So You Want to Play 60 Years in Space

cover art by Rob TurpinCongratulations! You are an absolute sicko. But so am I. This is a game for sickos (positive), and as such it is pretty daunting to get into even if you're the right kind of person for it.If you don't know what 60 Years is, it's an rpg by Andrew Doull, based on the High Frontier board game by Phil Eklund, and it's extremely crunchy maximal-simulationist space colonization. And also multiple games in a trenchcoat, if we're being honest. You can find it here.[I have some older posts where I am fairly critical on the game: some of those critiques still stand (tables and headings should be numbered!), the updates the game has gotten since release have turned me around enough that I'd say it's so far and away my favorite RPG of 2026, warts and all.]This guide is currently for running solo games using version 7b of the rules; if anything drastically changes in future updates, I’ll edit accordingly.Picking the Books You NeedThe first hurdle is figuring out what you…