The Solo Dungeon Crawler

5e Solo Gamebooks presents The Solo Dungeon Crawler by Paul Bimler. This one-sheet dungeon crawling tool is intended for solo players, and designed with one factor in mind - compactness. Using just this A4, printed and laminated, you can generate endless dungeon crawling adventures for your characters, without the need for a DM/GM. The idea is that you can take the included double-sided A4 anywhere and use it to generate adventures using only d6s and a deck of playing cards (for the Oracle Focus Table). In your car, at the library, on a coffee table. All you need is your characters, this resource, d6s and playing cards (or a random playing card app) and your RPG system, and you are ready to go! 

The Solo Dungeon Crawler is system-agnostic, and will work with any fantasy RPG, and probably other RPG types as well. Please take what you want from the system and leave out what you don’t want, substituting other resources as you see fit. I suggest you print this product out, double-sided, and get it laminated so you can use it over and over with dry-erase (whiteboard) markers. Or, you may prefer to print many copies and keep every dungeon you generate, to run later as a Dungeon Master. The choice is yours.

The front side is designed as a dungeon generator, with a small-scale grid for you to map out your dungeon as you move through it. Hence, this side is where all the dungeon generation tables are located. I’m quite proud of the heart of the generator, the Passage Table. This small d6 table may be the best dungeon generator I’ve ever created (and I’ve created a few!) An oracle table for answering yes/no questions is also provided on the front side. Also, the excellent Immersion Table from Tom Scutt's DM Yourself is also found within these tools (used with permission). Everything is rolled with d6. Two should be enough, 3-4d6 will be more than you need.

The flip side contains some other tables, as well as a battlemap for running close-quarters combat. The battlemap grid is a bit less than an inch. I reduced the size so that more squares could fit on the page. A miniature with a 1-inch base will still sit comfortably on these squares, with a little overlap. Draw your room shape (where the encounter is happening) over the grid and run your combat encounters on this. Three versions of the product are given: artistic dungeon tile (pictured), parchment (same as above, but with parchment background under the battlemap) and plain black grid (for the hardcore OSR fans!).  

The flipside also contains an Oracle Focus Table (see below) for answering detailed questions that go beyond yes and no. This is kindly provided by Karl Hendricks, author of the excellent solo product One Page Solo Engine (used with permission). Also found on the flip side are NPC Tables, Item Table and a Monster Encounters Ideas table.

You will notice the file size is quite large. This is to ensure printing clarity.

So what are you waiting for? Endless adventures await you in the depths below! Pick up this outstanding product and get dungeon crawling!

The companion product to The Solo Dungeon Crawler is The Solo Wilderness Crawler, which deals with the random generation of wilderness adventures for solo players. Available here.

Please check out our full range of solo adventure titles:

Death Knight's Squire

Tyrant of Zhentil Keep

Citadel of the Raven

The Tortured Land

Drums at Daggerford

The Solo Adventurer's Toolbox

The Solo Adventurer''s Toolbox Pt 2: The Toolbox Expanded

Solo Adventure Bundle 1 (First 4 solo adventures)

Eberron Solo Adventure: The Saviour of Sharn

Tables of Doom: 5E Solo Adventuring

Adventurers Wanted!: The Dread Vault of Tgozur

Adventurers Wanted: Labyrinth of Lies

Rage of the Rakasta 5e Solo Conversion

Ghost of Lion Castle 5e Conversion

Menace of the Icy Spire 5e Solo Conversion