The Solo RolePlayers Podcast

#31 [ACTUAL PLAY] - Kal Arath

Hello and Welcome Back to the Solo RolePlayers Podcast.
Today on the show I got a hot little game to the table, known to some as Kal-Arath. This affordable, old school, small foot-printed little gem is great for short (or long) sessions on the go or at home.
Hope you enjoy the actual play of Kal-Arath.
Check out the Castle Grief Substack for more info.
Reference sheet I used while playing by SilverNightingale
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get at least 1 (usually its 2) bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound

#30 [INTERVIEW] - Thomas Härenstam, CEO of Free League Publishing

Hello and Welcome Back to The Solo RolePlayers Podcast and today on the show I am proud to bring you one of the founders of arguably, the most solo friendly of the standard rpg publishers, Free League. 
Tomas and I caught up recently to talk about how Free League came about and why supporting solo play is important to them.
Enjoy!
-PJ
 
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters and at the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get at least 1 (usually its 2) bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
 
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound

#29 [FIRST LOOK] - Coriolis: The Great Dark

Hello and Welcome back to The Solo RolePlayers Podcast. Today on the show I am keen as mustard to bring out another new format for a spin. 
That first look, first touch, first flick of a new RPG is a magical experience. You (or at least I) skin things, stop at cool art, let out a 'wicked' under your breath for some fangled new dice mechanic, and let the beginnings of your first potential story in this game start to bubble up in your imagination. 
Not quite review, (definitely) not quite tutorial, my goal with this format is to give you a bit of a feel for what this game might be like to play and how I think about new systems and settings when i'm getting ready to play in them for the first time. 
Enjoy!
- PJ
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
 
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get at least 1 (usually its 2) bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
 
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound
 
 

#28 [VARIETY HOUR] - A New Season of SoloRolePlayers Begins

Hello and Welcome Back to The Solo RolePlayers Podcast. I am thrilled to bring to you today the official launch of Season 2 of The Solo RolePlayers podcast with a new experimental format where I talk through a few topics and thoughts on the games I got off my shelf over the last year. 
We talk Starforged, Forbidden Lands, WhiteHack, Shadowdark, Dragonbane Crown & Skull and more and find out how I feel about them a year and multiple sessions on.
Please reach out at let me know what you think of this new format!
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
 
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get at least 1 (usually its 2) bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
 
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say G’Day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers 
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound

#27 [ACTUAL PLAY] - Cartograph

Hello and Welcome Back to The SoloRolePlayers Podcast. Today on the show, in preparation for the official, one and only, never to be repeated first episode of season 2 of the show (nearly finished but not quite) I bring to you today an ancient recording found collecting dust, presumably in some moldering tomb or another, a play I did way back in the early years of the lovely little game Cartograph. 
This is not your heart-wrenching, stomach-churning, drama heavy playthrough, but rather a very cozy walk through this book.
Part play, part tutorial, part unboxing.....now that I edit it I realise it is foreshadowing of things to come..... all map drawing, so with that mysterious inkling out of the way, in anticipation for the new season, sit back, relax and enjoy an early years episode from that guy who plays games solo for some reason...PJ

#26 [INTERVIEW] - Andreas Lundström from Sweden Rolls

Welcome back to The Solo RolePlayers Podcast, today I am thrilled to bring you the host and GM of my most listened to rpg podcast; from Sweden Rolls its Andreas Lundström.
On this episode of the show we talk all about Swedish rpg's including Dragonbane, Forbidden Lands and Coriolis and, of course, Andreas' story getting into rpg's and co-founding the wonderful Sweden Rolls podcast.
 
Check out Nordic Skald's current Kickstarter Windheim Falling
Andreas' Viking Metal band Suttung
and the podcast itself Sweden Rolls
 
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SHOWNOTES:
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
 
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get 2 bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
 
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound
 

Happy Birthday SoloRolePlayers!

Hello and Welcome to the very first annual SoloRolePlayers Birthday Celebration!
Join me as I riff and reminisce on a whole year behind the play and the pod.
Regular scheduled programming will be back for season 2 of the show very soon.
-PJ
 
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
 
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get 2 bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
 
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound

[UPDATE] - A Quick Check-in

A quick check in as to why there is no episode today.

#25 [INTERVIEW] - Cezar Capacle

Hello and Welcome Back to The Solo RolePlayers Podcast. Today on the show I am thrilled to bring you an interview I had with the quirkiest game designer I have ever met......the games are quirky I mean and in the moist wonderfully creative and interesting ways.
Join me and Cezar Capacle as he dives right in to his fascinating style of game design as well as going into detail on his two new big projects.
Enjoy!
-PJ
Quirky Games
Weird, Whimsey & Wonder on Backerkit
 
 
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get 2 bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound

#24 [ACTUAL PLAY] - Pirate Borg with special guest Tana Pigeon

Hello Dear SoloRolePlayers, 
Today on the show I got back on the mic with the inimitable Tana Pigeon to continue our play of Pirate Borg that we started in the 'Playing Published Adventures' episode a while back. 
In other news: Our Birthday is coming up in a little over a month, hooray! And I would love to hear from listeners and lovers of SoloRolePlay, either just saying happy birthday, reminiscing on a memorable moment from the show or from your own solo adventures this year. 
If you would like to leave us a message for the Birthday Show then you can head over to https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers and drop us a line. 
Enjoy, 
- PJ
 
You can get in touch with me on:
soloroleplayerspodcast@gmail.com, PJSack on Reddit/Bluesky or better yet join the SoloRolePlayers Patreon where a free membership will get you access to the community chat and my public newsletters
 
At the SoloRolePlayers Tier you get 2 bonus episodes a month where I continue playing through the games introduced on the show, a regular bookclub/gameclub meet-up, access to the discord, and connect with celebrity guests.
 
You can leave me a voice mail with questions, ideas, experiences or just to say g’day at https://www.speakpipe.com/SoloRolePlayers
 
Links & Recs
If you like this show you might like to check out the podcast that started it all, my Fallout Narrative Solo-RPG Audio Drama A Wasteland Story
 
Creators that helped me discover this weird and wonderful hobby:
Man Alone
Boardgames with Thomas - Fallout Series
Geek Gamers
The Dungeon Dive
Lords of the Dungeon (The Secret Cabal)
Girls Who Don’t DnD
Me Myself & Die
 
Reading Materials that helped me figure out what the hell I am doing:
Mythic GM Emulator 2E
Solo Game Masters Guide - geekgamer
 
Music and Sound Effects in this series are credited to:
Epidemic Sound