I'd say interest really took off during the COVID...

It definitely requires motivation, but that the same time, there are also only the expectations you set for yourself. It can be very liberating. If you've grown tired of a particular game, you can just kill it, mid-scene if you want. Nobody's going to care. Want to pick it back up later? As long...

I like playing RPGs solo. I've been doing it for decades. A common refrain heard among gamers is "this game seems really cool, but I'll probably never get a chance to play it." Solo gaming fixes that problem. You just need a good oracle or two and some imagination, and you're all set. I...

Thanks! I can't really take much credit for any of the cleverness, I'm just kind of adapting ideas from others. :)

I wish I had the skill in visual arts to put some gifs together that are even remotely representative (though I can describe it in words). That fairly significant obstacle aside, I don't feel comfortable representing my experience as necessarily typical, even though I have a brother whose...

From my perspective, it would be much more odd (and more problematic) to not question and refine what you're thinking.