The second in our series about Genres. We pick right up with mysteries. We explore the required baseline for mysteries and how they can and can very much NOT work in TTRPGs.

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• Mystery Novel Structure Simplified - ZARA ALTAIR AUTHOR - Blog post about mystery structure
• 25 Things You Need to Know About Writing Mysteries - Chuck Wendig blog post about mystery writing
• Mystery Tropes - TV Tropes - TV Tropes page on Mysteries
• Essential Elements of a Mystery Story - Article on essential elements of a mystery
• Detectives by Overly Sarcastic Productions - Video about detectives and a bit about the mystery genre in general

Links for the systems mentioned:

Brindlewood Bay - Miss Marple style mysteries

Apocalypse Keys - BPRD style mysteries

Scion 2e - Game about the children of old gods adventuring

Promethean: The Created - Call of Darkness game about created lifeforms

Firefly: The RPG - long out-of-print game for running games in the Firefly universe

Leverage: The RPG - long-out-of-print game for running games in the Leverage world

Blades in the Dark - modern heist game for running crews in the world of Duskvol