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Alone in the Dark is a set of simple Solo play rules for Blades in the Dark
You Need This Book
Because all role-playing is improv and solo rules support that improvisation. Even as a group GM these rules will help when you need to create exciting games with little or no preparation.
It uses simple tables to replace the GM with dice rolls and your own improv. skills. What makes these... [click here for more] |
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You may be new to solo roleplaying or an old hand, either way we all run our solo games our own unique ways. This does mean that we rarely get to see how other people are doing it. This books contains tips and advice that I have picked up over the years that I have incorporated into my own play. Some of these may be new to you, some you may accept as obvious truths. Each of these work for me, and... [click here for more] |
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OLD SCHOOL SOLO
Old-School Essentials version
This solo roleplaying supplement is written specifically to feel like natural OSR RPG rules. If you are comfortable with rolling to see if you encounter a wandering monster and then rolling to see what it is, then you can work these rules! Most of the rules in this add-on rulebook condense down into just four tables, the rest of the content is all supporting... [click here for more] |
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You may be new to solo roleplaying or an old hand; either way, we all run our solo games uniquely. This means that we rarely see how other people are doing it. This book contains tips and advice that I have picked up over the years that I have incorporated into keeping my game notes. I talk about analog, pen and paper methods, online, digital, and mobile tools, and about using audio, video, and VTTs... [click here for more] |
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OSR Solo rules
These rules are intended to allow you to play an OSR, in this case meaning 0D&D, B/X style games, without a Dungeon Master.
The game you will get using these rules will be a sandbox style adventure, you will not need to do any Dungeon Master [DM] style preparation although having a few stock NPCs or appropriate level would be helpful.
No DM?
The normal cycle of play is that the... [click here for more] |
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Players Guide to Solo Roleplaying
Using Cepheus Engine for Solo Play.
Solo roleplay is put forward as being for anyone who wants to play when there is no one else available. Most solo tools are actually built with the Game Master in mind. GMs are naturally more used to improvising entire scenes, creating NPCs on the spot, and having to grab random tables to create content on the fly. These are not... [click here for more] |
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A Lonely Knave is one page, both sides, solo roleplay extension to Knave by Ben Milon (Questing Beast Games).
It uses the same Knave mechanics, it strives for the same look and feel, and it plays the same way.
There are some intrinsic elements of Knave that made it perfect for solo playing.
High compatibility with OSR games. You can use any OSR bestiaries, adventures and spell books,... [click here for more] |
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This rules supplement is aimed at any and all BRP Basic Roleplaying games, including Call of Cthulhu and Runequest, and anything else that is independently produced using the SRD.
The book contains a d100 oracle, a selection of muses or spark tables, advice on improv gaming and solo playing adventure/mystery games.
Solo rules are a great way to turn any rulebook into a quickstart for the... [click here for more] |
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Mini Solo
Solo Roleplaying Supplement Compatible with Mini Six and OpenD6
These rules provide a simple yes/no oracle, an open question muse, and timer tools to enable solo playing games based on the WEG D6 system. This includes Star Wars, OpenD6 (all genres), and Mini Six.
The solo rules use dice mechanics that should be familiar to anyone who has played any of the D6 games.
Solo is a perfect... [click here for more] |
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Too Many Games
Too many games get bought and never played. With these rules, you will be able to play Stars Without Number without a GM. Grab the rulebook off the shelf. Make yourself a character and start playing. This book is an interactive set of solo rules that guide your improvisation and acts as a GM for your adventures. In place of the common lists of words, this booklet uses... [click here for more] |
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MAZE RAT is one page, both sides, solo roleplay extension to the best selling MAZE RATS by Ben Milon (Questing Beast Games).
It has been designed to fit in seamlessly with Ben's super light OSR classic game of random worlds and wild magic.
MAZE RAT uses the same combination of 2d6 and six d6 lists that you will be familiar with from the main game.
Maze Rats and Knave share a lot... [click here for more] |
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Lone Star: Solo rules for Mothership RPG
This rules supplement allows you to play Mothership © RPG without a Warden. It does this using some very simple game mechanics that are fully in keeping with the Mothership gameplay. These should be instantly recognisable to a Mothership fan.
Solo is a perfect way to learn a new game, test your first adventures and going beyond just making characters... [click here for more] |
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Horror seems like it should be ideal for roleplaying games, we have all the monsters you could dream of in your worst nightmares.
The reality is often disappointment. Players brought up on killing all monsters are just not scared by things that go bump in the night.
This book is a collection of tips, advice, and examples on running scarier horror games.
