My best tip for a beginner would be to just do it! Just try! I think so often people spend a lot of time prepping and waffling about whether to include this or that oracle or set of tables or whatever, or whether to start with a journaling game or a more traditional ttrpg in a solo mode, dungeon crawling or wilderness exploration or what have you...and sometimes all those choices bringing so much consternation begin to solidify with what directions to take, which things to include and which to pitch out, which things are more fun for you personally solo, etc when you actually just do it! You might have bumpy rides the first few times but that's how you learn what and where to smooth things out!
can relate! I prep to get the "perfect" situation then I get overwhelmed and stop. Then buy more books thinking those systems will help me try soloing. Its even harder given I've never role played before!
@@mrjspancakehouse highly recommend giving a minimal system a whirl with just an oracle system of some kind, just to get Doing The Thing outta your system and figure out what bolt-ons you ACTUALLY find yourself needing and what you don't, if you're like "dang I need a table for X thing" as you're playing super minimally, just jot it down and keep playing and then between sessions go find just that table you found yourself needing, if you play like that you eventually accrete all the things you actually need and can use that as a template going forward!
My best tip for a beginner would be to just do it! Just try! I think so often people spend a lot of time prepping and waffling about whether to include this or that oracle or set of tables or whatever, or whether to start with a journaling game or a more traditional ttrpg in a solo mode, dungeon crawling or wilderness exploration or what have you...and sometimes all those choices bringing so much consternation begin to solidify with what directions to take, which things to include and which to pitch out, which things are more fun for you personally solo, etc when you actually just do it! You might have bumpy rides the first few times but that's how you learn what and where to smooth things out!
can relate! I prep to get the "perfect" situation then I get overwhelmed and stop. Then buy more books thinking those systems will help me try soloing. Its even harder given I've never role played before!
@@mrjspancakehouse highly recommend giving a minimal system a whirl with just an oracle system of some kind, just to get Doing The Thing outta your system and figure out what bolt-ons you ACTUALLY find yourself needing and what you don't, if you're like "dang I need a table for X thing" as you're playing super minimally, just jot it down and keep playing and then between sessions go find just that table you found yourself needing, if you play like that you eventually accrete all the things you actually need and can use that as a template going forward!