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<blockquote data-quote="Maraxle" data-source="post: 425259" data-attributes="member: 5538">I find solo adventures exceptionally easy to run.&nbsp; I just make the player provide me a very detailed background, motivations, etc, and run with it.&nbsp; I generally create an NPC sidekick for the main character, unless there's something in the character's story that would prevent me from doing so (like that he's a loner and hates people).&nbsp; Other than that, just avoid spells that can incapacitate or kill the character too easily (like don't Hold the player in a pit full of crocodiles).&nbsp; I find that lower magic campaigns are more conducive to this, as are beefier, fighter type characters.&nbsp; The most successful character I've seen in a solo game was a swashbuckler-style fighter, with high dexterity and good strength, doing lots of daring flips and such.&nbsp; At one point he was incapacitated, so I had the bad guy beat him and throw him into a cell.&nbsp; A whole new adventure came out of trying to get out of the cell, and eventually out of the building he was being held in.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maraxle, post: 425259, member: 5538"] I find solo adventures exceptionally easy to run. I just make the player provide me a very detailed background, motivations, etc, and run with it. I generally create an NPC sidekick for the main character, unless there's something in the character's story that would prevent me from doing so (like that he's a loner and hates people). Other than that, just avoid spells that can incapacitate or kill the character too easily (like don't Hold the player in a pit full of crocodiles). I find that lower magic campaigns are more conducive to this, as are beefier, fighter type characters. The most successful character I've seen in a solo game was a swashbuckler-style fighter, with high dexterity and good strength, doing lots of daring flips and such. At one point he was incapacitated, so I had the bad guy beat him and throw him into a cell. A whole new adventure came out of trying to get out of the cell, and eventually out of the building he was being held in. [/QUOTE]

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