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HollowPonds Solo Sagas
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2023
As a long-time roleplayer and gamer, I've transitioned into solo gaming with RPGs and skirmish games. ADHD means I might mix up rules occasionally, and I'm known to veer off on tangents - it's all part of my unique gaming journey!
Why record and share these sessions? It started to avoid talking to myself, and then I thought, why not share? Hopefully, you'll find enjoyment here.
Videos will have light editing for a 'rustic' production quality - less time editing, more time playing! The intro was created with AI tools and the music from freesound.org/people/Bertsz/sounds/524309/. It wasn't for higher production value but for some AI-powered fun. Enjoy!
Why record and share these sessions? It started to avoid talking to myself, and then I thought, why not share? Hopefully, you'll find enjoyment here.
Videos will have light editing for a 'rustic' production quality - less time editing, more time playing! The intro was created with AI tools and the music from freesound.org/people/Bertsz/sounds/524309/. It wasn't for higher production value but for some AI-powered fun. Enjoy!
The Electric State - Solo RPG Actual Play - Episode 3
Welcome to our series of solo roleplaying adventures in The Electric State RPG!
In this series, I will take you through the hauntingly beautiful and surreal landscape of Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State, where a young woman and her robot companion journey through a post-apocalyptic America in the late 1990s. The world is filled with remnants of a society overtaken by technology and VR, leaving behind a mysterious, eerie emptiness.
Episode 3:
The stop at The Stowaway Bar in Downtown LA continues and concludes. Who gets to continue the journey?
stowawaydtla.com/
The Electric State RPG focuses on narrative-driven storytelling, where players explore a world blending retrofuturistic technology with dystopian themes. As with other series on Hollowponds Solo Sagas, the emphasis is on immersive storytelling, character-driven narratives, and solo play.
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Disclaimer: These videos are a personal journey of fun and discovery. While I'm always open to discussions about gameplay and strategy, remember that the path I take may not always be conventional. Dive in with me and enjoy the thrill of solo role-playing!
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In this series, I will take you through the hauntingly beautiful and surreal landscape of Simon Stålenhag’s The Electric State, where a young woman and her robot companion journey through a post-apocalyptic America in the late 1990s. The world is filled with remnants of a society overtaken by technology and VR, leaving behind a mysterious, eerie emptiness.
Episode 3:
The stop at The Stowaway Bar in Downtown LA continues and concludes. Who gets to continue the journey?
stowawaydtla.com/
The Electric State RPG focuses on narrative-driven storytelling, where players explore a world blending retrofuturistic technology with dystopian themes. As with other series on Hollowponds Solo Sagas, the emphasis is on immersive storytelling, character-driven narratives, and solo play.
Subscribe for the Newsletter:
www.hollowpondssolosagas.com/
Solo RPG Community: th-cam.com/channels/x3yxIAazO_BAYCgDchdIUA.htmljoin
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Disclaimer: These videos are a personal journey of fun and discovery. While I'm always open to discussions about gameplay and strategy, remember that the path I take may not always be conventional. Dive in with me and enjoy the thrill of solo role-playing!
- - - - -
Buy Me a Coffee:
www.buymeacoffee.com/hollowpondssolosagas
Join the Hollowponds Solo Sagas Community:
th-cam.com/channels/x3yxIAazO_BAYCgDchdIUA.htmljoin
#TheElectricState #solorpg #sologameplay #narrativerpg #ttrpg #SimonStålenhag #scifirpg #postapocalypticrpg #soloadventure #retrofuturism #indierpg #soloroleplaying #roleplayinggames #moderngamer #rpg #sologamer #soloadventure #freeleaguepublishing
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Thank you for the nice character introduction.
Thank you for a nice introduction to this world.
Happy (late) birthday week!
Thank you 🤩
Pretty cool combat and hacking!
I liked the stealth sequence as well and that second combat!
I really enjoyed it. 😁
@HollowPondsSoloSagas hehe that's very important as well!
I wonder if Harnmaster can be played solo
Most things can if you are willing to put in the creative element. Normally the lighter the rules the easier to solo as there is less to remember but if you know the system well enough it should be ok.
Man. All we're missing is the frantic violin music and suddenly Walking Dead has a new spinoff series. I love that you're doing it solo. You still manage to capture the soap opera aspects, which is very impressive.
