The Green Knight's Quest

I’ve not had the best, err, months.



Basically, I've dealt with two falls, neither of them catastrophic, but both of them leading to cracked ribs and a lot of very careful navigation of life. The second one especially knocked the stuffing out of me, and I got very apprehensive about the tiniest stumble or slip of which there are a lot in day-to-day life, especially if you have a leg that every now and again just drags across the floor instead of lifting.
Then I had some work (yay!) and a lot of home expenses (boo!) plus what looks like another round of post-Covid exertion, and for the past couple of months especially, I've been more or less in hermit mode.

And then some fucker stole my phone and I was not able to replace it until now. So much of my life is on my phone. I had my old phone to resurrect, but it has a battery life of about 2-4h, and the connector is shot, so unless it lies flat without vibrations, I cannot charge it.
There's a reason I replaced it in the first place, but that also knocked me back a lot.

(This coincided with having to get my camera repaired, so suddenly I was without both my camera AND my phone camera. Not fun.)



I've handed in my last mss, which was a mess, slept myself out, ordered a new phone, and found a few brain cells; I'll be ok and I try to do better: read DW more often, finish all the half-written entries or dump them completely and free up my stack.

One thing I want to do more of is play RPGs, but again I haven't had the spoons to actually look for a group. So I started to look into SoloRPGs to just broaden my horizons a bit.

I love DnD. I want to play DnD properly again, but even with two people, scheduling is a problem.

So I've started to play solo, and read a lot of materials, and watched a lot of YouTube, ad poked at numerous systems and came to the conclusion that if I want to get anywhere with this hobby, I need to be more systematic about it.

To avoid cluttering up this journal and make it the SoloRPG ALL THE TIME channel, I've created solo_knight, and to avoid that feeling of emptiness I've waited until I had several entries polished and a format that I think will work.

It's a mixture of play reports and reviews, with the odd deeper delve into mechanics. Right now, my goal is to explore the space as a whole, so I am willing to play a certain amount of games that I would not have picked voluntarily – I mean, science fiction horror survival? Does not sound like fun. (Wasn't fun. Was an experience I wouldn't want to have missed.)

And I'm writing down my experiences so they don't fall out of my brain immediately, I have a modest goal of two games a month, and a stretch goal of processing all of my Indie games by this time next year. (A lot of them are one-page or close to; things I'm going to play once for a couple of hours if at all, but I also have a number of long form games, and on top of that, I have numerous proper RPG systems I'm curious about that can be played with a GM emulator, but in order to do that, I need to be comfortable with emulators first so this will keep me occupied for a while.

So there you go. solo_knight briefly turns up, bangs on his shield, and vanishes again.

And for a bonus task when my to-do list is shorter, I'll have to see how to link the two accounts so I can switch more easily between them.