Roleplay Letters:
Roleplaying matters

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

  • Alice Is Missing

    Alice Is Missing

    They had me at “a quiet roleplaying game”. All roleplaying games are a conversation, whether that’s at the table or over videochat – how does a quiet roleplaying game even work?

  • The Mountain Witch

    The Mountain Witch

    Playing The Mountain Witch makes your table better at playing roleplaying games.

  • Why we gather

    Why we gather

    I am forty five years old. I’ve been playing tabletop roleplaying games for thirty five years. I am middle aged, and increasingly aware of my limited time on Earth.

  • Heavy Gear 4

    Heavy Gear 4

    Heavy Gear is the game series I have the most feelings for, ever since seeing a print ad in White Wolf Inphobia magazine (1995 – oh cool, a mere 29 years ago! I’m not old). It showed a charging, bright yellow mecha in a dense jungle.

  • Stars & Wishes

    Stars & Wishes

    Stars & Wishes is the one system agnostic mechanic I advise any GM to deploy.

  • Monsterhearts 2

    Monsterhearts 2

    We played a four session campaign of Monsterhearts 2 in February-March 2024. We’ve played Monsterhearts quite a bit, but never with this specific group.

  • Systems For Punks

    Systems For Punks

    I made a cyberpunk game. It doesn’t do anything weird with the genre, and as long as your needs are high stakes action, ultra violence, netrunning, and high drama.

  • Things I wish D&D did differently

    Things I wish D&D did differently

    I’ve run a lot of 5E. It’s a fine edition, but I find that mostly it’s getting in my way, and not really helping me run the game.

  • Blade Runner RPG: Electric Dreams and beyond

    Blade Runner RPG: Electric Dreams and beyond

    I am running two campaigns of Free League’s Blade Runner RPG (2022). We’re eleven sessions in, planning to continue with Fiery Angels once the boxed set releases next month.