Solo Tabletop RPGs?

[pakoito]

I've been running solo boardgames such as Mage Knight, I was wondering if there's any TTRPG with an automatic dungeon system. I've heard IronSworn mentioned?

 

[ProphetSword]

I'll point out the obvious one: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st Edition) has rules in the Dungeon Master's Guide that can be used to generate dungeons to run as a solo adventure.

 

[Angelo85]

IronSworn does not have an automatic dungeon system. It does feature an automatic dungeon master in the form of a bunch of random tables and what boils down to a magic eight-ball. Pretty much the same you find in most solo RPGs. It's alright for coming up with a story, motivations, characters, traveling fluffy stuff. But it's not very useful for straight up dungeon romping.

As far as solo boardgame/RPG hybrids are concerned, there's an old school solo RPG available for free you could try called Barbarian Prince

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

I'll point out the obvious one: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st Edition) has rules in the Dungeon Master's Guide that can be used to generate dungeons to run as a solo adventure.

Yes, the rules in the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide for random dungeon generation (Appendix A) could be used to create a dungeon for solo play, and even had a brief blurb at the end about adapting this system for such use, but Appendix A was based on an article by Gary Gygax appearing in the very first issue of The Strategic Review, TSR's predecessor to Dragon Magazine, which contained tables for randomly generating a dungeon specifically for solo play with the original version of Dungeons & Dragons.

For non-randomly-generated dungeons, TSR itself published a few adventure modules for solo play: MSOLO1 Blizzard Pass, MSOLO2 Maze of the Riddling Minotaur, XS1 Lathan's Gold (featuring Paco the Parrot ), and XS2 Thunderdelve Mountain, plus a few adventures appearing in Dungeon Magazine over the years.

 

[nikolokolus]

If you want something system neutral, I've found the Mythic Game Master Emulator to be a pretty handy tool (it's useful for generating non-solo stuff as well). There's also a Mythic game system version, but I have no experience with it and can't comment on its merits (or lack thereof).

 

[ProphetSword]

I think I also read that Tunnels & Trolls has a system for playing solo, but I don't know how hard it would be to even find that game in this day and age.

EDIT:
Turns out you can find it quite easily, here:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/210996/Tunnels--Trolls-Rules-Version-5?filters=0_0_44297_0_0

And it apparently does contain rules for playing in a mode they call solitaire.

 

[udm]

If you want something system neutral, I've found the Mythic Game Master Emulator to be a pretty handy tool (it's useful for generating non-solo stuff as well). There's also a Mythic game system version, but I have no experience with it and can't comment on its merits (or lack thereof).

Just want to add that Mythic GME works very well with generic systems like Savage Worlds.