And oh yeah, you are there because someone REALLY wants to kill you. But other than that it will be buckets of fun!!!
I am developing the rules on this because in this game rules will be very important, but here is the basic concept:
The idea is basically like the game Clue (or the much more entertaining movie variant of it). All of the players have been summoned to this house out in the middle of nowhere for some reason or the other for a long weekend (3-4 days). At first it seems like a nice vacation and then suddenly...
One of the NPC's will die (to show you how its done) and then, slowly and inevitably, all the remaining house guests will die. Or will they? Can they stop the killer before they strike again (because no, escape is not an option). So the goal of this game will be to do one of three things: 1) survive, 2) stop the killer.
Boring you say? Just an excuse for a DM to kill off players you say. Hmm....could be. Except for the final goal: 3) kill everyone.
This goal will be randomly assigned to one player (no you can not choose to be/not be the killer) and, through a mechanic I do not want to discuss at this time, the killer's identity will be a total secret, completely indiscernible by regular play of the game. You will have to use your wits to detect who the killer could be and argue amongst yourselves as to who you should keep eyes on. The killer is stopped when they are dead.
"Why not just kill a player outright just in case they were the killer," you ask? Well...I wont be playing this game, but if I were the killer that is the kind of ploy I would think of using to off one of the players with a reasonably believable cover story. So I would be really sure before you kill someone otherwise everyone might be convinced that the killer is YOU!
Again, I am working the rules up on this one now, and am very much thinking of including a visual element (I apologize now for the eye-bleeds you will suffer), but I would like to see if this idea can take off.
As I have mentioned elsewhere, ThinksLogically and Quarg have already been granted a place in this game should they want it. Who else wants to die?