Solo PDFs and Titles For D&D - Any Edition
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Solo PDFs and Titles For D&D - Any Edition

Duncan Thomson

Here we are looking at pdf and book titles for other planes and otherworldy adventures on DriveThru RPG.

Solo Guides - all | solo main | fantasy | sci-fi & horror | d&d solo | solo tools

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Starting Points

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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, the Complete Solo PDFs Titles. And an honourable mention to the D&D Generators Megaguide.

July 2025: added new titles and 5e section;

Major Solo Titles

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Many products with random tables are good for Solo play, but these are specifically for solo games

DM Yourself - solo roleplay for 5e, D&D and OSR adventures Old School Solo Old School Solo

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.

The Solo Adventurer's Toolbox Solo Adventurer's Guide - D&D Solo Engine Avalon's Solo Adventure System D&D Solo Adventure: Tables of Doom Nerzugal's Dungeon Master Toolkit

Free and PWyW Solo Pdfs

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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.

Black Streams: Solo Heroes The Hounds of Halthrag Keep Four Against Dungeons and Dragons

Other Solo Titles Related for D&D

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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
  • Four Against Darkness from Ganesha Games is a solitaire dungeon-delving game where you control a party of four adventurers. Related titles include Four Against the Abyss (higher level) and Alone Against Fear (horror)
  • Bad Things Happen by Atelier Clandestin is a compilation of tables and rules for OSR solo and standard play.

Delve: A solo Map Drawing Game First Blush Four Against Darkness Bad Things Happen

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