Dolmenwood Solo, Session 1
Introduction Some time ago I read Gavin Norman's Wormskin zines and loved the world they were building. For me it was the perfect mix of fairytales, traditional D&D and potential for grimdark fantasy. A short time later I got Old School Essentials and loved the art, the presentation and the surprising depth of the old B/X rules, which I hadn’t read (only LotFP). Fast forward a month or two, after an enjoyable solo mini-dive into Mothership, I decide to try to solo OSE Dolmenwood. The way I play is I write an ongoing “Log” of game events, interspersed with some dice rolls and other notes. I keep character sheets in a google doc or a notepad/textedit file. In this blog I will present my mostly unedited Logs, with added commentary to explain why I wrote them the way I did, to share my ideas about solo rpgs. Comments will be in italics like this. Character creation This is what my character sheet looks like. Relatively easy to reference, easy to edit, and f