Friday, February 2, 2018
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Hello guys! With me, something quite peculiar about solo roleplaying has happened, and I would like to know if anyone here passes or went through something similar. The fact is:
Group RPG games have become less and less satisfactory as I build and improve my RPG solo sessions . Not that they are boring; I currently have a group of D & D 5 edition and a group of Vampire that work well ... but in the group adventures I feel that I do not have not even half the immersion in the history, characters and mechanics that I have in my solo sessions ... has anybody here some experience, or advice, or opinion about it?
Thank you!
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I’d agree with what has already been said. I’m not currently in a group, but the groups I have been in were great in a way that’s different from solo.
ReplyDeleteSolo play, to me, is basically like running my own, never ending novel in my head, on paper, and on the screen. As an example, I ended my most recent session on a completely unexpected cliffhanger, with my PC and his crew leaving in an unexpected hurry followed by a squadron of TIE fighters. I’m super pumped to see where the story goes next, and I know I’ll get to really follow the story and characters themselves.
While that story element is present in my group play, I feel it’s more for the social elements of it, and even, at times, the meta-ness of players reacting to the encounters. In many ways, the group sessions feel more like a game, I guess.
Both are great though!
Todd Rokely Boy, I really feel a play-by-post would be too slow-moving to be worthwhile. I read them (lots of them posted on boardgamegeek.com/rpggeek.com), and they help me to learn new systems, but I just couldn't stand the waiting. Have you ever chatted with someone in meat-time, and watched the '...' bouncing along, waiting for their post to register? I do that all day in Slack and Microsoft Teams at work, and it drives me INSANE waiting for responses. I could not do that in an RPG fashion via forum posts. More power to the people who can, though! :D
ReplyDeleteSometimes I find myself missing the puzzle-solving aspects of group games, but it's more than compensated for by the depths to which I can explore my PC(s) solitaire. Plus there's always solo modules for T&T and DSA if I need puzzles...
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