Four Against Darkness

A Solitaire Dungeon-Delving Pen-and-Paper Game

This is an old-school dungeon-bashing game that can be played with minimum space and equipment. You’ll need pencil, two dice, and graph paper. You can also play on a dry-erase whiteboard, or even use any dungeon tiles already in your possession. You can play it solo, or play cooperatively sharing the characters with friends. You control a party of four heroes who adventure into a dungeon generated by dice rolls. If you have miniatures, you may use them to mark their marching order, but this is not essential. The game can also be played with two players each running a party of dungeon explorers and taking turns to generate one room each, as their parties advance through different paths. In this case, roll a die to determine which party goes first every turn.