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Brindlewood Bay is a tabletop roleplaying game that combines Murder, She Wrote with H.P. Lovecraft. In it, you play a group of elderly women, members of the local Murder Mavens Mystery Book Club, who help the authorities solve murder cases in a picturesque New England Town. Over the course of their investigations, they become aware of a dark occult conspiracy that connects the cases, and will eventually have to face that conspiracy in order to save their community. The game is low-prep and easy to play no matter your experience with tabletop roleplaying games.

Important links

• File:Brindlewood Bay Handouts.pdf

The Dark Conspiracy

The History of Brindlewood Bay

• In the summer of 1877, the crew of the whaler Deep Reaver set out from Brindlewood Bay. They returned with the strangest whale anyone had ever seen. It had tentacle-like legs and rows of oily, black eyes. They sold its parts all over the world, and the proceeds were used to turn Brindlewood Bay into what it is today.
• In the spring of 1942, wreckage from a Nazi U-boat washed ashore at Brindlewood Bay. The U-boat appeared to have been torn to pieces—literally ripped apart—and some of the interior bulkheads had strange, occult symbols scrawled all over them. No bodies ever turned up, but there was one reported survivor: a Nazi submariner whose mind was shattered and who committed suicide by repeatedly slamming his head into a wall shortly after being detained. The U.S. government gathered the pieces of the wreckage before it could become a major story in the papers.
• In 1967, during the Summer of Love, a hippie commune sprung up just outside Brindlewood Bay. The members of the commune largely kept to themselves, only occasionally coming into town for supplies. The people of Brindlewood Bay began to hear rumors that the commune was engaging in Satanic rituals and other dark, orgiastic magic. When a young boy, George Maplethorpe, went missing, the commune was blamed. A young Wyman Dalrymple, future sheriff of Brindlewood County, lead a citizens’ march to the commune in response. Once there, violence broke out. No one can say for certain what happened to the hippies, but none have been heard from since, and their facilities were burned to the ground. Little George Maplethorpe was never found.

Void clues

All Hallow's Scream

A tree oozing blood-red sap

The electricity goes out, causing the music to come to a groaning stop. You can hear feverish sounds in the darkness: lovemaking, death throes, barnyard animal noises. When the lights come on again, everything is normal.

Dad Overboard

A fish, dying, strange purple ooze seeping from its beady, black eyes.

Jingle Bell Shock

A nativity scene features a Baby Jesus that suddenly bleats like a goat.

The Great Brindlewood Bay Bake Off

For a moment, an oven seems impossibly vast and dark on the inside.