Felbrigg's Gaming Blog

The Sick Room is a tarot-driven solo journaling game. The following is a very short game that I played to understand how it worked. I would expect a normal game to run considerably longer. ...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-sick-room.html

I knocked out a quick solo session of FMAG today. I used the cool character generator the Smoldering Wizard web site to generate 4 characters. This is better than most generators out there a...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2024/09/white-box-fmag-session.html

I've released a solo journaling game called Stitchpunk . This game was inspired by the 2009 film "9". You play the part of a small team of animated hand stitched dolls, in a far future where m...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2024/01/stitchpunk.html

I played my first bounty hunt in Lemuria Space Station today. I was Belasco, a robot hunter of gloomy disposition who just hates robots. Armed with a rather poor Snub-E station-safe pistol, an...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/10/lemuria-space-station-first-bounty.html

I picked up this supplement for Operation Whitebox for two reasons. Firstly I'm a huge fan of Operation WhiteBox and I've written a few scenarios for the system too. I thought I might have s...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/07/review-operation-solo-endeavor.html

In my first playtest my test got wasted in a couple of encounters. So I spent some time thinking about how I played and wondering if I did anything wrong. The result of this pondering is the rea...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/06/second-playtest-of-adventure-path.html

I've spent the last few weeks writing up a new solo RPG which takes inspiration from "Four Against Darkness " and the digital card game "Slay the Spire". With the first draft of the rules comple...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/06/playtesting-adventure-path.html

Cloistered is an adventure location for the Old School Essentials RPG. This booklet provides a map of a working monastery, with NPCs including the Abbot who can act as a patron. Details are...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/05/cloistered-adventure-space-for-old.html

Operation Green Angel is a one-shot scenario written by yourself, for use with the Operation WhiteBox WWII RPG. In this scenario the players have to penetrate deep into the Burmese jungle a...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/05/operation-green-angel.html

Trail of the Behemoth is an RPG fills a void that I'd pondered filling myself. In fact I'd even started making notes in preparation to writing into this gap in the RPG market. I put those notes ...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/05/trail-of-behemoth.html

Operation Grand Slam is my first scenario for "Operation White Box". Its a one-shot, suitable for a single session and three to four players. The PCs are working in collaboration with "The Dam B...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/04/operation-grand-slam.html

Inspired by the classic monk-ish stories featuring the detective monk Cadfael, I crafted a new class for Old School Essentials , if you like the sound of that please check out my Monk-Herbalist ...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/04/monk-herbalist-class-for-ose.html

I love the simplicity of most OSR games, and spend quite a lot of time thinking about them and their rules in quiet moments. You know, waiting for someone to pick up the phone, on the toilette,...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/04/pondering-exhaustion.html

In OSR games it can be very advantageous for thieves and adventurers in general, but mostly thieves, to have a potion of "Hold Portal". The idea, being that the thief can be making it away with...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/03/hold-portal-potion.html

A couple of posts back I rolled up a "Whitebox " character, that was for a fantasy RPG, however "Operation Whitebox " is a WWII RPG that is itself a completely separate and self contained game d...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/02/my-first-operation-whitebox-character.html

It occurred to me the other day that bleeding could be a factor in OSR games, and that it could change the dynamic of combat in an interesting ways. My first thoughts were: Blunt damage does n...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/02/osr-bleeding.html

 Last night I decided to roll up a character having just completed reading through "White Box ". I started with the statistic rolls running top to bottom. STR: 10 DEX: 9 CON: 9 INT: 13 WIS: 9...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/01/my-first-white-box-character.html

I just ran a fresh new team through the second mission of my in-progress cyberpunk game, and it went down this way... The team was hired to recover a personal comm' unit which was currently in ...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2023/01/2nd-playtest-of-my-cyberpunk-game.html

I'm currently working on a solo cyberpunk game, its currently in very early days... only one type of mission available and as yet unwritten look up tables and loot tables etc. So here's how the ...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/12/1st-playtest-of-cyberpunk-game.html

I've come to the conclusion that RPG system that embrace a life-path mechanism for building characters are ideal for solo RPG players. The systems that do this build up a neat story around the c...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/12/life-paths-for-solo-play.html

I've just picked up another little title from Michael Brown (compatible with CE , DC , and Trav '), simply called Hygiene , and as the title suggests it presents a few rules for centred around t...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/12/well-shit.html

Today I had my second dungeon delve using the NoteQuest solo RPG system. The game is self contained so this is not an add on for any other system. At 24 pages its relatively short and a very qu...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/12/delving-with-notequest.html

I'm an avid reader of RPGs. I don't just play them, I read rules and scenarios for fun. Therefore as a consumer I've got a lot of experience. I've come to a few conclusions about the digital layo...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/12/rpg-page-layout.html

I recently picked up White Box and was sitting in bed reading the booklet last night when I got to the equipment list and was brought up short by the classic "Silver Arrow". It's listed as Wei...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/12/white-box-silver-arrow.html

Playing by Post in a forum is a way of roleplaying without the need to meet with other players in real time, be that face to face or online. Fundamentally its about working together to tell a sto...

http://felbrigg.blogspot.com/2022/11/play-by-post-rpgs-and-what-failed-for-me.html