D&D Solo (All Editions) - Tools, Tables & Titles

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Starting Points

Solo RPGs is the art of playing a tabletop roleplaying game on your own. You are player, gamesmaster, worldbuilder, narrator and audience.

Dungeons and Dragons has been around for around 50 years, and this guide looks at option with helping play all editions, from D&D 5e back to 3.5, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Basic and Expert and all other flavours. And then the retroclones and other D&D-like games powering OSR.

Other guides include DM's Guild titles, and the Complete Solo PDFs Titles.

Apr 2026: added osr section; July 2025: added new titles and 5e section;

Major Solo Titles

Solo titles useful for all editions and variants of D&D.

Another option from Tom Scutt is DM Yourself - solo roleplay for 5e, D&D and OSR adventures. It covers not just 5E D&D, but older editions of Dungeons and Dragons. And DM Yourselves is a sequel title.
From Parts per Million is Old School Solo, a guide with tables to playing solo in an OSR style.
Scarlet Heroes from Sine Nomine Publishing has rules for one player and one gm that are also applicable to solo play. Either as an overlay for another OSR game or it's own game.
Maze Rats from Questing Beast Games has rules for playing simple osr. But just as valuable are the many d66 tables to create things for your game.

5E D&D Solo

5E is the most recent edition of D&D, both 2014 and 2024 versions. There's a full guide to 5e random titles.

A place to start is Solo Adventurer's Toolbox from 5E Solo Gamebooks. Encounters for wilderness, urban and dungeon, random generation of dungeons, wilderness terrain, merchants and other scenarios for solo D&D. There is also The Solo Adventurer’s Toolbox Part Two: The Toolbox Expanded
From Guilherme Bento is the Solo Adventurer's Guide - D&D Solo Engine, a guide on how to play solo but in less than 25 pages.
Avalon's Solo Adventure System from Avalon Game Company is a system for playing a party of adventurers solo using 5e.
D&D Solo Adventure: Tables Of Doom also from 5E Solo Gamebooks has random tables to generate monsters, traps, clues, loot and other elements for solo adventures.
Nerzugal's Dungeon Master Toolkit by Steven Williams is a monster of a pay-what-you-want title with 114 pages including magic item enchantment tables. The sequel, Dungeon Master Toolkit 2, is also hefty, with random encounter tables.

Old School Revival (OSR)

OSR (Old School Revival) is a broad school. Here we're looking at older editions of D&D and the retroclones. For Solo. Larger OSR Guide also exists.

Knave: Second Edition from Questing Beast Games is a lightweight old school RPG supported by many useful d100 tables.
The Hounds of Halthrag Keep by the Hapless Henchman is a solo kit for Dungeon Crawl Classics (but would work for other OSR) with a 0-level focus.
Some recent adventures such as Incandescent Grottoes from Necrotic Gnome have a simple layout, giving all the essentials in a compact manner. Useful in solo play where too much information can be overwhelming.
From BroadSwordBard is Manual of Hexterity, a pay-what-you-want guide to sandbox wilderness crawls using old-school systems.

Free and PWyW Solo Pdfs

If you like free (or pay-what-you-want) pdfs and random tables then there are some options. On Itch.io there's Just One Torch, a 38-page toolkit supporting Old School Revival games.

Black Streams: Solo Heroes from Sine Nomine Publishing is a lightweight solo rpg written for running classic D&D adventures for a single character.
The Hounds of Halthrag Keep by the Hapless Henchman is a solo kit for Dungeon Crawl Classics (but would work for other OSR) with a 0-level focus.
Four Against Dungeons and Dragons from The Gamebook Adventurer is a free title which provides tools for converting D&D modules into Four Against Darkness adventures.
Sayeth Games has The Saint's Tomb, a 5E pay-what-you-want adventure in a gamebook style.
By Timothy Fogarty is Plight, a solo-friendly rules light rpg iwth simple rules and oracle compatible with OSR games.

Other Solo Titles Related for D&D

Then there are a few other titles for solo that don't fit in other categories, but are dnd solo related or give something to get/help the experience. Also for Shadowdark there's SoloDark over at The Arcane Library.

Delve: A Solo Map Drawing Game from Blackwell Games takes you on a journey below ground, drawing the horrors that a dwarven hold unearths in the depths.
For something different, First Blush from Jonathan Ball and Beth Ball offers a pay-what-you-want one-on-one adventure, also suitable for solo play
Bad Things Happen by Atelier Clandestin is a compilation of tables and rules for OSR solo and standard play.