Table for One editorial

Articles about running a game that remembers

These essays examine rules authority, spatial truth, and campaign memory in a solo game that must answer to its record.

1. Rules authority

   Why AI Game Masters Have a Rules Problem

   A narrator should not silently own every decision in a solo game. Keeping player choice, rules, dice, and campaign state distinct makes consequences answerable.

   By Table for One · Published August 17, 2026

2. Spatial truth

   Why Our AI Is Not Allowed to Invent the Map

   A world record gives places, routes, and prior consequences something solid to refer back to. Convenient prose cannot carry the same responsibility into the next scene.

   By Table for One · Published August 17, 2026

3. Campaign memory

   Why AI RPGs Forget Your Campaign

   A coherent answer can still lose the named facts that give a campaign its history. Observed context limits and validated durable-memory research are not the same thing as a shipped promise.

   By Table for One · Published August 17, 2026