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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mentioned elsewhere Solo RPGs are like a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

There are some solo RPGs that are like that, but there are plenty that are not. Thousand Year Old Vampire doesn't resemble a CYOA book at all. The state of the art is decades beyond Blizzard Pass.

 

[MGibster]

I thought that Battlestar Galactica was a myth made up to frighten our children.

You're thinking of Galactica 1980.

 

[innerdude]

There are some solo RPGs that are like that, but there are plenty that are not. Thousand Year Old Vampire doesn't resemble a CYOA book at all. The state of the art is decades beyond Blizzard Pass.

Agreed.

I'm not saying you should make it a 10-hour a week hobby or anything, but I'll break out Ironsworn in solo mode for 2-3 hours once a quarter or so on a random Sunday afternoon.

And I'd bet anyone on this forum that a similar 2-3 hours of solo Ironsworn is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. If it doesn't, then honestly I don't know that there's any hope for your soul.

(Though it begs the question, what is the typical sale price of your average used soul these days?)

 

[overgeeked]

You're thinking of Galactica 1980.

The old BSG was better than the reboot BSG. Not only did it not take itself seriously, it had better writing in places. Especially the Pegasus plot. Which they utterly flubbed in the reboot. Any story that ends with “it was all a dream” or “these characters are really Adam and Eve” is bad.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

And I'd bet anyone on this forum that a similar 2-3 hours of solo Ironsworn is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. If it doesn't, then honestly I don't know that there's any hope for your soul.

This winter, I'm planning on digging into Starsworn Starforged. My players have historically had zero interest in sci-fi games, and that's fine. Time to go out into the black on my own.

 

[overgeeked]

This winter, I'm planning on digging into Starsworn. My players have historically had zero interest in sci-fi games, and that's fine. Time to go out into the black on my own.

Take me out to the black
tell ’em I ain’t comin’ back…

 

[Thomas Shey]

Im still very happy with my single 50 dollar investment in Foundry. Are there things I wish I had? Sure, but I usually figure out how to add myself, and if that fails, find a module somebody made.

I've said before that if I ever decide to move away from Maptool, Foundry will be it. Of course part of that is I am manifestly uninterested in being dependent on someone else's server.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Probably could do that by 1980. Most RPGs fade over time and only a handful of nerds remember or know about Superhero 2044, Star Probe and Star Empire, and so many others.

I was being conservative there and mostly just sticking to things that had some vague publication quality, but given that FGU alone had about 20 RPGs at one point, spread across at least 15 systems--yeah.

I mean, its easy to forget how many companies (not all of them obscure, at least at the time) have come and gone across the period between 1975 and 1990...

 

[Autumnal]

Very true!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

The old BSG was better than the reboot BSG. Not only did it not take itself seriously, it had better writing in places. Especially the Pegasus plot. Which they utterly flubbed in the reboot. Any story that ends with “it was all a dream” or “these characters are really Adam and Eve” is bad.

The newer BSG was very, very good - For the first couple of seasons. Then it lost its way a bit, and then, the ending was the worst ending to a TV show ever, IMO. So bad that I will never rewatch the show no matter how much I enjoyed the first part. It was just terrible.