Roleplay Letters:
Roleplaying matters

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

  • 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