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Introduction. Solo Role-play is a different way of enjoying our

hobby. In many ways it is unlike any other form of the hobby. It is
a form of the game where nothing gets between your characters
view of the world and that of the Game Master, because you are
one and the same.

by Peter Rudin-Burgess
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Solo Play?
If you have never played a role-playing game solo, it can
be a difficult idea to get your imagination around. For
many people they have bonded the idea of the group of
players around a table, with that of the game itself.
As many games move to virtual tabletop apps [VTT],
that group bond is being broken.
I find the online, VTT experience to be stilted and
slightly awkward.
Solo play is another alternative. There are things it
excels at, and those are what you need to focus on. It is not
a replacement for meeting with friends for a social game.1
How Does this Work?
In a traditional game the Game Master [GM] would
describe a scene, you describe your actions, the GM arbi-
trates any conflicts and then describes how the scene
evolves.
actions you will need to ask the GM some questions to
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More often than not, before you can describe your
clarify specific details that can change what you want to
do. No GM can describe everything in infinite detail, they
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can give the broad strokes and you ask for finer detail of
just the parts that are important to you.
These rules provide a way to answer the questions
that you would ask the GM.
The process in solo play is that you imagine the scene,
when there is a possible conflict or question you would
want to ask the GM, you ask the rules.
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The rules give you an answer and you move the story
on.
There is a random element to the question and answer
rules. If you are confronted with a barbarian in Dakovar,
are they likely to be friendly or hostile? That is the sort
of question you ask and the rules will give you answers to.
Once you have your answer it is up to you to inter-
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pret it into your game. The answers are prompts to your
improvisation skills.
There are two types of question. The first is a closed
question. It gives you a yes-no answer or something simi-
lar. Think of it as being very similar to the children’s toy
Magic 8 Ball. You ask a question, shake the ball and it
gives you an answer.
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This is being written during the Covid-19 lock-
down, meeting with friends is not actually an option for
most people right now!
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The tools in this supplement are a little more struc-
tured than the Magic 8 Ball.
Open Questions are those that cannot be answered
with a yes-no. What does the message say? What are they
talking about? These are all open questions.
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These rules have a tool for you to roll and build a
prompt for you imagination.
Random Elements
It is the random elements that will take your games from
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just an imaginary story and into a full adventure. The rules
are designed to throw up unexpected results.
These random elements should take your story into
places you had not expected. NPCs you had thought were
your friends may betray you, what you expected to be the
goal of a quest may be just the start of something much
bigger.
A Gentle Introduction
These rules will give you a gentle introduction to solo
play and help you get the most out of this. possibly, new
style of gaming.
I will use lots of examples to help you get started.
Old Hands at Soloing
IF you have been playing solo for a while you will be able
to use these rules with little problem. These are a rules
light set of tools and most of what you need can be found
on a single page.
Oracles
In solo gaming circles, the tables you use to
generate answers are called Oracles. At first the
answers may appear cryptic and meaningless,
but over time you will get used to how they are
worded and how to interpret them.
The style of oracle I use is intentionally mini-
malist. The solo rules are never intended to be
the star of the show. Your character is the star,
Symbaroum is the stage and these rules are
nothing more than the conductors baton or a
director tool.
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Closed Questions
Closed questions are typically answered with a yes-no
style answer. If those were the only options, your game
would soon get rather boring. The closed question Oracle
can give a number of results.
First, I am going to cover a few words of jargon.
KK Yes, When you get a Yes result, whatever question
you asked is true.
KK No, The answer to the question you asked is false.
KK Yes, and..., this is the most extreme form of positive.
It is what you expected and more.
KK No, because..., the answer is negative but there is an
associated reason why the answer is negative. Pos-
sibly something your character can do something
about.
KK Likely, not all questions are a simple toss of a coin.
If the answer is more likely to be yes or or no, you
treat it as if the roll is Advantaged adding or sub-
tracting ±2 to shift the result towards the most
likely result
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KK World Corruption, if it sometimes feels like the
world is out to get you, it is because it is. Corruption
is a modifier to the oracle roll that accumulates over
time. Corruption makes Yes results more likely and
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as a consequence can propel a story onwards at a
higher pace.
KK Complications, a complication is a plot twist or
unexpected event. When a question results in a
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complication the result should make the question
you asked irrelevant.
Asking a Question
To ask a closed question, you ask the question that is
best for the game. Not the question that is best for your
character. They are not necessarily the same thing. If you
can phrase the question as a yes-no question then it is a
closed question.
Decide whether the answer is most likely to be a yes or no.
