Hi, I just played through beneath a broken sword solo. It was very fun but I have a couple of questions. 

1. Ability score damage: I haven't seen any way to take ability score damage except to strength after your resilience reaches zero. How would you recommend implementing this? I noticed some skills have both an ability and fatigue in the brackets after them - I interpreted this as, to use this skill you have to make an ability save and you also take a fatigue. Is this correct or do you take ability damage instead of making a save? 

2. Death: Does dropping to zero resilience kill you, or is it only failing the death saves when you take damage to strength that does? I assumed it was the former but then you die if you fill your inventory, which makes less sense. 

3. Are there any resources you recommend as inspiration for developing solo adventures? Or just general Norse folklore references.

I think I had more questions but those are the only ones I remember for now. Thanks for making a great game!

Hello and thanks for the kind words!

1. Ability score damage is there for wardens to implement and for future books. There are some monsters in the Bestiary that do ability damage, for instance. Your first thought was right about ability and fatigue. You need to make the save and you take a point of fatigue.

2. Think of Resilience as your ability to stay in the fight. That’s depleted first, then you take Strength damage when Res is 0. Having a full inventory reduces your Resilience to 0, it doesn’t kill you outright. Essentially, you’re overburdened by fatigue and have no more fight in you, therefore you’re easier to kill.

3. Perplexing Ruins and Chaoclypse on YouTube are both great resources for solo play, as is Stoneaxe Tabletop Gaming. The various Vaesen RPG books are great for creepy Scandinavian folklore and mythology. The Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolf Simek is also a great reference book.

Hope this helps!