House Gehwær #3 – Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception

a digital painting of a bedroom in a medieval castle.
~ Marc André Ueberall

Welcome to part 3 of my Hârn solo campaign. Today we will do some fancy stuff, not only that I touch the travel and trekking procedures for the first time, you will also be in the front row of me having a very hard time to decide whether or not to use Hârnic language equivalents for some titles and names. For example the term Baroness would be Esúrua, and Earl would become Málnîr.

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House Gehwær #2 – Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome

a digital painting of a medieval keep
~ Marc André Ueberall

Since last session, I though about including something like the Winter Phase from Pendragon and to throw in a “slice of life” or socializing session every once in a while. I hoped to test out some other rule concepts and routines in this process.

I think that this would really suit this campaign. Let’s be honest, Essryd might be quite a good melee fighter and she might have been more on the tomboy side of things in her past, but it is not that appropriate for a recently designated baroness to run around the woods, chasing the thiefs who stole some grain from the warehouse.

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House Gehwær #1 – Youth is sweet and well, but doth speed away!

a digital painting of a room in a medieval castle. blood covers the stone tile floor.
~ Marc André Ueberall

After creating Essryd in the last post, I had a really hard time to find a plausible first scene for the solo campaign. Starting an investigation of a murder years after it happened is not really what makes a good start, so I decided to jump right in after the assassination of Essryd’s family happened.

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She is persistent, unscrupulous and very, very angry

a digital painting of a medieval keep at a river with mountains in the background
~ Marc André Ueberall ~ 1 Comment

I bought the latest edition of HârnMaster – Roleplaying in the World of Kèthîra (HMK) in early November last year and loved every single page of it. It is very well written and easy to understand, given how crunchy the system is. The layout and design of the book is so lovely and fitting for the setting and theme that it hurts.

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Using RAG in LLM and other gibberish

a screenshot of an obsidian vault layout
~ Marc André Ueberall

I write this article as a follow-up to my last post because I was asked on reddit how the AI part of my Obsidian setup works. I know (because I have some degrees of academic knowledge about it) that artificial intelligence is currently not really intelligent … but we are working on it. Let’s call it “an algorithm that can understand, process and distribute knowledge with sufficient accuracy”. This article is neither about generating pseudo-literature nor unitary art using an AI model, yet we use exactly this model to help us memorize and process knowledge … so that we don’t have to.

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My Solo RPG Toolbag

a surrealistic town
~ Marc André Ueberall

Nothing had more revisions and iterations than my Obsidian vault for everything solo roleplaying. I spent a lot of time collecting handy tools, creating lists and optimizing the workflow. Now I can say with firm belief, that I reached a state of perfection … for at least the next two weeks.

I read an article on substack.com where a kind user wrote about their workflow for a solo run of the Great Pendragon Campaign and came to the conclusion that there are too few sources for how the heck people play solitaire roleplaying games.

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