A solo rpg game is a great hobby: a pause from reality with dice rolling, creative problem solving, emergent storytelling, take on a roll of someone different, low cost, reason to doodle n draw, sometimes meditative, and fun your way.

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A final illustration on the final page of my longest solo campaign so far. In front in J-Box K a.k.a Kurt Mc Ivy a magic born (i.e. magic construct) a superhero in the small northern california town of Heathburg. The game ends with an event, the wedding of his parents Helen and chris and attended by family and friends. His mother Helen plays a guitar with her husband as they sing a favorite son. The game spans 4.5 sketchbooks and so I had to go back and find drawings of different characters, which took time, but was fun.

I finally finished my solo campaign and drew an final drawing featuring at least 15 characters. Started the game in May 2024, played off and on and learned a lot about how I like to play.

219 hours - 101 sessions - 62+ characters - 309 pages

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A sketchy drawing from my solo rpg journaling. A robotic looking character is dressed as an admiral, including a fake 'stach; a handsome man wearing sunglasses leans away from the anger.

Happy to return to my solo rpg campaign after a hiatus to focus on work/home/family. Chapter 17: J-Box K /Kurt disguised as an admiral, sneaks aboard a casino cruise ship to rescue his mom. Big stakes ahead.

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The cover of my 4th journal for a solo rpg campaign. A black square moleskine sketchbook with the PC hero, J-Box K in a classic shirt busting superhero pose. Drawn in white pen.

I thought that I could finish my campaign by the end of this journal. WHAT A FOOL I WAS!
A solo rpg game can be unpredictable and it's hard to predict how long it will take to finish, especially when you want to draw moments, npcs, locations, etc!

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A page from my solo rpg journal with NPCs, all magic born constructs. They are drawn in pen and blue highlighter pen. A mustached mannequin, a anthropomorphic fish mascot, a clown mascot, vampire mascot from a frozen custard shop, a cow mascot and a living pinball game.

chp 15 - journal 4 comes to and end with strange foes for an upcoming conflict. They are all magic born (magic constructs) like my superhero character. There is 6 so they work as a d6 table.
It was so much fun drawing these wild characters!

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THEN...June 15, 2025 50 pages left! Of course I can finish my solo rpg campaign in the same journal! YA! NOW...JULY 15, 2025 Only 6 pages left and the BIG FIGHT has not happened yet! But I need to draw portraits of everyone in the secret society!

I love analog journaling of my solo ttrpg game, but it's hard to estimate page real-estate and if I can finish it neatly by sketchbook's end.
I added a ticking clock to keep things moving, but the Math Rocks+imagination have other ideas.

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A page in the sketchbook journal for a solo ttrpg game. It says 'Chapter 15'.

This is from a month ago and I forgot to share it. Starting chapter 15 of my freeform solo rpg game. It's a honker of a chapter that gets formed a bit each week and I am loving has creative and challenging it is.

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From my solo role playing journal. A sticky note says 'half way' since I see the game ending in the next month or two and I am trying to make it finish in this sketchbook.

Been a lot of great blogging & writing about solo rpg games of late, but I would love to read thoughts on ending a campaign in a satisfying way. Because of time constraints, wanting to move on to something new, or just not enough journal pages.

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In my solo rpg journal, drawings of a montage of getting fitted for a disguise to wear for infiltrating a private club. The hero has been told his disguise will be 'sexy' and, being a bit naive is surprised. Next panel a hand airbrushes 5 o'clock shadow on his metal/plastic face.

Strings are pulled and a secretive company helps create a disguise for the PC as a brooding 90's bad boy, which should be fun to see what happens next solo session since the PC is awkward and terrible at deception. Time to practice drawing mullets?

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In my solo rpg journal, a small rough sketch of escalators at the Heathburg mall and pictures of the different people and faction there.

hobby time - this past weekend - Ch 14

My game PC, Kurt aka J-Box asks his hero friends for help with a disguise to go to a private club undercover. It was a the mall and I got to doodle some of the folks he could interact with.

