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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9197900" data-attributes="member: 42582">If we think of solo play of (say) T&T, or of AD&D using Appendix A of the DMG to roll up a random dungeon, the imagined stuff is clearly sharable in principle - although only one person is involved, there's no obstacle to generalising the imagination to another person.It's different, in this respect, from (say) writing a story on one's own.But that sort of solo play is also clearly not a core case of RPGing: it's much closer to a Fighting Fantasy gamebook using some of the AD&D resolution mechanics. For instance, what happens when - in my solo play - I try to lever open the sarcophagus with my trusty crowbar, and fail? There is no one to adjudicate that: I have to be my own referee.</blockquote>