Tales of the Burned Stones is a free and solo-friendly dark-fantasy role-playing game of journeying and dungeon delving. In this game inspired by Diablo, The Witcher, and The Warded Man, players assume the roles of raiders and treasure hunters who are brave and foolish enough to delve into the derelict kingdom, located next to the demonic-controlled lands of Mount Baram, in search of stories, mementos, wealth, and lost artifacts.
when glamour dies is a GM-less journaling RPG for 1-2 players, where you try to survive (and find answers + solutions) at the night that you thought will never go wrong.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO PLAY THIS GAME?
Requires a 6-sided die, 12 tokens (of any kind), a deck of cards (Jokers included), and some sort of medium to record your experiences.
Threshold - Winter is an interactive storytelling game about navigating a space that is not your own. The game is written with a branching design that allows the player to choose their story, and features over 25 different paths to an ending. Downloads include a print-friendly version (we highly recommend printing on both sides), as well as a text only version. All versions include safety tools and instructions on how to play, as well as acknowledgements and credits.
Wolf Slopes is an 11 page solo tabletop roleplaying game about maintaining a hospice in what would be the Italian Alps---if it weren't also a heroic fantasy setting in its own version of the early 1800s.
You play by slowly growing your hospice, by journaling your exploits, and by helping others.
'Twas The Labour Dispute Before Christmas is a solo-journaling game about union organization and workplace justice.
Playing as one of Santa's elves, it is your job to unionize your workplace before Christmas day.
But it is going to be an uphill struggle, as not only do you have to convince the other elves to join you, you also need to contend with Santa trying to undo your hard work.
To play this game you will need:
Your story is set on a planet called the Globe and takes place some hundred or so years after the fall of the Empire of the Isles.
You are visiting Northland (Zemite Avrorissni, the Lands of Aurora), a little kingdom in the heart of the Balkans. It is surrounded by a protective wall called the Aurora, visible from many kilometers away, that illuminates the night sky. The official languages are Aurorian and English. Northland is always covered in snow and seldom has warm days.
You are a knight. You have been stripped of your titles and banished from your holdings. You now live in a hovel in the countryside. Your hovel is near a small village. The village is regularly troubled by problems and, being a former champion, you feel compelled to help them.
Holiday cheer can be really contagious when you're willing to pass it to others. Pass the Cheer is a holiday version of Pass the Game. It's a simple game about passing the fun to others, though you'll want to be careful of who you pass it to.
Let's see how far Pass the Cheer will travel!
It’s really easy to get focused on everything that’s happening around you and to not remember that you’re amazing and you’re also around some amazing people. Loving Accountability is a deliberate way to go about making sure that you let others know how you feel about them and make sure you take some time for yourself.
This is a solo adventure game played using a deck of cards.
It can also be a town and encounter generation tool for other RPGs.
Forsaken is a Wretched & Alone solo journaling TTRPG inspired by premillenial dispensationalist Christian theology and Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins' Left Behind series of novels. It aims to satirize the ideology of these beliefs, and warn players of the ideology driving them. In Forsaken, you will struggle to survive the Trial of the True God as foretold in the Scripture, while enduring the machinations of the Deceiver.
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Categories: Solo, Journaling, Wretched & Alone, Apocalyptic
Players: 1
Supplies: Deck of cards, 1 six-died die, 10 tokens (coins, prayer beads, scraps of paper), journaling implement (notebook, audio recorder, camera), wooden block tower (optional)
Time to Play: If played in one sitting, between 30 minutes to 1 hour. May be played with one prompt each day to extend gametime.
Content Warnings: violence, war, terrorism, disease and illness, suicide, blood, insects, starvation, dehydration, natural disasters, religious recruitment and conversion, pain, body fluids, forced tattooing, mass execution, and references to conspiracy theories
In the Arena; you are the fighters. Play Solo or as a group to design teams and use the Intuitive D6 and D12 System to organise those fights!
While supplemts will soon be avalible for the Arena, as a guided tour of how The Dark After Dawn Core rulebook hosts it game.
You play as Scäkla, a scum imprisoned deep underground. You will encounter monsters, weird people and find items which will help you escape. Progress room by room. Roll dice and draw the rooms as you go, otherwise how will you know which way you went? Anyway, try not to die. You will most likely die.
MØRK FÆNGSEL ([ˈmɶɐ̯g] [ˈfεŋˀsəl]) is a quick, fun and light solo-game, made to utilize only one d6 (although having 3 doesn't hurt.) Made to be printed, pocketed scribbled on anytime, anywhere. Break out the ink and make a mess.
Remember to bring a character sheet or two!
SWORDS AND SHADES is a collection of one-page fantasy roleplaying games designed to tell stories about mercenaries and spirits adrift in a magical land consumed by a continent-spanning war. 1-3 players
We took four of our business card games and made them into a zine! You'll find Have a Cuppa Joe, This is Fine, Take A Nap, and Drink Up! all folded up into a portable little 8-page booklet that is small enough to tuck into your pocket.
Have a Cuppa Joe: Rather than actually drinking a coffee, rolling the dice on whether or not you'll regret your decision, why not just roll an actual die and find out?
