Notorious: Rendezvous on Storix

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Facula Albedo
Human Scoundrel
Favour: 1/6
Notoriety: 0/6
Motivation: 3/6

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Boy, I did not expect this adventure to take four months.

I blame waves hand at the state of the world

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My posting issues aside, I think Notorious is clearly the best solo RPG I've played so far. Although it doesn't have quite the emotional punch of Thousand Year Old Vampire -- Notorious didn't make me brood on personal regrets, aging and my parents' mortality -- as an adventure generator, it's fantastic.

I definitely intend to pick up the sequel, Outsiders, in the next year and see what "trilogy mode" is, and do it.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

It is obviously allowing for a "campaign mode" using the same character, but also giving prompts for connected, but not linked, next play. Nice.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It is obviously allowing for a "campaign mode" using the same character, but also giving prompts for connected, but not linked, next play. Nice.

Yeah, this game is so smart, it's amazing to me that everyone isn't talking about it. Wholehearted buy recommendation from me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Like a lot of people, I suspect, I'm tightening my belt economically for the foreseeable future, so my next solo game will be something I already own.

I'll be choosing between the following, I think:

• A solo game of Castaway (a Mork Borg-derived take on Robinson Crusoe, assuming Crusoe washed up on an island like the one in Lost)
• One of the two solo 5E adventures I purchased from Obvious Mimic
• The first Lone Wolf book
• The first Fabled Lands book

Leaning strongly towards one of the first two at this time.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

While I'd like to read a playthrough of LW (the endeavour would be huge, though... if you intend to finish the series!), I would interested in the solo 5e.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

While I'd like to read a playthrough of LW (the endeavour would be huge, though... if you intend to finish the series!), I would interested in the solo 5e.

I've never played Lone Wolf and only own the (gorgeous) recent hardcover release of the first book. I have no idea if it'll click with me or if I'll bounce off hard. Ditto the Fabled Lands book.

The Obvious Mimic adventures I have are the Wolves of Langston -- a werewolf mystery, judging by the title -- and the Crystals of Z'leth, which appears to be a Conan-style crawl through jungle ruins.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

It will be interesting if you get the time to read LW for the first time. I think most people who read gamebooks now have read them back when young, so there is a very specific appeal (nostalgia? but not really sad, just the remininscence of being familiar with the series). Though it is a very good one, reading it with a new eye will be enlightening.

Yeah, this game is so smart, it's amazing to me that everyone isn't talking about it. Wholehearted buy recommendation from me.

I think these games cater to a niche among a niche market.