r/solorpgplay

It's KiwiRPG Week and we have 3 bundles of games from Aotearoa's TTRPG community!

From works inspired by classic fiction and history, to wheelie bin adventures and solo games, these bundles bring you an amazing selection from kiwi creators. Each bundle has different titles, so be sure to check them all out.

Itch Bundle: https://itch.io/b/3773/kiwirpg-week-2026

DriveThruRPG Bundle: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/573574/kiwirpg-week-2026-bundle

RPG-Trader Bundle: https://rpg-trader.com/products/6189/kiwirpg-week-2026

From their Bluesky post announcing the nominations earlier:

"We are incredibly excited to debut the new category for Best Solo Game! Solo gaming has exploded with creativity, and we can’t wait to highlight the nominees!"

The nominations this year are:

Odyssey of the Giant

Pirouette

Song of the Scryptwyrm

SPINE

The Bonsai Diary

Really fun, weird stuff :)

https://ennie-awards.com/2026-nominees/

Hey I wanted to share my solo hexcrawling game "Hex Hunter" with you.

Hex Hunter takes a lot of inspiration from classic OSR hexcrawl design - Justin Alexander's hexcrawl articles were a big influence.

I wanted to create an easy to play solo game, that leaves enough space for imagination while being a bit more "gamyfied" than usual solo rpgs I played.

The base game is currently 75% off on itch.io and DriveThruRPG. There are also three expansions available for free. More will be released soon!

It love to get some reviews from people who try out the game, so I can fix potential problems etc. I haven't found myself so far.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/de/product/503812

https://sickd6.itch.io/hex-hunter

This is kind of like Thousand Year Old Vampire if you were a god making your pantheon and belief system. Really cool game!

So I haven't found a good option for printing yet. I still need to check my local library. However., has anyone hand copied it to a notebook and if so how long did that take and did it work well for you.

I recently started playing solo rpg but I find it very difficult to come up with quests for my characters to complete. Do you guys know any pdf to free random quest generators?

We have officially hit the final hours of the campaign! We are getting close to the 10k goal for the Black Market stretch goal. I am so grateful to everyone who has supported the project this far; it means the world to me. Let us see if we can push to that next goal before the timer hits zero!

https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/jadra-games/reclvse-a-mork-borg-solo-engine-second-edition

As I reported earlier in this subreddit, I recently started playing the Wandering Library, and I have questions.

The way I have been doing solo play for this particular game is by taking a journal entry every day/ of 'the day in the life' of my character of choice. I decided to use the roll table and a tarot card pull style oracle to decide how the day went for my character, as well as the mood and emotional beats for the day, and then I wrote a journal entry in their voice. I've divide is to create an actual written journal in the voice of my character with the wandering library's one-page RPG as the theme behind the actual journal and the method for creative writing.

The point is, I'm not entirely sure I am playing the game the way it was supposed to be played, though I need to be clear, I have no problem with doing what I'm doing. I see all of the roll tables and the oracles and emulators and I don't understand how they are supposed to fit into my version of playing this game, which somehow tells me that I might not be playing it the same way that everyone else is playing.

Advice?

Which of these RPGs works best as solo? Dungeon Crawl Classics, Mutant Crawl Classics, D&D 5e, Warhammer Fantasy, Mork Borg, CY_BORG, or CyberPunk 2020. I'm most interested in discovering a story and dungeon crawl style too.

This 55-page toolkit by Cezar Capacle is easy to learn, fast to use, lightweight, doesn’t get in the way even if you’re constantly leaning into it, and, best of all, makes you understand and develop your characters.

Highly recommended!

I am getting beyond frustrated. To get straight to the point, I can't theater of mind, I have aphantasia. Methods I've tried:

• Hex Crawling - I can't find a table or generator that generates natural looking terrain. A lot of them don't generate coasts, a lot of them don't generate rivers and paths (talking about tables here) and the ones that do it makes no sense.
• Hex Map Generating with programs- using things like donjon world generator, watabou perilous shores, azgaar's world generator. I hate all of these. Donjon might be the closest I'm okay with, but I don't like how Pangea the world is. Watabou because it's terrain generation is limiting (it only does temperate) and I just hate how the terrain generates on the map no matter what settings you use. Azgaar, I hate the names it comes up with for places, the maps are so huge which is great, but you still don't know terrain or anything like that cause it's just flat colors.
• Point Crawling - Something I think I would like to use but have no idea how to get started and I would still like an actual map to look at that's not just nodes. I would like to also be able to incorporate ironsworn's location oracles from the lodestar expanded book.

Please help me, this is the only thing keeping me from being able to continue.

It was my first time participating this year and I had a lot of fun hunting down some stuff that I think will be solo play friendly! I’m still new to Solo RPGs, though, so I’ll share my haul in case anyone here has insight on what I got

Freebies
-Legend in the Mist: The Rustic Fantasy RPG QuickStart from Son of Oak
-No Place Like Homebrew sampler from Roll and Play Press
-Lore Master’s Deck sampler from The Story Engine

My Friend’s Haul That I Can Borrow From
-Wizard Riders: Arcane Biker Grimoire from Catalyst Game Pabs
-Vaesen core book from Free League Publishing

Bought
-Fabula Ultima core book and quick start adventure

Digital Bundles, free or donate to get (these bundle are big so listing out what each one got would be too long)
-Free RPG Day - KiwiRPG bundle on itch.io
-Free RPG Day (Weekend) 2026 bundle on itch.io
-Free RPG Day 2026 Bundle from RPG Trader

Might add a comment later with a few more things that I forgot about