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Sean Tomkin, who wrote Ironsworn and Starforged, collaborated on solo modes for Th One Ring and its Moria supplement. Free Leagues has included them for several of its lines. This makes me happy; I like to read about folks dabbling with solo play while continuing to enjoy their groups. It’s very...

Well, come on. How can anyone not be annoyed with the discussion of post-9/11 policy priorities with regard to…oh, this isn’t about the 5th edition of Roderick Nash’s (excellent, seminal) Wilderness And The American Mind? That may explain some of my infractions over the years.

This is among the reasons I’m enjoying solo play. You can sometimes get a group in sync for such things, but it’s unreliable, to put it mildly. https://zotiquest.substack.com/p/notes-on-making-loner-cozy-fantasy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2ac773&triedRedirect=true This happens to...

A lot of solo play happiness seems to be finding oracles that mesh well with your particular imagination.

You can get Ironsworn for free at Drive Thru and Ironsworn.com. Besides the price, it has some advantages: it’s gorgeous. It’s extremely well-written. And it’s stuffed with examples - it’s 400 digest-sized pages, maybe 20 of rules and the rest examples and generators, random tables for every...

Beowulf does it well.

I’m going to! I had several years of less and less gaming thanks to family demands and declining physical and mental health. Then several years of no gaming at all during after drastic physical collapse. I still can’t play with others, but have found may way to good times with solo play. There...

Unwatch is my friend, but it can only help me when I actually give it a call. It won’t intrude uninvited, which is nice, but does put a certain burden on me.

Obvious answer is to plan on running each for five-session arcs, then reconstituting the characters in the next system and continuing. beams helpfully

Watchmen.

Thanks, @TheSword !

I agree - people shouldn’t be hasty to declare something intolerable. But having made that declaration, then they should move away from it. If they want to keep talking about it, then there should be some possibility they decide it’s okay. Topic and action should line up, one way or the other...

“In the end”? Nothing ever ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

I have a pair of related reactions. 1. It’s fine to have bright red lines that tell you can expect not to have a good time if you go further. But then you should STOP, disengage, and go out your attention onto something else. Continuing may be necessary for, say, work, or academic analysis, or...

Color me curious how far you’ve tweaked the mechanics to suit the world, and/or the world to suit the mechanics. (I say this after having spent a toor-early morning thinking about the Realms with psionics rather than magic.)

World of Warcraft and City of Heroes both did for a while. Great times, but eventually two things led me away: 1. Ever-increasing complexity at the top end (which is where the new stuff is), past first my level of comfort and then my level of competence. I simply cannot play as well as the...