Spider Queen

Let's get some practice with this setting stuff. I had a brainwave earlier: What if I used soloing to help flesh out the lore of my own multi-player campaign? The advantage of this, I thought, would not only be providing prompts for content generation for the campaign, but also that it would give me the opportunity to get to grips with my own lore and setting a bit more. See, I often feel at the table like I'm grasping for something just out of reach, or like the details of my setting are nebulous and undefined (a lot of the time that is the case) - I'm lacking a ready familiarity with the material. Playing around with it, interacting with it with characters of my own, should solidify it in my brain. So, here's a link  to a Google doc in which I play around with creating setting details for my Wave Rats campaign using Ask the Stars. If it wasn't already obvious, the man called Billabong is Crocodile Dundee, but taken to the nth degree; he is literally constituted of...

I've danced around solo rping for a while, never quite taking the plunge on it. I used to pore over the Tunnels and Trolls solo gamebooks as a kid, but always felt constrained by them. Attempts to make my own dungeon-generation tables proved too cumbersome, while dungeon generators on the internet had too many drawbacks - seeing the whole layout at once, being stocked generically, and of course the ever present "not invented here syndrome". My own settings, or my own regions in others' settings, never felt fleshed out enough. Or, more accurately, they suffered from having exactly as much detail as was needed for the present adventure - there was no hidden detail to discover, none of Tolkein's "towers of a distant city, glimpsed through a sunlit mist". Well, two things have happened to convince me to have another go. A wizard playing with himself;  Image by Bob Giadrosich First, Chris McDowell, one of my all-time design icons (which sounds more like a fas...