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Brindlewood Bay
by Jason Córdova
Murder, She Wrote was a great show, but it would have been even better if Angela Fletcher spent her time encountering weird cults and eldritch horrors…
Brindlewood Bay is a cozy mystery horror role playing game ideal for those who like solving mysteries and being directly involved in the story…
Ostensibly, the game follows a group of older women who are in a book club called the Murder Mavens who find themselves encountering murder mysteries (both mundane and weird) in Brindlewood Bay, Massachusetts.
Fortunately, with the layout of this game you could easily alter the group and their reason for gathering while also transplanting into a different city if you prefer (even Cabot Cove, Maine).
In the game, the GM (the Keeper) works with the players narrating the story. Players have the options of different moves and skills they can pursue…usually tied to discovering clues. Different narrative techniques are offered up to prevent character death though the game is reliant on player creativity, so this wouldn’t be the right game for a hack and slash group that just wants to defeat a and guy.
In addition, the Midwives of the Fragrant Void is an evil competing cult with their own motives and origins. Fortunately, with the way the game is down, a Keeper could easily have all the murders be simply mundane and not embrace the cal of Cthulhu-style plot elements.
Each of the provided sample mysteries has the initial setup, various locations to gather clues, suspects (and their personalities), and various clues (mundane and weird) that might be found. What each mystery doesn’t provide is the actual guilty party as that will be up for the keeper and players to decide thematically as part of the session.
Again, this game definitely depends on having the right group trying it out, and if you do then I imagine you can get a ton of fun out of this rule set…or at least a solid one off game if you’ve got a group that might not want to commit fully.
I highly recommend this for those who like alternate weird horror, cozy mysteries, and genre detective shows from the 70s and 80s.
Brindlewood Bay is a cozy mystery horror role playing game ideal for those who like solving mysteries and being directly involved in the story…
Ostensibly, the game follows a group of older women who are in a book club called the Murder Mavens who find themselves encountering murder mysteries (both mundane and weird) in Brindlewood Bay, Massachusetts.
Fortunately, with the layout of this game you could easily alter the group and their reason for gathering while also transplanting into a different city if you prefer (even Cabot Cove, Maine).
In the game, the GM (the Keeper) works with the players narrating the story. Players have the options of different moves and skills they can pursue…usually tied to discovering clues. Different narrative techniques are offered up to prevent character death though the game is reliant on player creativity, so this wouldn’t be the right game for a hack and slash group that just wants to defeat a and guy.
In addition, the Midwives of the Fragrant Void is an evil competing cult with their own motives and origins. Fortunately, with the way the game is down, a Keeper could easily have all the murders be simply mundane and not embrace the cal of Cthulhu-style plot elements.
Each of the provided sample mysteries has the initial setup, various locations to gather clues, suspects (and their personalities), and various clues (mundane and weird) that might be found. What each mystery doesn’t provide is the actual guilty party as that will be up for the keeper and players to decide thematically as part of the session.
Again, this game definitely depends on having the right group trying it out, and if you do then I imagine you can get a ton of fun out of this rule set…or at least a solid one off game if you’ve got a group that might not want to commit fully.
I highly recommend this for those who like alternate weird horror, cozy mysteries, and genre detective shows from the 70s and 80s.