Beachville Detective Agency

Ashcan edition – purchasers wil receive future updates for free. 

Welcome to Beachville! A sunny, pastel-hued paradise. It has no dark underbelly, but there is a seamier side and people have their troubles just like anywhere else. And approximately once a year, you run into something that suggests ghosts might be real. 

This is a cozy detective RPG based on the Block by Block SRD, a crime procedural game where the goal is to line up your suspects, witnesses and evidence to solve the case your client is paying you to solve. Although... maybe not too quickly. You get paid by the day, after all.

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Where are we? Beachville! 

What are we doing? We’re playing a roleplaying game about detectives. It works best with three participants in the group. One member of the group will be the GM, describing and portraying the world and its inhabitants. The others are the players, each taking on the role of a detective. 

The aim of the game is to investigate crimes, close cases, and get paid.

It’s not a game about interpreting clues and solving puzzles. That will happen some of the time, but the goal you always have is to investigate cases hoping to get a break – a significant piece of information. A break can be a suspect, a witness, or a key piece of evidence.

The three types of break are important: to close a case, you need at least one of each. When you’re ready, you take your case to the client – having more than the minimum number of breaks makes it more likely that the client will accept and thereby let you close the case.