In short: Foci allow you to choose what you want to do each solo session and helps you find what it is about solo roleplaying you love.
One of the biggest challenges in solo roleplaying – especially in an old-school Dungeons & Dragons style game – is deciding what your sessions are about.
Without a GM guiding the flow, you, as the lone player, get to decide which aspects of the game world deserve the spotlight.
This is one of the great strengths of solo roleplaying: you get to decide what you want to do.
And while this freedom is powerful, it can also feel overwhelming as you end up having too much to choose from.
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