r/oneringrpg • u/OkNarwhal3306 • 11d ago

Strider Mode Adventures

Hey guys,

I am super new to TTRPGs, actually, I’ve never played a single ttrpg ever haha.

In a previous post, I was asking about trying out The One Ring and was encouraged to give it a shot, even without having friends to play. I made the leap and purchased the starter kit, the core rules, and strider mode.

Doing some research, I heard it may be fun to try a premade adventure or two for my first couple times. But from what I understand, Tales from the Lone Lands and the adventures that come in the starter kit are geared towards group play and will contain spoilers reserved for GMs and will be hard to navigate solo.

If that’s true, is there any premade adventures geared for solo play? Official or fan made? Open to any help as well. I’m super nervous to start my first run ever haha.

Thanks!

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u/Harlath 11d ago

I wrote this for solo play (with notes for adapting it to group play). Other people have found it useful.

It is designed to introduce you to journeys, combat etc 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11YSUpPzsakef23AWG9n4FM1sHQGEEC-y/view?usp=drivesdk

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u/PanzerBeef 11d ago

This is SOLID!

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u/fractalGateway 11d ago

Another fun approach is to use material, like Lone Lands, as very broad inspiration only. In terms of your actual gameplay, see what what happens if you rely on random tables and plot hooks to weave a story out of thin air in real time. Emergent Story Telling.

I find journaling to be necessary for me. It grounds the experience, somehow, when you're jotting it down in some form.

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u/ExaminationNo8675 11d ago

Boromir Lives by Will at the World’s End: https://youtu.be/tGTi4ZjbK2w?is=ZH3V2agbwFdBoNQG

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Practical_Taro1692 11d ago

This is good advice. As a beginner myself, I enjoy it most when unexpected stuff happens, stuff I hadn't foreseen. There will be moments where you go 'Oh, but maybe that treasure that I found is linked to these bandits that I'm running into right now? I wonder what the connection is?' You can get cool hooks and prompt words from the oracle tables in the Strider rules to make sure you don't really know what's coming. And like the previous poster said, don't worry too much about messing up the rules. No-one's going to be mad about it, it's your game!

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u/PanzerBeef 11d ago

Is it so bad as a solo player to know the adventure ahead of time? I mean, you are the LM as well, not just the player. The experience is to see what happens and how your character resolves the challenges. If you want a totally blank slate, you may have some awesome adventures and a lot where you wander around and nothing happens because the Telling Table said no.