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Do you have any best practices for playing this solo? Maybe just choosing at least 3 paints and at least 3 touchstones before just running through the rest of the prompts/draws on my own?

Seems like a great bit of inspiration, especially with friends but solo too!

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I've never run it solo! The conversation of it all is so important to me, BUT I think... 3 paints 3 touchstones feels good. I'd maybe do:

the Paints as write 4-6 and randomly grab 3-4 of them, to simulate a little "out-of-your-hands" inspiration. OR write 2-3 Paints and close your eyes and randomly point to a word in the suggested Paints once or twice lol 

And with Touchstones, I like to have a Touchstone for each that adds a: Thematic Element, Aesthetic Element, Sensory Element, and/or Tangible Element (you can see this in the example Touchstones in the book!)

Then after that, yeah if you're comfortable with answering prompts and riffing off yourself, then you can absolutely play solo!

Thanks! I think that's great advice based on my first read. Thankfully, I decided to give it a go as a play-by-post on my personal Discord so I could still have that conversation with folks and it seems to work well (so far) for more asynchronous play that way. I'll report back when we're done!