# Loner: Paranormal Files tags: #game/rpg/loner-paranormal-files ![[Loner - Paranormal Files (cover).jpg|300]] **Loner: Paranormal Files** is the conspiracy-and-anomaly dial on **[[Loner]]** — a solo RPG of secrecy, strange incidents, and impossible truths, where you're the only line of defense between reality and whatever leaks through the cracks. Same Chance-vs-Risk oracle and tag-based engine, now pointed at investigations the public never gets to know about. ## Setting The setting is the paranormal-investigation world *X-Files* built and the hobby keeps coming back to: conspiracies, classified incidents, and reality-warping anomalies. You play an investigator — likely one of a classified agency's operatives — poking at files that shouldn't exist and incidents that don't follow the rules. Character creation and traits fit the professional-and-the-cursed mold, names follow, and then the rules get you into the strange. The whole thing is designed to keep one player asking an Oracle the awkward questions and living with the answers. ## Mechanics The engine is straight Loner — roll a Chance die against a Risk die for yes/no, read ties as "Yes, but…," tick the Twist Counter. Paranormal Files wraps the core in the investigation loop: build an investigator, chase anomalies through the Oracle's yes/no answers, and let the conspiracies tighten around you. It leans on the genre's favorite trick — the horror of a reality that doesn't obey — and lets minimalism handle the rest. If you want Loner's one-page spine wrapped in a classified-file folder and government-issue gloom, this is the dial. ## Editions A single 2025 supplement (released 2025). *In the library.* ## References - [Loner: Paranormal Files - DriveThruRPG](https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/532368/loner-paranormal-files) - [Loner SRD (free full text) - Zotiquest Games](https://lonersrd.zotiquestgames.com/) - [Loner - Official Website](https://loner.zotiquestgames.com/)