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In my solo rpg journal, the game PC, Kurt returns home after he has recovered with a help of being a magic construct and additional magic. He embraces his father as friends look on. Kurt looks like a robot made from a jukebox, because he is.

He returns home in OK shape to find his concerned family and friends waiting. I then got to play a discussion to go over all the clues and facts so I can continue to march to the end of the game.

Big emotions = more drawing time.

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In my solo rpg journal, a drawing of two of the superhero team in the town of Heathburg, Frog and Batter Bot. Frog yells "Joey, cut it out!"

The PC wakes up at the superhero HQ and has recovered with some magic, but still is damaged. I was happy to up the consequences.

Also an anthropomorphic frog hero and a baseball themed robot are helping out.

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In my solo rpg journal, a drawing of a plastic skull that was spying on the hero and threaten to hurt his mother and aunties. The skull is named Ronaldo and he has devotion for a villain.

In my solo rpg journal, a sentient plastic skull is threatening the hero's family, so he grabs it as it engulfs him in flames and leaps out of the building. He's not human so he's...ok. But I am happy to have consequences and so permanent damage.

From two weeks ago, hobby time! Ch 13

One of the coolest moments in my solo game... a sentient flasming plastic skull threatens to hurt PC's family, so he grabs it leaps out of the building! Great when you get to play your hero doing a selfless act.

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A sketchbook journal drawing of an NPC from a solo RPG game. A middle age women with big hair looks at a check she was given by one of the game's antagonist. A word balloon contains her dialog and between the PC's questions and reactions.

A sketchbook journal drawing of an NPC from a solo RPG game. An oblivious women with a big hair and glasses has a hand held device in her hand, framed in a comic panel. In the background a little sketch of the hero getting hurt from the device.

A sketchbook journal loose pen drawing of NPCs from a solo RPG game. Four men sit around a table, each one is drawn from a series of random key words and then explored. A busy guy with tablet and phone, a cheap and confident guy with sunglasses, a really old guy and a formally dressed guy with nice hair.

This year I have been working out ways to interact in my game with the NPC's which is a lot of fun, especially when the dice make things un-predictable.

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A small ink drawing of an upscale shopping area. There are notes and numbering to use in the game.

I love taking time for world building in my game and having the character react and interact with all the weirdness. I usually only have 6 elements and I roll a dice for each one to see if it triggers feelings & emotions, clues & directions and events.

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Three images show setting up a journal for a solo rpg game, homebrew style. The first one is a picture of the PC, a robotic looking masculine figure who greets us and gives us some facts about himself. Second with have a list of Edges and Flaws. Last we have a list of progress trackers that help keep the game moving. Some text... HELEN + CHRIS' WEDDING (advance at each CHAPTER) RESCUE-TEMPLE of LIGHT CONFLICT (HERO) STAR SAIL TROUBLE CD HEART DAMAGE MALGIC BORN/C.RAVEN EDUCATION, HIGHER Each one has a progress bar with 4 to 6 boxes. Some boxes have an x in them to show progress.

My fourth journal and it's self contained, so I usually spend time re-writing all the notes, trackers, lists in the first pages. It's a lot of work, but I kind of enjoy reviewing what has come before and catching some plot points that got forgotten.

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A journal for a solo rpg game. Black cover with white pen. Moleskine Art Sketchbook Album, Black, 7.5" x 7.5",40 pages. Nice cream 81 lb paper (120 gsm) with a black cover. Beautiful paper and delightful to draw in, but heavier and more pricey. This is what I started my current campaign in and what I am using right now as I finish. ALSO they no longer make the tan/kraft colored covers, just black.

