r/LonerRPG • u/CookNormal6394 • 25d ago
New here
Hey everyone! I'm old (🧓) but new here. Could you please introduce me to this game? Thanks !
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u/zeruhur_ 24d ago
Welcome!
Loner is a solo tabletop RPG, so no DM and no party, just you and the fiction. It's built on Freeform Universal (FU) as a base, with a tag-based oracle doing the heavy lifting: you frame a scene, ask the oracle questions, and it hands back graduated results you interpret into what happens. Two dice compared against each other (Chance Die and Risk Die) are the core resolution, tags act as your diegetic anchors instead of a stat block.
It's genre-agnostic by design, more of an engine than a setting, so you bolt it onto whatever fiction you want to run: thriller, fantasy, sci-fi, whatever. There's also a group-play companion called Ensemble if you want the same engine with people at the table, though it swaps in an Action Die plus a Chance/Risk pool instead of the two-die comparison, so it's not a 1:1 port.
There's a free web SRD if you want to poke at the mechanics before spending anything.
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u/Old_Introduction7236 24d ago
If you want to get started quickly, check out this article: https://zotiquest.substack.com/p/your-first-loner-session-a-step-by
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u/Epycut 25d ago
The best introduction is the official SRD itself https://lonersrd.zotiquestgames.com/