Hi fellow solo role-players. I haven't posted in a while but I am still doing a lot of gaming. I don't post every game I play which brings me to this topic I want to discuss with you:
Solo rpg is by default a solo and if you will private activity. I mean that is the great thing about solo rpg, right? No one to please but yourself. You can play the type of campaign you want, can play the character you want, can use and change systems at will etc. That is the whole point of it.
But one thing I have noticed in my gaming is that I chronicle my games differently, meaning more detailed and with more structure, if I know that this is an actual play that I want to post and share. So thanks to the internet and social media an activity that is supposed to be a private and solo activity becomes a public activity again (even if it is by choice).
So in a sense solo rpg becomes public or shared rpg again. In my case I sometimes find myself documenting some things primarily for the audience rather than for me since for me they are clear in my head and a few cruel notes would suffice. This is by no means a bad thing. I actually enjoy reading my more structured actual plays more after a few days or weeks than my crude private ones. The elaborate ones conjure up a more vivid mental picture if the memory of the session is not fresh anymore. However, in my case "public solo rpg" obviously moves at a slower pace, since the writing takes longer (also, not a bad thing, I am not on a clock).
But I am curious and ask the community:
-Have you noticed the same thing when it comes to your gaming?
-Do you also have "private games" or do you post all the games you play?
-Do you play with the audience in mind?
To give you an idea of what I am talking about, I will do a strip for you and share a private Star Wars game which was never intended to be shared. If you compare this actual play to other APs I have posted you will without a doubt notice the difference and see what I was talking about. There are just enough notes in there to keep me focused during the session and not let my mind wander.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lmFWLCe2F5pZbbAy2LYxnCW2HCc9KOPg/view?usp=sharing
Ah, not my style. If I get an oddball result with the in-game tools. I roll with it.
ReplyDeleteTodd Zircher that's different
ReplyDeleteMoonSylver I edit out or condense the boring parts, and eliminate a lot of the recorded die rolls. For instance, I roll everyones saving throw and note the number down, then check to see who makes it. No one cares who rolled what, though, so I tke them out of the write-up, and just describe what happens (sometimes with made their save / didn't make thier save in brackets).
ReplyDeleteNarrative of 3 rounds of combat where no one hits also gets heavily truncated.