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(DIR) Post #Ax3BYlJ3F6sM5irUEi by Lemlems@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T03:08:07Z
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I would love to hear from people who play #TTRPGS solo - particularly those who have #ADHDHow do find pacing your play in terms of holding your attention?How enjoyable do you find being both GM & player?Have you managed to keep a campaign going or do you do one shots?Has it kept you engaged enough to keep going back to it or do you have a bunch of abandoned systems/modules in a cupboard (no judgement!). Trying to work out if it might be for me#ttrpg #SoloTTRPG #SoloTTRPGS
(DIR) Post #Ax3BYmGFh0EN3KYlVo by Lemlems@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T03:08:08Z
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If I do decide to go for it, what system(s) would you recommend for solo play?I’m somewhat familiar with DnD but I’m happy to branch out. Drakonym has caught my eye (because who wouldn’t want a dragon). Also I know there’s a lot of noise about Daggerheart right now, and I *think* it can be played solo, but I don’t know anything else about it. #TTRPG #TTRPGS #SoloTTRPG #SoloTTRPGS
(DIR) Post #Ax3BYnUp6JTqsoNurY by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-11T05:30:20Z
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@Lemlems I feel like I say this a lot, but Ironsworn is one of the best tabletop RPGs written in the last several years. It's beautifully and clearly laid out. It is playable solo, co-op, same side, and in a traditional guided mode. And perhaps the most powerful recommendation I can give it—it's free. https://tomkinpress.com/pages/ironswornPick it up with the free supplement Lodestar, and you can have all of the rules generally updated to being compatible with its somewhat younger sci-fi sibling Starforged. All of the oracles, that is, the random tables that can help you generate your world and your experience, and all of the random tables from the supplement Delve, which is a system to essentially generate landscapes and dungeons for exploration on the fly. Of all the things I've listed here, Delve is something that you would need to pay for, about $15. And if you wanted to get into sci-fi, you can pick up Starforged, which you would also have to pay for. But if you just want to get into some really nice fantasy with good narrative, fiction-first gameplay, mechanics, you can have Ironsworn and Lodestar for free.
(DIR) Post #Ax3BYsgLosfky0oh1c by Lemlems@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T03:16:36Z
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If it helps you with making recommendations: I am someone who has over 2,000 hours (and counting) in BG3 because I have like 100+ builds and i want to try them all out. I probably enjoy the process of planning out those builds, and updating the spreadsheets relating to them, nearly as much as I enjoy playing the game to see how they work. (I’m #autistic as well as #ADHD 😊)
(DIR) Post #Ax3BrJIRbfhSirQEwy by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-11T05:33:43Z
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@Lemlems Now to roll back to your first post and answer those questions.Pacing my play? I'm the one that's paying attention. If my attention wavers or I want to go do something else for a minute, I go off and do it. I come back when I want to. It's always there. I can pick up where I left off.To make that easier, do some journaling. Write down what you're doing at any given time. You don't have to make it a full story—just enough to keep it in your head when you come back.Ironsworn is specifically designed to be solo, where co-op and guided play is not as emphasized. So you're not being both a GM and player. Instead, it is architected like a GM-less game. There is no modal switch—it's just playing the game. This is one of the great advantages of GM-less game design in the first place.Keeping a campaign going is easy. I'm the only player I have to worry about scheduling. I play when I want to play, and I play as much as I want to play.In fact, doing a one-shot is less compelling. Do I keep going back to it? Quite a lot. Now, keep in mind, I literally live in an RPG library that has been accumulated over the last [mumble] decades, so there are tons of games all around me. But Ironsworn (and more often Starforged) is the one that I have right here next to me, ready at hand.
(DIR) Post #Ax3C5lY1MkY0OdbKcq by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-11T05:36:20Z
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@Lemlems But here's the thing. I definitely don't have ADHD. I don't have concentration problems, but it doesn't matter. You're the one who has to decide whether you want to do something enough to work at it. That's going to be true of anything you pick up. It's not the game. It's not the mechanics. It's you. You'll keep up with and keep doing whatever it is that you want to. No game is going to fix you. No approach to gaming is going to make it necessarily better. You are the person that spends the most time with you, not the author of any game.So decide if you want to do something. And if you do, just do it. All I'm doing is making it really easy for you to start by picking something that's free and well-designed for everybody.You're the one who actually has to decide that it's something that you want to make happen. That will always be the case in your life.So give it a go. You'll like it or you won't. If you don't, you paid nothing for it, and you've lost nothing but some time. If you do, you've got something that you can keep playing with for many decades to come because nobody can take it away from you.That's it. That's the response.
(DIR) Post #Ax3HTdYREgSWKIzx9k by Lemlems@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T06:36:39Z
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@lextenebris Yeah, no, that is exactly not how ADHD works. I understand that you’re trying to be encouraging, but that type of statement is what fuels stigma, shame and burnout. There is no “just do it” or “you decide what to concentrate on” for people with ADHD that is literally not how our brains are wired
(DIR) Post #Ax3IgFWG0dP1V9YX0S by lextenebris@social.vivaldi.net
2025-08-11T06:50:10Z
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@Lemlems Well, you can make it as bad and miserable for yourself as you want. That's not my job. If you literally have no control over what your mind does, besides vague hopes and candy corn dreams, then there may be no help for you. But if there is anything you can do for yourself, it's going to come from believing that some action you take will be able to influence the experience that you feel. If you start with the assumption that nothing you do can or will, then that's exactly what will happen.That you get to pick. Pick wisely.
(DIR) Post #Ax3JuKlbObR5mi0tJA by Lemlems@mastodon.social
2025-08-11T07:03:53Z
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@lextenebris Great. Im just off to choose not to have ADHD 👍🏻