Over the coming weeks I’ll be posting several write-ups of the various solo games I've been running (for myself) over the past few months. Whilst born of an absence of opportunity to engage in games with others, it's proven to be a far more rewarding experience than my previous efforts. Indeed: it's encouraged me to revive other games I'd previously abandoned as well as enabled me to test out some new ideas for Pariah, partly inspired by a solo game of Traveller (which I may link here at a later date).
What follows is a kind of mini-game which can be run as alternative to a session 0 and then later as an alternative to “downtime”. You start up by generating a band of outcasts, foraging resources from the wilderness, and seeing what happens along the way.
It can also be played solo.
In fact, you can play along right now, I dare you.