Campers & Clues (PocketQuest 2022)

Campers & Clues (PocketQuest 2022)

Tabletop Roleplaying Game

Rules System: Campers & Clues (standalone system used in this game only)

Genre: Modern Supernatural Mystery

Release Date: Available Now! - Get the Basic Rulebook on DriveThruRPG.com

Welcome to Camp Candle Lake, campers!

Summer at Camp Candle Lake is lots of fun. The camp is nestled deep in the woods on the shores of the clear blue waters of Candle Lake. Your days are filled with the usual summer camp activities, swimming, canoeing, archery, and arts & crafts. The nights, however, are full of mystery. The woods surrounding the camp teem with stranger things than you find back in the city, and the owls are not what they seem.

Campers & Clues is a summer camp-themed mystery-solving role-playing game created for DriveThru RPG’s PocketQuest game jam in the summer of 2022.

In Campers & Clues, players take on the roles of campers (or counselors) who bravely investigate the mysteries surrounding the camp. While Camp Candle Lake is the suggested setting, beyond the general idea of a summer camp, the game master should feel free to adjust any setting elements, including the time period. The default setting assumes a 21st-century summer camp, but you could just as easily set it in the 1980s or 1960s or any time in the last hundred years.

Are the spooky supernatural threats real, or are they just a corrupt real estate developer using fake ghosts to scare off the competition? Only the game master knows until you solve the mystery.

This skill-based game is easy to learn, fast to play, and flexible enough to adapt to your creativity.

The basic rules include everything you need to play outside of a set of polyhedral dice (d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20), paper, and writing utensils.

This edition includes:

  • Making characters
  • Using skills for social interaction, exploration, investigation, and combat
  • Damage and healing
  • Awarding experience
  • Character advancement
  • Adventure/plot hooks
  • Blank Character Sheet

The forthcoming Advanced Campers & Clues will expand the game, giving you even more flexibility and options.

You can play at an actual table or use a virtual tabletop (VTT) such as Roll20, Foundry, or others.

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