Lone Gamer Experience So Far

[Kaodi]

For those of you who, like me, have no one to play with and thus play alone, what has been your experience so far?

After playing a bit of the way through the goblin and hobgoblin lairs, I am coming to the realization that the Caves of Chaos are not that interesting when you are the DM and all the Players.

I look forward to when they open up character creation, and then adventure creation. Until then, not sure if I am really interested in playing anymore. Not unless they backtrack and allow people to play PbP.

I mean, if they are concerned about people being in the playtest online who have not signed up, there is a solution to that, going way back to the ancient tradition of the SSI Gold Box games: trivia to identify X word in Y paragraph of Z page.

 

[kitsune9]

I'm running a probability file on Excel for my lone gaming experience. I'm looking for things like combat grind.

I have a gaming group, but they've expressed zero interest in D&D Next.

 

[Kaodi]

I do not know about anyone else, but I have this kind of odd thing where what really turns me off in lone play is not the length of combat but scope.

I was fighting the goblin patrol on my way back through the Eastern guardpost, when I decided that the last goblin should flee. The party was not able to kill him in the first round (edit: of fleeing), and he was going to alert the Western guardpost. And something about having to add those combatants just bored me. And then I realized that they were supposed to try and get the ogre's co-operation, and enough was enough. That was all more than I wanted to deal with.

I like my combats to be relatively contained. One thing if someone flees, but it is just annoying when you want combat to be over and they summon reinforcements.