Tha is for having me on your channel, Daniel! It was so fun and I hope we can do this again sometime.

Two of my favorite Internet people together, this is awesome.

NO WAY! THE DREAM TEAM!

Two of my favorite solo RPGers.

Daniel, you're crushing it with these team-ups.

This is like the All-Star Game for Solo RPGs!

This was an absolute dream come true.:) Would be even better if you two collaborate on some sort of gameplay in the future. That would be a total blast and will break the internet lol

I’m 2 minutes in and I’m already smiling. A perfect Friday thank you. ❤️ you both and hope the double magic is a ongoing thing…

I recently found your channel and was excited to see this interview, great conversation! You should try to get Trevor on from Me, Myself, and Die. He elegantly uses the Mythic fate chart and chaos factor quite often. He mainly uses them as tools with other systems.

"Everything is playing." Wow, that really resonated with me. Just a few weeks ago I was talking to a friend and telling him that I think I might be more interested in game mechanics and game design than actually playing games. Like both of you, I've spent more time reading the rules of games and imagining the gameplay in my head rather than actually playing them. Makes me feel a little bit better about the amount of money I spend on games I've read the rules to that I haven't actually played. 😅Great video.

i love watching y’all’s hands talk to each other 😊

The minute I saw those card games on GG's channel I thought, " that's got Daniel written all over it!"

Just finished watching the video now and what a great conversation between you two. Geek Gamers and Dungeon Dive are ones of my favorite KZfaq channels. The knowledge from you two are incredible. When you said that you use White Box for a fantasy bestiary for Scarlet Horoes I am using the same mixing with Swords and Wizardry and Basic Fantasy. Great conversation Daniel.

Loooong ago as a child I created a small fantasy adventure game with HyperCard. It employed point and click navigation, and a few simple key->lock mechanics. I shared it on compuserve and or genie (pre-internets) using my dads account. A few folks were kind enough to download it, try it out, and say nice things.

Daniel AND Geek Gamer together? Yes!!!!

My two favorite solo rpg people in one video! Thanks.

I"m so happy you brought her on!

Really, really great chat. Great work Daniel in giving a platform for some of the KZfaq folks to impart their wisdom. Really enjoyed this and the Stoneaxe chat. Enjoyed your thoughts on perma-death. I've been thinking about this a bit, especially since I'm thinking of getting back into the Fabled Lands game books and one thing that makes me a little hesitant is that a lot of effort can be 'wasted' if a few unlucky dice rolls happen in a fight. I've just become aware of the Destiny Quest books, which I believe allows you to continue on if your character 'dies' in some way. Anyway, thanks for another great video!

Heroes of the scene! I'm very excited for this one.

Best interview ever! You covered so much, I feel like this is an introduction to a lecture series. Where you go in depth into each topic later.

I know what Hypercard is as I was a Mac Plus guy myself. I made games and multimedia Hypercard games and submitted one as a College Class project. Good Memories. Hypercard was visual programming I could grasp.

What a fantastic video! Love seeing the two of you engaging in conversation. Two of my favorite folks on KZfaq. I find it amazing that so many of us have had such similar paths to where we are now. My first experience with an "RPG" was indeed A Bard's Tale on my neighbors Tandy 1000. lol... My first experience with an actual TTRPG was the original Basic D&D and then AD&D 1E. As I designer I am always pulled to both places for inspiration. So many early CRPGs molded who I am as a designer like Ultima, The Gold Box series, and my personal favorite Hero's Quest (Later changed to Quest for Glory). I really do agree that the wall between traditional TTRPGs and Board Games has faded. Games like Four Against Darkness and D100 Dungeon are good examples of this. I also used to play text adventure games like Zork and even used to make them on my old Texas Instrument calculator! These are exciting times for sure! Also, I bought a copy of Solo Game Master's Guide. Hoping to learn a lot that I can boil into my solo games.

My two favorite KZfaqrs in one video / discussion? Holy heck this is awesome. Thank you both!!!

two of my favorite KZfaq content creators! Thank you both for the conversation/video!

