He discovers a small pile of ashes in the corner of the room.
For example, in A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes is investigating the scene of a murder. Or, as someone else once put it to me: “The players are not Sherlock Holmes.”Īlthough the conclusion is incorrect, there’s an element of truth in this. The players are probably not brilliant detectives. In a typical murder mystery, for example, the protagonist is a brilliant detective.
They find the broken crate reading DANNER’S MEATS, but rather than going back to check on the local butcher they spoke to earlier they decide to go stake out the nearest meat processing plant instead.Īs a result of problems like these, many people reach an erroneous conclusion: Mystery scenarios in RPGs are a bad idea. They fail the Search check to find the hidden love letters, so they never realize that both women were being courted by the same man. Here’s a typical example: When the PCs approach a murder scene they don’t search outside the house, so they never find the wolf tracks which transform into the tracks of a human. And the whole evening will probably end in either boredom or frustration or both. The GM will feel as if they’ve done something wrong. The players will become unsure of what they should be doing. Mystery scenarios for roleplaying games have earned a reputation for turning into unmitigated disasters: The PCs will end up veering wildly off-course or failing to find a particular clue and the entire scenario will grind to a screeching halt or go careening off the nearest cliff.
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