One of our customers, Rob from Canada, wrote to tell us about a variant for our pickpocket rules that he used. Watch out - there's a pickpocket about! Here’s the text that he prepared for those with the pickpocket skill: Your character has the Pickpocket ability. Your ability card shows what you can pickpocket and how many attempts you have...
Here’s a great YouTube video about interactive murder mystery games created by Isaac Litkowitz and friends.
The Freeform Games newsletter December 2019: Christmas Lies, ideas for prizes, converting Curse of the Pharaoh, and a review of The Reality is Murder.
Welcome to the Freeform Games murder mystery party newsletter! Welcome to another issue of our occasional newsletter. In this issue we talk about: Extra characters for Court in the Act A Speakeasy Murder actual play video Pirate games for Talk Like a Pirate Day Keeping score in a murder mystery game Enjoy! Mo and SteveNew characters for Court in...
“Every now and again we are asked if we have a way of assigning points to goals so that our guests can keep score. While we don’t do this normally, this is our suggestion…”
Helena Mas sent us this spoiler-free video of A Speakeasy Murder, filmed at Cafe Repin in Potsdam, Germany.
We were recently asked by Pam, one of our customers: I'm getting ready to run Court in the Act in three weeks time. I was just sending out character assignments tonight, and realized I accidentally listed Sir Walter Raleigh twice in my list, so I have two different people down to play him! My cast list/assignments is full, and I already have...
So what does a Freeform Games murder mystery party really look like? They're hard to describe, and if you've not seen or played in one, they're fairly hard to imagine. So here's a moment from Hollywood Lies, sent to us by Julie D'Augusta. In this scene, Jules Milton is being thrown out from the Post-Modern Freeform Movement (one of many plots in...
Pickpocketing can be a divisive mechanic amongst experienced freeformers (although I’ve never heard any of our customers complain about it). On one hand it’s a useful mechanic for replicating a real-life skill (one that is thankfully rare); on the other hand it can be particularly demoralising to have spent all game trying to get hold of...
I experimented recently with printing our money at approximately life-size, and it looks really good - and feels much more like money. This experiment was inspired by the photograph above from Way out West. Sent to us by Jaqui French, I was intrigued by the dollar bills. Those look like the graphics from our money cards, but printed extra...