Pyramid Review
The Lost Isles -- Exile: Sourcebook & Scenario 1 (for RuneQuest)
Published by Sceaptune Games
Written by Tim Bancroft
Cover & Illustrations by Harsh
Cartography by Halfbat
76-Page Black & White Perfect Bound Book; $14.95
80-Page Black & White 4.25 MB PDF; $14.95With the gaming hobby being three decades old, the older gamer faces a problem -- one of time. Family commitments and job commitments means that many games have less time to play and getting everyone in a gaming group together on a regular basis can be a problem. One solution is having board and card games on hand when not everyone is able to attend as these invariably cater for a lower number of players, but apart from a GM's own campaign, roleplaying is not as readily flexible. This is certainly not the case commercially, for most scenarios on the shelves at your local games store are designed with several players in mind. This, of course, is a remnant from Dungeons & Dragons with its sharply delineated roles. In its current incarnation, the d20 System actually has a solution in Expeditious Retreat Press' "1 on 1" Adventures line, and now, so does RuneQuest.
New English publisher Sceaptune (correctly pronounced "Shipton," but "Skipton" is also acceptable) Games has taken advantage of the OGL for Mongoose Publishing's version of RuneQuest to produce its own scenarios and sourcebooks. The first of these is what it calls a "Singleton" scenario, designed to be played with the one player and the one GM, but flexible . . .
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Article publication date: July 6, 2007
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