Top 10 Solo RPG Things (games, tools, systems etc.) 

>Mork Borg Sorry, but you have shit taste. Lmao

A wonderful episode. Thank you very much for sharing your passion.

My dude spent seven minutes on the honorable mentions. Talk about quality content right there. I've been diving into solo TTRPG pretty heavily in the last month or so, and I don't know how I never stumbled onto this video (I've seen so many of yours).

What an awesome list, I don't think you've missed anything! Thanks for mentioning Broken Shores once again, I'm currently working on a hexcrawl adventure for it.

You will definitely amend this list to officially include Tricube Tales once you spend more time with it. Incredibly adaptive, clean, and focused system, especially when played solo!

Great list! There are so much options to choose nowadays that in the end I spend more time trying to decide what I will play instead of playing. 🤣

This channel was my introduction in soloing, and Solitary Defilment was the one that "clicked" on my brain and all made sense. I even bought it twice (first time I missed Alone in the Crowd). Just mentioning, for a very very rules light agnostic system, I like one called Loner, it's my fav Yes/No Oracle.

I liked your concept of using determination as a way of cheating death. It makes sense that the hero might have a moment where something comes along to move the story along. GeekGamer speaks about moving the narrative in her book on solo gaming and you have enriched the concept to something believable.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1920">32:00</a> There's "Black Streams: Solo Heroes", originally a supplement for Labyrinth Lord, but it's basically ready to use plug-and-play Scarlet heroes solo rules for all OSR compatible games.

Question for you: Can you one day do a video for solo RPG game and supplements that AREN’T fantasy? I have been getting into RPGs with a more modern setting and even westerns and cyberpunk but it seems like the majority of the product out there is geared towards fantasy. If you could help point some of us in the right direction on supplements and games for different genres I would appreciate it.

For me too, Scarlet Heroes was the one system that makes solo play something doable at first. The only thing I regret is that its solo tables are bound to its setting. I think it's a pity that Kevin Crawford didn't adapt these solo rules with the Without Number series. I'm also surprised to not see Mythic GME (especially its second edition which is for me a masterclass) and any mention to Shawn Tomkin (Well solitary defilement is based on Ironsworn so maybe that counts for something :) ). Great video nonetheless.

Your determination mechanism for MB is one I must try. Great idea.

Fantastic video! I think Scarlet Heroes looks like it could be perfect for me, pretty much all in one book designed for solo play in mind. Will be interesting to see where 2d6 ends up falling on this list, will have to look into that. An interesting top 10 list would be combining this and your solo board game list and seeing where everything lands.

I love your top 10, always something new. You should try todo a solo fantasy journaling top 10 :)

Scarlet Heroes and White Box are in my backpack. I have them always with me. I also try to play D&D 5e-Adventures with Scarlet Heroes (ascending AC - 20 = descending AC; Challenge Rate = HD). I don't care about spoilers. Just want to expirience the story and fight some monsters.

Really appreciate your balanced evaluation of these cool products with both their pros and cons. Agree with your view of Blackoath's games. They are very refined designs with interestingly distinct flavor. But they desperately need summaries and play aids to include all the essential rules and tables in one handy reference. Plus their new titles seem to come out too fast and too close to one another, which makes me feel overwhelmed and confused at times. The DMG of AD&D 1e (pp. 47, 49 "The Adventure" + p. 173 Appendix B Random Wilderness Adventure) remains my go to wilderness adventuring too for solo play. Simple, elegant, and effective without overengineering things or unnecessary frills. The thing with using the Inkwell Sidequest cards in solo play is too much information is revealed all at the same time, leaving not enough room for emerging narrative and surprise. I feel these cards are more suitable for GMs instead. Really looking forward to the new edition Space Aces. Any thoughts on how Scarlet Heroes can work together with Kevin Crawford's "Without Numbers" series? A hidden gem and my personal pick is the Universal Dungeon Adventure Deck (any many others) by New Realms Publishing. I would say their sets work even better than Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeon in that they are more versatile and flexible and compatible with most RPG (esp old school and OSR) systems. Geek Gamer made a review years back. It's a pity that the publisher seems to be in hiatus since the pandemic. Their products are all very printer friendly. The early titles are really worth the money but the later ones seem overpriced. While really cool in their own right, using all the Top 10 together can feel too unwieldy.

Great content! Thank you again.

Just come across your channel man, really enjoying the content! Keep it up 🥰

For solo RPGing, the Mythic Role Playing (2022 revised edition [red book]) Game Master Emulator is a tool I can't recommend enough.

Fantastic video!! I gotta get some of those Inkwell cards…

Great! I'm still waiting the video about how you play Hero Quest solo. *

I agree! More, more, more Axebane’s Decks of Many Dungeons!!!! I really like your idea of Axebane’s Deck of Woodland Areas!

