Rocky Beach, California, 197?, and the Three Investigators are on the case. A friend from school has a problem and has asked for your help. Unfortunately for the junior sleuths, Juniper's older cousin from England is visiting and Aunt Mathilda insists you take him along on whatever it is you're getting up to this time. Surely he won't be too much trouble.
"Monday's child is fair of face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child
Is loving and giving,
Saturday's child
Works hard for a living,
And the child that is born on the sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe,
And good and gay"
It is the 19th century and Scandinavia is changing. In the cities machines churn, technology rushes, a world of new ideas and endless revolutions.
But on the outskirts, in the country and the forests, the dirt roads and the shadows, the old ways remain. And they will not let themselves fade silently into the night.
So if your down to run around in a mystery sandbox that's a bit Robert Eggers, a bit Wicker Man, a bit Call of Cthulhu and a bit Brothers Grimm, then this is the game for you!
Content warning notes: violence, horror, and themes of domestic abuse. Safety tools will be in play.
In dark forests and forlorn mountains, by black lakes and hidden groves. At your doorstep. In the shadows, something stirs. Strange beings. Twisted creatures, lurking at the edge of vision. Watching. Waiting. Unseen by most, but not by you. You see them for what they really are. Vaesen.
Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. You join on on the search for what happened to Hilda: the bookseller in the farming village of Balsta?
Is everything as it seems in Balsta?
What begins as a simple case of missing persons and an intriguing tale of a "devil in the woods" quickly spirals into a dangerous mystery rooted in community values, family, romance and murder.
Can you find out what really happened in the farming village of Balsta before the entire village is lost? Or is it really worth saving in the end?
Trick or Bleat
The annual Harvest Festival has begun in the cozy town of Brindlewood Bay! For our players, the sweet treats, booths, and games of the event will have to wait- this year's guest of honor, Dimples the Wonder Goat, has gone missing. Can our ladies of the Murder Mavens Book Club find him in time for the award ceremony at the end of the night? And what dark forces might be conspiring for one goat?
Brindlewood Bay
Brindlewood Bay is an emergent mystery TTRPG written by Jason Cordova. In it, you play as retired older women in the titular town of Brindlewood Bay, Massachusetts. You and your fellow Murder Mavens (named for your murder mystery loving book-club) periodically solve real murders and strange happenings in your sleepy bayside community. Behind the scenes, a vile conspiracy lies in wait which may swallow the whole town and more unless the Mavens stop it.
A game played in silence via text - you WILL need a device with a texting app on it, Whatsapp is best but we can run it on Discord if people prepare.
*Please ensure your phone or device is charged, or bring a charger to use in the room*
Alice is Missing is a game about a group of teens trying to find their missing friend, Alice. None of the PCs are the culprit but must work together to unearth clues about locations, possible culprits and motives. Set in a small US town in winter, each character has secrets and motives, but none are as mysterious as Alice herself. This game can get very intense emotionally.
The game itself runs for 90 minutes but there's a fair bit of set up, rules clarification and so on so it usually takes the full 3 hours including debrief.
This game will incorporate the Silent Falls expansion
Brindlewood Bay is a tabletop roleplaying game that combines Murder, She Wrote with H.P. Lovecraft. In it, you play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club, who help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England Town. Over the course of their investigations, they become aware of a dark occult conspiracy that connects the cases, and will eventually have to face that conspiracy in order to save their community. The game is low-prep and easy to play no matter your experience with tabletop roleplaying games. The game requires 3 d6 dice (spare dice will be available) and will be especially approachable for anyone familiar with Powered by the Apocalypse games.
Strange Squad is a New Zealand made game about weird, powerful individuals known as 'Agents' investigating and solving issues involving 'Aberrants': Paranormal creatures, beings, and phenomena that defy logical explanation. Agent's seek to uphold The Veil, a layer of secrecy that keeps the public from learning about these fragments of unreality, for their sake and ours.
Set in Ohura, New Zealand, Ella Marie has gone missing. Normally the agency wouldn't worry about such mundane matters but the pedict-o-monitor spiked to 3000 just before the call, and the Agency doesn't want another Ester Kampf situation (2016) especially as the runes of banishment are in Waimate stopping (another) demonic excursion. Plus the Guru of the Kings Country is down there and there hasn't been an IN-3-B5 (risk assessment - possession (accidental) and disclosure (Veil)) completed on her yet. So definitely do that whilst you're down there, those forms were rolled out in 2021 and she'd be one of the stragglers the Agency needs to complete it for.
Content Warning : Horror, kidnapping, cults, views about Ohura, rape/sexual violation (offscreen- think law&order SVU )
At university you were a tight-knit group, sharing a house and getting involved in some legendary hi-jinks, united by your love for the cheap packets of mustard found at your local takeaway joints.
But that was a long time ago, and despite promising to keep in touch, life has moved on, and so have you. Then one day you get the message, using the agreed code to indicate one of the group is in trouble and needs your help: We're out of mustard.
The birthplace of Silicate Intelligence is in chaos. On the eve of their announcement to run for mayor, Karel Stork, a champion of both human and digital-sapience rights, has gone missing. As the grim search for Stork begins, the city erupts into riots.
Noirlandia is a character-driven system about uncovering a mystery, and the sacrifices you are willing to make to uncover the truth.
Something stirs deep in Aro Valley, down one of those streets you walked past a hundred times.
People have started going missing and it is up to you to find out what is happening.
You always thought that guy at the video place looked a little too pale, that old lady with too many dogs, the guy who owns a fancy car but lives in that dilapidated house on the corner or was it the guys at the brewery looking for a special ingredient.
This is a Monster Hunting game set just a stone's throw away and right around now.
Are you brave enough to see what lurks in the shadows of the darkest parts of the valley