This book grew out of a run of blog articles... [click here for more] |
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Dungeon Crawl Solo
Solo Roleplaying Rules for Dungeon Crawl Classics and Hubris
This solo roleplaying supplement enables playing Dungeon Crawl Classics without a Judge. The rules are split into three sections. It is an excellent companion to quickstart your way into Dungeon Crawl Classics.
Part 1: This deals with solo playing and the basic yes-no question. These are handled with... [click here for more] |
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Solo Dungeon World
Playing Dungeon World without a Gamemaster
This booklet allows you to play Dungeon World without a gamemaster. These rules use a simplified yes-no mechanic designed to encourage the use of gamemaster moves.
Adventure and the Campaign Front is a central element of these rules. As you play the Fronts will be built up based upon the choices you make and how your game unfolds.
Although... [click here for more] |
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Solo FASERIP
Compatible with FASERIP and FASERIPopedia
These solo rules were requested by one of my patreons.
FASERIP is a retro-clone of the Marvel Super Heroes game from the 1980s. It has a rather unique resolution mechanic that is very simple to use.
FASERIP is very popular and well-supported. You can find the free rules here. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/177913/Faserip
These rules require... [click here for more] |
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No Rabble Rouser
EZD6 Compatible Solo Tools
EZD6 is a simple d6 driven game with a very strong OSR feel, without having all the D&D baggage.
The system is heavily skewed towards player success. Typically a 1 is an automotive fail, 2 is a failure (but you can spend meta currency to boost it, 3-5 is a success and 6 is an exploding roll and critical success.
These solo rules use that same 1, 2,... [click here for more] |
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Unfinished: Waterloo
Unfinished: Waterloo is a hack of Unfinished by Stew Wilson. This hack turns Unfinished into a solo RPG and wraps the events in a setting straight out of Europe's bloody past.
It is the morning after the fateful battle of Waterloo where you fell on the field of battle, yet your spirit has not moved on. You are met by a spiritual figure and given a chance to tell them about... [click here for more] |
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Do you want to play FATE?
Do you want to learn how the game plays?
These rules replace the need for a GM allowing you to run the game that you want to play. Solo campaigns can be sweeping adventures limited only by your imagination. This booklet will unleash your adventures.
No experience necessary!
Solo is a perfect way to learn... [click here for more] |
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Solo Core
Solo Playing 2D20 System Games
I am best known for creating solo tools that fit a specific game and setting. I like the seamless feel of solo tools and game rules working together as part of the same system. So what am I doing writing something that goes against that philosophy? The 2D20 System Reference Document, published by Modiphius, contained all the core rules for the underlying 2D20... [click here for more] |
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A Lonely Death (in space)
COMPATIBLE WITH DEATH IN SPACE
These solo rules are designed to get you started in solo play, using Death in Space from Stockholm Kartell.
These solo rules use a simple 2d6 yes-no oracle and a d20 muse to handle questions and answers. In addition, a number of simple techniques are used to give the impression of NPC AI, by creating fast behavior profiles that influence oracle... [click here for more] |
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vs. Solo
Solo Tools Compatible with vs. M Games
In preparing these rules, I looked at various vs. games to understand how designers hacked the rules to fit their vision. I was pleased that every game I looked at had worked within the framework created by the original game. They may have added Qualities or renamed them to be more thematic, and they have changed and created good and bad stuff. There... [click here for more] |
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Pilot RPG - Playtest Edition
Note that this is a first-draft playtest edition. The price is set to PWYW, and any money raised will go towards developing the game and buying in art.
Fantasy High Adventure
Built for the sword and sorcery-loving Game Master who wants to build their own worlds.
Pilot RPG is a fully 'play it now' game. Pick it up, make a character, and start playing, but it is more than... [click here for more] |
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Rogue Handler
Solo Roleplaying in a World of Conspiracy and Cosmic Horror
This supplement makes solo roleplaying most d100 Modern Setting Cthulhu Mythos games a real possibility. These rules add a simple yes-no oracle, for answering questions, along with a set of guidelines for evolving mysteries to be solved as you play. This as-you-play method means that you will not know what is going on until your... [click here for more] |
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Solo Space Opera with Cepheus
Solo Roleplaying with Cepheus Deluxe
This rules supplement adds solo roleplaying to Cepheus Deluxe™ published by Stellagama. This zine is available in both digital PDF and Print on Demand options. The print version is a 64-page (6” x 9”) booklet. This format also makes the PDF rules perfect for use on Tablet PCs and iPads.
