Here's a question: does any one here ever engage in Solo-RPG "Thought Experiments"? I have done so fairly often in the past, just to test new tools, see if a certain type of game, scene, or whatever "works", or if I could figure out how to make it work, and so on.

Here's a question: does any one here ever engage in Solo-RPG "Thought Experiments"? I have done so fairly often in the past, just to test new tools, see if a certain type of game, scene, or whatever "works", or if I could figure out how to make it work, and so on.

Basically I just come up with a scene, idea, whatever (sometimes the coming up with the scene or idea IS the Experiment itself) & just tinker with running it & see what happens.

I've done this in the past with NPC emulation, NPC Conversation Emulation, trying out Mood and Emotion generators to see how they play, etc. Sometimes I tinker by using different tools together & seeing how they interact, what kind of results they generate, and the like. My latest game actually started out as an Experiment that was going so well I tried a little more. And a little more. Then I just kept going with it.

So what I'm saying for new Solo'ers, or even old hands, is that if you ever have questions of "can I do this or that" or "how do you do this thing or that thing" is don't be afraid to just try stuff. Set up hypothetical situations & see how they turn out. Putter around with different ideas, tools, set-up's & see what happens.