I'm planning a short two-person (one PC, one GM) free-form session. Is there a good quality compilation of adventure outlines tuned for one-on-one play somewhere? The theme doesn't matter much, but I'd like some ideas fit for just one PC to get started.
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It's not geared specifically towards two players, but The Big List of RPG Plots is my first stop in similar situations. Any Old Port in the Storm, Don't Eat the Purple Ones, Recent Ruins, and Stalag 23 would all be fairly easy to set up, and well-suited for a single player to handle. |
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If you've only got one player, ask them what kind of adventure they want. If they don't have any ideas, ask them what books, movies, tv, and other media they enjoy, and shamelessly steal plots points to make something new. |
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Sweet AgathaI bought this game for a rainy day. It hasn't rained yet. I haven't even cracked the mysterious envelope. But here's Ken Hite's take on it. All I know is it looks awesome. I wish I didn't live in the desert. EDIT: I have now played Sweet Agatha. I sort of wish I hadn't. My idea of the game just from reading the review and description were way better than the actual experience of playing. It was too freeform for my tastes - where exactly did the "game" part of this come in? Also, I felt like the writing fell flat. Also, the destructive nature of it sort of guaranteed I'll never play it again to give it another chance. To whoever downvoted this answer: Thanks. I had forgotten about this (you can see this is an early answer). But your downvote prompted me to fix it and and some actual answer to my answer. |
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One of the best genres as a whole for this is Espionage and Spys... Steal liberally from every James Bond movie and book. And any other such story. Another good one, surprisingly, is the "Rebel Scout" in both the Star Wars and US Civil War settings. The prominent NPC in both has to do with the PC's mode of transport... in SW, it's the astromech droid; in the USCW, one's horse. Sneaking into systems/towns, finding out if that loner there is friend or foe... Related, but suitable for guest PC's as well, is the investigation based scenario. It works best when the character has a mission-based reason. But it allows stealing from just about 30-some odd TV shows. Which leads to another resource or two for ideas: IMDB has plot synopses for many series' episodes. Steal liberally. Pick any series with a singular main character and rip away. |
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