Hi everyone,

Hope this is the right place to ask.

Basically, as the title says, I'm looking to run an RPG for my friends set in a haunted American house. Discussion of weird WASP American dynasties gives me the creeps anyway, so I figured I'd set it in something that scares me and hopefully that transfers to the players. Unfortunately, I'm not a yank so my knowledge isn't too good, and googling "spooky wasp dynasty stories" doesn't come up with much.

Sort of stuff I'm looking for:

  • My creepy WASP family, the... Vanderchilds... had a daughter that caused them difficulty so they had her lobotomised. Her vengeful ghost will be amongst the spirits in the mansion that the players must help have their vengeance on the cruel Vanderchild ghosts.

Would also like help coming up with a better family name than the Vanderchilds.

Thanks homies.

  • Hotskytrotsky [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Could also style it after the Winchester mansion that was built as the widow started feeling as if her family's wealth via gun manufacturing and genocide was creating massive angry mobs of spirits (so the mansion was built like a maze to confuse them, I visited as a kid and it's creepy as fuck). So there could be a part in which the players help angry spirits (former native inhabitants, mine workers left to die, etc) tear down the mansion and take the family to Hell.