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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 5583649" data-attributes="member: 3448">One of the key questions is to what extent characters are self reliant, or can be supported by NPCs easily.  It's pretty easy to come up with self-reliant characters in D&D 3e, especially with a little multiclassing.  It's harder to do so in 4e, because the system is based around parties working together--your best bet is probably a striker or a multiclass/gestalt character, but you still lose out on the dynamic of the way that different types of PCs work together.  Lots of skill based systems (instead of class based systems) work really well for solo adventures, because you can build a jack of all trades character pretty easily.  But the other strategy is to have supporting NPCs (or semi-NPCs--maybe the player controls them in combat); so you could run a 4e game where the PC is a striker (or a controller), but has a defender companion character (and/or a leader companion character).  I'm using D&D as examples, but again, you could picture this easily in any other system--in a Traveler game, you might have the ship captain be the PC, with an engineer, a gunner, and so forth as supporting NPCs, in a Buffy game you might have the PC be the Slayer and have an NPC Watcher, etc., and so forth.[MENTION=232]Crothian[/MENTION]:  I think Ars Magica could actually work really well.  The obvious approach would be to have the player playing one magus/a, supported by a bunch of grogs (which are kinda intermediate between PCs and NPCs anyway) and then maybe a companion character.  It would be challenging, but I think it would work pretty well (and I've heard of other people running successful Ars Magica games 1-on-1).  I agree with you on Paranoia, though--hard to imagine how that could work well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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