Last year I talked about how Mo and I attended The King’s Musketeers, a weekend long freeform. This year’s weekend game was Cafe Casablanca, and while Mo played Philip Marlowe, I was one of the six “directors” (ie, a host). Mo, looking very dapper as Philip Marlowe Cafe Casablanca is based on Hollywood thrillers and wartime dramas of the ‘30s and...
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Introverts and our murder mystery games
I’ve just finished the excellent book Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking by Susan Cain. In it, Cain outlines the differences between introverts and extroverts and how society (American society in particular) values extroverts over their quieter brethren. Introverts and extroverts enjoying The Karma Club Now, I’m an...
The King’s Musketeers
Last weekend Mo and I attended The King's Musketeers, a weekend long game set in the swashbuckling world of Cardinal Richelieu and Queen Anne, of D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, of the Duke of Buckingham, Rene Descartes, and Cyrano de Bergerac. I was Count-Duke Olivares and ruled Spain and Mo was Count de Soubise, a scheming rebel hero....