Workshop Wednesday: Letters From Whitechapel & Betrayal at Baldur's Gate

This Workshop Wednesday we are teaching and playing Letters From Whitechapel & Betrayal at Baldurs Gate.

Letters From Whitechapel:

Get ready to enter the poor and dreary Whitechapel district in London in 1888 – the scene of the mysterious Jack the Ripper murders – with its crowded and smelly alleys, hawkers, shouting merchants, dirty children covered in rags who run through the crowd and beg for money, and prostitutes – called "the wretched" – on every street corner.

The board game Letters from Whitechapel, which plays in 90-150 minutes, takes the players right there. One player plays Jack the Ripper, and his goal is to take five victims before being caught. The other players are police detectives who must cooperate to catch Jack the Ripper before the end of the game. The game board represents the Whitechapel area at the time of Jack the Ripper and is marked with 199…