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roll is Advantaged. Modify the roll by plus or minus 2. If
the answer is likely to be a yes the roll is at -2.
If your World Corruption is greater than Zero, its starting
value, deduct that number from your roll.
Once you have rolled, consult this table.
Roll Answer
1 or Less Yes, and...
2 to 9 Yes
10-11 Complication
12-19 No
20 or more No, because...
Any result of 21 or 22 increases the World Corruption by 1.
Example: Karlio, an Ambrian Rogue, is attempting to
infiltrate a Ranger barracks. He peers around a cor-
ner looking to see if there are any guards. The chances
of there being guards in a barracks has to be likely. This
roll is Advantaged towards Yes. Rolling the dice I get a
19. Minus 2 for the Advantage gives a result of 17. The
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answer is No, there are no guards around the corner.
Example: Further on, Karlio has reached the stables and is
looking for a horse to steal. Again, the chances of finding a
horse in a stable is high, so the roll is Advantaged towards Yes.
The roll is a 13 which becomes an 11 after deducting 2. This is
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a Complication. What would make the question about a horse
irrelevant? I decide that in the first stable that Karlio looks into
is the horrifically mutilated body of one of the stable hands. If
Karlio is discovered here he is going to have a lot to explain!
Example: Karlio slips out of the back of the stables. Looking
about he wants some cover near the outer wall of the barracks
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compound. Is there any cover? The Rangers are disciplined
and organised. It is unlikely they have left things lying around.
Deciding the answer is unlikely the roll is Advantaged towards
a No, +2 to the roll. The roll is a 6 which is a 8 in total. Yes,
there is a cart left near the rear curtain wall.
At any point when you would instinctively ask the
GM a question, you are going to ask the rules and roll a
d20. The last piece of the puzzle for closed questions is
World Corruption.
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World Corruption
When you start your adventure, World Corruption is zero
(0). Whenever you roll a natural 20 for a question that is
Advantaged towards No, World Corruption goes up by 1.
Whenever you roll a closed question you always
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deduct your World Corruption from the roll.
What this does is it makes the rules slowly become
more biased towards Yes results and also towards Yes,
and... results.
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The rational for World Corruption is that it makes
your adventures more exciting as the longer your adven-
ture carries on, the more the story starts to build momen-
tum. It is commonly accepted that a good GM tries to say
yes to their players as much as possible. World Corruption
does that, but of course, you are asking the questions that
are best for the game, not the ones that are best for your
character. World Corruption brings on more challenges,
more foes and greater dangers.
If you are trapped in a situation where every question you
ask comes up as a No answer, it can block you from mov-
ing your story forward. World Corruption would slowly
accumulate in this situation and for the answers towards
a yes, thus giving you a way out.
World Corruption is reset to zero every time you
spend experience points on advances, either gaining a
new skill or advancing an existing skill.
Example: Karlio’s current World Corruption is now 2. He is
trapped in a pit and having examined the walls and floor
looking for some way out, we ask the question does anyone
hear Karlio’s frantic searching? The chance is 50/50. We roll
a 13, which is reduced to an 11 by his World Corruption of 2.
This means the result is a Complication. All of Karlio’s probing
and searching has caused part of the pit to collapse, trapping
Karlio, by the legs. Had Karlio rolled an 11 it would have been
reduced to a 9 and the result would have been a yes.
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Open Questions
Open questions are much harder to answer. By their very
nature they can apply to anything and everything.
To get an answer we are going to use a simple lookup
table. You will roll 1d20 three times and read off of the
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first three columns.
There is no order of precidence in this table. Rolling a
1 is no better than rolling a 20. When you have your three
results we are going to try and structure them into a very
simple sentence.
Example: Karlio has found a packet of orders belonging to
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a Ranger just leaving the compound. Opening the packet
the orders say... rolling a d20 three times and using the first
three columns of the Open Question Oracle we get 9-20-16
which reads as “Guiding working silver” I interpret this as the
Ranger has orders to guide a working party to a silver mine
deep in Davokar. In a different circumstance the Silver could
easily have referred to the Rangers Shadow, or the Shadow
of a person they are having to work with.
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These short three or four word sentences can be
treated as a whole, if they make sense or they can be used
as discrete words. Working Silver could be a silversmith,
for example.
These are intended to prompt your improvisation
skills to produce an answer that fits into your game.
Three Parts
For any question and answer in solo play, there are
three parts.
1. The story so far
2. The kind of adventure you want to have
3. the answer you just rolled.
Every time you ask a question and roll an answer you
need to think in terms of what has already happened and
the sort of adventure you want to have. These are far more
important than any dice roll.
What this means in practice is that if you are deep
in the forest and infiltrating territory held by Summer
Elves, you are highly likely to meet more elves and cryptic
answers need to be looked at in the context of the for-
est and the elves that live there. If the same answer was
rolled but you are enjoying an adventure centered on the
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intrigues of the Ambrian court the answer would almost NPCs

certainly mean something completely different. When you meet an NPC you have to decide whether they
The Open Question table has six columns of descrip- are likely to be friendly or hostile. The context of the
tive words. The first three are for answering questions but meeting is going to be the most important factor. You
the remaining three you can dip into as needed. are then going to make a standard Closed Question roll

The Shadow column is for anything relating to colour.
It could be a person’s or creature’s shadow, but it could
just as easily be a dress or a warrior’s shield. Whenever
you need a colour and a prompt for your imagination, roll
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based upon if you think they are going to be friendly or
hostile, making sure you account for likelihood and World
Corruption in the test.
That tells you their immediate obvious attitude to

a random colour and see what happens.
The Ambrian and Dark Davokar columns could be
random encounters but they could also be rumours, or
tracks on the ground.
One option is to roll your d20 on Part 1 and see what
it says to you, then roll on Part 2, and see what that says,
then decide which column to use next. There is no right
or wrong way to use this table.
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you. You can then roll an Open Question roll, Part II + Part
III + Shadow works quite well.
Example: Karlio has rescued an injured Ranger from an evil
cult. There is no background between the Ranger and Karlio
so I assume that the ranger will be friendly towards his sav-
iour. I roll a 7 which becomes a 5 with Advantage. The Ranger
is friendly. Rolling on the table I get Concluding Wealth and an
Orange Shadow. The Orange shadow is like a cross between

Roll Part I Part II Part III

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1 Addressing avoiding a core belief Red Clan Warrior Cryptwalker

2 Assuring concluding a decision Orange Cultist Necromage,

3 Commending confronting a desire Yellow Brigand Dragoul,

4 Deceiving connecting a dislike Green Treasure Hunter Primal Blight Beast

5 Demanding detailing a fear Blue Witchhunter Blight Born

6 Digressing discussing a like Purple Mare cat Violing,

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7 Endorsing divulging a love Brown Kanaran Dragonfly

8 Examining enjoying a possession Magenta Violing Lindworm

9 Guiding excluding a skill Tan Blight Born Kanaran,

10 Imparting exposing allies flecked Frost Light Aboar

11 Inspiring improving an ability Olive Dragouls Baiagorn,

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12 Interjecting lying an annoyance Maroon Black Cloak Mare cat

