Live your best unlife as the newest member of the Dead Letter Society, an exclusive communication network for vampires. Pursue your ambitions, and question the Society's motives, in this journaling and epistolary game for 1-2 players.

Dead Letter Society is a journaling game where your letters drive the action. Choose your genre, build your world, and discover the joys of corresponding via a secret society with unknown motives. 

Dead Letter Society received an Honourable Mention in the 2023 Indie Groundbreaker Awards!

Features

• A vampire journaling game that adapts to your preferred play style and genre.
• A letter writing game without the waiting. You've always something to do.
• Tarot-driven and intention-based journaling. Decide what you'd like to do, then draw and answer a journaling prompt to develop the idea. 
• Game variants for both solo and two-player games.
• Six pre-generated settings and twelve characters with "first contact" letters designed to inspire your games. 
  • Settings feature:  Lovecraftian steampunk London, the Roman Republic and Empire, modern-day, "cosy" 1920's detectives, gothic, and the far-flung future.
• 140 (A5) pages, illustrated throughout with original, tarot-themed, vampire artwork.
• EPUB available.

You will need

• 1-2 players
• Safety tools of your choice
• A place to write your letters and journal
• A tarot deck or a method of generating random numbers.

Testimonials

"<em="">The game feels like something secret and old." - Loira, TTRPG Reviewer and Performer. Read the full review here.</em="">

"It is not only a wonderfully well thought out game with insightful prompts and a plethora of potential settings (really, it can work with anything, anywhere), but one that provided me with a whole heap of enjoyment, and I am sure a lot more to come." -- @GothHoblin, TTRPG and Creative Writer. Check here for the full review and playthrough 

"If I could only play one game ever again it would be probably be this one." --@PennyBlake1827, TTRPG Writer and Reviewer. See the full review here.

How to play

This video was originally created for the successful Crowdfundr campaign that ran in February 2023, but discusses the entire gameplay loop.

Also available in print

You can find Dead Letter Society in print at several Friendly Local (or Online) Game Stores, as well as directly from the Montford Tales store.

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• Leisure Games(UK)
• Iglootree (UK)
• Indie Press Revolution (USA)
• Orc's Nest (UK)
• Peregrine Coast Press (UK)
• Ratti Incantati(Canada)
• Stratagemma (Italy)