The Balsam Lake Unmurders RPG

Play Your Cards Right. Catch the Necromancer.

A Journaling Game of Method, Motive, and Opportunity in a Forested Minnesota Town.

In a small town in the forested Minnesota hills, someone is back from the dead.
You’re a lone FBI detective sent to catch the criminal necromancer who did it.

It’s a nice town. The lake trout fishing is great. The diner serves a good cup of coffee.
Hopefully you just do what you need to do and don’t get too drawn in.

The Balsam Lake Unmurders

A journaling game where playing cards represent suspects and the interactions you have with them as you try to discern if they’re the necromancer. You record what happens in your journal as the investigation unfolds.

What People Are Saying

“It’s like Twin Peaks meets the X-Files.”
 - Jason D’Angelo, playtester and author of The Daily Apocalypse

“It felt like moving into a living space.”
 - Camilla Zamboni, after six hours caught up in Balsam Lake

“Even when I put the game down I keep turning it over and over in my mind.”
 - Vincent Baker, creator of Apocalypse World

“Paul, I seriously loved this game.”
 - Gabrielle Rabinowitz, playtester and co-creator of Ma Nishtana