It went pretty well! I just selected the Soldier template in the Player’s Guide. My opening scene was the Fire-Kin scene in the GM section (and that led to other shenanigans afterwards). Some observations based on my limited experience:
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Only having 1 phase as a solo player is tough. I stayed away from a party of PCs to start with. I think with only one character, there aren’t as many strategic options with choosing a phase. It seemed to me like you’d always want to go in phase 1, as there was no point to let enemies beat on ya first.
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Not having default skills is a bit rough for solo. For example, the Soldier template doesn’t have First Aid, so I had no way to heal flesh attrition, except by rest (or finding a temple or some other narrative way to heal).
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Action scenes did move pretty quickly and there was very little overhead for managing my PC and any baddies.
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It seems like there’s quite a bit of variability in combat (at least at low levels). For fun I fought the same battle twice and ended up with drastically different results, i.e. the first battle I won handedly, the second I got destroyed.
Overall, I had fun and will solo it again. One thing to note is that I didn’t get to engage with the mapless dungeon, hex rolls, or random encounters, which I think will be awesome for solo play. My short adventure was mainly confined to the city in which the Fire-Kin started burning down houses.
Hope that helps, and let me know if you decide to run it solo as well and any observations you might have. 