Psychic Trash Detectives

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Character creation — they have to actually create their own characters
• map creation — and create their own map
• Mystery Solving — and bring in trash that they use to then have these kind of psychic visions and solve their own mystery.

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• We're theming at mysteries. We're theming at games.
• Stars and wishes is uh just like a really great uh safety tool that you would play at the you would use at the end of a session
• So, yeah, it's a really great um it's it's it's a it's a it's a quick uh safety tool. It's not invasive.
• I am technically a professor of English. My PhD is in comparative literature.
• My mission has just been that board games are for everybody, right?
• There's the violence that does happen doesn't happen on screen.
• So, um, at least for my first book for Player Elimination, the part of the stakes is that um, Ren's business isn't doing so hot and she's worried that her business is going to close, right?
• I did have multiple agents tell me off the bat that Ren was not a good protagonist because she has a disability.
• Like, that in a cozy in a cozy in particular, you know, like kind of in a romance, it's kind of like the romance of of mystery genre in the sense of like, you know, at the end it's going to be okay.
• What's with the solo gamer hate
• I only really named like Katon and maybe Clue.
• It was just fun. It was just fun to to it's it's a fictional world. Why can't I make up fictional board games?
• you might not know about board games but you get it's a small town. It's a a niche hobby. Um, and it's a welcoming hobby that people are, you know, are there.

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