Last month, I published another collaborative effort with Just Insert Imagination, this time based on a setting they've not yet released. As usual, Morne provided the text for the scenario, while I did the editing and layout.
You can get it here: Specters of Locksworth
The scenario was originally called simply "Specters", but a single-word name isn't great for search engines, and it is more likely to have a name conflict with other games, so I proposed "Specters of Locksworth" (as it was set in the fictional city of Locksworth).
The original draft only had 6 concepts, perks, and quirks, so I increased them to 7 to match the other one-pagers, and reworked a few. For example, I changed "overconfident" to "curious", as "overconfident" was quite similar to "reckless". I also replaced some of the perks, as "sharpshooter" felt too specific for the scenario, "social butterfly" didn't feel like something that would be used very often, etc. I replaced "iron will" as well, as that's a perk I try to avoid because it's purely reactive, which can make it difficult to tie into the narrative when the player is actively doing something.
One of my concerns was that it might feel too similar to Ghost Banishers, so I tried to give it a different vibe, more "Exorcist" than "Ghostbusters" -- I used artwork that better emphasized that feel, and changed Locksworth from a city to a creepy old town. Mechanics-wise, I left out the references to effort tokens, as that's something I usually only mention in the more combat-focused one-pagers, and Specters of Locksworth is more investigative. Ghost Banishers does reference effort tokens, so this once again helped give it a slightly different feel.
I also added a section on character motives in the bottom-left corner. This is something I've done in a few of my other recent one-pagers as well, as I've found it's a nice way to add a bit more flavor to the starting characters.
For the twist table, I tried to use different icons to Ghost Banishers, although there were a couple of duplicates. Having different icons is particularly nice for people who like combining multiple one-pagers, as they can use both twist tables for an expanded set of icons.
While Specters of Locksworth and Ghost Banishers are designed to have a different feel, they're similar enough thematically that they could certainly be combined into an expanded ghost hunting scenario!