Good Monday Gamers ☕️
My son turned 16 over the weekend. His birthday is in a rough spot for having parties with friends. Most families have holiday weekend plans, making it challenging. So we take the party on the road. He LOVES sushi, so we find a fancy or new spot we haven’t been to and inevitably drag many staff and customers into our celebrations. This weekend was outrageous! We went to a Japanese steakhouse, and the kid made nearly $200 from strangers giving him birthday money 🤷🏾♂️ The entire restaurant sang happy birthday to him twice! Two other vets joined our section and picked up the bill —of which we had already included the two poor girls who were seated with us. Never seen anything like it!
Another week of no actual RPG play. I did take a gander through a lot of new solo RPG engines, games, and assorted paraphernalia. I have Thousand Year Old Vampire, and I enjoyed how it works and what it does; I didn’t expect to. I’m not into journal games, not enough game there for me. YMMV. For cranky old me, solo games lack much of the magic I want from tabletop roleplaying games. The different solo oracle role-playing engines feel very generic and very flat to me. However, I do enjoy Five Parsecs from Home, a solo skirmish RPG game; solo modes for Descent and Dark Tower board games are fun. I suspect the solo rules for a specific game might be fun because the specific game mechanics are baked into the solo procedures…I’m guessing here. I remember playing Advanced Dungeons and Dragons solo. It had a massive random dungeon generator and, IIRC, guidelines for playing solo?! Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I remember it being engaging. I certainly remember making a lot of new characters!
What solo games are working for you?
Catch ya next week!