Murder party

A Murder Party is a form of Roleplay life size. Related terms: Soirée inquires, door - closed mystery, evening murder and mystery.

Principle

A murder party is a Jeu consisting in solving a police enigma, by incarnating the protagonists of the history. It is about a form of Roleplay, in life size, a crossing between theater of improvisation, play of investigation, ventures police. One of the principal interests of the play is to play the roles of the characters of a criminal history .

Mechanism

Each player knows at the beginning only what its character knows of the history: who it is, why it is there, if it is the assassin. Only the organizer knows the objectives and details of the history. The assassin will seek not to be made uncover, the investigators will try to find it, while respecting the motivations of their role as if they were really the character whom they will incarnate.

It is besides here about the general principle of any roleplay: each player must incarnate and play his character as well as possible, by respecting in absolute priority the stakes, the character, the context of the character. The player must disappear behind the character.

Concretely

Most of the time, a murder party is played door-close. It gathers from 10 to 20 people for one evening or a weekend.

Exceptionally, of the murder left take place on a whole village scale. For example, the weekend of the October 2nd and 3rd 2004, in the small village of Silhac in Ardeche, 200 candidates tried to find the assassin of an young groom while inquiring among a hundred professional actors and observers come from the vicinity. The setting in scene was ensured by Herve Peyrard.

Particular cases and other denominations

The Evenings murder and mystery (or SM) are a particular case of the murder left . One distinguishes them by their mechanism from play and their orientation minus roleplay and more centered on the investigation. One evening murder and mystery consist in studying a police enigma played by professional actors, or told by an audio cassette or CD. The players are around a table and the history proceeds by acts. It is about a commercial format very developed with the Quebec and in North America in a general way. So by abuse language, the Inhabitants of Quebec took the practice to call Soirée murder and mystery any form of murder party .

The evenings investigations are another particular case of the left murder. One distinguishes them by their mechanism from play, using point-action to represent virtual or narrative actions. It is about a commercial format developed in France by the companies SPSR and Asmodée. By abuses language, unquestionable French took the practice to indicate like evening inquires a certain number of murder left .

The door - closed , on the other hand, is a on-category of the murder left . It is about a form of roleplay life size, limited in space and time, but without being inevitably centered on a murder. The roleplay is the central element of this type of play. By abuse language, the French took the practice to indicate as murder party a certain number of door - closed .

The Murder left in literature

the title of the novel of Agatha Christie, a murder will be made it… ( has Murder is announced ), gone back to 1950, is a direct allusion to the murder left organized in Great Britain at that time. Indeed, the organizers of the British murder left were accustomed to inviting the participants in their dispatching a small invitation card being marked has Murder is announced associated with the date and hour of the crime.
the title of the novel of Henry Bordeaux, Murder party or that which were not invited , not gone back to 1931, is a direct allusion to the murder left organized in France at that time.
the novel the letter which kills of Paul Halter, published in 1991 describes a scene of murder party

See too

Play of the assassins (Killer)

Notice

Murder party a Registered trademark pertaining to the company 10Torsions, more known under the Registered trademark Murder2000Pro.

External bonds

a treating gate of the murder left
the site the murder left for Belgium
a fanzine proposer many evenings inquires turn-key… or almost
GN Mag, the magazine of the roleplays in life size (published by the French federation of the Roleplays Life size), which proposes scenarios of door-close
Conseils turn-key to create its murder-party

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