How I Solo Play Tabletop Role Playing Games: magehammer’s Method. 

Very helpful. Appreciate that you took the time to provide the nuts and bolts in how you layout your solo process. Excellent suggestions and ideas. Much needed for us beginners. Keep them coming!

Mate this is gold. And your style just happens to be precisely what i have been doing, right down to the decision making die. Love it!

Great video explaining your process and methods! I have a theory that we don't lose our imagination as we age but "reality" intrudes and keeps us from letting the imagination run wild. We start to limit our imaginations with "that's not realistic" or "it doesn't work like that" instead of allowing our minds to wander and having those great flights of fancy we had when we were younger. Like you state in the video, just have fun and let the creativity flow. Thanks for sharing your process.

I love watching your videos because of everything you just went over here. I'm glad you use the minis, the maps, the play area, and the character voices and interactions! Plus the fact we are friends IRL and watching you play on RU-vid is like being at the table with you again. Have you ever heard of or checked out World Anvil? That seems like something that is right up your alley. I think you are going to be buried with a set of dice!

Magehammer, great video. I think it is great that you showed how you play when you are not on camera. Because this is something I also try to convey to my viewers: That role playing on RU-vid is something different than if you are by yourself on the kitchen table. And thanks for sharing your journal. From the impressions I get from places like reddit I think that this "how do I actually do it" is the most difficult part when starting out. It was for me. I have found my way, but it took a while and trying different methods to get there. When I play by myself I also use journals, hand written, not as detailed as you showed, short sentences with bullet points, but it is different from playing on camera. Thanks for sharing and game on!

I'm a huge fan! I love your style. While I've been solo RPGing for some time now it was really your Tiny Cthulhu series that kicked-off the "ah ha!" moment for me and got me going with this solo thing. I trekked off and went around the world trying many different systems, oracles, random tables, and tools but I've found that keeping things as simple as possible has been the key for fun and longevity. It's a easy to get caught in analysis paralysis - what is the best system? what is the best setting?, etc. And feeling like, if I don't get everything right its not going to feel satisfying and worth the effort. But it's all about telling a good story and unless a tool is serving that than it just isn't worth it. I hope others watch this and find their way into this wonderful hobby. Thanks for being such a great guide!

Personally, I would really like to see you solo journal one of your sessions. I think it would be immensely helpful for ideas and thoughts in trying to formulate my own design of journaling. Any suggestions or guidance would be much appreciated.

Awesome video! I also love the old examples of play from the TSR days. I don't know how well it would work as a video, but I'd definitely read your example of play if it were a blog article, or otherwise posted somewhere.

Love it. When I'm solo role-playing off camera, I approach it exactly the same way. I've written entire novels through solo games.

In solo play, what would you find most important, player character agency focused rules, or rules for the generation of things happening to the character?

i have a rules light you might like .... maybe :)