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[Mannahnin]

IMO, solo gaming is play pretend with extra steps.

So is group gaming.

You can still apply rules to give structure either way. Solitaire, for example, is a game you can lose.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

...counterpoint- I can conjure an endless amount of verbiage to explain, in excruciating and varied detail, the ways in which I do not like Bards, and the means that I will use to destroy them.

…and Bards can arrange that verbiage into haiku form, set it to music, then do interpretive dance about it.

…while stealin’ your girl.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

....loudly, and with lots of screeching and yowling?

That almost reads like stage direction.

Exits, pursued by Bards.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

My favorite is they had southern accents: "Come get your stabbins, yall!"

No joke, when I was a teenager, I was an usher at my city’s local theater group’s performance of “Taming of the Shrew” as a western, complete with thick drawls. It was brilliant!

Petrucio to Katherina, “Whut, with mah tung in yer tayul?”

 

[dragoner]

No joke, when I was a teenager, I was an usher at my city’s local theater group’s performance of “Taming of the Shrew” as a western, complete with thick drawls. It was brilliant!

Petrucio to Katherina, “Whut, with mah tung in yer tayul?”

True, their accents are from that era of settlement, esp coastal Carolinas. Modern British owes more to the mid-19th century migration from the rural migration to urban, industrial era living.

 

[overgeeked]

IMO, solo gaming is play pretend with extra steps.

All RPGs are play pretend with extra steps.

 

[Thomas Shey]

IMO, solo gaming is play pretend with extra steps.

Only a criticism if you don't find fun in the extra steps.

 

[The Soloist]

IMO, solo gaming is play pretend with extra steps.

There are many flavours of solo playing. It can be that if you want, it's called solo journaling RPG with very little rules. All solo styles are valid.

My solo style is very structured and emulates the GM* using tables and procedures. I don't suck puppet characters or make voices. Instead, I make intelligence, wisdom or charisma challenge tests and apply the outcome to the emerging story. I also use personality Keywords to determine how the characters might react. I've often used adventures generated during solo play for my group.

*Mythic GM Emulator 2e.

 

[Cadence]

So is group gaming.

You can still apply rules to give structure either way. Solitaire, for example, is a game you can lose.

Our favorite family card game is actually multiple person solitaire...

Double Klondike - Wikipedia

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[prabe]

Man, you keep saying that as though you're the only expert on that, and not only am I convinced you're not the only expert on that here, I do not believe you are an expert on that.