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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 1613468" data-attributes="member: 20564">I ran a short murder mystery in a fantasy setting and one resource I found helpful was Brent Falconer's Whodunit? page <a href="http://www.web-den.org.uk/falconer/games/whodunit.php" target="_blank">http://www.web-den.org.uk/falconer/games/whodunit.php</a>I had the PCs enter a small farming dell during the middle of the day, only to find the owner of the general store dead and an empty coffer next to him.Because it was in the middle of the day, most peope were out at the fields.  This helped keep the number of suspects down, you may need to do something similar if you go for a cruise just to keep the NPCs to a managable number.I made sure that there was everyone had a possible motive, thugh some you needed to dig to find out.  Plus I ended up doing it as a two-part murder - one charater had dosed the man with a sleeping potion to get tthe money, but the person who did it had gotten the potion from another man who's wife was sleeping with the to-be-murdered guy, so he took advantage of the sleeping draught to kill him.All in all, everyone was looking at everyone funny, and the locals were looking odd at this adventuring group who's trying to blame them for a death in their midst.  Lots of fun.BTW, they did eventually find the killer, through great questioning and sleuthful clue-spotting (orange ar hair from the true killer's familiar, etc.)Good luck!=Blue</blockquote>