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Simple Mystery Engine
Feel like running a cosmic horror tabletop game but don't want to learn a complicated new system? Simple Mystery Engine is a rules-light roleplaying game built to help quickly create and play episodic mysteries in the vein of monster-of-the-week TV shows and pulp horror novels.Players will take on the roles of Investigators, wavering between Rationality and Irrationality, capable of solving the mystery only by balancing these extremes.­­ Including instructions for character creation, gameplay and straightforward instructions on how to prep for a mystery game, Simple Mystery Engine is built to get you from not playing a game to playing a game as quickly and smoothly as possible.
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