Mithril or volatiles and goblins or moon men – no matter what you search for or what you fight, design and draw your mine and see if you can survive the dangers around you!
The Strike it Rich sale is live! 25% off Dwarf Mine and Apollo Mine. You can find the sale (or send it to friends) here!
Solo RPG Play Rankings
The first round of results are out for the Solo RPG Play Rankings!
The Solo RPG Play Rankings results can be seen with details at my article here.
The next Solo RPG Play Rankings Survey can be taken here! Thank you for all who participated!
Patreon Launch Sale: 75% Off First Month
I’m launching a Patreon! I have a newsletter-only discount of 75% off the first month – just use the code CFB0D at checkout.
Over the past 10 years of designing games I have created a lot of games that haven’t made it beyond playtesting. I have over 90 game files open, hundreds of designs in my notebooks, and piles of playtest documents gathering dust. I’m launching a Patreon because I love designing games. It is my hope that this patreon will allow me to design more games at a higher quality for all of you.
If you are interested in joining the Paper Dice Games patreon community, you can get:
- Behind the scenes design journals to see what the design process is like, and what is coming next
- Exclusive access as I work to publish the vast amount of game designs I’ve created over the last decade
- Early access to games that are going through design and development, on their way to being published
- Input and conversation around current designs, as I’m always looking for feedback and ideas on how to improve
Check out the membership tiers to see what works for you! Thank you for being a fan of games, I’m looking forward to continuing to design for you!
Other Updates
- The designer of Apollo Mine, Rhys Turton, has created an Apollo Mine Playlist – check it out here!
- Apollo Mine got some great callouts on Bluesky recently! You can check the conversation out here!
- The Solo RPG Play survey got a shoutout on Reddit!
Project Progress
Not as much work was accomplished between May and June as I hoped on upcoming projects. June will be a busy month for me, as the Star Solo update will launch with free RPG day!
Also, please note the SURPRISE RELEASE coming in June! This is literally the first I’ve mentioned anything about it, and I am super jazzed to get it out to you all!
Content Highlights from Last Month
- Patchwork Style Game for Solo RPGS – A video discussing the approach to playing multiple RPGs within the same setting and story, creating a patchwork style RPG.
- Character Creation for Playing Traveller Solo – A video discussing my tips to approaching character creation for playing Traveller solo.
- NPC Relationship Tracker for Solo RPGs – A video highlighting my free NPC relationship tracker resource.
- Relationship Tracker Tool for Solo RPGs – The related web article highlighting my free NPC relationship tracker resource.
- My Top 8 Coffee Break Solo RPGs – A video covering my top 8 coffee break solo RPGs!
- Solo RPG Play Rankings – First Ever (June 2026) – My video covering the first ever results of the solo RPG play rankings.
- Introducing: Solo RPG Play Rankings – The corresponding blog post covering the first ever results of the solo RPG play rankings.
Best Selling Games from Last Month
Here are the games I’ve played in the last month: DnD 5e, The One Ring, Sushi Go!, Pandemic Legacy Season 0, Timeline, Protspiel Games x3 (all were great!), Finspan with the Reef Expansion
Rolling Alone Podcast – There is yet another solo RPG podcast out! It’s called the Rolling Alone Podcast, hosted by Paul Walker. I haven’t read any of his stuff or had a chance to listen to the podcast yet – but it’s on my list. You can check out his substack and the podcast here!
If you have anything you’d like to share or discuss around this newsletter, you can respond to this email or comment on this page on the website. I read very comment. I also send messages around game specific newsletters, which you can join below.
- Dwarf Mine Newsletter (last sent in April)
- Fantasy Civ Solo Newsletter (last sent in March)
- Star Solo Newsletter (last sent in May)
- Space RPG Books Newsletter (last sent in March)
Thank you for being a fan of games!
-James Hron
Paper Dice Games 