13 Negotiating negating an attribute Navy Self-taught Witchhunter Tricklesting

14 Pondering obsessing enemies Ashen Fortune-hunter, Etterherd,

15 Proclaiming preparing friends or family Sickly Plunderer Arch Troll

16 Protesting repairing home or hearth Silver Robber Chief Liege Troll

17 Reminiscing training you Corroded Robber Rage Troll

18 Resolving understanding personal qualities Copper Village Warrior Autumn Elf

19 Scrutinizing weakening wealth Gold Cultist Follower Late Summer Elf

20 Speculating working your nature Metallic Cult Leader Early Summer Elf

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decide that the ranger has lost or given away the last of his
wealth -maybe it was paid in ransom- before coming into the
forest. He was prepared to die and is generally a bit morose
and downcast. This gives me enough detail to role play the
NPC while he is part of my story.
Social Challenges
The NPC oracle rolls are not a replacement for social
challenges or for social skills. They can be used to set up
social challenges. Once you know what a person is like,
what they may value or need, you can play out a better
social interaction. In the example above, trying to bribe
someone who has given away all their worldly wealth is
unlikely to succeed. On the other hand they may be more
than willing to help someone who has a strong purpose
and is passionate about it.
It is also important not to overload yourself if infor-
mation. If you roll the first die and think oh yes, that
makes perfect sense, stop right there and play on.
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It should be a rule of thumb that you don’t need to ask
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more than three questions in any scene. All role-playing is
about improvisation. When you are the player you have no
idea what the GM is going to throw at you. When you are
the GM you don’t know which way the players are going
to go, even if you know where you would like them to go.
You have to be able to improvise.
Limiting yourself to no more than three questions
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stops these rules turning into a game of 20 Questions.
Frequently a single answer can be enough to let you move
your story on.
One quality of solo playing is that you have no one to
please except yourself. If you have an idea for an NPC that
you would love to play, don’t roll for their personality, use
the character you want to have in your story.
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General Solo Advice
Skills Not Questions
It is important that you remember you are playing Sym-
baroum. By that I mean Oracle rolls should not supercede
Traits and Abilities. If you don’t have Sixth Sense, don’t
ask the Oracle if you can feel where the enemy is.
The Oracle is for running the world, you still need
to manage your own character, using the rules provided.
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Published adventures
If you want to put your character through a published
adventure you are going to need to take a couple of things
into account.
Most published adventures expect there to be a party of
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characters with a complimentary skill set. No character
can do it all. When you are on your own, you don’t have
that backup.
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It is important that you read the adventure cover to cover.
You should divide the adventure into a series of scenes
that you are going to play though. In reading and dividing
up the adventure you should identify anything that must
happen for the adventure to be completed. There are prob-
ably not many of them but you must know what they are.
Once you have identified the scenes, I normally
write a note of them on post-it style sticky notes. You
can arrange them into a flow diagram of the adventure.
This diagram will enable you to role play your way
through the adventure and as long as you hit the few
MUST DO scenes you can avoid being railroaded. You just
rearrange scenes so they fall into the order you would
naturally play them.
The number of scenes in an adventure has a direct
impact on the amount of experience earned. You may not
play every scene in an adventure but the ones that you
do play and survive you can make a note of on the sticky
notes.
Scale the Encounters
Most encounters will be with either named individuals or
with stock monsters. Stock monsters are often listed as
“as many as there are PCs”. This kind of notation works
well with solo play. You can scale the encounter to fit you
and any NPCs with you.
As part of your read through you should check for any
impossible challenges. If a skill is absolutely required or a
beast is simply too tough, an impossible to beat creature,
for a lone hero, you may have to edit the content.
Knowing the ending should not spoil your enjoyment
of the adventure. It is a credit to your role playing if you
can play through an adventure when you know you are
going to be betrayed and yet still put your trust in the NPC.
Playing classic published adventures is part of the
camaraderie of being a role player.
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If an adventure is too tough, you can always play
some additional scenes or side adventures to earn some
additional EXP. This can then be used to buy essential
skills. You buy the skills you need to complete the adven-
ture rather than changing the adventure to fit the skills
you have.
Interludes
You can insert additional scenes into a published adven-
ture. These additional scenes can give you a chance to
interact with the world offered by the published adventure
as well as opportunities to heal or re-equip yourself.
They also give you a chance to run small side quests.
I find that these can present themselves though NPC
interactions. If you rolled a Complication and it fired your
imagination, you can loop out of the published adventure
and explore this new avenue. This is what a skilled GM
would do.
Part of the joy of solo play is that there is no reason
star of this show.
Creating Interludes and side quests increase the
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You are not hogging anyone else’s limelight. You are the
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number of scenes in your adventures.
