A Productive Prop

Some props are more elaborate than others. One arrived in today's mail: the Brindlewood Bay Community Cookbook. Brindlewood Bay is a cozy mystery game with a Lovecraftian twist, published by The Gauntlet.

Each of the recipes was "contributed" by one of the town NPCs, and it's "annotated" (in a sometimes nearly unreadable scrawl) by another. Those annotations are the important part: they give information about those characters. Clues!

You can make something similar. Find some recipes you like and print them out to be folded in half; your word processor should be able to do this. Then staple the whole thing together, print a suitable cover on cardstock, and glue that over the booklet to cover the staples. You can trim the edges away from the spine with an X-Acto knife for neatness. Add some notes about the fictional "contributors" of the recipes. You now have a compendium of clues!

A player who actually cooks one of the Brindlewood Bay recipes and shares it with their group gets a bonus clue to the current mystery. Could someone make me the chocolate chip banana bread, please?

-- Jean McGuire