Conspiramancy is a single player (or solo) journaling RPG. You write journal entries describing the story of your character based on a series of abstract, inspirational prompts that bring challenges, complications, or twists of fate.
Instead of needing dice, a deck of cards, or a wooden tumbling tower, this RPG uses a book of your choice (novels are good) to help inspire the prompts, measure progression, and delineate the end of your adventure.
You Pick the Book; You Pick the Genre
Your choice of book can inspire the setting and genre of your journaling story - from modern day spy thriller, historical murder mystery, epic space opera, to magical coming of age stories. Whatever the genre and setting, you'll create a character who discovers a shadowy organization that manipulates the unaware from the shadows - and are inducted into the war against their malevolent actions.
Simple Rules; Expansive Prompts
With a set of simple rules, using the words and sentences on the page, you'll create abstract and inspiring writing prompts to generate the People, Places, Objects, and Secrets your character will encounter.
Increasing Threats; Hazards to Dodge
But beware, as your story continues and the Enemy gets ever closer to victory, you'll have to check the pages for Hazards - from A Place You Cannot Escape, to A Secret that Wants to be Known.
End of a Book; End of an Adventure
Ultimately, as you reach the end of the book you've chosen, your story will come to an end - are you victorious in this battle in the greater war, or will you pass the task onto someone else, just as you were introduced to the secrets yourself?
NOTE: Conspiramancy is about reading too much into random snippets of information taken out of context. It's intended to replicate the feeling of seeing patterns where there are none - of connecting wildly unrelated things and finding meaning, and danger in them. Bibliomancy is an inspiration, too.
If you find yourself prone to taking these sorts of things too far in the real world, this may not be the game for you - it is just a game after all, and does not claim to offer any deep insight or revelatory secrets.
Please take care of yourself.
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