Category: Solo Roleplaying

Solo Roleplaying is when you take a table-top roleplaying game like D&D and play it on your own. These articles help you do just that.

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D&D Solo-Roleplaying – Choosing Your Focus

D&D Solo-Roleplaying – Choosing Your Focus

In short: Foci allow you to choose what you want to do each solo session and helps you find what it is about solo roleplaying you love.   

One of the biggest challenges in solo roleplaying – especially in an old-school Dungeons & Dragons style game – is deciding what your sessions are about.

Without a GM guiding the flow, you, as the lone player, get to decide which aspects of the game world deserve the spotlight.

This is one of the great strengths of solo roleplaying: you get to decide what you want to do.

And while this freedom is powerful, it can also feel overwhelming as you end up having too much to choose from.

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Combining Reaction Rolls With D6 Oracle In DnD Solo

Combining Reaction Rolls With D6 Oracle In DnD Solo

In short: By combining reaction rolls, which shows how the NPC reacts, with this D6 Why table, you can understand the reason behind their reaction. 

I have written extensively on this blog already about the simple D6 Oracle I use for my solo D&D campaigns. I have written about the D6 Oracle itself, how to use it with word tables, and how to create those word tables, previously. 

In this post I want to show you how I combine the workhorse of encounters, the reaction roll, and an Oracle-like Why table.

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Using Word Tables In Solo Roleplaying

Using word tables in solo roleplaying

In Short: Using multiple word tables gives you the best options when using them to find the “why” when your oracle gives you a simple yes/no answer. Download my word tables at the end of the post.

Word tables are an integral tool in my solo roleplaying toolkit.

They allow me to find out the ‘why’ when the oracle gives me an answer.

I use a simple D6 Oracle and so there are often times I need more information than a simple yes/no.

And this is where word tables really shine.

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