ghostbox

A game by Marx of High Water

Solo Paid

A solo epistolary TTRPG about an abandoned postbox

marx-of-high-water.itch.io

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a solo epistolary TTRPG about an abandoned postbox

There's a postbox in the woods near your house. It's old, very old—maybe a hundred years or more. The paint is flaking, there's rust in places. But you think post is still collected there, because they close postboxes that aren't used. Don't they?

And it is still used. People keep putting their letters in there: lovers, spies, friends, humans. They still post their postcards and birthday cards and driving licences and passports. The odd person might wonder why something doesn't get there on time, but unless everybody realises, nobody guesses: this postbox is abandoned.

ghostbox is a solo epistolary game about letters left mouldering in an abandoned postbox for weeks, months, years. You'll write one side of a conversation where the replies never come. You'll track what happens to the postbox over the years. And when the game ends, the postbox and its contents are lost forever.