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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Autumnal" data-source="post: 9775127" data-attributes="member: 6671663">This is among the reasons I’m enjoying solo play. You can sometimes get a group in sync for such things, but it’s unreliable, to put it mildly. [URL unfurl="true"]https://zotiquest.substack.com/p/notes-on-making-loner-cozy-fantasy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2ac773&triedRedirect=true[/URL]This happens to be the author of Loner writing about his current release, but a bunch of solo game creators like taking on challenges like this, and comparable ones in other directions. Solo play makes it possible to spend time on such things while waiting for a doctor’s office or Medicaid to rerun a call, while your caregiver is delayed by roadwork or a family emergency, while up with insomnia, and so on. Or in whatever equivalent moments your life tosses up, of course. If you like fiddling with the physical artifacts of play, a lot of solo games provide you good ones. (Ironsworn and Starforged have cards for character traits I love, and often use with Loner.) If you like keeping things clean and tidy, a lot of solo games are done with a few dice and a pencil and some paper, or a dice app and an app to write in. So it’s compatible with the interstices of your life in a way no regular rpg I know of is, and that’s just what I’m needing these days.</blockquote>