The Culture: Braunstein Solves The Problem With Mysteries That Conventional Play Has

DM Lack, being a Conventional Play Cultist, doesn't see what the solution is because he wants to sell it to you.

The solution is this: make the players cause the problem to be solved.

You hand the responsible actor off to a player. Let him Do The Thing. Other players are now trying to stop a living, breathing human actor--not an analog AI--so suddenly that problem about how to come up with a mystery scenario ceases to be relevant because you reframed the situation into a Player vs. Player scenario that is ideal for a Braunstein session.

Go back to that Dunder Moose stream. That's a Mystery scenario. That's the solution DM Lack needs for his problem, and he can get it all done in one night- or, rather, it would if he weren't a PDF Merchant shilling for his completely superfluous Endless Product Slop.

If DM Lack here were really about protecting Player Agency he would use the play format that relies upon it as a fundamental level. He's not, so he has to do the meme.

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You can do Braunstein for free. Just use Braunstein for this. You don't need Endless Product Slop or whatever other PDF Merchant crap hucksters like DM Lack puts out in an attempt to get suckers to pay his bills. It's simpler, easier, far more engaging, and far more friendly to the Tourist crowd bottom-feeders like DM Lack cater to.