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Taking a break / A PWM Primer

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It’s the end of the school year and I will be on vacation for a couple weeks so I’m taking a break until July.

In the mean time, you can delve into some my previous writing.

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This is where it all began. I wrote up the first solo campaign I’d played, using Starforged by Shawn Tomkins. It’s a space-faring, planet-exploring epic.

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Next, I took on a solo-journaling game, one that takes place over a thousand years as you control a vampire trying desperately to keep their memories intact as ages pass, friends and family perish and the world keeps on turning. It begins with Amon, an ancient Egyptian priest.

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This is probably my favorite campaign. I really delved into the two main characters, a grumpy old detective paired with a fresh new replicant, attempting to solve crimes involving other replicants. It was tricky to play characters solving mysteries as a solo player. I also had to create my own solo tools and tables. I think it contains some of my best writing and I plan to continue it once the new Replicant supplement book comes out.

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You can check out the Table of Contents for more, including a world I created through multiple games called Kol Noth (I played Foundations, Microscope, The Quiet Year, The Deep Forest and Ex Novo), one-off solo short games (Long Haul 1983, The Last Tea Shop, Exclusion Zone Botanist, Wenderweald, etc.) as well as a campaign I started (“Waves Breaking”) using Shawn Tomkins pirate-setting rules called Sundered Isles. There are also more Actual Plays of my game, Niv Lova, a few articles on game design and a few articles about solo-gaming in general.

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Thanks for reading!