r/BlackoathRPG

Hey everyone,

Quick question here regarding skill advancement in Ker Nethalas.

The rules say no skill can naturally go above 80, but other circumstances can increase it.

Let's say my bladed weapons skill is at 70. I have a hatchet that is SIMPLE (+10 combat), and I also receive the rule of "attacker gets +10 in combat. So in this instance, I would be rolling against a 90 for my bladed weapon using my hatchet.

Does the rule mean that my skill can only get to 80 through campfire advancement (rolling doubles and resting process), and everything else stacks into it to be able to raise it above 80?

Any other elaboration would be welcomed.

1 more quick one. What is the "damage modifier" section on th character sheet for?

Finished automating my Choir of Flesh random tables. These are for a grimdark medieval post religious apocalypse world. Four 1d10 to 1d30 tables.

• Additional d10 Ruined Landmark table
• Additional d10 Natural Features table
• 20 Backgrounds for Choir of Flesh characters
• 30 entries on a Descriptive Rumors Table

https://nightmarethoughts6.blogspot.com/2026/07/choir-of-flesh-useful-tables-4.html

Hey everyone,

So I am just following up from my "recommend me" post. I decided to buy Choir of Flesh, and I love it. Mechanics a great, setting is awesome, and I love the overarching gameplay loop of pointcrawl into the incursion into settlement building. I did my first run the last couple of days, and I just need some tips/discussion on actually playing the game as I am new to solorpg. I don't think I can convey everything just through this text alone, so any questions/comments to further discussion would be appreciated. I will give a major example here to go off of, and just express what I did and what else I should be "doing".

Yusuf travelled to a new point and rolled natural feature fungal vale (1 turn). In my theatre of the mind (playing pretend), Yusuf was walking through this cool and creepy mushroom forest. There wasn't an encounter rolled, so he was a cautious in there. He attempted to forage for rations, but was unsuccessful at cutting any of the giant mushrooms (1 turn). Next, I just rolled a rumor and was unsuccessful, so he gained 1 (1 turn). He then decided to rest for the remainder of the day (1 turn).

So we see here procedurally and mechanically I did everything correct. What I am struggling with finding is WHAT to do with the scene that was set here. HOW do I engage with this area in my brain and maybe more in my brain. I trying reaaaaaally hard not to just journal and write things I see/creative write. This is the part I don't get of "playing" a solorpg. Would I use the oracle here and ask questions? Do I generate more things in the area? Without an encounter check, I feel like there is no encoutner then.

I'm good when the game mechanics keep procedurally generating things for me. I had a triple fight encounter ensue 2 points later. Random encoutner= amalgam easy. Killed it. I asked oracle is there was an NPC around, rolled d100s, and I decided it ended up running at the amalgam, joining it, and resurrecting it to fight again at average. Killed it. Rolled another oracle or something and ended up with 2 purifiers. They attacked because I had a gift. Killed them. That was cool. The encoutners strung onto each other.

I just need some questions/guidance on the overarching play of solorpg.

Thanks for any advice, and looking forward to discussion.

Don't know whether I'm just blind, but I can't find anything about the actual process of a Rift closing.

Yes, defeating a Riftlord closes a Rift, but what does that look like?

Does the party just get immediately ejected?

Does the world shudder and shake as the pocket dimension starts to violently contract, forcing the party to rush for the exit before they are crushed into nothingness?

Do the people inside the Rift just take a leisurely stroll back to its aperture?

Have you hacked ATDW? What are your house rules?

Im interested in the game but at the same time I know that is rules heavy. Im wondering if someone has streamline it a bit

Thanks!!

Finally able to get session 2 of Across a Thousand Dead Worlds written up! Of course looked like I was going to have more free time last month and found that I was again lacking in that department. Better late than never I suppose! You can find session 2 here:
https://soloramblingrpg.blogspot.com/2026/07/across-thousand-dead-worlds-session-2.html

You can find the previous posts for this campaign here:

https://soloramblingrpg.blogspot.com/p/across-thousand-dead-worlds-session-list.html

And if you would prefer to follow on substack instead of the blog you can find my substack posts here:

https://solorambling.substack.com/

Hope you enjoy!