Through Monday, February 3 we present the all-new Parts Per Million Solo Bundle featuring solitaire rules expansions for many RPGs by indie game developer Peter Rudin-Burgess at Parts Per Million. You can play many top RPGs by yourself with these custom-designed supplements that help turn any rulebook into a quickstart. Using techniques such as the flexible “oracle” method (where you roll dice to answer questions) along with “cut-ups” (short texts that inspire creativity), you’ll play full-featured, surprising adventures that push your creativity and keep all the action centered on you alone. Learn a new game, test your first adventures, and get a feel for play before presenting it to new players – or just enjoy yourself!
(Caution: These Parts Per Million third-party supplements add solitaire options to a wide range of games, but the core rules for those games aren’t included in this offer. To use any of the solo supplements in this offer, you must already own the original games they support.)
Solo roleplay is often pitched to “anyone who wants to play when no one else is available” – that is, the solo experience is supposed to feel like being a player in someone else’s game. In fact, most solo tools actually cast you as your own Gamemaster: You’ll improvise entire scenes, create NPCs on the spot, and grab random tables to create content on the fly, just like a GM.
The solo tools in these guides and supplements support players who may be less familiar with having to improvise everything. These tools present worldbuilding as an incremental process, and they challenge you with questions to help you think about scenes and events you may not have considered. Each supplement is tailored to the rules of the game it supports. To answer questions and create unexpected events, maybe you’ll roll percentile dice and check a table – or you’ll throw 2d6 and consult an oracle – or you’ll make a Move a la Apocalypse Engine games – or you’ll pull cards and consult a spark chart. Peter Rudin-Burgess has played more than a hundred systems, and he enjoys developing new rules for the ones he likes. “Anything I play and enjoy is likely to get solo rules, if I am allowed to do so by the publisher.”
This Parts Per Million Solo Bundle gives you dozens of separate solo rules supplements for many RPGs large and small, as well as play aids and books of helpful solitaire tips. Pay just US$7.95 to get all seven titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $44) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including Players Guide to Solo Role-Playing; three Easier Tools guides – Easier Solo Play, Easier Solo Game Journals, and Easier Solo Mystery Play; and three sample solitaire rulebooks: Basic Solo Roleplaying System (for Basic Role-Playing, Call of Cthulhu, and other percentile systems), Hunter (for Monster of the Week), and Masked Hero (for Masks: A New Generation).
And if you pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, you’ll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with twenty-five more titles worth an additional $108, including 11 more solitaire rules sets – 13th Solo (for 13th Age), Alone in the Loop (Tales From the Loop), Dungeon Crawl Solo (DCC RPG), Lone Star (Mothership), Mastermind (The Between), Old School Solo (Old-School Essentials and other OSR games), Solo Adventures for Stars Without Number, Solo Core (2D20 System games), Solo FASERIP, Solo in a Lost Cause (Silent Legions), and Trophy Solo – and 14 Cut-Up Solo books with thousands of text snippets to help inspire your solitary creativity.
Parts Per Million previously contributed nine of these titles (total retail value $51) to a November 2023 Humble Bundle offer. The 23 remaining titles in this offer (total retail $101) have never appeared in any previous bundle. (The Bundle of Holding is not owned by nor related to Humble Bundle.) The titles from the Humble offer: Players Guide to Solo Role-Playing, Easier Solo Play, Easier Solo Game Journals, 13th Solo, Dungeon Crawl Solo, Lone Star, Old School Solo, Solo Adventures for SWN, and Solo Core – Solo Playing 2D20 System Games.
Embrace the freedom of solo gaming with this Parts Per Million offer before it falls off the spark table Monday, February 3.
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Apology: This Parts Per Million offer launched with an additional title, Mutant: Year Solo, a set of solo rules for Free League’s Mutant: Year Zero. After launch, we belatedly discovered this title was published under DriveThruRPG’s Community Content Program, which made it ineligible for a Bundle offer. We have replaced Mutant: Year Solo with Lone Star, a set of solo rules for Mothership.
