Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
I just got an idea in my head that it would be fun to convince my group to try an Old West themed RPG (which itself would be a challenge, in my group, but this is just a thought experiment).
Then a couple of sessions in, something a little creepy happens. Such as...they kill a bad guy, and 10 minutes later the corpse is gone, in a way that is hard to explain, but for which there's some plausible explanation. Like, they thought they were alone, and now they think there's somebody else.
Or, even better, they kinda suspect each other. Maybe it's a game where players have secret goal/motivations, and note passing between GM and players is part of the game. So when the corpse is missing, they all think that one of the other players is probably responsible. Because...that's the only possible explanation. Right?
Then things get weirder. And creepier.
Only some number of sessions in do they realize that this is really a horror game with supernatural forces, undead, etc.
The reason I chose Western is that I think it would work best in a genre in which the players expect nothing supernatural, and thus look for non-supernatural explanations of things.
I probably won't actually do this, but I just thought it would be fun to discuss.
Thoughts?
Then a couple of sessions in, something a little creepy happens. Such as...they kill a bad guy, and 10 minutes later the corpse is gone, in a way that is hard to explain, but for which there's some plausible explanation. Like, they thought they were alone, and now they think there's somebody else.
Or, even better, they kinda suspect each other. Maybe it's a game where players have secret goal/motivations, and note passing between GM and players is part of the game. So when the corpse is missing, they all think that one of the other players is probably responsible. Because...that's the only possible explanation. Right?
Then things get weirder. And creepier.
Only some number of sessions in do they realize that this is really a horror game with supernatural forces, undead, etc.
The reason I chose Western is that I think it would work best in a genre in which the players expect nothing supernatural, and thus look for non-supernatural explanations of things.
I probably won't actually do this, but I just thought it would be fun to discuss.
Thoughts?