My personal list of links and resources for solo RPG playing. Categories from Geek Gamers, which inspired my solo roleplaying.
What you need:
Generative resources - creating dungeons, NPCs, quests, items, monsters, etc.
- Tome of Adventure Design
- Classic Dungeon Design Guide
- Perchance - create lists and randomize results
- One Page Solo Engine
- Play Every Role Solo Engine
- Soloist - a game assistant for solo role-players
- DM Heroes - NPC picture generator
- Hero Forge - create custom characters, with the ability to 3d print
- Auto Roll Tables
- Don Jon RPG Tools
- Solitaire Adventure Maker
- GM’s Apprentice
- Random Animal Table - PDF to roll different animals
- Aladdin Technique - alters an encounter to make it unique
- Situations For Tabletop Roleplaying - compilation of five situation-building tools
- Starting situation generator - for rolling dice to kick off an adventure
- ChaosGen - Tools for Ideas & RPGs
- Mappa Imperium - solo/co-op world building game
Suggestive resources - provide direction and structure for your story. Cards from other games, game maps, etc.
- Storygen - customizable number of Story Cube-like dice for drawing inspiration
- Zero Dice - uses Game Icons to randomly roll
- RPG Story Constructor - similar to above, but assigns icons to story parts or character traits
- Situations For Tabletop Roleplaying - compilation of situation building tools Part 2
- Idea Generator - random words and icons
- Spotify Playlist - background moods/atmospheric music for RPGs
- Owlbear Rodeo - free web-based VTT
A rubric - RPG system rules, such as:
- Rewind: Temporal Tales - rules lite framework for telling stories of time travel, time loops, and precognition
- Bivius Solo RPG - A simple RPG and Solo System
- Miso RPG - a freeform, minimalist, simple and FREE solo engine
Something restrictive - answering questions to get yes/no answers
- RPGSolo yes/no
- TinySoldiers yes/no
- The Madey Upy Namey Emulator - online version - yes/no with a d6 for “Yes, but,” “No, and,” etc., add another die and take the higher or lower for Likely or Unlikely odds, for every 6 rolled gain an intervention point and change entity or plot at 3 points, d10 table for unexpected results
- Recluse - answers yes/no based on the higher of two rolled dice, both 3 or less is a BUT and 4 or more is an AND, extra dice of a color for likely/unlikely, ties challenge the presupposition
- The Oracle - uses 3d6 with rules inspired by Mythic
All inclusive:
- Four Against Darkness - solitaire dungeon-delving game
- D100 Dungeon - uses d100 tables to generate dungeons, new 6th book (World Builder) includes rules for hexcrawling
- Ancient Odysseys: Treasure Awaits! - $15 book with other options, fantasy d6 soloable RPG
- Fabled Lands - $9 book, fantasy, CYOA-style
- Instant Game - Free PDF, generic
- Scarlet Heroes - $15 PDF, fantasy
- Index Card RPG Master Edition - $49 hardcover, easy to learn d20 system using index cards
- Trials for One - $5 PDF, solo rules for ICRPG
- Disciples of Bone & Shadow: Conquered Sun Edition - $25 softcover, solo hexcrawling
- Soloist RPG - free PDF, generic
- ALONe: A Solo Game Engine BETA - (A Lonesome October Night) is a solo game engine designed specifically to support role playing with only one player and no Game Master
- Risus: Ring of Thieves - free solo adventure for Risus: The Anything RPG
- so1um - a one-page solo RPG
- so1um enhanced - so1um with added tables and Recluse oracle
- Loner - freeform solo RPG using aspects of Recluse, Freeform Universal, and 6Q System.
- 6Q System - $1.50, simple one-page setting-neuatral RPG
- Space Aces - super simple D20 & D6 rolling system solo playthrough
- OpenD6
- MicroLite20
- Ironsworn
- Iron Journal - app for running solo Ironsworn campaigns
- NotofThisWorld Itch.io - Hand-drawn map, pocket refs, and half-page worksheets
- Denizen Matrix Generator - procedurally generates denizens for Delves
- Ironsworn: Badlands - a supplement for Ironsworn designed to adapt the mechanics to a Western setting
- Ironsworn Foundry VTT - $50 for Foundry, allows you to play Ironsworn online
- The Augur - $15 VTT for 5e, Ironsworn, and general worldbuilding, continuing development
- Actual Plays:
- Me, Myself and Die! - complete 18 ~30 minute episodes
- Kill Ten Rats - complete 12 ~30 minute episodes (Chapter 1)
- Ironhome - ongoing 12+ 45 minute episodes
- Ironsworn: Starforged - Kickstarter for sci-fi evolution of original Ironsworn system
- Gamemastering by Brian Jamison - 300 pages of GM advice
Interesting Solo RPG Blogs:
Journaling Games:
- The Adventurer - PWYW PDF
- Thousand Year Old Vampire - $15 PDF, $45 hardcover
- Journey - $10 PDF, $25 softcover
- Carta-Mancy - PWYW PDF