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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9830059" data-attributes="member: 42582">100% agreed with this. Solving a puzzle (like a crossword puzzle, or charades, or the extrapolation from CoC clues) is not like solving an actual mystery or murder.I mean, in the CoC case I can be confident that all the salient NPCs have somehow been presented to me, directly or indirectly, by the GM; and that I will never need to (say) review a 100 phone records or bank records or passenger logs or similar, and cross reference those against other tedious data, to try and find a pattern or connection. I know that all the evidence is available to my PC by following cues or prompts or opportunities that the GM will present to me. If my PC is in (say) New York, I don't need to worry that I have to interview every bus driver and every bus ticket seller just to check that my suspect didn't take a bus to Milwaukee. I know that the scenario's fiction will be "bounded" by a sense of what is feasible, and what is fair, for a GM to present in the context of playing a RPG.</blockquote>