Ideas for new Solo Scenarios...

[JLV]

Originally Posted by ColinK

JLV, have you read the series SPQR by John Maddox Roberts?

https://www.amazon.com/SPQR-Kings-Ga...AQG/ref=sr_1_5

There is a LOT of research material in this series for mystery and adventure in the last days of the Roman Republic.

Then there are the Brother Cadfael mystery novels by Ellis Peters.

https://www.amazon.com/Morbid-Taste-...VQO/ref=sr_1_1

Fun reading, too!

Sorry for the late response -- we were told to prep for evacuation here at about 11pm last night, and then the power promptly went out! The evac order was rescinded early this morning, and the power came on about half an hour ago, so I'm just catching up...

Alas, I was completely unaware of the SPQR series -- thanks a lot, now there's something ELSE for me to buy! ;-) (Seriously, I DO thank you a lot for bringing it to my attention!) I was aware of the Brother Cadwael series, and have read some reviews, but I have yet to pick any of them up (due mostly to the fact that I don't get down to a bookstore very often), but they are on my list of things to read.

I think something like this would work pretty well in a solitaire game. Heck, I KNOW they would -- Chaosium has done several "investigative" solos for Call of Cthulhu over the years (and so have a couple of other publishers, also for CoC), and they are all excellent. The only problem I can see is that for CoC, those books are quite large; while TFT is a simpler game, I'm guessing that to do an "investigative" solo would still take a bit more space than a dungeon-bash would.

Originally Posted by pyratejohn

These all sound fun. I've been spinning around a few ideas for Roman adventures in my head, as well as some buccaneer hijinks both at sea and ashore.

Mmm. Bucaneers! I'd love me some piratical goodness. Plus, maybe some good rules for ship-to-ship fights and boarding actions -- there was a set of rules for that in one of the Spacegamers, as I recall, but Steve may not have rights to that...not sure what issue it was in.