(Almost) Everyone is Harry

For months, I've wondered passively how I could write a TTRPG that feels like Disco Elysium, built around the idea of multiple voices in an individual's head, each of them great or awful at different things. Yesterday, I arrived home, and it clicked. In order to avoid having some players possess the "good skills" and some possess the "awful skills", how about everyone possesses two? And instead of having the GM interpret the detective's words and actions too, ... what if a player was assigned specifically that role? I've made some minor changes and additions since yesterday, but I can confidently say that this classifies as a 200-word RPG.

It's a hack of Everyone is John (turns out I wasn't the first to come up with this) and Lasers&Feelings. Everyone is Feelings? Or maybe a better title would be...

(Almost) Everyone is Harry

A game for 1 GM, 1 amnesiac detective, and any number of voices in their head. More voices means more chaos.

Each voice chooses two unique opposing characteristics of the detective to represent (one labeled First, the other one Second), and one number from 2 to 5 (including).

In the game, the GM describes each scene and controls the NPCs. The detective decides what their character does. The voices try to convince the detective player to use them in the current situation.

The used voice rolls 1d6. It succeeds if the roll equals the voice's chosen number, if it's using its First characteristic and the roll was lower than the voice's number, or if it's using its Second characteristic and the roll was higher than the voice's number. Otherwise, the failure that it ends in is guaranteed to make at least one person feel miserable (quite likely the detective). The detective should enjoy describing their successes as well as failures in a stellar fashion.

A corpse had been hanging from a tree for a week now. You got so drunk, you forgot everything about yourself. You must find the murderer within three days.

Who knows, maybe this whole article was just a big excuse for me to upload this amazing gif.

Unincluded variant: Draw 2-4 of these to decide which skills get to speak up about a current situation.