Solo Succession

I saw a thread on discord somewhere about GROUP PLAY WITH SOLO RULES . I can’t find it any longer. But the idea took root. What intrigued me about it was not the idea actual collaborative group play that somehow uses solo rules, but a serial game of solo play using solo rules in which the world, the characters, the whole game is played with care and attention and then bundled up and handed off to the next player upon reaching some kind of landmark or checkpoint. A succession game.

This game came from that idea. The classic haunted house story is a succession game. It always starts with a naively hopeful family moving into the old house excited about a life chapter. And there is always a part where a confused ghosts thinks they still live there and cries out, Get out of my house! And the plucky young family finally escapes, or they don’t. And then a newer younger pluckier family moves in. Repeat ad nauseum.

And therein lies the beauty. The haunted house genre comes with the succession game already built in. There’s nothing else you have to do it whatsoever. When your family succumbs to the house (or successfully escapes it), then you wrap up any loose ends and pass the game. This is the succession game I want to play.