The Improbable Task
An Introduction and Invitation
While I am a bad one for starting a task on my blog and never quite seeing it to the end, I do put my all into everything I post here. Most of what I post are things or ideas that have actually been very useful for me and it is my dearest hope that they will be of use to some of my fellow solo gamers.
This project will be no different, saving in this it will not just be Wizard Dad's bright idea of the moment, but (hopefully) a catalog of games and styles in which everyone who follows it will get use some out of whether you are in line with my view or not.
The goal is to offer as many solo play styles, starting with those most popular, moving into obscurity, and jumping on major variations. Where and when I cannot do justice to the concept, I will provide links to products, blog posts, videos, etc. that will demonstrate the concept with more clarity, joy, and keenness than my humble skills can provide; because at the end of the day there is no wrong way to have fun while solo gaming.
(First Edit: This project is focused on GM-less one player solo gaming. I know there are many definitions of a solo game, so I think dropping that caveat at the beginning will prevent confusion later on. Ok, back to the show)
I would love for this to be a joint effort between me and the solo gaming community, so whether here in the comments, or on any shared social media in which you know where find me, please feel more than free, but enthusiastically invited, to tell me of a style or style variation that has yet to be covered, or that you feel was covered incompletely. On the later note(because I have no interest in coving the same concept perpetually in infinite minor variations), if you can demonstrate to me that some subsection of a game has a merit I failed to capture I will either go back and edit (with credit to my source), or write a linked article about the style or variation.
(Second edit: I am not looking just for the ideas of professional game designers, but also novel approaches by actual gamers. I will be adding a few my own and have no problem adding yours as long as they fit the criteria of offering another method of solo gaming that either hasn't been covered or isn't on the "soon to be covered" list.)
I call this the improbable task because, to be honest, it is well beyond my scope of time or skill to do completely, but I am willing to start at the bottom of the mountain and see how high I can climb. With that said, if you have a blog or a vlog or just feel like leaving a lengthy comment, you can join in the improbably task and collectively we can accomplish more.
Well, I do believe that introduces the project to the best of my ability. Topic 1 will be linked below as soon as it is written, and it will be about the Oracle and Prompts style of soloing (which I am sure will be of no shock to anyone that reads this blog) and then when that ground is covered fairly well I will move on to Journal style solo games. From there I will be striking out into new territory, and I will need assistance to make the map.
If you have read this far, thank you for your time.
W.D.
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