Dead Man's Hand

Facilitator: 
Donna Giltrap

The Brindlewood Charity Poker Tournament is a popular annual event in the Brindlewood Bay calendar. Members of the community are sponsored to play poker with the winnings going to the charity of their choice. However, little does anyone realise how high the stakes they will be playing for will go...

Brindlewood Bay is a roleplaying game about a group of elderly women—members of the local Murder Mavens mystery book club—who frequently find themselves investigating (and solving!) real-life murder mysteries. They become increasingly aware that there are supernatural forces that connect the cases they are working on.

The game is directly inspired by the television show Murder, She Wrote, but also takes inspiration from the works of H.P. Lovecraft, “cozy” crime dramas, and American TV shows from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. Rather than a straight investigation, the players will collaborate to create many of the details of the mystery.

System: 
Brindlewood Bay
Number of Players: 
2-5
System Knowledge: 
Not Needed
Genre: 
Whodunnit
Genre Knowledge: 
Useful
Role-playing Knowledge: 
Not Required
Style: 
Murder she wrote meets Cthulhu
Classification: 
PG
Scored: 
N
This game is teen-friendly: 
Y