... [click here for more] |
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I was asked to put down my thoughts on running better science fiction games and at first, I wasn't sure what to write, sci-fi is so broad a genre. How do you encompass everything from dystopian cyberpunk to the optimism of Star Trek?
What this book contains is 17 mini-essays. The first half is all about reducing the scope of your games and campaigns. Sci-fi is such a broad genre that the more you... [click here for more] |
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Mech Rider Solo Rules compatible with Lancer
These solo rules integrate with the core Lancer game mechanics to add solo play to the roleplaying game.
In addition to traditional oracles to answer questions and inject ideas into your scenes, I have included ideas that go back 60 years or more to help you solo play the tactical combat side of the game.
These rules require the Lancer core rules... [click here for more] |
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Solo Universal Role Play
The material presented here is my original creation, intended for use with any Generic Universal Role Playing game.
Parts of these rules are developed from One Page Solo Engine v0.2 by Karl Hendricks Those rules are covered by the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
I was asked by one of my twitter followers to create a set of rules for playing a well known generic universal role playing... [click here for more] |
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Cut Up Solo
Unknown Kadath
This book takes the text from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H P Lovecraft and cuts it into snippets of 3-5 words. There are two d1000 tables included in the PDF and over 9,000 snippets in the included spreadsheets. The spreadsheets (xlsx and ods formats) can be downloaded using a link in the book. These are set up to randomly grab 20 snippets at a time, or you can... [click here for more] |
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Solo Engine for 7th Sea
This rules supplement allows you to play 7th Sea (1st or 2nd Edition) without a Games Master. Questions about your world and the actions of all the NPCs that you would normally ask your GM are handled by a few simple tables and one or two dice rolls.
Rules are provided for simple and complex questions, scene objectives, NPC actions, and combat tactics.
Alongside the printed... [click here for more] |
Chaosium |
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Easier Encounters
Encounters are fundamental to great game sessions and campaigns. This book contains my ideas on combining player goals, character choices, stakes, and consequences for building encounters that build into adventures and into satisfying campaigns.
... [click here for more] |
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Scion Solo Adventures
There are many ways to play role-playing games. For most of us, the immediate picture in your mind’s eye is that of a group of friends around a dining room table with everyone sat in front of their character sheet and dice, books scattered around.
It is probably more likely that most role-players are actually sat in front of their PC playing their favorite game via chat on... [click here for more] |
Onyx Path Publishing |
$2.95
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Ruinous Explorations
Solo Rules Compatible with Worlds Without Number
Worlds Without Number is Kevin Crawford's fantasy OSR game of sandbox adventure. The rules in this supplement add solo play to that game. It uses a simple set of rules to push decisions out to dice rolls. These answer yes-no style questions, control NPCs, and events outside your character's control. It is an excellent companion... [click here for more] |
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Camaraderie
Solo playing Comrades The Revolutionary RPG
Comrades The Revolutionary RPG is a PbtA game about fighting towards a revolution. These rules add solo play to its capabilities.
Create randomized factions that are working towards their own ends and don't care who gets trodden under to achieve them.
Everything works off of d6, and most of the time you will be using... [click here for more] |
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Solo [Challenge] Dungeon
I frequently create short video tips for people who are new to solo playing. These are prompted by questions from my patreons, members of my Discord, or just visitors to my website. One of the most frequently recurring tips or bits of advice I give out is about not playing everything. It is perfectly okay to skip over elements of a game that don’t interest you. For me,... [click here for more] |
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OSR Cosmic Horror
Solo Roleplaying
Compatible with Eldritch Tales: Lovecraftian White Box Role-Playing(TM)
This is a rules supplement that allows you to play Eldritch Tales without a Game Master. The rules pick out the suggested optional rules from within Eldritch Tales that best suit solo play, and then add in randomised plot hooks, question and answer rules and some unique game mechanics to help... [click here for more] |
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Cozy, Murder, Solo
Compatible with Brindlewood Bay
This solo supplement is intended to compliment Brindlewood Bay by Jason Cordova and The Gauntlet.
What it adds to the game are tools for creating random mysteries, suspects, clues, and void clues.
You also get an Oracle that works like any other move, with positive and negative outcomes replacing hits and misses.
Alongside the core solo rules, you... [click here for more] |
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Solo Noir
Solo Roleplaying Secrets & Lies
I am a huge fan of games that I can jump straight into without having to digest 500 pages of rules and options before making a 1st level character. Secrets & Lies by Daniel Bayn is just 33 pages, and PWYW. The book gives you three different settings, but it is the classic noir detective that spoke to me.
