Hobby Dungeon

I have, for several months, been dabbling in solo-play RPGs. What a can of worms to open up. For such a niche focus of play, there are certainly some vibrant communities, modes of thoughts, and expressions of play. I have always gravitated more towards the journalling RPG category, which some solo players would tell you isn’t really even solo RPG play, but just writing prompts in disguise. I think that’s fairly accurate, but I do appreciate just a tiny bit more structure in my solo play. I’ve tried games like Ironsworn that have a full-sized rulebook that guide you through your adventures, and I have found that my creativity and energy wear off pretty quickly as I’m roaming around the book for answers. I can play Warhammer Fantasy all day, skimming rulebooks and trying to understand the crunch, but the moment that I’m alone, my brain shuts off to this kind of work.  I’ve also been thinking a lot about what it means to make art and having an internal debate about whether...

Hello friends - I would like your help. I would really like to do a collaborative art project, and that requires collaboration. Recently, I kitbashed a few models and wrote a little blurb to establish a setting, and it's been living rent free in my head. I could easily spend the next few weeks and months daydreaming about this place, and coming up with ideas about it (I'll be doing this anyway), but it sounded more fun to do this with a bit of company. So, this is an open invitation to participate. I'm looking for anything - miniatures, stories, music, art, sculptures, storytelling, historical analysis, interpretive dances, whatever tickles the fancy. I'd like to collect all of this art into a single blog post that can be shared as our collective world building project. Let's put a tentative deadline on this for December 31st - that might help motivate us - but I'll just keep adding any submissions to the blog post after the fact. Down below, I'm going to in...

I wanted to take a break from my massive dwarf army project. I was watching Trent from Miscast working through a Mordheim warband, and he planned to paint each mini after kitbashing it, before going on to work on another model. I thought that sounded nice after batch painting 36 dwarf slayers. So, I set out to kitbash a single model and paint it - no commitment, just enjoying working on a single model. So I did that, and it was great. But then my manic hobby brain kicked in, and I wrote the following fluff for this mini, which prompted me to start working on more models... It's never enough for me to just enjoy painting a model. I have to spin that out into a lore, and a new game system, and several factions, before inevitably getting burnt out and going back to paint dwarfs. We'll see if that happens again, but for now, enjoy the background for this nifty model. Miller's World   Miller's World, more commonly known as Darkside, is a t...

I have returned with another few sessions of solo Mork Borg. Things are starting to get a little weird, and I have a feeling they are about to get a whole lot weirder. I should note that my tenses are fucked up in these journals, and I'm too lazy to fix them right now - the goal is to eventually have all the writing be in the present tense. It makes things feel off-putting, and makes the narrator seem unreliable and a little crazy, which is what I'm going for. He seems a bit too lucid in these posts, but I'll fix that eventually. So far I've been using Mork Borg, Feretory, Solitary Defilement, and some tarot cards, but I've recently got my hands on a PDF copy of Mythic Bastionland, and I could not be more excited. The tables and characters in that book are going to be excellent for what I'm doing. I've been digging around and looking at a lot of weird fantasy source books, and we'll see where this whole thing takes me. You may or may not have heard that ...

Hello friends, I am experimenting with a Mork Borg solo play campaign. I am using an unholy combination of the core rules, Feretory, Solitary Defilement, and a deck of Tarot cards to guide my play. I'm also only leaning on the rules very loosely, and striving for a more narrative and journal-oriented game. Below you will find the first three days of my adventure, captured in two sittings. I hope you enjoy!   The Saga of Belum Grittr Day 1 My name is Belum Grittr. That’s all I remember. My broken body judders nervously and rhythmically as the pain shoots through my body like lightning bolts toward a steel rod. I bear the scars of a great violence, though I know not what harmed me – if I did, I would surely destroy it. I would bring heaven and earth and the whole firmament down on any fool who would wrong me so. I know nothing of the world now, only this meagre and pallid forest where I awoke scant few days ago. The trees here speak to me and I to them. Sometimes they whisper s...