Mork Borg looks and sounds cool lots of options saw a cool as hell Pirate expansion and then Forbidden Psalm and a company I get STLs for every month give our games to play with the minis with a story for that game as well as 5E DnD and of course if you wanted solo play you could via other resourse books. Gamers make things work ha

I find the one page solo engine to be very open ended and flexible. I’m currently using the one page solo engine with the Knave 2e draft. It’s dead simple and I don’t get lost fiddling with rules!

Great video!

Space Aces is bomb. This is a great list.

Congratulations on 2023 list 👏 and I'm looking forward to 2024 list 🎉

Super cool video - big misses for me in this range of products are Game Master Apprentice's Cards, and why not my small homebrews Plot Unfolding Machine and Game Unfolding Machine :)

I played a few solo games of Mork Borg with Solitary Defilement. I think that it achieves what it set out to achieve, which is to say that its a fun game for one-shots or maybe very short campaigns. For me, I had a blast in spite of not really enjoying the art style, but it did feel a little too rules light/lite for a longer form campaign (which I'm pretty sure it doesn't recommend either way!). The only thing with rules light systems is that I find they really lack depth and start becoming a little dull in the long-run if solo playing. I can imagine Mork Borg would be better if played with mates rather than solo as the game seems so quirky and bizarre that it lends itself to a shared experience.

Dusted off Deck of many Dungeons on;y the other night….such a cool,deck of cards

Very helpful video! I ordered a few things based on your discussion. I have a lot of Mork Borg materials ready to go but I still haven't played it yet. I enjoy playing Cairn solo (using Table Fables, Perplexing Ruins oracle and campaign notebook, Fallen cards, Solo Game Master's Guide, the Gloomywood map from Knock 3, and Scarlet Heroes as supplemental materials) so much that I've not wanted to put it down. I got most of my ideas from you and Geek Gamers, so thank you!

Great video, would be great to see one on how you solo Scarlet Heroes. I picked it up and got a bit lost with the solo play so interested in how you use it. Perhaps I should go back and watch Peril of Cymbaline again too 😅

Thanks for the video!!!

Great list!

I really need to get some of these cards

I absolutely love when you do videos on these RPG tools. Do you know <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1327">22:07</a> of any that work well with Shadows of Brimstone Hex Crawl? I would love to see something for that.

Your determination point sounds like Savage Worlds bennie mechanic. Mork Borg Death In Space is on my list to try, have you tried it? To add to the grim dark types I will add Disciples Of Bone And Shadow, Dark Streets & Darker Secrets and Seekers Beyond The Shroud.

Love it!

I was about to get a copy of Untold Adventures of the Random Kind when your video hit. I immediately went to buy it and it was sold out everywhere in my country 😫 Maybe you're gaining too much influence, Daniel?! 😆 I really hope they do a reprint and ship copies to Australia again asap. 🤞 If anyone from Loke reads this, please reply!

I got my two copies of the Inkwell Cards last week. I got the Sci-fi and Lovecraftian packs. They are so good. But the shipping cost (+taxes) to my country was insane....but I noticed that too late...it almost gave me a stroke....😨

Yay Tricube Tales. 😊❤

Thanks for the awesome video. I see that there are 4 different decks of Outdoor Encounter cards (no. 6 on your list). Are they different from each other in theme, flavor, etc? I mean, does one deck for example focus more on zombies, undead than the others and so on?

Hello Dungeon Dive! I am interested in a Physical copy of the Deck of Many Dungeons, but Drivethrurpg only has a .pdf available, do you have a link where I can order a Physical Deck, or is this one I have to take to an Office Depot and have color printed? Let me know!

I would be I interested in a list of items you have found useful on Drive Through RPG, I noticed you mentioned it at least once.

Hi there ! You mention Firefly. What do you think of "Firefly the role playing game" about solo playing ? I don't own the book but love Firefly and I was wondering if it is solo playable. Thanks by advance :)

Where did you get those plastic deck storage boxes? They look perfect.

I have only played 4AD core book. I would like a video about the best supplements.

Would you recommend using the Sandbox Generator as well as the Untold Encounters of the Random Kind with Forbidden Lands as a base world and rule set? Good pairing?

No links to the products? It's not the end of the world, but would have been nice for anyone who wanted to buy.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1494">24:54</a> I always hear good things about table fables but they always strike me as very feminine and not up to my sword and sorcery setting…. Have you ever tried d30 companions? Don’t know what to get I think I’m going to just end up getting a bunch and see what sticks… I’m thinking Mythic, Perilous tables, sandbox generator, the d30 books just to move from the paralysis

Scarlet Heroes is underrated. Worth it just for the solo oracles at the back. And if you have any Filipino or South-East Asian friends, show them the bestiary. Chances are their grandparents told them scary stories or warned them to behave or many of those monsters included in the book would come and get them.

Great🍾 😅💋

Deck of cards...... Deck of cards...... Why so many games are using this mechanism ? What's wrong with rolling dice people? The good old random tables we choose with dice rolling. Simple, used, fun, efficient, known. Stay with that please. Not everyone has a deck of cards.