The standout design feature is how Secrets &... [click here for more] |
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Single Agent Missions
Compatible with White Lies
This is a solo rules supplement for White Lies by DwD Studios. The core game rules are derived from the OSR, but this game is so steeped in spies, espionage, James Bond, etc., that beyond the character creation is functionally a different game.
My solo rules have been designed alongside the core rules, but you will need a regular pack of playing cards... [click here for more] |
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This is a simple two-page booklet with a very simple solo system that can be used with any 24XX game. It contains four main ideas, the yes-no question, the open question, record keeping to facilitate do-overs and jumping back and forth in time, and managing scenes, including plot twists through unexpected scenes.
These rules respect the 24XX mechanics of 1d6 for resolution and d20 for detail.
These... [click here for more] |
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Guide RPG - Playtest Edition
Note that this is a first-draft playtest edition. The price is set to PWYW, and any money raised will go towards developing the game and buying in art.
Cthulhu Investigations and Adventure
Built for the Cthulhu Mythos Game Master who wants that Rolemaster feel but doesn't want to have to hack systems together themselves.
This game takes Whitebox Eldritch Tales... [click here for more] |
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Unfinished: Astronaut Death is a hack of Unfinished by Stew Wilson. This hack turns Unfinished into a solo RPG and wraps the events around the death of an astronaut at the controls of a shuttle.
Your shuttle is approaching the international space station. You are dead at the controls. How did you die?
You died, and your spirit will not move on.
Unfinished: Astronaut Death is a... [click here for more] |
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Crossroad Chronicler is a periodic publication focusing on Solo, Gm’less, and Gm-lite Role-Playing Games and resources to play them. Our goal is to bring together some of these people and the materials they produce and collect it all in one place for others interested in the concept. We are the chronicler at the crossroads of others’ journeys, here to share for everyone’s benefit.
Find... [click here for more] |
Sad Fishe Games |
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HACK SOLO
A Solo Oracle System for The Black Hack
You can play The Black Hack [TBH] without a game master. Play when you like, for as long as you like. Grab your d20 and a d12 or two and set out on a great adventure.
These solo rules give an oracle based approach to solo play. Just as The Black Hack is driven by Roll Under Attribute, these rules use a Roll Under mechanic for yes-no answers.... [click here for more] |
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Cepheus Solo Oracle Deck
Simple Oracle Cards that compliment Player's Guide to Solo Roleplaying
This oracle deck includes inspiration prompts and the yes-no oracle from the Player's Guide to Solo Roleplay as well as a visual representation of the Drama Dice mechanic and 2d6 rolls for use by NPCs, or your character if you prefer.
The digital download includes the 72 card deck and instruction... [click here for more] |
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"I love the way spellcasting works"
Ignacio M.
2023 Update: 3Deep was originally released under the OGL 1.0a. Following the recent disgusting behavior by WotC and Hasbro, I have removed the OGL, and moved to a more permissive license. You are still welcome to create, publish and sell your own updates and adventures for 3Deep.
The Ultimate... [click here for more] |
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ICONIC Hero
Solo Roleplaying Compatible with ICONS Assembled
ICONIC Hero gives you a simple set of tools that allow you to play ICONS Assembled without a Game Master. If you want to learn the game, or you cannot get a group together, these rules will let you play on your own. No need to be an expert or know the rules inside out, anyone with imagination, and and enjoyment... [click here for more] |
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13th Solo -
Solo Roleplaying Rules for use with 13th Age
This rules supplement gives you a rules light approach to solo roleplaying 13th Age. These rules try to fit in as seamlessly with the core 13th Age rules as they can, using just a d20 and d6. They make use of the escalation die and a similar rules for controlling the drama in your game and events outside your control.
The last two pages of... [click here for more] |
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USP
Unbelievably Simple Solo Play
Compatible with USR 2.0
Scott Malthouse kindly permitted me to create these rules for USR 2.0. The cool thing about simple and universal systems like USR 2.0 is that you can learn one system and then play anything anywhere. You can hold the rules in your head and play without having to reference rulebooks constantly.
These solo rules are about as... [click here for more] |
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Solo In A Lost Cause
Compatible with Silent Legions
These rules are aimed first and foremost at people new to solo playing or maybe have some experience with one of the big-name tools like Mythic or Ironsworn and want to break out into investigative games.
A mystery is one of the hardest formats to solo play. It comes with all the complications of creating clues, and secret motives, which you... [click here for more] |
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