My first solo session - Basic Fantasy RPG
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Delving Wolf! In today's blog post I will tell you about my first approach both at solo TTRPGing and to playing an OSR game, and what I learned from the experience. I decided to do this to learn more about OSR games before trying to be the referee for someone else, because I know the transition from 5e to old school games can be difficult and take a bit to adapt to, so I'd be able to help my future players in doing the same. Kevin Crawford's Black Streams: Solo Heroes allows me to play as just one beefed up character, and I chose Chris Gonnerman's Basic Fantasy RPG as my system of choice because, while I've not made a choice yet on which one to use for a future campaign, it seems like a good introduction; also because the dungeon I decided to run was from Chris Gonnerman's The Role-playing Game Primer and Old School Playbook and used Basic Fantasy stats natively: it would've been easy to convert it to anoth...