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  Beginning to Migrate (some) Content to the NEW Doug Alone I have had the idea since early on in this blog to possibly move it from this sort of hosted/third-party set-up to something more owned by me. This past week, I started to make this a reality: https://www.dougalone.com There are a lot of reasons behind this but let us start with caveat. I have exactly one real complaint about Blogger/Blogger and otherwise most of the decisions are about my creative process itself.  The One Real Complaint The newer Blogger themes tend to be plenty responsive as they are but there is still some degree of back-end handling that tries to serve up a "mobile-friendly" version of the page [note, this is based on looking into the errors and messages sent, I could be wrong]. This is the exact same page but Google, itself, treats this as a website trying to share multiple copies of the same content and basically passes this off as a reason to not index the site.  After over a year of havin...
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Solo Advice & Musings


Over time I do post some of my personal advice, tips, and ideas for how to better play solo games (which is usually me talking to myself about ways I can better enjoy solo games). This collects those posts around a few themes. 

The caveat that this is my personal playstyle being reflected is so obvious that it barely needs to be spoken, except for one corollary: I believe that we find our own balance with solo play but sometimes it helps to see other people's paths (both for information and for entertainment). 

General Advice


Getting Started with Mythic

A series specific to playing with my favorite gamemaster emulator: Tana Pigeon's Mythic. 


Reconsidering Fairness in Solo RPGS

The idea here is to focus on how "fair" changes its meaning with solo roleplaying. 


Solo Musings

Less precise advice and more just contemplating solo play and roleplaying games more general. Often comes up as I need to figure out how to handle something (or, maybe, how to handle something differently than I previously have been).


Steal this Rule

In this series, I occasionally post rules or ideas intended for a specific system in a way that can be used for other systems (with a broad focus on solo play mechanics).


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