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31 Days of Character Creation 2025 #2 – Outgunned

Today’s character comes from Outgunned, a cinematic action tabletop roleplaying game. Here’s the description from the official website:

Outgunned is a cinematic action RPG inspired by the classics of the action and heist genre, from Die Hard to True Lies, passing through James Bond, Lethal Weapon, Kingsman, Ocean’s Eleven, Hot Fuzz, and the latest John Wick.

In Outgunned, Players take on the role of action Heroes facing terrible odds. They will be constantly surrounded by enemies while trying to carry out their mission, be it robbing a casino or saving the day.

31 Days of Character Creation 2025 #1 – Dungeons & Dragons 5e

I’ll be participating in this challenge which gets a good explanation at this blog post. I’ll be making a character from a different tabletop RPG system each day for the 31 days of January. First up is a system I have never made a character in or played at all, Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition.

My Favorite Solo Tabletop RPGs of 2024

Becoming the Villain by There’s A Way Studios
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I didn’t play many solo journaling games this year, opting for games with more dice rolling and moment-to-moment action. I enjoyed this journaling game, which helped me create a villain for my Supersworn (Starforged with supers assets) game. Becoming the Villain uses tarot cards to unfold your future fiend’s history. You’ll track your character’s changing ambitions, goals, and motivations affected by the events keyed from your card draws. Allies very likely will become enemies. Precious resources will be destroyed and fuel your villain’s rage. For GMs wanting to have a firmer handle on their campaign’s BBEG, this could be an enjoyable resource during planning.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Starforged: Messiahs Part Three

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[Begin a Session: Seemingly unrelated situations are shown to be connected]

A figure rides a wooly sandfoot across the desert, cresting a ridge. Thousands have been set up around a mountain range at the base. The figure is greeted by one of the al-Raml. The figure removes his straw hat and face covering to reveal a young man. This is Gerard Linnaeus, the heir to a House of the same surname. The attendant is Ghazi, Gerard’s greatest acolyte among the al Raml. He brings Gerard into the encampment to a more lavish tent than the others. Here, Gerard cleans himself with the special powder used by the al Raml. He prepares himself and rests.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Starforged: Messiahs Part Two

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[Begin a Session: Important character is put in danger or suffers a misadventure]

Dreng Wraithus wakes with a gasp for air. He is lying on a cold metallic floor. A hand reaches down and lifts him up by the scruff of the collar of his black robe. Wraithus’s legs still flop about like cold noodles as he’s drug through the halls of this strangely humid vessel.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – The Electric State Part Six

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One Year Ago
Stella Shaw lays on her back, combat boots up on top of one of several monitors she’d spent months scavenging for. With a little help from Lester, a local tinkerer, the teenage girl constructed a makeshift antenna she installed one of the watchtowers in the compound for the best possible reception. It was just her luck that she picked up a broadcast of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air coming from somewhere to the west. Down in what Stella’s aunt nicknamed her “hidey-hole” she was quite cozy. These series of reinforced tunnels might have triggered claustrophobia in the adults, but they were the perfect fit for Stella.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – Starforged: Messiahs Part One

The Starforged story being told here is the culmination of over a year of playing in my little homemade science fiction toy box. Listed below are the various interconnected chapters where you’ll see several characters mentioned here. I can’t guarantee it’s good writing, but it exists.
Starforged | Starforged: Nexus of Destiny | Starforged: Abyss of Shadows | Starforged: Wrath of the Vok | Sundered Isles

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – The Electric State Part Five

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Two Months Ago

Crystal stumbled out of the barn and braced herself against one of its faded red exterior walls. She was having trouble breathing and slid down to the ground. A beat. Randy James stepped out into the moonlight, an annoyed look on his face.

“Why do you have to be like that, Crissie?” he asked, a slight whine in his voice.

“Th-that kid,” Crystal started. “How can you…do…that?”

Randy James clucked his tongue disapprovingly. “You have such shortsightedness, you know that? You just refuse to see the bigger picture, like everyone else. You don’t see them out here, freaking out, boohooing. Maybe you need to grow the fuck up, Crissie.”

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – The Electric State Part Four

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Scene One
Six months ago
Crystal went out the night she got the eviction notice. She needed to drink until she couldn’t remember anything. Losing her apartment. Catching her boyfriend cheating on her. It needed to drown and die. And that’s how she met Randy James. At first, Crystal saw him like any other shitkicker who wandered into Victorville on a Saturday night. But that wasn’t Randy James at all. He said he was a professional philosopher. She rolled her eyes. But damn, if he wasn’t charming as hell. RJ had many thoughts on neuronics; he said he worked in R&D for Sentre, developing new interfacing for the neurocasters. That’s what led to them having sex in his truck with their neurocasters on. It was unlike anything Crystal had ever experienced. She was enamored.

Solo Tabletop RPG Actual Play – The Electric State Part Three

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Two months ago.

Wyatt Butler sat hunched over in his desk chair, listening to his ex-wife Christine rightfully chide him for failing to pick up their son for Wyatt’s weekend. A case had fallen on the private investigator’s desk, a wealthy woman suspecting her husband of cheating, and she offered cash that Wyatt couldn’t pass up.