In this thread I'll have the chance to play together with u/zeruhur_ to show an example of actual play of Imperium, a Geared Towards Loner game set during the Roman Empire.

I wrote this game based on r/LonerRPG (which I really loved from the very first time I played) and I'm really honoured to play this example with its author.
The only change we will do to the ruleset, in order to adapt to P.A.R.T.s.: there is only 1 Twist Counter, no matter how many PCs are on stage.

We will use Lonelog (as well by u/zeruhur_) as standard notation for our sessions.

Thank you u/zeruhur_, for Loner and for these sessions.

To be very clear: a subreddit is not the perfect platform to share the scenes, because the world document is not really "shared" and can only modified by the author of the post. In any case this is just an example to show how the system works.

Session Zero Worksheet

Element	Decision
Solo RPG system	Imperium - Geared Towards Loner game
Setting (genre, world name)	Roman Empire, around 100 CE - Rome
Tone (1–2 adjectives)	Terse. Shadowed. Calculating.
Starting location	Faustina's domus - Rome
Name of PCs and their players	[PC: Cornelius Urbanus] u/Emelon_Games
	???- u/zeruhur_
1–2 visible threats	Faustina could fail her idea of blackmailing
	Cornelius could be discovered as the author of the blackmailing to a Senator
Content inclusions	tbd
Content exclusions	tbd
Posting format	Lonelog with prose on Reddit
Communication platform	Telegram
World document location	Reddit - this sub

World Document

NPCs

• >![N: Faustina Livia | patron | big merchant's wife]!<
• >![N: Quinto Curio | senator | secretly bankrupt]!<
• >![N: Philokal | Bath Attendant | hold a secret]!<

Threads

>!Faustina wants to blackmail Senator Quinto, in order to favour her husband!<

Locations

Items and artifacts

Factions and organizations

Active threats

Timeline

Hey all,

Most of us who love solo RPGs know that feeling when a session suddenly goes off the rails in the best way: an oracle twist, an NPC reveal, a consequence you didn’t see coming, and your first instinct is: “I wish someone else could’ve seen that.”

I’ve been working on a small, system-agnostic framework to scratch that itch, and I’ve just released it as a free pamphlet plus a longer write-up on Substack.

Thanks to u/zeruhur_ and the r/ruolatorisolitari for the help in drafting and testing the system.

The idea is to share this system and adapt it to the different solo games, so that they can be played together with other solo players.

What is P.A.R.T.s.?

P.A.R.T.s. stands for Play Alone, Role Together. It’s not a new solo system, and it doesn’t replace your GM emulator or journaling rules. Instead, it’s a structure you wrap around the solo games you already use so that:

• Multiple solo players share one living world
• Everyone plays asynchronously, on their own schedule
• There is no GM, but there is a shared canon
• Sessions are recorded in a world document that everyone can read and build on

The loop looks like this:

1. The group agrees on a solo system, setting, and tone.
2. A player “books” the next slot, plays a solo session, and writes it up.
3. They update the shared world doc (NPCs, factions, locations, threats, timeline).
4. The next player reads that, books their session, and continues from there.

You still play alone, with your own oracles and tools—but the world itself is collective.

If you want to know more and share your thoughts, it'd be great.
Thanks

P.A.R.T.s. on Itch.io: https://emelon.itch.io/parts

A short intro to the system: https://emelon.substack.com/p/introducing-parts-play-alone-role?r=89rix4