illustration by Scott LeMien

As you know if you read our previous post, last week we had the crazy idea to create a game in a jiffy for Jiffycon. So crazy it just might work!!

So we got together last Thursday, picked a premise and started playstorming. Then we got together again yesterday to test out what we had so far and playstorm some new ideas. Tonight was our third game, more of a playtest than a playstorm. Before us lies the task of writing up the rules and printing them before we head up to Massachusetts on Friday.

We’re having a blast! We love the mechanics we’ve come up with, but we also love the premise, conceived by our own Jason “herzwesten” Keeley. In a world where monsters and humans live side by side, you need special laws to keep the peace, and you need special detectives and lawyers to enforce those laws. You will play those detectives and lawyers in Trial & Terror: Supernatural Victims Unit! Perhaps a Vampire has been feeding on humans without a license. Perhaps a werewolf was a victim of a hate crime. Perhaps a ghost has taken the law into his own hands in the case of his own murder. You will have to investigate the crime, find the suspect, make the arrest, and convict them in a court of law.

Here are some highlights from tonight’s game:

• The detectives met with a mummy real estate tycoon whose son had just been murdered
• The detectives took a trip to Little Transylvania (a neighborhood of Manhattan) to meet a vampire contact
• The prosecutors introduced the recent telephone records of an ancient undead monster as evidence
• Though the prosecutors failed to get the conviction for the charge of “unlawful summoning and binding”, the suspect received the maximum penalty for first degree murder!

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