Got a friend who hasn't been able to game in some time, thanks to his work schedule. I think I am going to run him a horror-fantasy game of my own devising. He recently let me borrow the first three books of the Noble Dead series by Barb & JC Hendee. It's about a dhampir and a half-elf who have been moving from village to village conning townspeople by making them believe the half-elf is a vampire and she's a vampire slayer. This all takes an ironic twist when she encounters a vampire who thinks she's stalking him.

I won't say anything else for fear of spoilers, but it has made me want to run a fantasy game again, and he got very excited when I mentioned it...so I am going to cook up a solo game for him using that as a rough guideline. (Not the plot, mind you, but a low-fantasy horror type setting).

I will probably be stealing neat stuff from the books that I like, plus mining the crap out of other fantasy and horror games I own for inspiration...mostly because I haven't hammered out a real homebrew in AGES.

Anyway, just thought I would toss that out there. I am thinking the ultimate "big bad" might wind up being an Iron Lich from the Iron Kingdoms Monsternomicon...not sure yet. Since I am running this on short notice, I figure the first adventure will be a basic set-up with a few paths for him to follow at the end, and let that dictate where I grow the campaign over time.