Solo RPGs Aren't Lonely

For a long time I didn't really get solo RPG. A dozen youtube videos and guides and books later. I took the plunge a while back and got some systems in place I like.

The weird thing about solo play is that you ARE in conversation with something, but it's not a person. It's the system combined with your tools and imagination. Having your own mind go somewhere you didn't expect is rewarding in a way I couldn't have really guessed before I started.

But then AI tools have changed this a lot, and its a huge reason why I made Town Scryer (the other tools just didn't cut it). To be clear, playing with an oracle on paper is something truly different and that experience obviously isn't competing with AI-assisted RP, but there's something magical about roleplaying in an environment that feels real and reacts to what you do, and you to it. Instead of playing both the world AND the character, you get to really inhabit one lens, and that's kind of a brand new thing.

Venture forth - alone or with others!