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Hosted 30 murder mystery parties and think I've exhausted the market. What now?
I've hosted around 30 murder mystery dinner parties over the past 10 years, and I think I've finally reached the end of the market.
I'm looking for advice from other longtime hosts: where did you go from here?
My group's niche seems to be very specific:
What we like:
Predetermined murderer
One fixed solution
The murderer knows they're the murderer
Minimal scripted dialogue
Character booklets with secrets and motives
Multiple rounds of play
Heavy roleplaying and player interaction
8–12 players
2–4+ hours of gameplay
What we don't like:
Random killers
Multiple endings
Replayable mysteries
The murderer being selected at the end
Highly scripted games where everyone reads cards
We've played most or all of:
How to Host a Murder
Watersdown Affair
Class of '54
Grapes of Frath
Last Train from Paris
Archaeologically Speaking? It's the Pits!
Hoo Hung Woo
Powar and Greede
Wall Street Scandal (owned but not played yet)
Printable Murder Mystery Games / MurderMysteryGames
Fairytale
Alice in Wonderland
Oz
Da Vinci
Jane Austen
Titanic
Pirate
Western
Witches
Game of Thrones
Circus
Really all of their other titles
Other games
Alpine Hotel
Death by Chocolate
Champagne Murder
Murder at the Grand Hotel
Murder at Mardi Gras
Secrets of Emerald Hill
Secrets of the Silver Screen
Last Chance Saloon
Holiday Horror at von Herr Universal
A Fatal Shot at the Bourbon Rectifier
Halftime Hysteria
Pasta, Passion, and Pistols
At this point, I'm not really looking for theme recommendations. Gameplay matters much more than theme.
For those of you who have exhausted the How to Host games and the major modern publishers, where did you go next?
Smaller publishers?
Custom-written games?
LARP scenarios?
Designing your own?
I feel like there must be other hosts out there who have run into this same problem.
#games
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I've hosted around 30 murder mystery dinner parties over the past 10 years, and I think I've finally reached the end of the market.
I'm looking for advice from other longtime hosts: where did you go from here?
My group's niche seems to be very specific:
What we like:
Predetermined murderer
One fixed solution
The murderer knows they're the murderer
Minimal scripted dialogue
Character booklets with secrets and motives
Multiple rounds of play
Heavy roleplaying and player interaction
8–12 players
2–4+ hours of gameplay
What we don't like:
Random killers
Multiple endings
Replayable mysteries
The murderer being selected at the end
Highly scripted games where everyone reads cards
We've played most or all of:
How to Host a Murder
Watersdown Affair
Class of '54
Grapes of Frath
Last Train from Paris
Archaeologically Speaking? It's the Pits!
Hoo Hung Woo
Powar and Greede
Wall Street Scandal (owned but not played yet)
Printable Murder Mystery Games / MurderMysteryGames
Fairytale
Alice in Wonderland
Oz
Da Vinci
Jane Austen
Titanic
Pirate
Western
Witches
Game of Thrones
Circus
Really all of their other titles
Other games
Alpine Hotel
Death by Chocolate
Champagne Murder
Murder at the Grand Hotel
Murder at Mardi Gras
Secrets of Emerald Hill
Secrets of the Silver Screen
Last Chance Saloon
Holiday Horror at von Herr Universal
A Fatal Shot at the Bourbon Rectifier
Halftime Hysteria
Pasta, Passion, and Pistols
At this point, I'm not really looking for theme recommendations. Gameplay matters much more than theme.
For those of you who have exhausted the How to Host games and the major modern publishers, where did you go next?
Smaller publishers?
Custom-written games?
LARP scenarios?
Designing your own?
I feel like there must be other hosts out there who have run into this same problem.
#games
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