Genre: Mystery

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.------------------------------------------------------------------------Our Patreon - patreon.com/TabletopHotTakes------------------------------------------------------------------------Mystery Novel Structure Simplified - ZARA ALTAIR AUTHOR - Blog post about mystery structure25 Things You Need to Know About Writing Mysteries - Chuck Wendig blog post about mystery writingMystery Tropes - TV Tropes - TV Tropes page on MysteriesEssential Elements of a Mystery Story - Article on essential elements of a mysteryDetectives by Overly Sarcastic Productions - Video about detectives and a bit about the mystery genre in generalLinks for the systems mentioned:Brindlewood Bay - Miss Marple style mysteriesApocalypse Keys - BPRD style mysteriesScion 2e - Game about the children of old gods adventuringPromethean: The Created - Call of Darkness game about created lifeformsFirefly: The RPG - long out-of-print game for running games in the Firefly universeLeverage: The RPG - long-out-of-print game for running games in the Leverage worldBlades in the Dark - modern heist game for running crews in the world of Duskvol