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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8625043" data-attributes="member: 19857">If that's the gameplay experience your table wants this is true.&nbsp; The thing is that Brindlewood Bay assumes a particular style of player who wants to write a mystery narrative - the game expects the whole table to come up with the mystery as a collaborative experience.&nbsp; Which is great when you have players who want that kind of experience - I actually enjoy that play style and would love to play in a Brindlewood campaign.However the players I have who would like to play a parlor room mystery game (and its a small number of them to be sure) want to play the part of the detectives in the story.&nbsp; They want to be gathering clues, making deductions, and otherwise have the game be about trying to solve the mystery, rather than trying to construct it.&nbsp; And Brindlewood is not built for that.&nbsp; (Not that you can't do that kind of game with PbtA mechanics - Monster of the Week essentially has that framework except in the genre of a Supernatural or a BtVS mystery rather than a Poirot or Murder She Wrote - but the issue with most non-Brindlewood mystery games that I've run across is that they presume that at some point the experience will devolve into a fight or an action scene and that that's where the action/drama will build to and ... that's not how a parlor room mystery works.&nbsp; My attempts to make GUMSHOE work in a setting that doesn't presume that eventually there will be action or violence flounder on the same rocks).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8625043, member: 19857"] If that's the gameplay experience your table wants this is true. The thing is that Brindlewood Bay assumes a particular style of player who wants to [I]write[/I] a mystery narrative - the game expects the whole table to come up with the mystery as a collaborative experience. Which is great when you have players who want that kind of experience - I actually enjoy that play style and would love to play in a Brindlewood campaign. However the players I have who would like to play a parlor room mystery game (and its a small number of them to be sure) want to play the part of the [I]detectives [/I]in the story. They want to be gathering clues, making deductions, and otherwise have the game be about trying to solve the mystery, rather than trying to construct it. And Brindlewood is not built for that. (Not that you can't do that kind of game with PbtA mechanics - Monster of the Week essentially has that framework except in the genre of a Supernatural or a BtVS mystery rather than a Poirot or Murder She Wrote - but the issue with most non-Brindlewood mystery games that I've run across is that they presume that at some point the experience will devolve into a fight or an action scene and that that's where the action/drama will build to and ... that's not how a parlor room mystery works. My attempts to make GUMSHOE work in a setting that doesn't presume that eventually there will be action or violence flounder on the same rocks). [/QUOTE]

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