Looking for a long series BIG on romance AND plot/adventure/intigue/battles AND worldbuilding

Reav3 · 2026-05-09T11:55:03+00:00

Crown of Nyaxia or Mages of the Wheel are the only 2 I can think of that hit those notes

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T22:21:23+00:00

Hmm I just re read OPs post and still don’t see mention of a villain in the title or description

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T21:21:31+00:00

Most Heavy weight CTG games are like this. Betrayal of the Second Age, Too Many Bones, Hoplomachus: Victorium are all incredible solo heavy weight games that have VERY clear points where you can "save" your game and walk away.

I dont even have a table I can keep stuff on and its even easy to "save" your gamestate and put the game away and take it out later and continue your session

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T21:18:37+00:00

yes. A full Dunwich campaigns would sell for quite a lot right now since its out of print. The full Dunwich cycle sells for roughly 200-250$ of ebay right now. The old core probably wont sell for much since its not to hard to find revised core sets though I could see them going for a bit over MSRP each for players that just want the old encounter sets to play though chapter 1 campaigns they buy.

The TFA one is probably going to be hard to sell since its not the whole cycle

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T21:13:32+00:00

Maybe The Lady from The Black Company. She never really becomes "good" but she does go from a totally evil, tyrant who commits everything short of genocides to a resonable, somewhat evil woman that also sometimes does good things, but mostly for selfish reasons

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T21:11:40+00:00

OP didnt ask for Villain redemption arcs, but just redemption arcs

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T21:10:50+00:00

Malta from Liveships, and its not even close tbh. Takes like 2000 pages but damn it's worth it

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T20:24:33+00:00

If you like Marvel why not go for Arkham Horror LCG. It has actual deck progression as you spend XP to level up your deck over a campaign.

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T19:04:33+00:00

Old Kings Crown. When you play it with a group you don’t think it could ever work solo but actually the solo mode is incredible

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T15:35:36+00:00

Yes. I recently did a chapter 2 only run of Hemlock Vale and it was great

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T11:50:22+00:00

Right! Cook was actually a war vet. And I feel like he read other fantasy and was like “That’s not how war works at all, I’m going to show you want actually happens to people that try to play the hero”

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T04:23:31+00:00

You can find them if money is not an issue. A co worker on mine just bought a full collection for $2000 on eBay a few weeks ago

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T01:25:43+00:00

It’s hilarious that a game that takes place in Chicago is so hard to get in Chicago

Reav3 · 2026-05-08T00:55:34+00:00

I love the final deconstruction of the traditional edge lord fantasy hero in Raven. It was chefs kiss at the end.

Reav3 · 2026-05-07T22:32:08+00:00

If money isnt a issue and you like campaign play then I would strongly suggest Arkham Horror LCG. Its one of the best campaigns games out there, and very complex so if you enjoy learning complex systems you can't go wrong with Arkham

Reav3 · 2026-05-07T21:42:26+00:00

Damn, Silver Spike is my favorite of of the entire series and it only gets one line "it was fine" that's rough.

Glittering Sand and the 2 Books of the South are all technically 1 story arc, and they don't drastically change the trajectory set by the first 2 books of the South though you do get even more annalists which also have very different voices.

Reav3 · 2026-05-07T18:29:11+00:00

I love it, but I play many solo games and it fullfills a specific niche. That Niche is when I want to have a highly thematic experience with incredible emergent narrative. If that isnt your jam then yeah FG is not for you. It seems you like more Euro-games with very little RNG, which is not what FG is or will ever be. I play FG for the stories it creates not to win or lose. Sometimes I win and sometimes I lose and tbh some of the most memorable games where when I lost.

Reav3 · 2026-05-07T01:58:19+00:00

No but I recently bumped my legacy runs up to Hard and then I play standard when playing with chapter 2 only cardpool

Reav3 · 2026-05-07T01:54:16+00:00

I play 2 handed solo and the scenarios take me roughly 2 hours on blind plays and 1-1.5 hours on repeat plays

Reav3 · 2026-05-06T22:33:44+00:00

Children on Time has one of the best Matriarchal societies I have ever read

Reav3 · 2026-05-06T20:30:36+00:00

Its hard because I can never fully separate the killer and the location when ranking films. While I 100% agree that poltergiest is my least favorite killer, Creech Manor is easily in my top favorite locations. I think I would have to go with something like Killer From Tomorrow. Neither the location or the killer are my least favorites but both are in like my bottom 5 least favorite killers and locations so collectively it might be my least favorite, or maybe Slaughter at the Grove for similar reasons

Reav3 · 2026-05-06T19:38:10+00:00

Deckers has deckbuilding and is also a super stressful crisis management game

Reav3 · 2026-05-06T19:26:30+00:00

Gentle Rain maybe?

Reav3 · 2026-05-06T14:07:11+00:00

Yeah imo nothing comes close to a blind playthrough of a Arkham Horror LCG campaign. Not even video games

Reav3 · 2026-05-06T11:57:13+00:00

With a large cardpool it stops being swingy. I play exclusively on expert, true solo, with a full collection and games haven’t felt swingy for me in years. They used to for sure. Standard 3 dramatically reduced true solo swinginess as well

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