It's instant gratification, your always in good company and at the end of the day fun is had.
I know a lot of people like the fellowship you get with wargaming with other gamers, and I agree. For me it's a time thing, my timing doesn't coincide with other people's schedule. And I also find that the older I get the less I need to interact with my fellow human beings. I get to interact with people at my job and quite frankly more human interaction is the last thing in the world that I need. I consider my free time as a decompression chamber from people.
Now I'm not a complete hermit, I have a family and I love going out and doing things with them. But I definitely enjoy time alone gaming or reading or watching a movie.
Jay over at Solo Wargaming posted this funny but true article on the subject. Enjoy!
This is slowly starting to take shape:
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And I will be devoting a section to Solo play in each issue of Classic Realms of Adventure zine:
http://www.classicrealmsofadventure.com/
I think there is a lot of potential in Solo play and have started dragging all of my stuff out (trying to get around to playing a little Barbarian Prince and try out Chronicles of Arax).
Now if I can just get my finger to click buy out at Amazon on Elder Sign :)
Barbarian Prince was a great game. I'm glad it's a free download now. Thanks for the links, I'll check those out!
ReplyDeleteI still have my original copy but I d/l'd it and all the extras which I HIGHLY rec for the errata.
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