Big Yourself Up
As mentioned above, you are one hero, you cannot do
everything and you don’t have all the skills. A starting
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character normally has the choice of one skill at Adept
and two at novice or five at novice. I would suggest that
you combine these and start with four skills as novice and
a fifth skill at Adept. In effect you are starting the game
with 20 Experience points that have been spent on two
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novice skills (10 EXP each).
You will find that as you are the star of the adventure
you always have the limelight. The focus will always be
on your and this has an interesting impact on the game.
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Experience is awarded for each challenge encoun-
tered, if that challenge is important. You do not need to
succeed. Even failure will move your story on, failure can
often create new challenges once the obvious way is no
longer an option.
A published adventure will normally have enough
challenges to reward an entire party of adventurers. In
solo play, you are likely to meet every challenge and in
doing so, pick up experience faster than you would in a
group game.
You should be aware of this and try not to be overly
generous with your own experience. A challenge should be
important to the story before you give yourself an experi-
ence point.
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Running A Campaign
Solo play absolutely excels at open ended sandbox cam-
paigns. Running a sandbox takes very little work but is
immensely satisfying.
At the back of this book are three record sheets. Each
one is very simple to use but they will help you a lot.
NPC List
The NPC list is exactly what you would expect. It is a list
of all the NPCs you have created during your adventure.
When you are playing you may not want to stop the game
to create a full NPC as soon as you meet them. What I
suggest is that you just record the few key facts you know
about them as you learn them. After your game session
you can revisit this list and create complete sheets for the
NPCs that you think will be important.
Scene List
The Scene List doubles up as a list of completed scenes
for experience purposes but also as a summary of your
adventure so far.
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I consider a scene to have ended when I “handwave”
away a block of time. It could just be seconds, when my
character runs from battlements to ground floor, if you
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see it mentally as the director shouting “Cut!” and the
action resuming with the character rushing out of the
tower, then that was a change of scene.
The Scene List also treats scenes as if they are loca-
tions. As such it attempts to try and tie NPCs to locations.
This is useful when you need to find a particular contact,
if you know that they always hang around the docks.
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When the Symbaroum rules tell you to recapitu-
late, I would suggest that this list becomes a part of that
recapitulation.
Thread List
The thread list is special and takes some explaining. I will
start with What is a thread?
As your adventure progresses you will produce loose
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ends or unfinished business. Often these will be the result
of an unexpected answer from the Oracle, or it may come
from a Complication.
When we talk to an NPC we just assume that they
existed before the moment we chose to focus on them
and that they had been doing something.
As you get to freewheel through your solo campaign
you will create hints of other things going on in the
world. You may talk to someone and their inner desire
is to deceive an ally. Who is this ally? Why do they want
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to decieve them? Who stands to gain from this? How does
it fit into your adventures? It is all down to you from this
point. If in your role playing this is revealed to your char-
acter or sufficiently hinted at, will your character follow
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up on it? Will you have time or are you on a more pressing
mission? Have you just created a loose thread or a plot?
I think you have. Jot down on the record sheet what
details you know of the loose thread. You are doing this
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because you may come across this NPC again or the plot
may build on its own.
Plots often progress without you ever having played a
part. What can happen is that you talk to two NPCs, com-
pletely unrelated and days or weeks apart, but as it hap-
pens they share something in common, maybe they were
both in the same lowlife inn, or they were both Rangers in
light Davokar areas. When you roll for their motivations
you come up with similar or possibly related subjects. At
that point you make a connection in your mind and you
can see that these could be linked.
Rather than creating a new loose thread, what you do
is elaborate on the one you have already.
It is this making of connections that enables sandbox
play. At the start of your game, write your Personal Goal
and I also recommend having a Group Goal even though
you are on your own, at the top of the Thread List. As you
start your game, one or both of these are what you intend
on doing. As you adventure you will generate these loose
threads, connect them together and add more to them.
You could end up with as many as ten seperate threads
each of which is advancing. At some point one or more of
these threads will sweep up your character.
In between solo sessions, or if you don’t have time to
play but want to do something, look at your loose thread
list and try and spot patterns in it. Is there something
going on that your character should be opposing, or is
there something opposing your character?
This list works both ways. Once you have a thread
about an unknown enemy, when that subject comes up
again, you don’t have to invent another enemy, you can
use the one you already have. The list becomes a source
of inspiration to put more context on the Open and Closed
Oracle answers.
This list is a ‘must’ on the recapitulation list before
each session!
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Your Journal
