One of the best genres as a whole for this is Espionage and Spys... Steal liberally from every James Bond movie and book. And any other such story.

Another good one, surprisingly, is the "Rebel Scout" in both the Star Wars and US Civil War settings. The prominent NPC in both has to do with the PC's mode of transport... in SW, it's the astromech droid; in the USCW, one's horse. Sneaking into systems/towns, finding out if that loner there is friend or foe...

Related, but suitable for guest PC's as well, is the investigation based scenario. It works best when the character has a mission-based reason. But it allows stealing from just about 30-some odd TV shows.

Which leads to another resource or two for ideas:


TV Tropes
Interned Movie DataBase (IMDB)


IMDB has plot synopses for many series' episodes. Steal liberally. Pick any series with a singular main character and rip away.

Collections of two-player free-form adventure ideas?
There are so many techniques/methodologies in the life sciences that we can use to interrogate interesting questions. The thing is, most of us are completely unaware of the available methods we can employ. Rather, we go with the techniques we are familiar with or that are popular in our subdomains at the time. But that's pretty limiting.

So I'm wondering... we have databases for everything else... is there one for life sciences techniques/methods? Something like this could be immensely helpful in experimental planning. In particular, I think a comprehensive database would help scientists break outside of their spheres of familiarity and to employ less known (but potentially illuminating) methods to their questions.

I know there are journals that publish protocols and methods, but they are fragmented and don't encompass everything. 

Does what I'm looking for exist? If not, how might one go about creating such a tool? 
