The Last Post of Winter
A cozy, bittersweet solo journaling RPG for one player: you are the last courier of the Midwinter Post, carrying a satchel of letters across the snowy Rimelands before the great storm (the Long White) closes the realm on Midwinter Eve, with a sealed letter addressed to you that you can't open until then.
- Players and time
- 1 player; sessions of 20-60 minutes, a full round in 3-5 sessions or one long evening (2-3 h) with the short rules; age not stated. Needs a standard 52-card deck (no jokers), one d6, six tokens and a journal.
- Pages
- 34
- Format
- US Letter and A4, color
- Language
- English, Italian
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What's in the download
- The Midwinter Post: premise letter from Postmistress Odile Brask
- What You Need, The Rules of the Post, Safety & Tone (lines/veils, Cozy Mode)
- Setup: The Sorting Room (courier, mount, Satchel of 7 letters + the Sealed Letter, 6 Lamp Oil tokens)
- How to Play: A Day on the Road + two worked examples
- The Route: map of the Rimelands and 12 stops (Lowland Road, Frozen Lake, High Passes, Cold Coast)
- Stages, Portents of the Long White and Endings
- The Days: card prompts by suit (Hearts: Doors & Kindness; Diamonds: Parcels & Provisions; Clubs: The Road & the Mount; Spades: Snow & Wolves); Kings are Portents
- Ways to Play: One Long Evening, A Letter a Day to Midwinter Eve, Cozy Mode; Tips for the Road; Names of the North
- d66 oracles: Senders and Recipients, What the Letter Carries, More Oracles of the North
- Sheets: The Courier, The Satchel, Delivery Log, Courier's Tracker, Journal pages, Quick Reference
Inside pages
Lines from the book
Courier, you are the last one I have." ... "There is a letter in the satchel with your name on it... not before Midwinter Eve. So be home by then. I'll keep the stove lit.
You hear sleigh bells across the snow, but no one is there when you reach the place. Whose bells were they?
A child gives you a drawing of you and your mount... What did they get wrong that you love, and where do you keep it?
