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Johnny. He/Him.

I constantly grind for more XP. I blog about my solo TTRPG adventures on Tumblr.

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@solocrawls

Sometimes, I am a Game Master for others.

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First room in my Four Against Darkness game: I meet a Chaos Lord.

Whelp, that was fun!
April 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The first-ever boss I faced in a Four Against Darkness game: an Orc Brute. After breezing through every other combat in the dungeon, the Orc Brute killed my Warrior, Cleric, and Thief characters. My Wizard finally defeated the boss with a fireball spell.

But now he has to backtrack alone...
April 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I got in another session of Four Against Darkness today. I stopped when the party discovered an Iron Eater (Fe on the map).
April 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I got in a few rooms of Four Against Darkness today during my lunch.
April 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'm playing Keep on the Borderlands. The party just rolled a 1 on initiative, and six goblins have surrounded the front line. This looks bad...

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April 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is my take on "mobile" gaming. Four PC tokens and 20 plastic "enemy" tokens like the one featured, inside a breath mint tin for portable gaming. (Car keys shown for size comparison).

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April 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
GM tip: Have a "tavern game" handy for your players during downtime. Left, Center, Right fits nicely in my Dungeon Master tin.
April 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Solo TTRPG tip: Emoji stickers are fun to add to your campaign journal.

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April 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My Basic Fantasy all-fighter party quickly decimated the first encounter room in "The Abandoned Tower," but squire Hammond got nastily impaled by a spear during the fight.

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April 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
During my Iron Falcon solo campaign session, the giant cave locust pesented an interesting conundrum for Regdar: Do I kill it before it makes noise and alerts something nastier, or do I leave it be and hope it doesn't start screeching?

Regdar went with the kill option. Dead locusts don't screech.
April 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I made a solo tabletop "roguelike" game for myself by combining the Dungeon! board game and Mircrolite20 rules. I would generate encounters using Dungeon!, then play them out using Microlite20.

I got two rooms in and took a shellacking from a skeleton. However, I did survive.
April 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My Basic Fantasy character Cadrastiel's mini looked awesome, standing above the five orcs he had disposed of with blade and magic.

Never mind the fact that he was beaten down to 3 hp from the fight. Huzzah!
April 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM