Ok, here is my first play report. Beginning of Moriens quest to journey through the Ironlands to become a Mystic / Ritualist. All art is copyright of their owners. Turns out soloing is more fun for me when I can visualise the game. I am sure I am making mistakes but so far I am loving Ironsworn.
The link to the doc should open in any browser or may open in Evernote if you have that installed as it is an Evernote shared doc. Let me know if you have any problems.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s13/sh/f7bf8407-db84-49eb-b93d-7fa999864592/27f3271e8a762be98b70f665c15960fc
Sunday, January 7, 2018
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Thanks everyone. The Ironsworn group helpfully corrected my understanding around matches, a match should be when the two challenge dice match. I think Morien has had a harder start than was his due 😀 This is the great thing about sharing play reports as I will fix it going forward.
ReplyDeleteWith the visuals I tend to play a few steps and then at whatever feels like a natural break in the flow I review the text and then add the pictures. I have tried various ways of solo logging such as very detailed (all dialogue, etc.) and the opposite extreme of just noting bullet points and I found the shorter way better (basically what I posted minus the pictures). This works well for me in actual play but I found myself quite disassociated from the story afterwards.
In the moment it was exciting because I played out the scene in my head but after it was just a blob of text. So I started adding in a few pictures. I didn't worry too much about getting the perfect picture I just used Google image search and Pixlr (a simple android image editor) to get a good enough picture. I found that adding the pictures is actually very enjoyable. I relive the action and then it's very satisfying when I add the picture. One unexpected added benefit has been that I actually get enjoyment from rereading the record. It almost feels like reading a graphic novel. This in turn makes me excited to continue the adventure. The visuals also seem to make me care much more about the characters.
Not sure if it would work for everyone but I think I have found my soloing mojo 👍😀
Loved the format and the play report! Can't wait for more.
ReplyDeleteI think I have managed to illustrate all of my non-sci fi adventures. Whenever I'm out and about with my camera I start looking for things that would look good in my games.
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