Lone Quest is my personal corner of the web for journaling solo TTRPG adventures.

While I dabble in many systems, I’m most at home in the grit of Sci-Fi and the shadows of Horror (Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Imperium Maledictum, and Mothership, to name a few).

I’m particularly fond of Free League titles—especially the Blade Runner RPG—because they hit that “sweet spot” between rule complexity and ease of play. Fair warning: You’ll find no D&D here. I’ve played my share of fantasy; now, I’m looking for something different.

To me, solo adventuring is about the story. Rules are there to help me find it; if they don’t serve the narrative, I’m happy to ignore them.

I manage my games through a self-hosted Foundry VTT instance, which is an incredible tool for solo play.

In my logs, I use a made-up notation for dice rolls that looks like this:

(D8 + D12): (3 + 9) => 1 success

It means “I rolled a D8 and a D12. I got a 3 from the D8 and a 9 from the D12”. After the => symbol, there’s a description of the result, heavily related to the game system I’m using. It may report the number of successes, or if it’s a regular or critical success/failure, etc.

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