[checkyoursudo]

I played some AD&D and up through 3.5, GURPS, and TMNT RPG (yes, it was a thing^) in my teens and 20s. I ended up playing solo quite often. In my experience, solo play was for me like brainstorming for writing fiction (kind of like the fictional journal from TFA). It turned out that I also liked writing fiction, so solo RPG was pretty fun for me in a sort of way. I did like playing with others better, most of the time.

I wasn't a loner or nerdy or anything. Solitaire is not just for loners, after all. I just liked rolling solo sometimes.

^ https://screenrant.com/tmnt-tabletop-rpg-bizarre-game-wrong-...

[themodelplumber]

Did you get into After the Bomb at all? I'm curious because I understand it's TMNT with filed-off serial numbers, but I find it a lot of fun to read. The publisher recently released a new hardback edition with a really nice full-color spread inside.

The become-a-psychiatrist trope mentioned in the article is one I've heard from psychiatrist friends too, so it's funny to see that...

(BtS 1e also has some uncomfortable things inside...Still, I haven't come across as many TTRPGs with egregious issues as I have novels from the same era)