First look: Coriolis: The Great Dark (Quickstart Guide) by

[@amanisalone]

Apologies the video just ends I don't know what happened to the last ten seconds of this video hahaha

[@GrasenGM]

Perhaps they got trapped in the Lost Horizon?

[@amanisalone]

@@GrasenGM oh man I didn’t even think of that…this book is going to be incredible!!!

[@ike_d5402]

Holy cow, no wonder I like you. The Long Dark is one of my favorites. I think it's a work of art. It's one of the few games that makes me feel uncomfortably lonely. We found each other. We. Found. Each. Other. ❤

[@AmazingAaxor]

Pertaining to your question about Vaesen: I love it. Though you are right to feel like this system favors the “one-shot” style- due to the inherent episodic nature of mystery solving, I can put my 1 ¢ in for solo play. It is great. First off- the Solo Thursdays Child supplement does make for a great way to experience a mystery within the setting without spoiling yourself as a solo player. I’ve played it both on and off my channel and can say I love the system.

[@wingusryu8289]

It feels like Forbidden Lands in space with some additional and updated rules. Once I looked at the quick start I bought in

[@ChrisChapmanIAm]

Re: Vaesen - did same as you; want to play it for the cool monster hunter vibe, and from the get-go you get an HQ/stronghold that you continually uncover secrets about. Also really intrigued by the nordic setting. Re: Coriolis - I'm a huge Free League fan, have a lot of their other titles, but Coriolis I've always been circling, really unsure about it. Not sure why, but your review of the Quickstart has me intrigued enough to give it a second look. Edit: And you can't go wrong with Martin Grip's artwork - I was hooked on his style with Symbaroum.

[@amanisalone]

Read the core book last night and had no idea about the castle improvements this is an AWESOME system totally hidden. Thanks for this comment

[@ike_d5402]

I've come to love the free league boxes. The "push your roll" is also in Twilight 2000 and Walking Dead.

[@PowerWordThrill]

Their games and system are so good, i stopped designing for Savage Worlds and am getting ready to launch a yze game. It just speaks to a better way to play. Great vids!

[@amanisalone]

Whoa…when you have a mockup if you want me to give it a spin let me know!

[@PowerWordThrill]

@@amanisalone Absolutely will do. I can hit you up on twitter and/or my channel has contact info there. Thanks again and keep being true to yourself!

[@amanisalone]

@@PowerWordThrill awesome!!

[@windmark8040]

Wow! Looking forward to seeing what you cook up, because you had a solid handle on SW! Always a pleasure gaming with you!

[@PowerWordThrill]

@@windmark8040 Hey hey!!! Thanks a bunch. I’ll be doing some play tests, if you’re interested…

[@kurtosis3555]

There’s a 3pp solo rule set (Zenith) on drivethrurpg. Haven’t used but now I’m getting very interested in seeing you try it solo :)

[@Doubledb519]

I was in the same boat with you regarding Alien, but my group has been playing a year long as Sci-Fi setting and it fit in well and we haven’t had the Xenomorph in the game. Yet. Muhaahaaa

[@amanisalone]

Wow this has blown my mind. So you’re able to populate the universe without getting into xenomorphs? Don’t get me wrong I LOVE alien and anything HR Geiger adjacent, but it does make me think there’s so much more to the world than just facehuggers. Wish I could be a fly on the wall for a session

[@Doubledb519]

Let’s see if I can cover this in less than 12 pages. I think the key is to have built a story outside of the Alien Universe. So ours is a hodgepodge of my own ideas, Warhammer 40k and Alien. On Earth there’s the Church for Genetic Advancement (CGA) and they’re a bunch of radicals that see that God has gotten us so far, but it’s now humanity that needs to take the next step in evolution and they’ve been involved in genetic research for the past 200 years. We had a lot of “Truths” created through game play in Mothership, Genesys, 3:16 & Stars without Number. When we began to play Alien, it was about discovery on a sentient planet that was controlling the minds of the creatures on the planet and when humans arrived the planet attempted to find a way to control them. So lots of play with NPCs turning on the party and every living thing on the planet was a potential enemy. This played out really well using the Alien RPG and now my players have encountered a toxin that has begun to alter the DNA of an NPC. I could either take this in the direction of more body horror and human enemies or have this be the first Neomorph. Given we’re playing in Alien I’ll likely make it a Neomorph. I think another idea is to not follow the movie timeline where the Aliens are nearly extinct from Alien 3 to Alien Resurrection, but take the Dark Horse Comic where humanity is actively testing and studying the Xenomorphs giving you the scientists as enemies as well as the potential outbreak of a hive. Or, your crew is trying to run Alien Eggs to researchers and the threat isn’t the eggs, but others who want to stop you from getting them there.