:D thank you. Do you mind if I use that as self promotion material you know the little snippets things? But back to more important things... thank you :) .. I'm going to start series 2 over the end of year break.
Great stuff! The one thing I don't quite get is the choice of music. Cyberpunk benefits a lot from genre-specific music, I feel.
Then I get hit by copyright infringements so I have to use generic stuff. If you can find some copyright free stuff for me to use I’ll 100% take a look at it.
I like the way the map moves below your mini. It looks like it's actually moving on the map! That was pretty cool 😎.
It’s pretty easy to do with Shotcut takes a little extra time but worth it.
Thank you for another great video. This story is very relatable.
Thank you. I decided to try and make these characters flawed and more real then a lot of the other characters I develop.
Nice session ! Impatient to see the end of this season 2...
Very soon! Not to upsell you on membership but it’s available to members right now 😁
Thank you for a good introduction. The images from the book are wonderful and horror inspiring at the same time. I like how you are making this story in the world of the Electric State come off as more positive than in the book. I agree with other commenters here. The Netflix adaption looks cheap and insulting to the author and original world of the book. Your playthroughs will be a better alternative.
Thank you.
Happy birthday week!
Thank you 😁
Thank you for such great stories. You could say that you are putting Welcome into sleep mode until the next session. I will probably start your Electric State playthrough series. God bless and thank you.
Glad you like them! I will return to these one day :)
The surfing part has an apocalypse now vibe! I'm really excited about this playthrough!
I knew I took it from somewhere :D
I love the images that you are creating in these stories. I think that it was a good idea to make the main character an AI instead of a human. I think that a human would have been killed and eaten/absorbed in a few seconds in this environment.
Very true.
Bit late with this but the actor is Craig Charles.
Ah yes I mention him as he started life as a performance poet. Yeah I included some pictures of him in the video.
This setting looks like a lot of fun, but I'm not entirely sold on the "travel only" type of structure. I've been really into Fate Accelerated lately, which makes it incredibly easy to very quickly whip up a full set of characters, NPCs, enemies, etc for any setting you want. Would you say that the Electric State RPG would be a good worldbuilding/setting guide for this setting in addition to the original book? Or would you recommend just getting one or the other? Also, your solo plays are always a joy. Thank you.
So good question. The RPG book is packed with setting and details. The rules are fairly thin mostly they are a layer of structure. Some of the tables (well one) isn’t even finished off but all the flavour is there in prose and art. If all you want is the setting I’d pick the RPG book alone if you want to dig in as far as you can into the 90s vibe that might be cool but the original book I don’t think would greatly add past the RPG book apart from the amazing art.
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas Awesome thanks
I lived in CA for many years and it's quite queer to hear well-known places and things in an RPG. Disneyland or other mega amusement park would be an interesting stop.
Thank you so much again. 😁💫 I thought about contacting the places and seeing if they mind and then I relayed how weird that might be. Hello. Do you mind if I use your place in an imaginary game.
@HollowPondsSoloSagas Haha! At 9:35, every night, I enjoyed their fireworks from my lawn. A weird, intrusive, absurd celebration in generic suburbia.
@OldDesertGal 😁
Happy birthday
Thank you.
Thank you for another great story. The alien AIs are definitely hostile here😂
I love the Mythic GM Emulator. I'm currently using the One-Page Mythic GME for my Fallout 2d20 rpg. I highly recommend Mythic. Also, you should consider doing the Fallout 2d20 solo rpg on your channel!!
Hello there. I used Mythic extensively for my Pirate Borg campaign. As TWD has its own solo rules I mainly used those. You read my mind with Fallout but getting hold of the books at a reasonable price out here in Australia land is proving harder then I’d have thought. I have the starter off of drivethru as it’s free 😁
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas I have TWD too, and I've played the solo version, which I absolutely love! I used the maps provided with the starter set for my first game. I bought a map of New England recently that I'm going to use for my next game. I checked Modiphius site, and they are out of stock of the Fallout core rule book. Normally it's $57.78 in USD, which would be 87.71 in Australian dollars (had to look that up lol). But, hopefully you could find it at a good price for you. I'd very much love to see you dive into that game as I've enjoyed your TWD videos as well others, like Twilight 2000 and now your Cyberpunk videos. Great stuff!
Another episode, I'm glad!
