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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mordmorgan the Mad" data-source="post: 1953497" data-attributes="member: 27199">Well, my friend is gone and my free-time is running short with the new job next week but oh well.The game went pretty well, although we didn't get as far as I would have liked. I think we're gonna continue the game over AIM, so hopefully we'll get something done weekly.Re: Planning, I completely agree with Evilhalfling. Unless you know your players really really well, planning more than a week is useless.Re: Mysteries, they're really hard in a high magic setting unless the PCs are low level or the bad guy(s) have access to divination-blocking magic. Personally, I find that mysteries are most effective in Ravenloft (or other low-magic settings) where the effectiveness of divinations (especially Detect Evil) are reduced. Nightcloak brought up using a string of clues. That's the best way to do it, especially if you're going for horror or high suspence. The more the PCs know, the less they're scared.In my games, I like doing mysteries every once in a while. Red Herrings are always good and should be used often. (Face it, if every clue the PCs get means something, they start paying too much attention to the red herrings: it's that old "Hey! I found a rock!"). I like to be surprised by the ending of the mysteries too, so I rarely decide ahead of time how they'll end. I give the PCs 3-7 possible culprits and see who they think whodunnit. Usually I decide who's guilty (based on which choice would be the most dramatic) right before it becomes obvious.Anyway, I hope that helps.</blockquote>

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