Solo-play / DM-less TTRPG Workshop | Sunday, June 2 | Underline Center, Indiranagar

mithunbalraj · June 3, 2024, 2:38pm

Resources mentioned during the workshop + more

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

Solo adventures
- Adventures by Paul Bimler (there’s a list of all of them at the end of the post)
- DMs guild/Drivethru RPG’s “SOLO” adventures tag/section
Comprehensive solo play aides
- The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox (by Paul Bimler) for 5e ($15 on DMs guild) also Part 2 (I highly recommend this as well) and sci-fi/spelljammer (I haven’t used this one yet though)
- r/solo_roleplaying
Character creation guidance - check out Karthik’s resources from his character creation workshop!
Tools for playing solo
- Random NPC/character generators
  - Tetra cube
- All sorts of random generators
  - Donjon (personally use this for dungeons when I don’t feel like generating them myself)
  - Kassoon (battle maps, randomly generated buildings, towns, hexcrawl generators, all sorts of misc. things like systems for downtime activities, items, etc. A decent amount of it is available for free. Some is paid)
  - 5emagic.shop (random spellbooks and magic shops, ez travel time/distance calculator)
- Running monsters: https://www.themonstersknow.com/about/ (this is the “about” page, in general the blog is gold though for making you think about how to play monsters)
18 Free D&D campaigns you can convert into solo play using the Dungeon Oracle or another system
Someone’s solo play journey with refs to tools: DnD Solo - Solo D&D Guide - Solo D&D Guide

System agnostic

One Page Solo Engine - super streamline engine that can be used to work with any system
The Dungeon Oracle ($2 on DMs guild for converting and giving new life to published modules) - I have a copy if you want to check it out
The Mythic Game Master Emulator 2nd Edition (I haven’t used this but it’s highly rated)
Physical resources: The Ultimate RPG Campfire conversation card deck
DIY play mat: Print a ~0.75 inch square grid printed on 2 A3 sheets of paper (or 4 A4 sheets with no borders. Set them out on a flat surface next to each other to make a large rectangle and use thick transparent tape to stick all the way across the length. Repeat for one full side. Repeat on the other side as well to have a clear side