D&D General Dragon Delves To Feature Two Adventures "Appropriate For Solo Players"

Two of the 10 adventures in Dragon Delves are being advertised as being appropriate for "solo players." Today, Wizards of the Coast revealed the table of contents for Dragon Delves, a new anthology of dragon-themed adventures due out this July. Interestingly, three of the adventures - a Level 3 adventure featuring a Gold Dragon, A Level 7 adventure featuring a Bronze Dragon, and a Level 12 adventure featuring a Copper Dragon - include mentions that they are appropriate for a "solo player."

This marks the first time, at least based on our cursory search, that D&D has advertised adventures made for 1-on-1 play for Fifth Edition (NOTE: It was pointed out that the D&D Essentials Kit also could be played with one player, using the Sidekick rules to help flesh out the party.) It's notable that the adventures appear to be roleplay heavy rather than combat focused, with the Level 3 adventure involves rescuing an "unexpected prisoner" from a hag living in a cottage made of candy, while the Level 12 adventure involves finding the lost verses of a song needed to save a region's farmlands. All three adventures appear to feature metallic dragons, which are aligned towards good as opposed to evil.

 

[orial]

That picture makes me smile.

There is a reason this picture is used at this article.

 

[Demetrios1453]

what about "solo " don't you get means only one person, they want to head to AI dming and this is the first step in elinating the DM, doesn't come right out and say it but they are going that way.

Jeff Wyatt has confirmed in an interview featured in another thread that "solo" in this case means one player and one DM.

 

[Vincent55]

Jeff Wyatt has confirmed in an interview featured in another thread that "solo" in this case means one player and one DM.

ok

 

[Horwath]

Ugh, that cartoon art. D&D for toddlers.

with art like this, I am more and more in favor of AI.

 

[Stormonu]

The 1-on-1 sounds sort of like the "<Class> Challenge" series of adventures back during 2E, instead of the Catacomb system adventures (Knight of the Living Dead, Gnomes - 100, Dragons - 0, etc.).

I could see a true solo line, ala the Lone Wolf books/RPG for 5E that I suspect would do decently well. Personally, I've been looking for something along those lines to practice my DMing while getting in some PC play as well.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Did they take the table of contents down? I can't find it at D&D Beyond any more.

 

[Burnside]

Did they take the table of contents down? I can't find it at D&D Beyond any more.

It does look like they took it down when they added the dragon type preview pages. I had it saved: