**WELCOME ADVENTURER!**

Heroic Deeds is a goal-based heroic fantasy role-playing game with an old-school aesthetic, but modern mechanics and d12 dice pools. It’s about building your legend, exploring unknown lands, locating strange ruins, and delving into dangerous dungeons.

[You can get Heroic Deeds here.](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/547121/heroic-deeds-rpg)

What makes this game different?

* **GOAL BASED XP** \- The Heroic Deeds system puts experience in the hands of the players. Your Archetype provides a set of Deeds for you to complete. Fulfilling a Deed gives you a specific reward. Complete 3 and you level up, getting access to more.
* **FOUR PILLARS OF PLAY** \- Heroic Deeds has four phases of play: Exploration, Combat, Journeys, and Downtime. Together these phases allow the Gamemaster and the Players to create exciting and rewarding adventures together.
* **EMERGENT CAMPAIGN** \- The game is set on the edge of Bargdumiraz, an ancient dwarven megalopolis now in ruin. The GM and Players will populate the map with locations and rumours. The campaign will emerge from the choices the whole table makes!
* **START TODAY** \- This one book has everything you need (aside from some twelve-sided dice) to start a Heroic Deeds campaign today: rules, monsters, adventures, and more.

So gather your gear, strap on your sword, and prepare to undertake Heroic Deeds!

This game was inspired by...

...games such as: Advanced Heroquest, Dungeons & Dragons, Earthdawn, Forbidden Lands, Shadowdark, The One Ring, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay

...and movies such as: Conan the Barbarian, The Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, Krull, Red Sonja, and Willow



**Solo Rules**

Several times I've thought, or someone has mentioned, that Heroic Deeds could work well as a solo game. And largely I agree - I think the procedural nature and playsheet style I've gone for (to make the game low prep for GMs) leans in that direction. I don't have a lot of experience with solo games, but the ones I've looked at seem to fully embrace the emergent campaign element that I've embedded in Heroic Deeds.

I'm keen to explore this as a supplement for HD and in adding it to my Trello my brain started to spin in possible directions.

**Where to start?**

I think there are two big things to think about:

1. What does the "Party" look like if it's a solo game. The party is a central element of Heroic Deeds and I'd want that to remain, however managing 4 or 5 Heroes could be tricky. In particular the Deeds system itself would make it hard to manage multiple characters.
2. How do each of the phases of the game already support solo play? What rules do I need to amend/expand to make the game playable for one person.

  
**The Party**

I'm considering have the player select an archetype for their hero, but then make a party out of NPCs to support them. These NPCs would be sort of lesser versions of the other archetypes. They'd be streamlined Retainer style characters that are easier to manage than having 5 PCs to worry about. Then the main Hero advances their Deeds, and maybe these special Retainers each have a single deed they are looking to complete (but not a whole set of them). I'd need to make some more retainers for that. For example I might have the Scrollbearer rather than the Runewielder, who can cast spells from scrolls only. Something along those lines.

  
**Phases of Play**

The phases are pretty procedural and so far my thoughts are:

* Downtime: this requires little change, but might just need some extra actions that NPCs can undertake? Or maybe you can just advance them back at Emberwatch and that makes up for some of the difference between the Hero and the Retainers.
* Journeys: I think this will work pretty much as is - however, I think solo players might be interested in creating their own regional map - but strictly not required for play.
* Exploration: The GM Playsheet approach I think allows a solo player to follow the turn tracker to dictate how the Adventure Location throws additional challenges at the party. I think this will also work. The issue might be how Retainers interact with the actions economy.
* Combat: for me this could be the tricky one. I need to do a little research here, I'm not sure how abstract people would want combat to be in a solo game. Combat in Heroic Deeds tends to be over in a few decisive rounds, but that can be a bit of admin around it with vitality, wounds, abilities, and more to deal with. I feel that some sort of combat management sheet would allow the solo player to manage the Party and the Enemies.

That's all I've got right now, I'll keep thinking and if you have any ideas or thoughts feel free to share in the comments below or pop onto the Discord to chat about it more. I've got some Adventure Locations to sort out, but I think this wouldn't be a huge piece of work, so it might get done sooner rather than later.

I hope you check out (and enjoy) Heroic Deeds.

I'm working on Solo rules for my recently published RPG: Heroic Deeds. Link in comments.