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Thread : A solo adventure.
Started at 08-26-05 04:29 AM by weasel fierce
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[Post 1]
Author : weasel fierce
Date : 08-26-05 04:29 AM
Thread Title : A solo adventure.

I was sitting around tonight, after the wife went to bed (we work different schedules), painting a few toy soldiers, and looking at my Moldvay D&D book, and it struck me.. why not play a quick game of solitaire D&D.

Rolled up 5 characters, and put them through some rudimentary randomly rolled rooms, as per the rules for determining room contents, in the book.

A mage, a fighter, a thief, a magic user and a dwarf. 
First expedition resulted in an encounter with a horde of kobolds, though after slaying 3, their morale broke, and they fled. 4 goblins refused to yield, in a lter room, and were hacked down.

The 2nd edition encountered 4 wolves right off the bat, resulting in a cruel fate for the surprised thief and fighter. Retreating in haste, An elf and another fighter will join the party. Names will be assigned to anyone making it to level 2 :)

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[Post 2]
Author : caeruleus
Date : 08-26-05 04:15 PM

Good stuff. Solo D&D can be fun.

I recently did the solo thing with the Mentzer rules. I had a fighter make it to level... 4, I believe. He had a cleric retainer at one point, who was very handy when encountering undead. Too bad he died. The magic-user who later joined him didn't get past level 1 (he didn't die, I just haven't played it for a while now).

I've also done a solo thing with d20 Modern... but I won't talk about that one here.

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[Post 3]
Author : Penknight
Date : 09-22-05 02:00 PM

The closest I ever got to solo playing was Fighter's Challenge. Man, talk about a blast! A vampire, dragon, talking owl, and a few other surprises both foul and fair await the watchful and unwary. I am even in the middle of running it for a friend of mine that made a paladin with the the aspirations of becoming a Wyrmslayer.

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[Post 4]
Author : Gellion
Date : 10-01-05 04:04 PM

I need to get around to doing that one day.  It seems like it would be pretty fun. :)

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[Post 5]
Author : WizO_Paradox
Date : 10-01-05 10:20 PM

Nice. I had a couple of those "invisible ink" adventures. Sadly, one of them was poorly written.. (I got locked in a "loop" where apparently I couldn't continue the adventure.) And, just as sad the pen dried before I could reveal all the boxed text. Sigh.

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[Post 6]
Author : WizzyBlackmore
Date : 10-02-05 12:14 PM

hahahah funny...which Moldvay book/rules? '81? 

starting X2 solo as I write this...have battlemat, figures, DM screen, map, dice, etc...since I have no one immediately to play w/ I am adapting the regular mods to solo play....it's a blast....I make up for revealed secrets by rolling to see if the party falls through a trap, etc.....it's crazy being an objective dm and player at same time........I try to be fair....

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