Solo FRPQuestions about Solo FRP
What people ask about Solo FRP and its AI Game Master, the Loremaster: the rules it plays by, the dice, the oracle, the languages it narrates in, and when the doors open.
The game
Is Solo FRP an AI dungeon master?
Yes. Solo FRP is a solo fantasy roleplaying game whose AI Game Master, the Loremaster, runs the table for a single player. You type what your hero does, and the Loremaster narrates what happens, calls for ability checks and saving throws, and offers choices when the road divides. The dice are rolled in the open, so you can see how each outcome was reached, and undo takes turns back, one at a time.
How a session runs →What Is an AI Game Master? A Solo Player’s Guide →
Do I need a group or a human Game Master?
No. Solo FRP is a single-player game: you play one hero, and the Loremaster, an AI Game Master, runs the table for you. It narrates, calls for the rolls, offers choices and keeps the campaign’s records, so there is no night to agree on and no one to wait for. Play ten minutes or a whole night; the campaign keeps until you return.
One turn, step by step →How to Play a Solo RPG: Your First Session, Step by Step →
What adventure can I play?
The sample adventure is The Whispering Crypt of Valdrath, set in the Valdrath Vale. Its road begins at an inn called the Black Pear, where the live prologue on the first page of this site begins too, so you can try its opening scene before early access. The Tales chapter on that page tells more of it.
Which languages can the Loremaster narrate in?
Five: English, Turkish, German, French and Spanish. The Loremaster tells the story in the language you choose for your campaign, from the first scene to the last, and the rules and the dice work the same in every one of them. The website you are reading, these answers and the guides included, is written in English only.
Who is the Loremaster?
The Loremaster is Solo FRP’s AI Game Master: the name the game gives the voice that narrates your story, calls for ability checks and saving throws, offers choices when the road divides, and remembers the people, debts and promises you gather. It is a part the AI plays, not a person, and it tells the tale in the language you choose for your campaign.
You write; the Loremaster answers →What Is an AI Game Master? A Solo Player’s Guide →
What does FRP stand for?
FRP stands for fantasy roleplaying: the kind of game in which you take the part of a hero in an imagined world of magic and monsters, say what your hero does, and a Game Master tells what happens next. Solo FRP is that game for a table of one: you play a single hero, and an AI Game Master, the Loremaster, runs the table.
How a session runs →How to Play a Solo RPG: Your First Session, Step by Step →
Rules, dice and the oracle
What rules does Solo FRP use?
Solo FRP plays by SRD 5.2.1, the System Reference Document 5.2.1, licensed under CC-BY-4.0: fifth-edition-compatible rules. You build a hero from a species, a background and a class, buy ability scores with points, and choose spells and starting equipment. In play come ability checks, saving throws, short and long rests that spend Hit Dice, conditions and exhaustion.
Your hero, by SRD 5.2.1 →How to Play a Solo RPG: Your First Session, Step by Step →
Are the dice fair, and can I see them?
You can see every one: the dice are rolled in the open. When the Loremaster calls for an ability check or a saving throw, the roll appears in the story with animated 3D dice beside the DC it must meet. With advantage or disadvantage both dice land and the one that counts is marked, and a natural 20 or a natural 1 is shown for what it is.
What is the oracle?
A Mythic-style yes-or-no oracle for the questions the story cannot settle by itself. Ask whether the door is barred, choose how likely the answer seems, and the oracle answers against the chaos factor, a number from 1 to 9 that rises as the tale slips out of your hands. The higher it climbs, the more often fate says yes. Scenes can be interrupted, too.
The oracle and the chaos factor →Solo RPG Oracle: Yes/No Questions and the Chaos Factor →
Can I undo a turn?
Yes. Undo takes the latest turn back, one step at a time, and the story stands where it stood before you acted, ready for another choice. If the Loremaster stumbles over a turn, retry gives it a second attempt. A slip of the keyboard or a misread line never has to stay in the tale.
Memory and the map
Does the Loremaster remember my campaign?
Yes. The campaign keeps its own records: a codex of the people you meet and an NPC web of how they are bound together, factions and your reputation with each, a timeline of looming events with deadlines, a quest log with steps, and a journal of threats, promises and facts. Periodic story summaries keep the rest, so the tale stays consistent from session to session.
What the Loremaster remembers →Solo RPG Campaign Journal: NPCs, Factions and Quests →
Is there a map?
Yes. The atlas is a hex map under fog of war, and the fog lifts as you travel. The party moves hex by hex, meets random encounters on the road, discovers sites and makes camp. You can set a waypoint and write your own notes on the hexes, and a minimap on the play screen keeps your bearings while the story goes on.
The atlas, hex by hex →Solo Hexcrawl: Travel, Fog of War and Random Encounters →
Early access
Where do I play Solo FRP, and is there an app?
In your web browser, with nothing to download or install: the browser is the table. Apps and other platforms are not announced yet. Join the waitlist on the first page of solofrp.com, and one letter will reach you when your seat is ready. The address is used for that letter and nothing else.
When can I play, and how do I get early access?
Solo FRP is pre-release, and its release date is not announced yet. Early access opens in waves: join the waitlist on the first page of solofrp.com, and one letter will reach you when your seat is ready, nothing else. Until then, the live prologue on that page lets you try the opening scene at the Black Pear.
How much does Solo FRP cost?
The price is not announced yet. Solo FRP is pre-release, and nothing about what it will cost has been published. Join the waitlist on the first page of solofrp.com to hear when early access opens: one letter reaches you when your seat is ready, and the address you give is used for nothing else.