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Loner: Character Builder's Guide

Solo RPG · by Zotiquest Games · in English
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On Quisicosas since 26 May 2025
Featured in the newsletters of 26 May 2025 (on Substack) and 2 June 2025 (on Substack)

What it is about

Characters that shift, fracture, and remember wrong. Loner: Character Builder's Guide treats identity as something alive, not a fixed sheet of tags locked in at session zero. Your Protagonist becomes a shifting web of memory, contradiction, and unfinished business, and this book gives you the tools to track it without adding a single new subsystem. Every tool here runs on tags you already know how to use. Nothing is a stat to level. A new tag means a new fact about who your Protagonist is right now, not a bigger number. Roll up a past that haunts, defines, or lies to your Protagonist with the lifepath tables Let goals, concepts, and nemeses evolve as the story moves Build relationships with real weight, still running on the same tags-and-dice rhythm as Core Rewrite identity mid-game: cross out a tag, discover a new one, become someone the old sheet wouldn't recognize Add emotional stakes without turning your game into a diary Cover and internal artwork generated with Seedream This work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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