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Since this is not those boring school lessons, I will show you the magic of transmuting one lame school subject into your own creation of Lore, instead of nagging about literature. Class, bring out your masks for today's lesson is the "Heist Theme" as we will steal from the masters of old. Then we hand-weave our own Solo Story with a pragmatic methodology and split the profit. Themes are the key to use Solo Play in a therapeutic way as I'll explain. Better news is, you don't even have ...

Finally learned how to add youtube videos to blog posts! *insert success kid meme*



I already added this video to the Gameplay Examples but it needs its own entry because The Arcane Library is so generous to provide us this beauty for free. SoloDark: Solo Rules for Shadowdark RPG (PDF). This 12-page PDF booklet gives you the resources, roll tables, and alternate rules you need to play Shadowdark RPG by yourself, without a Game Master.

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I'm taking a break from my one-man-crusade against botminators to write about my first solo resource recommendation in Call of Cthulhu setting. It's a free PDF from Chaosium website in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure. It's NOT a FGU module but it has links to the pages you should go depending on your choices. It's published in August 2016, so I'm a bit late to the party but better late than never.

It is a horror story set in the 1920s where you are the main character, and your ...

There is a fantasy writer by the name Ian Irvine. He has a website that has full of EXCELLENT writing methods. Since one of his topics is related to mine, I will only list these ways and link his site here for further info on HOWs: https://www.ian-irvine.com/for-write...eate-conflict/ And if you want more than Bad Guy vs. PC conflict, here's more conflict types.

## General Ways to Create Conflict

1. Create inherently conflicting characters.
2. ...

I defined conflict in Player Approach Part II as "Anything that makes things difficult for the PC and opposes them." But in this entry, I'll expand on it to present you the types of conflicts you can use in your games. Group GMs can also take advantage of it.

"Once upon a time, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves lived happily ever after... dull isn't it?"

# What Should Conflict Do?

Two things: 1) Conflict should expose who a "character" ...