I was a dungeon master and never had enough graph paper. Great memories!!!! Thank you!

Hand written characters on good old lined paper ahh..this brings back memories.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like far too many people don't even realise it was ever done this way :D

Love the music, the audio filters, and the hand drawn map.

Fantastic. Dave and Gary would be proud.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

:D I would love to be a fly on the wall of a Gygax or Arneson game. It would answer so many questions

This is great and your delivery method is very cosy and streamlined.

Pretty cool. I am a Traveller life long gamer. I love that system but have become a fan of OD&D in the retro Seattle Games Whitebox Edition. Old school is by far the best..

@SoloDungeonCrawler

Жыл бұрын

Hi Gerry :) I've still not played Traveller but I am intrigued by it quite recently. I also agree that old school is the best :)

Trying to catch up on this amazing series. This is inspirational. Sadly, I have never played a game or rolled a die in a game of DND or any other TTRPG. I always wanted to. Just learning I can play solo is amazing!!! Just don’t know where to start or what rules to use. Hopefully I figure it out soon. Thanks for the content!!

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ruben, if it helps I have some articles and PDFs on my blog to help you get started. It’s at solo dungeon crawler dot blog spot dot com :)

Love these videos.. .. I have always wanted to play since the 80s but it was always a boys only club. And so never got the chance and friends who would play. I love listening you have a great reading voice! And I feel as if I am in the game. Almost. I wish they were longer to listen to. 🎧

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Zinnia. So sorry that you never got a chance to play. Thanks for listening :) I’m sorry that the videos are shorter than you would like. I’m still trying to get the right balance between length and how long it takes to make a video.

@zinniazen9923

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoloDungeonCrawler thanks for replying! I am looking forward for more. I love listening and you get right down to the story line. There’s no chitchat and interruptions when that happens watching a group playing together on a video. It’s hard to follow . It is fun to watch but sometimes you just want to get into the story mode. Well done. Lol in school the girls were taught to sew dresses and the boys got to play d&d. how unfair is that. I failed sewing hahahaha 😂😂😂😜

Im loving this campain, ODnD is a wonderful game in my opinion.

@donc7664

Жыл бұрын

Underrated for sure

Totally jealous of your cartography skills. They are off the "charts". Thanks for running some OD&D and keeping it's memory alive.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

Жыл бұрын

Hi Dan. I'm glad you like them. More to come in the future and hopefully my cartography will get better with practice. I'm flattered you think its good already :)

I like the way you narrate this. It makes it feel like you're telling a horror story

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) I do love a good horror story so the influence is probably present in my narration.

@AbstractTraitorHero

Жыл бұрын

@@SoloDungeonCrawler Definetly, sympathethic characters, we want the heros to succeed-but we know the horror's that our friends face. We know the struggle to come, I only hope it ends well for them.

This is great, been listening at work.

This is inspirational. I really enjoy the way you incorporate your maps and drawings into the video. It makes visualizing the action much easier. Great use of color as well.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you :) I have a long way to go to improve my maps, but I'll keep it up.

I am liking the style of this series. Will stay tuned as always.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lonny. Always a pleasure

Loving this. Brings back long forgotten memories.

Excellent series, and overall excellent content throughout this channel. I’ve been playing OD&D since about 2016, but due to lack of interested players there have been long gaps in play. Have tried the solo-thing, but not done nearly as well as how you present it. Thanks for the ideas which I am now using in my own solo game! Two possible mistakes I spotted - the dwarf and halfling character sheets don’t list their respective languages as known languages. Either they don’t have their own language in your world, or maybe this was an oversight?

I like your presentation style, kudos. I am learning "OD&D" by way of Delving Deeper. Hopefully I can run it for some friends soon.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

I haven’t come across Delving Deeper before, this sounds interesting. I’m always looking for new OD&D stuff to learn from myself.

Really well done again, Tom! Thnx again for another great episode!! 👍

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ray. I enjoy your content too. It's a great resource for gaining insight into how the original game was played.

Well done again. I like this format quite a bit and it is easy to follow the progress of the party.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :) I'm so glad it's easy to follow.

I am in. Can’t wait to hear what happens to these adventurers. Might they cross paths with Ilyana or Yolanda on their journeys?

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Anything is possible :)

Not rolling HP until it's necessary? Good move 👍 I do this with NPC hirelings all the time to speed things up.

I don’t know where to start. The world building is really inspiring! I’m curious about how much is generated and how much is by your design? Either way it’s fantastic. I also love how grim and unforgiving the tone is. ‘If the man died for this, it was hardly worth it.’ So good!

@SoloDungeonCrawler

Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not everything is generated at random. I've written a lot of rules! I just interpret the results of my rolls and that's pretty much it.

God the boat sinking reminds me of one of my first AD&D campaigns where the boat sank, everyone drowned. D*ckhead GM never gave us a chance to take off our armor or any warning :|

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Oh dear. Old school dnd is definitely an unforgiving game.

This is amazing. how does a single pack of rations have a 90% chance to distract an entire swarm of locusts compared to the all sweaty meat running away? 😁 looking forward to new installments of this. Hopefully you can get a new mic soon!

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. In the OD&D rules it specifically states that non-intelligent creatures have a 90% chance of stopping if food is dropped by an evading party. This experiment is to stick strictly to these rules to showcase how the original game was meant to be played. Regarding my mic :D it's not as bad as you might think. I've intentionally tried to make the sound mimic 1960's radio broadcasts with inspiration from tape cassette audio books too because I wanted to capture the nostalgia, although I'm thinking about pulling this back a bit because I don't think it's obvious enough and potentially off putting. Having said that I would like a better mic one day as well.

@jamessral-subclassact

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoloDungeonCrawler I am actually really enjoying the audio. At first in episode 1, I thought it was the mic, but then I heard you adding the crackling and I realized what you were doing. As soon as I realized that, I really appreciated that the audio matches the feeling of the game and the ruleset. Super, super cool vibe!

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamessral-subclassact Thanks :) I have toned it down over time to try and capture that feeling without going overboard. I'm still trying to strike the right balance.

So good! Really love this videos

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Well done! You have a new subscriber.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

I love it!

Great episode! I’d be interested to see behind the scenes of the action. Do you use random tables to generate what the characters encounter and find, or are you making those up as DM?

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

I'm actually going to answer this question in a later episode, but basically I generate absolutely everything using my own rules. I've covered the basics on my blog and a video series on here called 'How to Play Dungeons & Dragons Solo', but these rules have been quite widely expanded since I first developed them. I've brought everything into a single document which I tweak and expand as I progress through my solo campaigns. I plan to release this rule book in some form in the future once its reached a stage I am happy with. I want to follow this up then with a future video series to talk people through the whole ruleset.

I like 👍🏾

Let's see what happens next.....

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

My PC died last week so there has been a slight delay in making the next video. I plan to get this sorted very soon after the Christmas break!

Is this typically how a normal multiplayer original dungeons and dragons game will go? So far, it feels very much more in line with a text based adventure or point and click game more than jrpg games or rpg video games

@SoloDungeonCrawler

Жыл бұрын

My goal with this series is to present an OD&D game that closely resembles a group game played in the mid 70's. I suppose it would make sense that it resembles a text adventure over a more modern rpg video game as the earliest text adventures where inspired by OD&D.

oh no...are you purposely using white lighting flash effect to give video aged video feel? because it hurt my eye, i can't watch whole video with this effect on. It would be good if just using effect for intro, but not the whole video.

@SoloDungeonCrawler

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry it's hurting your eyes. I have used some effects to convey a vintage look, however I have toned these down as time went on and continue to do so based on feedback. I hope you are able to stick with it.