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Radiant Light - A One D&D Solo Campaign - Episode 2 - Journey's Through the Radiant Citadel - Salted Legacy

When I first started working on Episode 2 of Radiant Light, Halloween had just left us and we were journeying into the latter part of the year with the spooky season still alive and kicking. This is apparent on the first half of the episode. Unfortunately, it has taken me a long time to get it together and put it out so it may seem a bit late when in the first half of the new year I am bringing up Halloween Competitions. Despite this. I did run a Halloween competition across October, which was also a celebration for reaching 3k subscribers on YouTube, I am pleased to finally announce in a more official capacity on the show, that the competition winner was non other than 'Stratplayer05' for their spooky entry entitled 'Disguised Blessings'. This entry is featured on the episode. Many of the competition enties, including this one, are written for the Basic Dungeons & Dragons rules (BECMI/BX). I do play these rules in my Tales of Mystara campaign. However, Radiant ...

Speed up Your Solo D&D Games with Shorthand, a Solo D&D Tutorial

Recently I was catching up with some viewer comments on my YouTube channel when I happened upon the following comment by Cylland: “Hi, I have been having trouble recording my sessions, I usually end up writing every sentence like a book [which] makes the game very slow, but at the same I am scared of leaving juicy details of the story behind. Could you make a video with tips on recording/journalling?” Speed up Your Solo D&D Games with Shorthand, a Solo D&D Tutorial Avoiding logging everything that happens in a solo D&D campaign in a heavily descriptive, narrative form is of course, very time consuming. So speeding this process up, or avoiding it altogether is quite desirable when trying to strike a good balance between narrative output and pacing. I myself, am pretty descriptive as I journal my solo adventures for vodcasts and this has definitely slowed my process down significantly! I’ve recently pondered the idea of using shorthand to journal my solo gaming sess...