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Any RPGers Out There? Letter Writers?
Dec. 15th, 2023 12:14 pm Almost a month ago I bought myself a game for my birthday. It's called Stay in Touch and is an epistolary game, requiring players to correspond with each other. (You also have to have 1-4 six-sided dice.) The basic premise is that there's been some kind of capital-A Apocalypse and the world is in its rebuilding phase. You are reaching out to an old friend to reconnect and (presumably) share stories of survival. (I have not fully read the .pdf yet as I don't want to spoil it for myself.) If you clicked on the link to check out the game, its description implies that you and your friend are some flavor of queer but I presume that part is fully optional.
Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time can immediately see how this kind of game would appeal to me, personally. I love RPGs and I absolutely ADORE sending and getting mail.
Does anyone out here want to play this game with me? (I would play with multiple people, individually, too, so don't worry about that.)
If you do, I would happily provide you a copy of the game. If postage and post offices are weird and/or inconvenient for you, I would be willing to try it as an email game. If you are international to me, really like the idea of snail mail, but are worried that it's hard for me--it's not. I regularly send international mail (for US folks who are curious how I can be so blasé, there is a single international stamp you can buy on sheets and have at home these days. Long gone are the days of having to get IIRCs, physically go to the post office to do international mail, etc.) However, it might still be a pain to do in your country and I respect that, so email works it that case, too.
The description of the game makes it sound heavily FEELINGS-based. I'm also happy to be flexible on that. What I really like about this idea is the sense of reconnecting after some (possibly mysterious?) earth-shattering kaboom, all of the fictional possibilities that opens up--including what was the nature of the kaboom, etc.,... and of course the telling of the tale in a series of letters. I think if someone agrees to play this with me we should absolutely have a zero session to talk about the kind of stories we want to tell, what we don't want to get into, how long we want this story to go on, etc., etc. I will say right now that, as someone in a constant state of needing of enrichment, I will probably be quick to respond, but that, despite that, I would not expect more than a letter a month and/or as the Muse moves you/your life allows. What I want is for this to be a fun, pressure-free, opt out any time kind of experience for both of us.
Any takers?
Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time can immediately see how this kind of game would appeal to me, personally. I love RPGs and I absolutely ADORE sending and getting mail.
Does anyone out here want to play this game with me? (I would play with multiple people, individually, too, so don't worry about that.)
If you do, I would happily provide you a copy of the game. If postage and post offices are weird and/or inconvenient for you, I would be willing to try it as an email game. If you are international to me, really like the idea of snail mail, but are worried that it's hard for me--it's not. I regularly send international mail (for US folks who are curious how I can be so blasé, there is a single international stamp you can buy on sheets and have at home these days. Long gone are the days of having to get IIRCs, physically go to the post office to do international mail, etc.) However, it might still be a pain to do in your country and I respect that, so email works it that case, too.
The description of the game makes it sound heavily FEELINGS-based. I'm also happy to be flexible on that. What I really like about this idea is the sense of reconnecting after some (possibly mysterious?) earth-shattering kaboom, all of the fictional possibilities that opens up--including what was the nature of the kaboom, etc.,... and of course the telling of the tale in a series of letters. I think if someone agrees to play this with me we should absolutely have a zero session to talk about the kind of stories we want to tell, what we don't want to get into, how long we want this story to go on, etc., etc. I will say right now that, as someone in a constant state of needing of enrichment, I will probably be quick to respond, but that, despite that, I would not expect more than a letter a month and/or as the Muse moves you/your life allows. What I want is for this to be a fun, pressure-free, opt out any time kind of experience for both of us.
Any takers?