Danger Gal Dossier is a really cool book and better organized than the core book imho
"You what?" 😂
I really like the story beats unfolding as we get there!
@juauke thank you. It seems to work really well and gives a good creative framework to base what you come up with around.
Looking forward to the next episode! I'm still sick, but this is still helping and I'm seeing a GP this afternoon
I've been hoping someone would play this solo. There is a Duet (2 player) rules supplement also for this. Great work, made me laugh.
Thank you. I met the authors a couple of times at cons too. It’s an awesome game. What I didn’t realise as I hadn’t seen Bridgerton yet I had come up with one of their story lines. 😁
@HollowPondsSoloSagas i bought the game intending to play it with my wife who is a big Bridgeton fan. I'm throwing around ideas to start a solo channel of my own so I will probably give this a go if that ever happens. Nerves. (I'm also from OZ)
@MarkSchipper1 cool
Always glad to see a new solo drop. 🎉
😁
Hey, I just came across your channel, and man I *love* how you approach solo gaming! I've been looking for some inspiration in this regard, and you have such a variety of vids to browse! Love it, and I really appreciate your dedication to this hobby. Thanks for doing what you do. You've gained a subscriber. :)
Thank you. 😁 glad to be an inspiration
I'm very very new to this kind of system I'm playing differently never played dices before. do you have dice tutorials? also, I'll keep watching this campaign run cause I'm interested. and in the mean time gonna watch TH-cam for Red instructions and play.. oh by the way can this game be integrated into cyber 2077 modern?
Hello. What do you mean by dice tutorials? You can work any game into any other. The main difference I think between Red and 2077 barring the extra 32 years for Night City to rebuild and it no longer being a time of scarcity is you can hack people. Rules wise. Apart from that it’s ontnuchterd different. Anyone else thoughts?
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas I've never played tabletop before so. what dice do usually use? yeah I'm trying to do solo in 2077 since the digital game was launched. and if I play red gonna play in the bird flue crisis after the corporate war. your campaigns are awesome.
@rock_ok ah I see. I’ll think about it. A basics intro is maybe an idea. But I think there is an assumed mutual understanding of the basics with what I do but I’ll give it some thought.
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas Oh, and is there a way to be a normal guy who works. day-to-day type of jobs and also who is aware of the problems inside his district. a guy who avoids problems at the beginning. then level ups
Not in the rules no but you can play with it.
Thank you for another good episode. One interesting aspect of this game is is the passing of time never being brought up in the game.
Is this the one where I mention it? It took me a while to work out what was missing and then why it didn't matter and when I did I thought it was awesome and very clever.
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas I think that you had previously mentioned it in an earlier episode.
Encantation for the compass and dialog with witch had me rolling. 😂
😁
Presence chest....fixated....😂 right there with ya
Thank you for another pleasant episode.
Happy birthday! Good idea boosting Jane's shooting since she can't run. I wonder if the team could compromise with the doctor by heading northwest to get her close to the coast so she could maybe catch a ship home.
Thank you :) Hey good idea. That brings Hostile Waters back into play...
Futurama, the Wongs have a cow beetle farm.
:D I knew someone would answer at some point ... thank you :)
Great video brother. Thank you
Thank you. Hope it helps.
Happy Birthday Brother....My birthday was on the 16th and my American Marine Corps Birthday was on the 10th.....Semper Fi....
Happy Birthday to you too :D
Wow! These are some of the most original ideas that I have heard in a sci-fi scenario in a long time. Looking forward to the next episode.
Thank you 😁
This sounds like an interesting game. I like road journey stories, so I’m interested in seeing how it plays. The Bliss mechanic sounds similar to the Rot mechanic in Mutant Year Zero. It is impressive how they’ve adapted the system to different games and genres.
It makes what I do heaps easier lol like untold amounts but the slight differences can still catch you out. Combat in Electric State is slightly different from other Year Zero games. Wait till later in the series and you will see.
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas I look forward to it. 😀
You are a master at on-camera solo play. I only know bits of this setting and the hype. "C'mon everybody, here we go!"
Thank you so much for you kind words and support. I may take that sentence and use that to push my work if thats ok :D
@@HollowPondsSoloSagas that would be lovely. 🫶
Awesome choice of game! As a fan Stålenhag’s art and a solo player myself. Can't wait to see where this story goes.
Its amazing art.