For me, D&D is mostly a way to have fun with my friends, so I'm not really interested in that. The things I enjoy doing on my own are planning for sessions and doing homebrew.
JacksonB - I totally get it, it's a fun game to play with friends. But when you don't have a lot of people to play with and sometimes lack the time, it's sorta fun to play by yourself. I enjoy the gameplay. I could easily just tell my players, "A princess has been captured and the king needs your help to save her." But as a designer, I wanna see what happens when you play the game to the max level. No amount of narrative would've helped me when I was writing a story and my villain got smashed by a player who multiclassed a paladin rogue. The party gave him invisibility and pass without trace. And he did an outrageous amount of damage to my villain. I wasn't ready for the leap in damage potential for what I thought was balanced for the level of player at the table. And for a lot of people with experience with these sorts of things, they would've planned for that. But as a new DM, playing solo allows me the ability to see what the characters can do at each level and how should I design encounters for them.
Playing solo, like a solo game of chess was interesting.
4th Edition did solo gaming pretty well. They had an official solo adventure on Dragon -- and included the semi-legendary goblin sidekick Splug. There were some interesting solo campaigns for 4th Edition. I have yet to try 5th Edition solo gaming. The rules are less 'video-gamey' than 4th Edition, so I think that might limit your potential options. (And I am glad for it that 5th Edition moved away from the video game balance of 4th Edition).
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Have any of you played by yourselves? Sure the role play wont happen as often. But has anyone ever tried?
"All I'm hearing is words... DO SOMETHING!"
Yes, it's called fiction story-boarding.
DMs Guild has some solo adventures I believe.
Perpetually annoyed that Eldritch Knights can't use Eldritch Blast, Eldritch Smite, and Eldritch Sight.
For me, D&D is mostly a way to have fun with my friends, so I'm not really interested in that. The things I enjoy doing on my own are planning for sessions and doing homebrew.
I'm not gonna lie, when I wanted to know if anyone played this tabletop game by themselves, I expected:
Metamongoose - a little more thought before just outright rejecting the idea
Quasimojo - Thanks, I will look into this
JacksonB - I totally get it, it's a fun game to play with friends. But when you don't have a lot of people to play with and sometimes lack the time, it's sorta fun to play by yourself. I enjoy the gameplay. I could easily just tell my players, "A princess has been captured and the king needs your help to save her." But as a designer, I wanna see what happens when you play the game to the max level. No amount of narrative would've helped me when I was writing a story and my villain got smashed by a player who multiclassed a paladin rogue. The party gave him invisibility and pass without trace. And he did an outrageous amount of damage to my villain. I wasn't ready for the leap in damage potential for what I thought was balanced for the level of player at the table. And for a lot of people with experience with these sorts of things, they would've planned for that. But as a new DM, playing solo allows me the ability to see what the characters can do at each level and how should I design encounters for them.
Playing solo, like a solo game of chess was interesting.
"All I'm hearing is words... DO SOMETHING!"
4th Edition did solo gaming pretty well. They had an official solo adventure on Dragon -- and included the semi-legendary goblin sidekick Splug. There were some interesting solo campaigns for 4th Edition. I have yet to try 5th Edition solo gaming. The rules are less 'video-gamey' than 4th Edition, so I think that might limit your potential options. (And I am glad for it that 5th Edition moved away from the video game balance of 4th Edition).