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If you were running a game for friends, you would have
a set of campaign notes. The lists at the back of this book
will hold a lot of information but they are not a campaign.
The magic document is your journal.
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What a journal looks like is a very personal choice.
Mine normally look like a bullet list with little more than
the questions I asked, the answers I rolled and what
they meant to me. I use one line descriptions of what is
happening.
My journal is intended for my eyes only. It only makes
sense to me and I have my own shorthand. I often write
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something like:
KK Approach the tree line
KK SE? CQ+ 7 ü
To me that says are there any Summer Elves [SE]
here? It was a Closed Question [CQ] and Advantaged [+]
towards Yes, I rolled a total of 7 and that was a Yes [ü].
I am not suggesting you write a cryptic journal in
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code! At the other extreme I know solo players who pic-
ture the scene, make a few oracle rolls and then write up
the scene as if it were the chapter of a book, complete with
dialogue and dramatic scene setting.
I even know people in the solo scene who publish fan
fiction and novels from their solo games.
Regardless of the format, something purely personal
or highly polished and professional, you should definitely
keep a journal that you can read back over and get back
into character. The lists are hard facts, your journal is
your story.
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Personal Goals
Your character has a personal goal. I also recommend
choosing a group goal, despite being a group of one.
These goals are your starting point for Open Question
relationships.
Open Question relationships are the references to
other forces, allies, enemies, friends, family and even you.
Your goals will tie your character into the world, it gives
your character a reason to go adventuring. Relating the
Open Question answers directly to your character creates
a world that entirely revolves around you. This will force
you to create opposing forces and allies to your goals.
As your loose threads list builds you can relate these
to your goals and it all comes together to create a coher-
ent, if wide ranging campaign.
Who is trying to stop your character from reaching
their goals? What does the enemy want from your char-
acter, or want to stop them from doing? How far are these
enemies prepared to go in order to achieve their goals?
What restrains these enemies? What external forces must
an enemy take into consideration such as other forces or
authorities in the area? What are the enemy’s local forces
around your character doing right now?
You do not need to be able to answer all those ques-
tions before you start playing. Use them as useful prompts
before or after your session, when you review your various
lists and your journal.
Goals are not just about what you want to achieve.
They are also about how you achieve it. You may have
an NPC that initially is hostile to you, but if your goals
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align with theirs, they are more likely to be be on your
side, moving from hostile to tolerant to possibly being
supportive. This goes both ways and applies to everyone
touched by your actions from simple folk working the
fields to the royal court.
The same rule holds true about your manner and
behaviour. This is still a role playing game and if you are
abrupt or obnoxious, people will either treat your with
disdain, or avoid you or be scared of you.
Play the world
Symbaroum is described as a world that is perilous and
often unjust. If you do not play Symbaroum, the world,
Ambria, the Davokar and the barbarian nations as they
are described, the setting can become just another fan-
tasy setting.
Refresh your mind of the best parts of the setting,
those that most reflect the sort of game you want to play.
Jot them down on sticky notes as short lists, NPCs names,
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places, interesting facts, and so on. Then put these into
the mouths of NPCs, or try and work each one successively
into each new scene.
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The Inevitable Battle
At some point someone is going to get hit with something
sharp or pointy. I seriously suggest that you adopt a fixed
Initiative approach.
Fixed initiative assumes that your character auto-
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surprised or cannot act for some reason.
This is not cheating. It offers you two advantages.
The first is that it speeds up combat just a little, in that
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it removes one roll from every turn. With a party of one,
or at most very few, initiative comes around often and
takes up a disproportionate amount of time for such a
simple game rule.
The second advantage you gain is that you always win
the initiative, thus giving you the edge in combat. It really
is just that little bit more heroic. You are not invulnerable
but you do have a chance to strike down weaker opponents
before they get their blow in.
Taking out Initiative gives you one less thing to worry
about when running both sides of a combat.
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You Want More?

These rules are intentionally minimal, but they are not of one player, but this is a supported product. There will
finished. They never will be. I am still improving and be updates and improvements.
revising solo rules I wrote seven years ago. When you use If you are a fan of solo play or want to know more, I
these rules you will make changes and refinements that suggest visiting ppmgames.co.uk and if you like what you

fit the game you want to play.
If you have feedback, comments or suggestions I
always watch the discussion section for this booklet. If
you leave a comment I will respond.
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new releases, discounts and the most interesting bit, I like
to ask people their opinions on this. That is my attempt
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I love getting feedback. opinion on new things, you will get to see some pre-
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