Oct 9, 2019
Episode 561
This week's hosts: Special Guest Conrad Kinch, Shane and Savage
This week the party gets together to discuss what we do when we are all alone. Solo gaming has long been the refuge of the game lover who finds themselves with a desire to play but no worthy opponents or collaborators to hand. What is this ludological cast-away to do? Listen in to hear our thoughts and suggestions for the solitary gamer.
Show Notes:
00:55 - See our last episode #560 - Rangers of Shadow Deep
Review.
04:00 - Shane goes full Descartes on us a little early.
04:30 - Fighting Fantasy/Choose Your Own Adventure
05:20 - Robot Commando
08:00 - Red Coats and Minutemen by Simon
Farrell & Jon Sutherland
09:00 - Sorcery! by Inkle
10:20 - Assassins of Alansia by Ian
Livingstone
12:20 - Moving on from Fighting Fantasy...
12:45 - Mage Knight by Vlaada
Chvátil
13:30 - Ambush!
13:45 - B-17: Queen of the Skies
14:50 - Yes, I said 'meta layer' and now we all have to live with
that.
15:05 - Game book layout. When is a book designed to be read or
played?
17:50 - Core books, adventure books and everything else.
18:00 - Somehow we got back to the backlog.
20:35 - And now we tell the tale of the Fall of TSR
21:15 - Feast of the Goblins
22:55 - White Plume Mountain
24:00 - We finally skid back onto the track.
25:25 - The joys of an extended universe.
27:10 - Stars Without Number review
28:15 - Solo vs Passive
30:45 - Lone Warrior Fanzine
31:20 - Blackstone Fortress
boardgame
32:00 - The Men Who Would Be King - Osprey
32:50 - The Portable Wargame
35:20 - Alone Against the Dark -
Chaosium
35:55 - Wargaming Machines
37:40 - Clearly we are talking about reading under poor light.
Conrad Kinch on the web
joyandforgetfulness blog
http://asimpleplanpress.com/
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