#89: MINDSCOURGE | A Solo Tabletop RPG for One Player | Descend Alone Into the Colony and Lose Your Mind

Your warband is dead. The colony took their minds before it took their lives — and now they wait in the dark, wearing their own faces. You go down alone.

MINDSCOURGE is a complete solo tabletop RPG. One player, one twenty-sided die, no Game Master, no group, no prep. You are the last survivor of a failed raid on a colony of psychic horrors, and you descend alone through four levels of living dark to kill the thing dreaming at the bottom — before it finishes waking up.

Every chamber you enter costs you a piece of your mind. Hit points you can heal. Sanity you cannot. As your Whisper Track falls, the colony notices you: encounters climb, safe rooms vanish, and the spiral tightens. Die, and you lose a delve. Go mad, and you kneel, you turn, and you join them — and the next warrior who comes down will find you waiting.

Descend through the Flesh-Gardens, the Memory-Warrens, the Void-Temples, and the Cortex. Harvest the shards the colony hides in its own flesh. Tear open a portal, build a guardian with three rolls of the die, and kill it — or turn back, bank what you carried, and send the next delver down better armed.

Because no single hero conquers this place. A bloodline does. Every warrior who falls leaves something behind — gold, steel, a cleared level, a hard lesson paid for in blood. Every warrior whose mind breaks leaves a curse on the ones who follow. Your first delver is a lamb. Your fortieth walks into the dark carrying everything the thirty-nine before her learned, and that is the only way anyone ever reaches the bottom.

And the hardest decision in MINDSCOURGE is never which horror to fight. It is when to climb out. Push one more room and you might find the shard that opens the portal — or the whisper that finally learns your name. A delver who turns back banks everything she carried. A delver who dies loses all of it. The colony is patient, and it is counting on you not to be.

What's Inside:

• A complete solo game in one book — nothing else to buy, ever
• Three playable delvers: a berserk swordsman who kills fastest and breaks first, a knife-fighter who always strikes first, and a mind-fortified caster who is hardest to break
• Four descending levels, each with its own full bestiary — 40 horrors with stat blocks
• The Build-a-Boss engine: three d20 rolls assemble a guardian from 8,000 combinations per level — over 32,000 across the game, so no two campaigns fight the same boss twice
• The Whisper Track — a six-state sanity system where going mad is worse than dying
• Permanent progression and a curse system: every delver who falls arms — or haunts — the one who comes next
• Five difficulty modes and nine optional challenge rules, including Ironman and a finite bloodline that can run out of warriors
• Twelve named weapons, from a blade that crits on 19 to one that shatters at the end of the delve
• Two fully worked example playthroughs, rolled out die by die
• Printable character sheet and campaign vault tracker
• An optional two-player co-op variant
• 20–40 minutes per delve; a full campaign runs across many sessions

Perfect For:



- Solo players who want a real dungeon crawler, not a journaling prompt

- Fifth edition fans who love d20 math but cannot get a group together

- Players who want a campaign they can genuinely lose — and a win they have to earn

- A pencil, one die, and a free evening

No Game Master. No group. No prep. One hero, one die, and four levels of dark that get louder the deeper you go. How much of you comes back?