I have been discovering a good deal of solo TTRPG players on substack and a few months ago I discovered the Kal-Arath rpg and its author Castle Grief, both are excellent but sword & sorcery just are not my usual thing. I like to read it and such but never got playing it.
Last week I discovered the author Write Firster and his RPG called Niv Lova. Designed for solo play, and oddly close to something I was working on in the background, I began reading this and loved the set up and execution. Niv Lova tells the story of a unique and unexplained 'incident' that happened in the frozen north. The Government tried to bury it, building a wall around it, then another as it expanded, then another.... Now it has become a wasteland where the lost and forgotten go, hoping to turn their lives around. Strange and unexplainable things happen here, untold riches and fame await...if you don't get killed.
I decided to give it a go. I fed the playtest document into ChatGPT and asked it to create a character based on the rules, below is the result:
