1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 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 &amp;amp; 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/ ******** Do you have any recommendations for solo play games? Send us an email to party@theadventuringparty.net You can leave comments below or on twitter through @adventuringpty The hosts can be contacted by email at party@theadventuringparty.net The Adventuring Party is released under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike version 3 licence.&amp;nbsp; The Adventuring Party http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/11569301/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/11569301