19: Cluedo
Cluedo: A classic country house murder mystery where players have to identify who killed the victim, where, and with which weapon. Motive is left vague.
You can probably figure out how a gamified version of the country house murder mystery could be the basis of an RPG adventure. Hence the spinoff gams with the same case, the film, TV series both game shows and fully narrative, books and plays.
As well as versions for a wide variety of licences including D&D and Critical Role (but weirdly still not Scream).
See also murder mystery parties and related sorta-LARPs.
And RPGs just for this, like A Weekend In The Country.
Cluedo is a pun on Clue and Ludo. Known in the US simply as Clue, but I always think of Clue as the film, a classic dark comedy with a rising body count and three solutions that (I think) all work.
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Getting the PCs to investigate while they’re also suspects might be the tricky part. You could follow the example of some of the licenced games where they change the central mystery as the characters involved wouldn’t go around murdering each other.
Or follow the example of the 2019 D&D version where one of the PCs is a doppelganger, but secret-monster RPG sessions often get a bit more like The Thing in their solution.
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