What you get is just 10 pages:
Page 1 the front illustration.
Page 2 Legalese
Pages 3-4 What is solo role playing- hint it's in the title.
Pages 5-8 The rules - which amount to 'just use a Fortune roll to decide everything'.
Page 9 An advert for the Wicked Toolkit Deck - I actually found this product useful; go get that instead.
Page 10 An Oracle - The blandest Oracle table I have ever fallen asleep reading.
The layout is fine and the imp pictures are cute.
I believe Burgess also wrote the flavoursome Blades solo rule set so I was hopeful for this.
This was a missed opportunity to go root around in the rule set and re-write any janky rules, like those for balancing PC classes - you don't need player balance if you are the only player.
The Oracle was generic and lifeless. Wicked Ones is such a colourful setting, it must have been real work to come up with such bland descriptors. Lets see what the Oracle has to say for itself: "This ruleset is as 'Dumb' as a 'Cleric' 'Mining' 'Indego' 'Grit'." Hmmm well said Oracle, you are wise beyond your page number.
Obviously its unfair to compare it to Ironsworn, but the thing is, Ironsworn is free and this was $5 suggesting its bringing something to the table.
Not Wicked just bad.
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