Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Ritual of Links # 7: Murder Most Foul!

So you have run Circle of Rites and now you want to design, you own murder mystery adventure.

Here is an excellent summary of the mystery genre

Well first you need to the learn the Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories
By S.S. Van Dine


You should also read The Ten Commandments of Detective Fiction by Ronald A. Knox.

Often times in your design of murder mystery you will want a twist ending

Then there are mystery game tips for actually running the game you designed.

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