Over the weekend I had another #solorpg session with a new journal. This time back to the square sized, 81lb paper Moleskine Art Sketchbook. Great for using ink pens (the last the paper only took ballpoint pen)

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A hand holds poker sized cards, each with a reproduction of a small drawing tinted with watercolors on it. The cards have boarders that are blue, red, green, orange, and purple. The card on the front of the fan is the layout of a park in the fictional city of Hetherburg CA.

I made cards w @thegamecrafter to replace the original pre-game world building trading cards sized paintings. Hopefully the originals just got misplaced and I will find them sooner than later. The cards look great with lovely color.

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An open sketchbook labeled Chapter 10, a six-sided and twenty-sided dice, ballpoint pen and two printed cards with red boarders. One card says City Hall and the other The Wolff Building.

Starting chapter 10 of my solo rpg campaign and using my custom printed location cards. Setting a possible personal event that will make things difficult on his road to become a superhero and growing as a person.

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An open sketchbook that acts as a journal for a solo RPG game. It says in fancy lettering Chapter 10 interstitial. A drawing of robotic looking man sits on a bed, hunched over with guilt and insecurity.

The interstitial scenes are always fun to do some bookkeeping with story threads and progress clocks, but also to have the PC think about what is happening and what needs to be done next as a review.

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An open sketchbook that acts as a journal for a solo rpg game with a ballpoint pen drawing of a band called The Glow Gears. A printed card with a map of city park is on top.

Finished chapter 9 of my Solo RPG campaign with my hero failing to protect a musician from being attacked, the possibility that a local 'new religion' leader has designs on his mother and clue to supernatural goings on.

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A page from a solo rpg journal. Kurt McIvy aka J-Box K thinks about all the things that are going on. Wordballoon's included worrying about his parents and if villains will hurt them, if a fellow hero and mentor is there and in what identity, what are supervillains up too.

Sometimes my solo rpg games get complicated and bogged down, and so it's nice to have a moment where the PC goes through all the things that are going on, just like we do in real life.

Bonus to draw thought bubbles.

Ballpoint pen, doodled quickly.

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A photo of a solo game journal, sheet of tables, dice and a previous filled in journal for reference.

Sitting down with some physical dice is wonderful. There is some magical quality of rolling dice with a clicky clacky sound of them hitting each other as you roll them.

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A page of my journal for my current solo rpg campaign with a list of threads and progress trackers. Some are specific like 'rescue someone', but some are 'anger', 'guilt' and 'insecurity'. Most have a progress bar or pie wedge clock next to them with some section filled in. I usually do not have a progress tracker that is more than 6 sections.

When I started playing solo rpg games as a hobby I knew I wanted systems with less bookkeeping. But each campaign I play is longer and more epic which means more book keeping. Sometimes you need to say "NO MORE STORY THREADS! (for now)" (also NPC's)

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I don't share much of my solo RPG journaling with doodles n drawings since they are just for me and kind of crude. They are not drawing practice and not designed to impress on social media.

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Bits of my analog solo rpg journal. I used tables to establish six details in a setting, then I can roll on them as a table for random events. I also got a roll that brought a villain from a previous 'chapter' of my game into the current, which makes it fun.

Bits from my analog solo rpg journal with drawings. These are rougher since I was playing an action scene and I did not want to slow too much and lose momentum. Here the superhero J-Box K is rescuing a fiberglass statue of a buddha that somehow has come to life.

Bits of my current Solo RPG journal. Dice rolling, oracle reading, and drawing/writing the results. My magic-born superhero has to rescue a living plastic buddha. My games are very strange/silver age.

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SuperCity24 - Day 15 - Location 3-1
Starting the City Center. some place elusive. Lu's Edge Cafe, fusion restaurant on the edge of the river near the wealthy part of town. minimalist modern with front door security.
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SuperCity24 Week Two - day 14 - location 2.7 (Yardage Point)
This is Star Sail Inc. a maker of high tech fabric and the main industry in the city.
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Week two of the SuperCity24 day 13 - Founders Park
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Week two of the SuperCity24 day 12 - Police HQ
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