Introduction

Who are you? What is this?

    A general intro into why I'm creating this blog can be found in this Reddit post. Long story short, I have been playing 5e as both a character and a DM for the last few years. I recently started reading about Old School Renaissance and classic TTRPGs and decided to learn the mechanics of Old School Essentials by running a solo hexcrawl in a randomly generated world. The posts on this blog will cover adventures in the Empire of Elnariana with commentary on my thought process on OSE and solo rulings.

Who is this for?

    My intent is for this blog to mostly be a stream of consciousness for my own experience with both solo roleplaying and OSR but I hope that it'll be useful for others who are curious about OSR/OSE or are curious about solo roleplaying.

What's next?

    The next few posts will detail my philosophy/motivation for my setting/game and solo gaming, the creation of the world of Elnariana, and finally the adventures of my first OSE character in this world. Wherever possible, I'll try to explain how things are generated or my thought process in-line with the actual content so that readers can learn about the system and my solo approach while (hopefully) enjoying the narrative.

    I've already started one character in this world so the first few posts are going to be more of a retrospective so my reasoning may not be entirely clear. New posts will be written as content is generated and will hopefully be a bit more seamless.

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