Lone Horizons

I'm playing a solo session of  Cepheus Engine: Alpha Quadrant , the Star Trek rulebook for Cepheus. We're playing as the crew of the USS Voyager. Session zero is  here . To view all the episode posts click the Star Trek Voyager tag on the sidebar. Introduction This is season 1 episode 10: State of Flux . Another good one that has plot twists and should provide some opportunities for roleplaying. The Adventure It's stardate 48658.2. A few months have gone by since the tragic death of Neelix at the hands of the Vidiians, and the crew of the USS Voyager have found a Class M planet with lush vegetation. Commander Chakotay, leading a large away team on a foraging mission, hears someone calling "Commander!" from up on a hill behind him. It's Lieutenant Joseph Carey, running towards him clutching a piece of fruit. "Look at this," He says, handing Chakotay the brownish green fruit. "I think they're some kind of apple. There are trees filled with the...

I'm playing a mashup of  Scarlet Heroes  and  Basic Fantasy RPG  with a few supplements to turn it into a solo fantasy hexcrawl in the world of Eilobar, a doomed land entering its end times. I'm using the  Level 0 Character Tumbler , Hexcrawl Adventures and some homebrew rules. The characters started as level 0 peasants and have since levelled up to become heroes. Introduction The heroes have almost reached Seethorpe where they hope to speak to the dwarven scholar Thiri, but disease, combat and the death of one of their own have slowed them down. The Adventure It's the morning of the 25th day of Rhana's Season and the sun is already long up when the party sets off southwest, skirting around the edge of the mountains that block their path to Seethorpe. In the daylight they can see that the mountain range continues to the southwest, still blocking their way. They really don't want to travel through the mountains, so they go back the way they came, hoping...

I'm playing a mashup of  Scarlet Heroes  and  Basic Fantasy RPG  with a few supplements to turn it into a solo fantasy hexcrawl in the world of Eilobar, a doomed land entering its end times. I'm using the  Level 0 Character Tumbler , Hexcrawl Adventures and some homebrew rules. The characters started as level 0 peasants and have since levelled up to become heroes. Introduction The party are getting closer to the town of Seethorpe now, but they're low on supplies, one bedroll short and two of them are about to come down with a nasty disease. The Adventure After travelling through the hills for the rest of the day the heroes make camp. Stilda congratulates Bando on his performance in the fight against the rats and says he could make a fine warrior one day. They settle down to sleep, but Ellyn wakes up in the early morning, shivering. She gets up, staggers away from the remains of the fire and vomits furiously into the undergrowth. Waking up and seeing th...

Introduction The Riddle of Steel is an RPG by Driftwood Publishing from the early 2000s which apparently became pretty popular on its release, generated a lot of interest and then faded away into obscurity. From what I can find online it seems the designers made some bad choices in terms of expansions for the game and the company went under. It's very gritty and brutal with rare but powerful magic that prematurely ages wizards who fumble their spells, and a very  detailed combat system that reminds me of real life fencing. A bit like what I've heard about Harnmaster. The game is long out of print and very rare, and the company's website has disappeared. Luckily the Quickstart Rules are still online, so let's make a couple of characters and have them fight! Character Creation We're going to make two noblemen from the land of Cyrinthmeir, a rich feudal state ruled over by its king and the Gathering of Lords. The dastardly Count Ofrich has insulted Count Ansert's ...