What Comes Next?

Help me decide what to do!

Paid Subscriber Posts will either be personal blogs about whatever I feel like writing OR posts asking for YOU to give input into what I’ll be playing next. This is the latter.

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After the current case for Shadow of the Waxwing Slain, I plan on taking a break from that campaign. After three cases and 17+ chapters, I’d like to do something different.

That’s where you come in. I’ve had this idea for awhile and want to provide some incentive for being a Paid Subscriber, while also providing the main solo-gaming content for free, as usual. While personal blog-type posts are fun, like NA-NO-WHY?-MO, in the future, I’d also like to make those free for all to read and provide Paid Subscribers other incentives, such as input into the content of PWM itself.

Some of you may prefer the longer-type campaigns like SOTWWS, while others may enjoy the shorter one-shot type games like Long Haul 1983. I enjoy both and will continue doing both, but I’m interested to hear if there’s preferences. It’s probably more difficult to follow a longer in-depth series than a one or two-post one-shot, but you also can get more out of a long, over-arching series where you follow the same characters through many situations.

So here are my ideas, and I’ll post a poll at the end for y’all to choose.

1: Use a series of small-ish games to generate a Fantasy-ish type world. Bonus for this is I can use this created world in future games. I would use a variety of world-generating games/tools (Foundations, The Quiet Year, Ex Novo, im sorry did you say street magic, The Lonesome Cartographer, Alone on a Map, etc.). I’d begin with Foundations in which you build an entire world and history, and then move onto the other games where I would generate different regions, areas and/or cities in the world.

2: Use Mythic Emulator 2.0 (a very popular and well-known solo tool) to play DnD. Bonus would be attracting attention by using the MOST popular ttrpg of all time and it could sort of be like a “How-to” while going through 1 or 2 adventures, using a party. Also, I’m loving Baldur’s Gate 3 and that makes me want to give DnD 5e a try.

3: OSR - Old School Renaissance are minimalist games with simple rules and many, many different rulesets. They tend to have many oracle tables and are more about sandbox-exploring than storylines and plots. I own a fair few, Mork Borg (heavy metal apocalypse), Knave, Maze Rats, etc. Many have solo rules or are fairly easy to play solo. I’m definitely interested in trying and playing one of these fairly soon.

Three options. What do you think? The poll is after the paywall. The poll will stay up for the foreseeable future, as I don’t see moving on past SOTWWS for a few weeks.