Here’s an idea that you may wish to include in your game. (Note that if you’ve not played our games before, we suggest that you stick with the basic rules – but if you’re an old hand, go crazy!)
Interviewing absent characters
Sometimes it can be useful for the detective characters to interview absent characters to eliminate them from their inquiries.
Here’s what you do:
- When you’re preparing the game, print out all the characters – even if you know that you haven’t got all the roles filled.
- Also print out the items and other handouts for that character – and put it all in that character’s envelope.
- When the game is running, if one of the players wants to ask a question of one of the missing players, you’ve got all the information in one place so that you can answer the query. (This is easy if the detective has the “I’d like to ask you a few questions” ability as you can simply show them each characters’ Information/Clue.)
An advantage of bringing the complete characters to the party is that if you do get someone arriving at the last minute, you can easily get them involved by giving one of the spare characters to them.