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<blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 9622992" data-attributes="member: 6779310">It's worth noting that there are several modes of mystery...<ol>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In some, it's simply about finding truth.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In some, it's about not leaving unpunished bad acts. (This is the political side - show that someone is punished in a timely manner.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In some, it's about punishing the guilty. (This isn't the same as finding truth. It is often helped by finding the truth. Often, the truth still leaves this undone.)</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In some, it's about exploration of the unknown.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ol">In a few, it's about ending a problem by any means</li>
</ol>I tend to run my investigatives in the L5R setting, where magistrates can get away with punishing the guilty without needing to worry much about truth; they need a confession to execute, but the execution need not be for the crimes that they're investigating... So mostly types 2 and 3. The truth is an avenue to #3, not the goal.Occasionally, they find things that hint towards unknown elements, and leads them into lore of the setting. Many times, my players assigned task is #5, &quot;there's a problem in village X, go, fix it.&quot;Since Truth is seldom the direct goal of the mystery, it's often not established in the authoring of the adventure. Instead, I have 2-3 potential &quot;true answers&quot; for application to goals 2 or 3.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aramis erak, post: 9622992, member: 6779310"] It's worth noting that there are several modes of mystery... [LIST=1] [*]In some, it's simply about [B]finding truth[/B]. [*]In some, it's about [B]not leaving unpunished bad acts[/B]. (This is the political side - show that someone is punished in a timely manner.) [*]In some, it's about [B]punishing the guilty[/B]. (This isn't the same as finding truth. It is often helped by finding the truth. Often, the truth still leaves this undone.) [*]In some, it's about [B]exploration of the unknown[/B]. [*]In a few, it's about [B]ending a problem[/B] by any means [/LIST] I tend to run my investigatives in the L5R setting, where magistrates can get away with punishing the guilty without needing to worry much about truth; they need a confession to execute, but the execution need not be for the crimes that they're investigating... So mostly types 2 and 3. The truth is an avenue to #3, not the goal. Occasionally, they find things that hint towards unknown elements, and leads them into lore of the setting. Many times, my players assigned task is #5, "there's a problem in village X, go, fix it." Since Truth is seldom the direct goal of the mystery, it's often not established in the authoring of the adventure. Instead, I have 2-3 potential "true answers" for application to goals 2 or 3. [/QUOTE]

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