I’m glad you mentioned that Ironsworn is heavy. I just couldn’t click with it though I am tempted to check out Starforged. I disagree with your interpretation of Mythic GME. As a system it is actually very light with modules offered that you can use or not. At its heart it is just an oracle, a character list and a thread list. For me that is very simple compared to many systems. Great conversation! Thanks Daniel 👍🏻

OK, so character death. It's not about a game having a so-called badge of honor that a character dies easily or quickly. It has more to do with character death as the ultimate risk in the game. When it comes to those OSR games, the fact that it is deadly for a character to go into a fight after fight pushes the player to respond in a different, more creative way or just run like heck. The more "save" mechanics there are, the easier it is to heal a character in a game the less interest many of us have in it. If I wanted that, I'll play a video game and save before every significant encounter. On the point of stopping a character's story: that's it, their story ended. An author writes the story so the character can survive unless the author kills that character. In a game, you risk the untimely death of a character due to bad luck (the dice) and poor decisions (the player chose danger over safety). "All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you." ERNEST HEMINGWAY

The 2 solo rpg pairs of hands get together, but I'm so upset you guys didn't frame a digital high five!

As for the character death dilemma--Anakin staying alive in a machine suit is way cooler than Obi-Wan choosing to join the Force! Terrific interview with profound questions which all storytellers and RPGers should be considering for a deeper experience. Thank you both!

Whoa worlds colliding 🤯

YES!!!

Great video, thanks! 👍👏😁

I'll have to watch the rest later. Very happy hearing you chat to each like this. Night.

LOL, I too programed simple text adventures in basic and played with HyperCard. Now my solo TTRPG sessions are inspired by point-n-click adventure games.

Awesome!

Wow. Two legends together!!!

Sword and Sorcery in 1978 (and the War of the Ring and then Freedom in the Galaxy) from SPI were early designs that melded War Games and RPGs.

great interview thanks both.

Great fun!

Finally got to watch this fully. 🙂 A really thoughtful discussion. I'm going to have to watch this a few times more as I have a lot to think about because you covered so many great topics.

D & D Good times, thank you Both!

I agree with you on Ironsworn. I have a decent amount of experience playing DnD and it seemed like almost everything I read was pushing Ironsworn. I read through it and it was just too much to try and start off with. I ended up starting with Ronin and I feel like it’s a great way to ease into solo roleplaying.

I don't play RPGs myself, but I found this conversation to be entertaining and fascinating. I love story-driven adventure games, and I enjoy learning about the history and roots of that genre in tabletop RPGs, but I've stayed away from RPGs mostly because I have no desire to create or modify the rules of a game and prefer to play in a sandbox that someone else has made. But I come from video game RPGs (Skyrim, Mass Effect, Witcher 3, Fallout), which seem to be very different in terms of the way they approach story-telling; perhaps that shaped my tastes as well as what I expect out of a narrative tabletop game. Anyway, since I don't have a history with them, I'd love to hear a conversation on the line between story-driven board games and RPGs: what strategies do they use to tell stories? in what ways do modern narrative adventure board games both rely on and deviate from RPG storytelling?

Awesome! 😎

Great video! Thanks for bringing this together! Quick question besides White Box Beastiary, which other alternative would work better with ScarlettHeroes?

Another great interview Daniel. Love GG Channel . Synergy indeed! 😀

Yeeeeessssssss. So excited for this

You can play Liminal Horror solo and using the Cairn solo rules as a guide.

Ok my brain exploded

I'm a fan of both of y'all. And I'm a huge huge fan of D100 Dungeon! I would love to see lots more D100 Dungeon playthroughs. Scarlet Heroes goes real well with D100 Dungeon. I even added homebrew rules to my D100 Dungeon game. I enjoyed 4 Against Darkness also. Ironsworn I got in full too complicated and story driven for me.

Genius video idea. Love it!

I heavily disagree that Ironsworn is not a good place for people new to solo RPGs to start with. Aside from Four Against Darkness and D100 Dungeon, Ironsworn was my first solo RPG, and after reading the entire rulebook, I had zero trouble playing a session or understanding any of the concepts. It's one of the few games that I haven't needed to watch a KZfaq video to learn how to play after reading the book. My TTRPG experience in general is pretty slim. While I agree the book is a little long, lots of the pages have pictures, so it's not all text. The book is well laid out with plenty of examples of how playing the game works. Before playing Ironsworn I looked at playing Mork Borg solo but I found the rulebook intimidating due to the layout. Starting with Ironsworn has made me more confident in playing other RPGs solo, and I found it to be the perfect place to start.

What an excellent discussion - hearing about the piles of books vs what you've both actually played and the preference for cards has me feeling seen!

Yeah that team make soooo much sense hehehe

_Nice._

Yo guys are awesome.

Omg, this is almost too much -- two sets of talking hands?

Oh look....hands talking.....😆☺