Pelgrane Press cordially invites you to playtest scenarios for Merryshire Detective Club. These include “Slaying the Wagon,” a second intro scenario for the core book, and scenarios from The Dreadful Hare, its accompanying adventure anthology book. Depending on the whims of our random selection process, you may be assigned to run: a tale of a […]
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by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan In Merryshire, you’ve got a choice of four Kin to pick from – halflings, dwarves, pooka, and boggarts. Players need ways to distinguish their characters from each other. There’s probably another game out there in the Halflings Solving Mysteries And Farting Around Possibility Space that doesn’t include anything but halflings. (I know […]
By Kevin Kulp I’ve now run fourteen Merryshire Detective Club mysteries (using three scenarios and a whole lot of playtesters) in preparation for writing several mysteries in The Dreadful Hare, MSDC’s accompanying book of adventures by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, with additional scenarios by Robin D. Laws and myself. I can’t yet show the actual character sheets […]
by Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Mysteries are undeniably tricky things. They’re closely related to crosswords. When you’re doing a crossword, bits of the solution come early and easy. 1 Across, six letters, “the crime of killing another person”. MURDER 3 Across, eight letters, “figure of speech, not unlike a simile”. METAPHOR Other bits are a little more […]