🔍 Introduction:
Craft an immersive and mind-bending murder mystery adventure module for the unique mystery TTRPG, Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.
You have access to:
* The free shareware rulebook for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/uc967hy56jpgp/Eureka_Investigative_Urban_Fantas...
* Our fully playable murder mystery module, perfect for beginners and experts alike in a low-stakes one-session adventure! Designed for the purpose of introducing players to Eureka.
* A blank template to help you easily write your adventure module. You definitely need to read the rulebook to be able to write an adventure module for the game!
And of course, everyone will be able to play these fantastic stories!
📅 Date:
Submission: November 1st to December 1st
Voting Period: December 2nd to December 15th
🎯 Objective: Craft a module for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy that centers on solving a murder mystery.
💼 Rules and Guidelines:
The following are rules and guidelines for what makes a good adventure module for Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, which our team uses internally when creating adventure modules.
The rules provide guidance to the creator; without it, it would be difficult to know just where to start and how to do it. There are also optional guidelines that can further help make the creation process more straightforward!
This “game jam” is primarily for adventure modules to be run with Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, and will include a blank template adventure module for you to use, but you don’t have to use the template, and if you have a submission that is not an adventure module but otherwise fits with Eureka, we will consider it.
Submissions will be reviewed by our team and posted for anyone to download for free. We do not own anything that you submit to us, it remains yours, and you may contact us and ask us to remove it at a later date.
Non-Optional Rules: If any of the following guidelines are not followed, your submission may be rejected.
1. No hateful stereotyping, hate speech, or hateful attitudes towards any race, religion, nationality, sex/gender, etc. NPCs may portray, present these attitudes, or act on these attitudes, but the authorial text should not.
2. Some sort of mystery to uncover or horror situation to escape, or both. Should not be a dungeon crawl. See: Chapter 1
3. Must have a hook that will allow and incentivize any party of investigators to reasonably get involved. See: Chapter 1
4. Full descriptions of every place that relevant clues could be found in, which mentions various points of interest that might be examined more closely. Also, suggestions about which skills should be used to get more information out of these points of interest. See: Chapter 1
5. Outcomes written out for Full Success, Partial Success, and Failure on specific rolls in situations, as well as what Skill(s) should be used there. See: Chapter 1
6. The module should not assume or insist that the investigators visit locations or talk to NPCs in a specific order, or otherwise have a strictly laid out plot. It should instead have clues the investigators can find that will incentivize or direct them to decide to go to different places and situations of their own free will. See: Chapter 1
7. What happens if investigators do nothing, die, or otherwise completely fail in their goals? Complete failure must be a possibility. See: Chapter 1
8. The module should not assume the investigators are police, or assume that they are part of any other official organization. See: Chapter 1
9. Refer to players and investigators separately. See: Chapter 1
10. Descriptions and other things meant to be read allowed to the players must be written using third-person verbiage. (“He/She/They/The Party see...” not “You see...”) See: Chapter 1
11. Full NPC stats including Morale. Only has to include Physical Skills, no Social or Knowledge skills necessary. See: Chapter 2.
12. No masquerade. There exists no world-wide or nation-wide conspiracy to hide the supernatural from the public. The supernatural is hidden from the public only by the fact that it is exceptionally rare and that many supernatural people have good reasons to keep their true natures a secret. See: Chapter 8
13. Page numbers and table of contents.
14. Make the game pay-at-any-price so prize payment can be sent into it.
Optional Guidelines:
1. Composure Modifier suggestions for frightening situations that do not fall into any of the fears on the fear list. See: Chapter 1
2. At least six pregen investigators with full stats, including fears. These pregen investigators should, usually, not be mages or monsters. See: Chapter 2
3. Woo Roll Elements noted on any location that a shootout might occur in. See: Chapter 4
4. Chase Scene nodes and obstacles on all or most maps where a Chase Scene might possibly occur. See: Chapter 6
5. Something for monstrous investigators to find or encounter while hunting alone at night. See: Chapter 8
6. Bathrooms in buildings, seems small but it really helps with the immersion.
🏆 Prizes:
1. First place: $20 USD
2. Send Place: $10 USD
3. Third Place: $5 USD
The payment will be made through the pay-at-any-price system of the game, so make sure you have that on!
🔗 Submission:
The module text and character sheets should all be PDFs and put into one zip folder to submit.
Beginners and experts all welcome!