Welcome back to the developing trilogy of the bot-human construct Nomad ISIL-8 in NOTORIOUS and OUTSIDERS by Jason Price, a.k.a. Always Checkers Publishing.

ISIL-8 finds themselves wanted on the planet of Arro after their run-in with the hostile hunting down a rogue hacker. Bounties go up through the Guild to bring the missing Bot-Construct in however possible, but ISIL-8 still has a job through Huska's Corsairs and questions of their own to answer about the Company that created them.

Tracking down leads including the target Xed Gron's hacker ally, being confronted by a hired assassin, and meeting other discarded victim's of Arro's corporate experiments, ISIL-8 finally finds the loudmouth Quadoi, but their answers about the cloning program will have to wait, as they're ambushed on the way off planet... Luckily, they've taken a hostage.

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Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Cyberpunk City from TabletopAudio.com

Docking Bay from TabletopAudio.com

Dungeon Collapse from TabletopAudio.com

Mega City Slums from TabletopAudio.com

Robot Scrapyard from TabletopAudio.com

Sand Raiders from TabletopAudio.com

Stakeout from TabletopAudio.com

Starforged: Planetside from TabletopAudio.com

Weirder Things 2 from TabletopAudio.com

Welcome to another episode of Perspective Checks where I sit down with a friend in the TTRPG world and discuss a topic of their choice!

If you're familiar with Ironsworn, especially Starforged, this week's guest likely needs no introduction - Matt Risby is the man behind the microphone for the incredible podcast The Bad Spot, which has 3 incredible seasons of Ironsworn: Starforged, some original Ironsworn, and is just beginning its brand new Sundered Isles series!

In this episode, we talk about playing solo RPGs, how it's a different experience as one shared among friends, and how it gets even more complicated when you're making solo RPG content for an audience. We talk a lot about how running games for groups has made us better at playing solo, and how the opposite also works - solo play greatly enhances your GMing at a full table! Matt heaps praise on Jason Cordova / The Gauntlet's The Between, a Victorian horror RPG which builds on Brindlewood Bay's mystery mechanics, and we have a blast talking about our journeys in solo gaming.

You can follow The Bad Spot on Twitter at @thebadspotcast and go subscribe to the YouTube page to catch up on the adventures of Gideon & Lorenzo in Ironsworn: Sundered Isles!

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Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Not a 5th Tuesday bonus episode, but just keeping up the rhyming bonus episodes with Gila RPGs solo games and in June that means RUNE. Similar to REAP, which I played back in February for the Leap Year, RUNE is a solo TTRPG based on the Dark Souls and Elden Ring games, and it plays just as punishing (you'll see).

If you want to hear Spencer play through this realm on his YouTube channel, you can watch it here, and if you want pick up Aaron Joliffe's RUNE Realms and content, you can find his games on his itch.io page.

Where to Follow Rene Plays Games:

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email: RenePlaysGamesPod@gmail.com

Music in the Episode:

Theme Song written & produced by Dan Pomfret | @danfrombothbands

Court of the Count from TabletopAudio.com

Escape from Shadow from TabletopAudio.com

Lord of Bones from TabletopAudio.com

Survivors' Bivouac from TabletopAudio.com

Through The Woods from TabletopAudio.com

Witch Mountain from TabletopAudio.com