I've been looking for something to distract me from the terribleUS election news, and have been contemplating King Arthur Pendragon as suitably idealistic and potentially interesting for solo play.
There is a skeleton in the Great Pendragon Campaign, and I've read a few attempts at actual playing through this using Mythic. The generational aspects intrigue me, but I'm not sure how best to use the GPC as a framework.
Has anybody done something similar, using an existing campaign module to guide solo-ing? The GPC is a series of yearly episodes, with occasional breaks for more free-form sandbox play, and I'm a bit worried about encountering spoilers. On the other hand, the source material is such that seeing how my knight and his family does over the years might be interesting in its own way.
This is a brilliant idea. I'd say it's eminently doable. I wouldn't worry about spoilers so much, as long as you don't read too far ahead they should be manageable. All you need to do is just play your PCs in accordance with their own desires and knowledge. Sometimes watching them blunder into a bad situation is part of the fun (like watching Shakespeare or a Greek tragedy). Skill and Passion rolls do a good job of taking this out of your hands, too, so Pendragon will work better than most for this.
ReplyDeleteI ran the entirety of Shadows of Yog-Sothoth solo many years ago, and it was great fun. Two of the PCs I started with were alive at the end, one of whom was even still reasonably sane.
Gerard Nerval wow, that is impressive. I've a soft spot for Lovecraftian horror too, so have wanted to try something like that for quite a while.
ReplyDeleteIf you do this PLEASE Blog this. I tried running GPC about...two years ago? My players didn't even make it to Arthur, but this is a fascinating idea. Have other people run a published module? 'Cause I have a few I've never gotten to run, and...man, now that I think about it, I'm fascinated at the idea.
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