This is a roleplaying gaming setting for the Multiverser (r) alt-dimensions game. Its usable for other alt-dimensional systems as well.

Aelfheim
By Eric R. Ashley

This is going to involve a considerable amount of side notes.

First, the Gothic novel, according to Carolyn Wheat involves some of the following elements: A girl alone without support in a strange and interesting house with a man with extreme moods; his meanness to her only gets her more excited; there are various intimations of something not right in the house; secrets that are feared get shown; the guy tells her he loves her, but can’t have a relationship; light fills the shadowy house, and he brings the servant girl up to his social status. The End.

First, lets flip this around. The guy is a verser, he is alone in the new world without family or friends. There is a strange house of both stunning beauty and architecture and dark forboding. There is a woman, an Elven princess, who might find the verser cute, but he is ‘only a human’. She’s smashingly attractive.

There are loyal servitors who keep telling the human verser to keep quiet, don’t interact. You’re only human. Remember your place.

There is a dread secret of something horrible in her distant past that still troubles her.

For my second side note: You need more in a relationship in a roleplaying game than 1)The stated fact that the girl is pretty. 2)You need some side issue. The girl likes you, but she needs to be married in a temple to her faith…in another universe. 3)You need some sort of barriers for the hero to overcome.

You need her to have some talent, and goals of her own to make her interesting. The girl needs some sort of internal conflict. She needs a reason to say no to the hero as well. She needs to have passions, things that get her excited, limits on her behavior.

I’m still working on my theory of how to run romance in a RPG.