[@anthonybernardo2214]

So i have the One Ring and pdfs of other YZE games from a bundle of holding,but have yet to play them. Does the need for a 6, even with all the dice, mean constant failure on the players part? Do toy find there is a lot of failure in the game? For the record, im not against player failure. Just wondering how it stacks to maybe other systems

[@whangbar]

I like Vaesen, too. I have the game and a few of the extas. But I also haven't played it. So maybe I can't truthfully say I like it. Maybe I like the idea of it. I have to saturate myself in the setting before I can feel like I know it well enough to enter it imaginatively. I'm excited, though, because I'm a great fan of the video game *Black Book* and Vaesen has a supplement for "Mythic Ukraine," which intrigues me. Still, there's something preventing me from starting down that road. Hmm.

[@CavernadoLekkis]

I like the idea of a space game focusing on exploration. The rules are very similar to Electric State (such as hope, no skills). It seems very interesting. As the other Free League systems, it might have solo rules. I can picture a solo session using this system + Starfored and Stars Without Numbers tables. 😅

[@amanisalone]

That’s a good point, if they’re continuing with the DB model I wouldn’t be surprised if they slapped in a 10-page insert

[@CavernadoLekkis]

@amanisalone Twilight 2k and The Walking Dead RPG have built-in solo rules. Vaesen and ForbiddenLands, they have published solo rules in separated modules. The exploration/sandbox framework that they add to their systems is a great tool for the solo players.

[@onealflynn2414]

If you want to try something like Alien there is Hostile Solo. It uses the Cepheus engine and you just need two d6 to play

[@amanisalone]

Whoa how have I never heard of this. Googling now…

[@ike_d5402]

Goddamnit. That was the unheard of solo game I was going to recommend in response to your post asking for such.

[@solitaryrpg]

Thanks for making the review of the rules. I was turned off by the KS since they are making the solo rules such a high level to unlock. I watched an interview with the authors and they did not know how they were even going to write the solo rules. It just turned me off and I love their products but I will wait and see on this one.

[@Doubledb519]

I don’t use their solo rules. I’ll sometimes use their tables but the core rules for solo are for the most part weak. I use a combo of Mythic and Radiance Adventure Engine for all my solo games so whatever FL puts out is added as needed/wanted.

[@cjackdc]

where do i get one of those stat trackers

[@amanisalone]

First of all it's for elite gamers only...second of all you have to find a bargain bin at a local game store and then when you pull out the tracker and say "how much for this?" You have to wait for them to answer because no one has purchased one in nine years.

[@cjackdc]

so you're telling me you *don't* have a promo code@@amanisalone

[@SaintSolo]

This games like campers.....intense 😅 looks like it could be really cool I look forward to seeing more from it

[@amanisalone]

lol wait what? Haha what does this game like campers mean??

[@SaintSolo]

@@amanisalone its intense. ...in tents like campers .. ha ..haha anyways can't win em all

[@amanisalone]

@@SaintSolo lol I think that one would have not flew past my head if it was spoken out loud. At least I HOPE

[@agincourt_archer]

2.99! At that price, could you afford NOT to!

[@amanisalone]

It basically pays for itself. Basically. I mean pretty much. Nothing to see here.

[@Jako-o2x]

Why did you pause comments on the other video? What kind of politics were controversial?

[@john-lenin]

Another list of stupid critical hits.

[@amanisalone]

Yeah I have been sitting here thinking about this. Other than having a unique name, does it "feel" any different/cooler to score one type of critical hit over another?