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Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire

(Who Is Also One of the Aforementioned Sherlock Holmes)

v 1.2

A one-page RPG inspired by Justin McElroy

written by Andrew J. Young (with thanks to Marty McGuire)

e Game

In Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire (Who Is Also One of the Aforementioned Sherlock Holmes)—officially

abbreviated Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire—four players play four Sherlock Holmes who team up to solve mysteries and one-up each other. Secretly, one or more Sherlock Holmes are

Suspicious Quirks (d6)

vampires. Can the four Sherlock Holmes find out who among them is a creature
1. You loathe the smell of garlic. of the night? is game requires paper, pencils, a d6, and a d20.
2. You’re a Transylvanian citizen.

Getting Started

3. You’re allergic to vitamin D.
Everyone describes their Sherlock Holmes. Players can each play a version of Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Basil Rathbone, Peter Cushing, etc.), or they can create their own wry, observant detective. Everyone rolls in secret to determine their Suspicious Quirk.
(No sunlight for you!)
4. You are a bat enthusiast. 5. You have a neck fetish. 6. You are a vampire. (Plus, choose two of the above.)

Setting the Scene

ese four Sherlock Holmes join forces to investigate a terrible crime. One player describes the crime scene in as much detail as they like (leaving out the crime) and then rolls on the Scene Details table. Another player chooses which of those two details to incorporate and then rolls on the Scene Details table again. e third player decides which of those two details to incorporate, but does not roll. e fourth player describes the crime itself and fits it into the scene. Each player then describes their arrival at the scene.

  • Detective Work
  • Scene Details (d6)

e players investigate the scene one clue at a time by each rolling on the Clue Prompts table and describing the results in turn. e primary objective is to make each clue more important than the last. e secondary objective is to try to create situations to test everyone’s Suspicious Quirks and determine who is secretly a vampire. Players continue investigating until someone is accused of being a vampire.
1. Creepy doll collection / Unusual odors 2. More than one katana / Too many pets 3. Clown memorabilia / Trampoline floor 4. Too much potpurri / Shrine to a celebrity 5. Adult book collection / Vampire themed 6. Lovecraftian horror / e set of Frasier

Final Scene

When a player thinks they can prove who the vampire is, they accuse them and present their evidence. If that player is not a vampire, they explain why they have their Suspicious Quirk, and then they in turn must accuse someone of being a vampire (and so on). When a vampire is revealed (or when the last non-vampire is accused), that player explains how they have solved the actual crime. Other players chime in with details, and no one mentions vampirism again, at all. Finally, the players describe how their four Sherlock Holmes work together to capture the criminal.

Any player not accused of being a vampire is assumed to simply not have been discovered, this time.
(e next time you play this game, everyone rolls twice for Suspicious Quirks.)

Clue Prompts (d20)

1. A scrap of torn fabric 2. A faded picture
6. Half of a grocery list 7. An old newspaper
11. A heavy vase, chipped 16. A conspiracy board 12. A snubnosed revolver 17. A bust of the queen
3. A bizarrely shaped stain 8. A perfectly ripe banana 13. A snubnosed Shih Tzu 18. A half-eaten sandwich 4. A single hair 5. Chalk dust
9. A golden figurine 10. A chess set, mid-game 15. A broken broadsword
14. A jar of pickled herring 19. A terrible script

20. A VHS of Frasier

I hope you enjoy Four Sherlock Holmes and a Vampire. It was inspired by a Justin McElroy goof on

e Adventure Zone podcast. I received excellent feedback and suggestions from Marty McGuire.

For more McElroy content, visit mcelroyshows.com or search Twitter for #MBMBAM or #eZoneCast.

For more of my RPG content, visit tinyurl.com/thatonedropbox or follow me on Twitter @atOneGM.

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