Rules for murder mystery larps

Rules for murder mystery party larps

For common situations, we use standard rules in our murder mystery party larps to cover situations such as combat, poisoning, death and the like. It can be useful to be able to share these rules with some of your players in advance. This is particularly useful for those players that may need to use a particular rule.

Basic rules – these are our basic rules that apply to all our games.

Combat – there are our full combat rules. We use these in a lot of our games – they are quite simple, but can be deadly. These rules include healing and death.

Poison – some of our murder mystery games include rules for poisoning others. This is how they work. These rules include healing and death.

Capturing another player – sometimes it's important to be able to capture or restrain another player. This also includes our Arrest rules.

Pickpocketing – our standard rules for taking items from other players without their consent.

Investigating pickpocketing (optional) – if you'd like to give detective-type characters the chance to solve incidents of pickpocketing, here are some simple rules for that.

Playing a murder mystery game – if your players have never played a Freeform Games murder mystery larp before, some concepts in the game materials may be unfamiliar to them.

How to play our murder mystery games online – for playing one of games over video rather than face-to-face.

Please let us know if you use these rules!