{"id":1128,"date":"2026-01-21T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:10:02","slug":"play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/d6aar\/2026\/01\/21\/play\/","title":{"rendered":"Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing I’ve picked up from watching more Solo RPG videos, especially from The Grouch Couch<\/a>, it’s that I should be playing more, not trying to write a novel.<\/p>\n

There should be more dice rolling and less treating the play session as a creative writing exercise.<\/p>\n

And that goes for any other tabletop games I’m trying to play, like Five Leagues and Five Parsecs.<\/p>\n

I’ve found myself lost in simple things like trying to hard to come up with background details for a character I may or may not ever play, or trying to come up with names for regions\/cities for my Five Leagues map.<\/p>\n

And that’s probably one of the things that subconsciously prevents me from delving more into any of the Solo RPGs that i’ve already set up, all three of them.<\/p>\n

I have one campaign underway (Star Trek Adventures\/Captain’s Log), and two ready to start (Dragonbane, D&D 5E) but\u00a0 now I believe that the issue I was having was trying to describe events THAT HAVE NOT HAPPENED YET.<\/p>\n

You can’t write a good story without an outline, so how can I describe how my adventure is going\u00a0without playing out the situation<\/em>?<\/p>\n

For Star Trek: Excalibur<\/em>, we’re about to continue our mission of exploration.<\/p>\n

Irony: the last bit of storytelling for\u00a0<\/span>Star Trek: Excalibur<\/em>\u00a0was *totally* a creative writing exercise, no dice were rolled, just trying to advance the plot.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Dragonbane, my character is about to delve into the unknown catacombs.<\/p>\n

For D&D, my two-man party is about to enter the forest in search of a lost scouting party from a local town.<\/p>\n

Other games will have some sort of after action report as they are played.<\/p>\n

Don’t touch that dial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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