Resources & Tools

Guides#

• Beginner Mini‑Adventure — A short, printable walkthrough: setup, 2–3 scenes, and next hooks.
• Beginner’s Guide to Oracles — Ask clear questions and interpret results.
• Scene Complications — Quick twists to add tension when a scene stalls.

Tools#

• Dice Roller — Quick d4–d20 and custom NdM rolls with keyboard support and a live history.

Oracles#

New to oracles? Start with the Beginner’s Guide to Oracles.

• Mythic GM Emulator — A versatile yes/no oracle with chaos factor and scene structure.
• Chartopia — Community-made random tables; great for prompts, twists, and encounters.
• donjon — Classic generators for names, dungeons, and more to spark scenes.
• Ironsworn Oracles — Free, setting-agnostic tables for actions, themes, NPCs, and more.
• RPG Solo — Web-based oracle and scene prompts for quick solo play.
• Seventh Sanctum — Classic random generators for names, characters, powers, and more.
• Fantasy Name Generators — Huge catalog of name and idea generators for worlds and NPCs.
• Kassoon D&D Tools — Extensive generators for encounters, NPCs, loot, taverns, towns, and more.
• Chaotic Shiny — Fast, quirky random tables for names, cultures, plots, calendars, and beyond.
• Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator — Procedural world maps to inspire exploration, regions, and travel scenes.
• Medieval Fantasy City Generator — Procedural cities and towns to sketch settlements, districts, and routes.
• Mythic Variations II — Expanded chaos, focus, and fate tweaks for Mythic‑style oracle play.
• The Adventure Crafter — Structured scene prompts to generate story beats, motives, and twists.
• Hexroll — One‑click hexcrawl sandboxes with regions, encounters, lairs, and hooks.
• UNE: Universal NPC Emulator — Prompt‑driven NPC attitudes, motivations, and conversation cues.
• CRGE — Lightweight solo oracle with scene prompts and focus shifts.
• Motif Story Engine — System‑agnostic oracle for questions, complications, and pacing.
• Scene Unfolding Machine — Procedure to grow scenes via beats, revelations, and twists.
• Loner — OSR‑leaning solo GM emulator with oracles and encounter tools.

Journals & Prompts#

New to journaling play? Read our Solo Journaling Systems — An Overview for what it is, popular picks, and practical tips.

• Solo Session Log Template — Print‑friendly page to track scenes, oracle results, and next actions.
• Alone Among the Stars — Solo journaling prompts using cards; perfect for short sessions.
• Thousand Year Old Vampire — A celebrated solo journaling RPG about memory and loss.
• Perchance — Build and share custom random prompt generators for your campaign.
• The Story Engine Deck — Card prompts for characters, conflicts, and twists to fuel scenes.
• Rory's Story Cubes — Visual prompt dice for improvising scenes and details.
• Reedsy Plot Generator — Detailed prompts for plots, characters, and twists to kickstart stories.
• Oblique Strategies (Web) — Classic creative prompts to break blocks and inspire scenes.
• The Story Shack Prompts — One‑click scene starters with characters, settings, and complications.
• Plot Generator — Structured prompts for plots, characters, and twists across genres.
• Writing Exercises — Prompts — A suite of quick writing prompt tools to spark scenes.
• The Wretched — A tense solo journaling game of survival, loss, and fragile hope.
• Bucket of Bolts — Chronicle a starship across owners in a reflective solo journal.

Solo-Friendly Systems#

New to solo systems? Read our Solo‑Friendly Systems: Quick Overview for short blurbs and tips on where to start.

• Ironsworn — Free, purpose-built for solo/co-op with strong moves and progress mechanics.
• Scarlet Heroes — OSR-style rules that let a single hero shine in classic adventures.
• Cairn + Cairn Solo — Lightweight fantasy rules with a fan-made solo framework.
• Ironsworn: Starforged — Standalone sci‑fi iteration with robust solo support and rich oracles.
• Four Against Darkness — Solo dungeon-crawling system for quick, procedural adventures.
• One Page Solo Engine — Minimal, system-agnostic oracle for answering questions and pacing scenes.
• Solitary Defilement — Solo toolkit for Into the Odd/Cairn-style procedures and exploration.
• Rangers of Shadow Deep — Solo/co‑op fantasy missions with progression, scenarios, and campaign play.
• Five Parsecs from Home — Narrative‑driven solo sci‑fi skirmish with crew stories and campaigns.
• Five Leagues from the Borderlands — Solo fantasy campaign game of skirmishes, journeys, and threats.
• Five Klicks from the Zone — Solo post‑apocalyptic campaign skirmish focused on survival and progression.
• DM Yourself — Solo toolkit for 5e that replaces a GM with procedures and oracles.