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

  • 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.

  • Candlekeep Mysteries: Play experience from books 1-7

    Candlekeep Mysteries: Play experience from books 1-7

    We’ve played the first seven books (adventures) of the D&D adventure anthology Candlekeep Mysteries. This is how I feel about them as adventures, and my recommendations, should you think about running them.

  • Break!! Appendix Nes Roleplaying

    Break!! Appendix Nes Roleplaying

    Appendix NES, as in Nintendo Entertainment System, the 8-bit console that birthed a gaming generation in the 80s, is how someone apparently described Reynaldo Madrinan’s OSR adjacent original game design on RPG.net, way back in 2016.

  • Five Parsecs From Home

    Five Parsecs From Home

    Five Parsecs From Home is a popular solo adventure wargame – an excuse to play with all your (scifi) miniatures, all by yourself, no need to match schedules with your busy friends.

  • Chariot of the Gods: Second run

    Chariot of the Gods: Second run

    We played the Alien RPG beginner box “cinematic adventure” Chariot of the Gods for the second time. Most players were new, but one of them came for a second round. What was different this time? Would I run this again?