Stop Rolling for Everything: A Solo Roleplaying Game Toolbox Essential

Stop Rolling for Everything When to decide, roll, or ask the oracle Solo roleplaying gives you an enormous toolbox. RPG rules, oracles, random tables, prompts and all sorts of other ways to answer the question, “What happens next?” The problem comes when you start using them for everything. When every detail needs another roll, solo play can slow down, become cluttered and start feeling more like administration than roleplaying. Stop Rolling for Everything is a short, practical, system-neutral trifold about knowing when the dice are actually helping your game and when they are getting in the way. It looks at making confident decisions, letting the fiction and the RPG itself do more of the work, and using your solo tools where they add uncertainty, inspiration and surprise rather than unnecessary complexity. Written by Peter Norton, co-author of Single Player Mode for Cyberpunk RED , and based on the Hollowponds Solo Sagas video of the same name. Ideal for solo roleplayers who already understand the basic tools of solo play but want their games to flow faster, feel more natural and leave more room for actual roleplaying . Print it. Keep it beside your game. And next time you reach for the dice, ask yourself whether you actually need them. Use the dice for you. Do not let the dice use you. Part of the Hollowponds Solo RPG Toolbox Essentials series.