Arm yourself with techniques to bring out the best in your mystery adventure through compelling gameplay.
Make your players feel like masterminds, plan for the spells that threaten to throw a wrench in your mystery, and avoid groans at the final reveal. Also, we chat about the essential traits to help build a great detective character.
So this wraps up our series on mysteries! But we couldn’t finish it all off without really diving into the details, because as they say, the devil is in there somewhere. The challenge presented by mysteries is striking a balance between laying out clues to follow plainly and making players feel like they are the ones solving the mystery. This is no easy feat, but using a reliable system, even if it becomes a touch predictable is going to deliver the feeling we want to give players.
For players though, building a character that isn’t a carbon copy of Sherlock Holmes takes a bit of creativity, because any character standing anywhere near a mystery is going to present parallels that rob your character of their unique flavor. So let’s dive into how to sole this and far more!