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Roleplay Letters is a tabletop roleplaying blog about the games I’m playing, working on, and thinking about.

  • Call Of Cthulhu: Masks Of Nyarlathotep

    Call Of Cthulhu: Masks Of Nyarlathotep

    I started running the 1984 Call of Cthulhu campaign, Masks of Nyarlathotep. The version we’re playing is the 2014 “remaster”, which adds a whole introductory adventure and generally tidies up things.

  • 2025 game plan

    2025 game plan

    The 2024 game plan was largely successful, and we had a strong year of roleplaying games. I hope to replicate that with a very different 2025. The calendar will be built around running Masks of Nyarlathotep.

  • 2024 Games retrospective

    2024 Games retrospective

    DIE is my game of the year 2024.

  • Sex in Roleplaying games

    Sex in Roleplaying games

    I am about to run Bad Sex over the Christmas break. I am excited as well as quite understandably nervous and concerned about it.

  • Blade Runner RPG: Fiery Angels

    Blade Runner RPG: Fiery Angels

    We ran the second case file, Fiery Angels, over three sessions. This is my notes on the adventure and general observations on the game after more than a dozen sessions.

  • Edgerunners Mission Kit

    Edgerunners Mission Kit

    I got the Edgerunners Mission Kit for Cyberpunk because I am a big fan of the Edgerunners anime, as well as the video game Cyberpunk 2077.

  • Eat The Reich

    Eat The Reich

    Eat The Reich is a roleplaying game about killing Hitler to win the war. Players are a group of crack vampire commandos, coffin dropped into occupied Paris. Being a single, very contained theme of ultra violence towards nazis, it gets to build everything around delivering on that theme. How does it play?

  • DIE: Bizarre Love Triangles

    DIE: Bizarre Love Triangles

    We played the Bizarre Love Triangles: An Ex-Crawl from the DIE RPG scenario book of the same name. These are notes on how the prewritten scenario format worked, what we liked, and where we struggled.

  • Railroad adventures

    Railroad adventures

    A common complaint from players and game masters alike is that a specific adventure for a roleplaying game is “railroaded”. They mean that the players lack agency – that the GM is forcing them to act as an audience to the GM’s script. This is then frowned upon as bad GMing.