So I have been solo rpg testing my 19th Century Victorian quest, which I mentioned here
>>5463297The influences are Virginia Woolf, TS Eliot The Waste Land, The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Charles Dickens, Bronte novels, Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes (especially the Jeremy Brett tv adaptations), the Jack The Ripper film From Hell, the videogame Order 1886 and Cliver Barker's Undying as well as the Alice: Madness Returns videogame.
The idea is it will be set in a vague parallel !notLondon lol, ie everything from real London exists but it has a slightly different name.
The plot might be solving your own murder (premonition of a murder?) and the format is you roll randomly for some NPC relationships, and then decide what favours they owed you or you owed them etc some relationship bond.
Then when you go visit the NPC the DM rolls on some table like this (still thinking about this one)
1 Murdered horribly
2 Mysterious disappearance
3 Suspicious accident / suicide
4 Sickened with debilitating illness
5 Stricken with madness
6 Caught whilst trying to flee
7 Attempting to abscond right now
8 Tearfully confessing (false confession?)
...
etc and like in all the detective stories, oh no your next witness / contact has been ruined etc the plot thickens etc. (Also, there might be a location / address random table, still thinking about that one)
So the idea after each turn / roll is you have to readjust your memories of your relationship / past to try to make the circumstances leading up to your murder / premonition of murder form a coherent pattern of motive and events.
The preliminary list of NPCs is this one:
