Well, here's the plan. I thought it might be cool to document a journey through playing as many solos as I can and somehow do this without revealing "spoilers" to ruin it for those that want to run them themselves. In addition, I thought I might try to run some of the materials that other games produced in a similar fashion, to show how easy it is to convert them for use in Tunnels & Trolls. There aren't a lot of other companies that used the solo paragraph format, like Flying Buffalo did, but there are a few. It might be good to sort of come up with a ranking of things that would be useful to know; like lethality, composition and writing, mechanical errors and flaws and just plain ol' enjoyablility. In the photo above you can see the dice I usually employ; just a bunch of old six-siders with my rattiest set of D&D polyhedrals thrown in for good measure (I use those for charts and such, and might need them rarely for converting information from other systems). You'll also note a handful of picture, word and symbol faced dice. These are the dice I employ from running solo another method (which I'll cover), which is working totally from scratch, with no pre-written adventure. With just dice and some charts and a bit of an approach, it is possible to run solo that way as well, and the results can be just as effective. A comparison between the two approaches might be interesting too. Think some house-rule discussion and some fresh characters/generation session should be the next logical entry, so stay tuned.
2 comments:
A fine start to the blog!
One of the interesting things about T&T is how complete it was right from the start. Successive editions added some detail and simplified a few things, but it was a good package right from the start... actually there are a few things in the early editions which should really have been included in dT&T.
If l can make one comment, the grey background makes things a little hard on my rheumy old eyes. Any chance of a different default?
All the best,
John
Thanks Houndle. Yea, this dadgum blogspot...years ago, it was much easier without all this design "theme" crap. Thinking up more rather than keep it simple...seems to be the order of the day. Its bugging me too, by the way; I think you are right. I'll work with that and see what I can do. When you change one thing in the "theme" setting, it starts switching colors on everything. I'll work with it, and thanks for your comment.
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