This is Fine: Whenever you need a respite from your perfectly fine life, take a minute, grab your composure and a d6, and roll for the break you need.
Take A Nap: Why waste your time and (lack of) energy on a nap when you can spend a moment rolling a die and laughing about what'll happen instead?
Drink Up! is a game where every drink is full of magic. Gather up your friends and drinks (water, soda, tea, whatever you want), roll a single six-sided die, choose one of the two options, and act it out.
Tale Feathers is a bird-themed micro RPG that fits on a bookmark - in fact, all you need is the bookmark, a book, and your imagination to play! Oh and some friends if you'd like, though it can be played solo as well. Pick your bird, pick its trait, build your world, and then venture forth!
The Lost Property station is typically overflowing with items: mostly things left behind on the trains that pass through, but some that slip through the cracks elsewhere. Visitors are encouraged to reclaim their missing belongings - or claim something new if a certain amount of time has passed by.
Lost and mislaid magical items are quite another matter, however: they tend to be far too dangerous to leave lying around without supervision. The sector for Lost Magical Property is tucked away at the far end of the station.
This is the place you have been assigned to manage.
In "Normal Earth Beings" you, and up to 7 others, play as aliens sent to earth to research the earthlings' way of life! A task easier said than done, as failure to keep a good disguise can have deadly consequences! If you're brave enough to accept this mission, the mothership will return for you in 1-3 weeks! Hopefully, you can get enough valuable research on this strange planet!
You have heard of the house for many years, but never sought it out, assuming the endeavor wouldn’t be worth your time. Or worse yet that you would find exactly what you always feared.
Yet, something drew you towards its estate—a power, a thread dangling from the unwinding hem of a shirt, longing to be pulled. Reason and history warned you not to make the journey, not to cave to those newly-formed, yet eons-old, desires to seek out the house. However, now you are here...
The Portal at Hill House is a solitaire journaling game of cosmic horror that only requires the zine, paper, a six-sided die, and a deck of standard playing cards to play.
The (Un)Naturalist is a solo journaling RPG in which you take on the role of a scientist exploring and documenting a tropical forest.
As the research expedition progresses you must contextualize increasingly unnatural events. The game concludes when the expedition concludes, naturally or otherwise. Do you dare to proceed boldly into the shifting unknown?
You have been poisoned! A Crime Boss had this done to you.
You have hours…maybe a couple days before you succumb to the effects of the deadly toxin and perish. So, you’ve made a decision about how you want to spend the precious little time you have left: Find and kill the Crime Boss!
Pity the criminal, thug, or henchman that gets in your way!
To play you’ll need:
Climate change’s rapid oscillation in temperature extremes has finally destroyed civilization. All your loved ones are gone. Your home is destroyed. Trapped in the worst blizzard history has seen you cling to a single hope. A rumour of a haven, an underground bunker only ten days journey from your location. Will you survive the arduous trek? Or will you be claimed by the apocalypse?
A Lonely Trek is a solo role-playing game playing upon the potential of extreme climate change within our lifetime.
To play this game you will need:
"Spring Comes Again" is a solo journaling RPG, where you take on the form of an Elfling who tries to keep winter from approaching before its time. The creatures that awaken are bold and create havoc. Bring creatures under control and push their energy into healthy activities.
You run a tea shop on the border of the living and the dead. The recently deceased visit for one last hot drink before their long journey into the Great Beyond.
Last Tea Shop is a one-page solo game about tea and conversation. Set up your stall and wait for visitors to emerge out of the mist. Over a cup of tea, chat to the visitor about their life and help prepare them for their trip into the Lands of the Dead. Record their thoughts, fears, dreams and hopes in your journal for posterity.
Play finishes when the mysterious Veiled One comes to visit.
You will need:
A Recipe on Kmiydish Paper is a one-player game about delicious food and the communities who prepare it.
We’ve all been told that some recipes have been handed down through generations, or kept in restaurant safes for decades, or are only known and cooked by mysterious figures. These recipes, and the food they create, are well-loved historical relics, mirroring a region’s geography, politics, and people. What are the hidden histories behind our favorite butter pickles, beers, briskets, and breads? And what would it look like if history was seen through their (yeasty) eyes?
Instead of playing as adventurers at a tavern, or even a chef behind the scenes, you will inhabit a food from its conception through history in the sister cities of Blue Kmiyd and Rose Kmiyd.
A solo, journaling game about the joy of believing that you're alone in the woods and the terror of finding out that you're not.
The Shrike is a game about fantastical voyages aboard a skyship. It's inspired by Avery Alder's The Quiet Year, John Harper's Lady Blackbird, Italo Calvino, Ursula K. Le Guin, and utopian and dystopian fiction. The 120+ page early access edition is now available, featuring four complete adventures (two multiplayer, two for solo play).
Adventures for The Shrike provide a level of detail between traditional gamebooks and oracle-based games such as The Quiet Year. You'll encounter people, places, and other prompts, but you'll also have the flexibility to build your own world and tell your own stories.
Want to focus on worldbuilding and speculative anthropology? Steampunk dogfights and scurrilous sky piracy? Cosmic horror at abominable altitudes? Tales of hope and care, exploring the ups and downs of the relationships of your crew? The Shrike invites you to tell all these stories and more.
