Star Crossed: Love Letters

Star Crossed is a two-player game about really, really wanting to, when you really, really can’t.In Star Crossed, you and your fellow player craft characters who are powerfully attracted to each other, but have a compelling reason not to act on their feelings. Watch the attraction between them grow as you play out scenes, taking turns describing what your character says and does. When your character does something that could increase that attraction, you pull a brick from an increasingly shaky Jenga tower and place it on the top.

If the tower falls, your characters act on their feelings. Playing Star Crossed feels like being pulled in two directions at once–like when your head and heart are telling you two different things, or when what you want and what you believe in are impossible to reconcile. The game is simple, quick, and filled with delicious moments of excitement, tension, and occasional heartbreak.

Love Letters is a supplement for Star Crossed, full of beautiful illustrations, pre-generated characters, settings, advice, and alternate modes of play to help your Star Crossed sessions feel fresh and exciting! It also features special guest writers Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone, Kieron Gillen, Banana Chan, Cecilia Tan, James Mendez Hodes, and Sharang Biswas!And all-new illustrations by Jess Fink, HamletMachine, G.C. Houle, Bloomer, Milsae Kim, Ouhie, Mye Bi, and Sovanny Vorn!Since the debut of Star Crossed in 2018, players have been developing characters who are irresistibly drawn to each other, building worlds to keep them apart, and pulling from the tower to find out what happens. But what if...

...there is no tower?

…or you’re playing online?

…or you’re playing alone?

…or you’re playing with more than two? 

Star Crossed: Love Letters is a useful - and gorgeous - resource for these, and many more scenarios!In the cute little 6x9 booklet, you'll also find:

• New sets of Scene Cards
• Alternate Epilogue tables 
• Bayshore Landing, a new setting with 30 new characters, for multi-table games of Star Crossed in which up to 10 pairs can play simultaneously 
• Advice for playing Star Crossed with friends
• Advice for incorporating Star Crossed as a prologue, interlude, or epilogue to your longer-term campaign games 
• Pre-generated sets of characters, each in their own unique setting, from Alex and our fabulous guest contributors!

Are you a seasoned Star Crossed fan? Love Letters fits snugly into the game box, just like the original rulebook! You’re about to add some spice to your sessions with new characters, scene sets, and epilogue charts! 

Have you been wanting to play Star Crossed? The game is more approachable than ever with rules for playing online, with a twenty-sided die instead of a tower, or with three instead of two players! There’s even a one-player version, because, as one playtester noted, “no one can romance you better than yourself.”

Have you never even heard of Star Crossed? Now’s your chance to get in on the two-player game of forbidden love, and enjoy a lovely start with all the pre-generated characters and settings you could wish for!

Are you looking to enhance your other tabletop games with new ideas and fresh approaches to romantic storytelling? You’re in for a treat - this supplement book is filled with inspiration, and it applies to all kinds of games, not just Star Crossed!

Do you just want to support romantic tabletop gaming experiences and beautiful pieces of art? Aw geez, thanks! <3

Love Letters: Digital Version

• The complete digital edition PDF of Love Letters
  
  

Love Letters: Print + Digital Version

• The complete digital edition PDF of Love Letters 
• The softcover 6x9 book, ~64 full-color pages

Love Letters + Star Crossed: Digital Versions

• The complete digital Edition PDF of Love Letters 
• The digital edition PDF of Star Crossed 

Love Letters + Star Crossed: Print and Digital Versions

• The complete digital Edition PDF of Love Letters 
• The digital edition PDF of Star Crossed 
• The softcover 6x9 Love Letters book, ~64 full-color pages
• The original Star Crossed, including the rulebook, Scene Cards, an X Card, tear-away notepads of character sheets, and room in the box for your favorite tower!

The Retailers-Only Special

• 6 x the softcover 6x9 Love Letters book, ~64 full-color pages
• Wholesale discount
• Free USA shipping
• Digital editions available through our PDF guarantee and Bits-and-Mortar.com

The Retailers-Only Bundle

• 6 x the softcover 6x9 Love Letters book, ~64 full-color pages
• 6 x the original Star Crossed, including the rulebook, Scene Cards, an X Card, tear-away notepads of character sheets, and room in the box for your favorite tower!
• Wholesale discount
• Free USA shipping
• Digital editions available through our PDF guarantee and Bits-and-Mortar.com

A Special Tier for the Distinguished Backers of Refined Taste

• A custom pairing written at your prompting by designer Alex Roberts
• The complete digital Edition PDF of Love Letters 
• The digital edition PDF of Star Crossed 
• The softcover 6x9 Love Letters book, ~64 full-color pages
• The original Star Crossed, including the rulebook, Scene Cards, an X Card, tear-away notepads of character sheets, and room in the box for your favorite tower!

New Add-ons! If you'd like to see how well Star Crossed and I Have the High Ground go together, check out this update and the Party of One podcast!+$15 - Additional Love Letters Book+$40 - Additional Love Letters Book + Star Crossed Box Set

“Star Crossed remains one of my favorite two player games, my fiancé and I play it every year on our anniversary using the established D&D characters from the game we met in. It means a lot to us. Thank you!” - Anonymous Playtester“The stories are sweet, sad, and sexy as hell. Playing feels like falling in love. I have only played one game so far, but it left a profound impression on me. It’s one of those games that proves how beautiful roleplaying is as an art form. Also, there is kissing.” – James D’Amato, The ONE SHOT Podcast Network"It has an elegantly light system that prepares players to jump right in and create romantic narrative knots that will have you battling the butterflies in your stomach to keep your hands steady enough to make your big move." – Mo Turkington, Unruly Designs“What I find genuinely surprising about the design—and what draws me to it—is not just how well the metaphor fits; but how the metaphor veers from that of Dread. Hiding in the gravity of that teetering tower is not the grisly finality of well-swung hammer or the existential threat of eternal void, but something far more terrifying: real human desire.” – Epidiah Ravachol, creator of Dread  "The hottest game I've ever played." – Noah Williamson, creator of Shelter and co-creator of 183 Days

Prices do not include shipping!

• $7 USA
• $12 International

• $14 USA
• $24 International 

We expect to deliver this project in June 2024.  

We can't wait to share the joy of Star Crossed with a whole new audience.If you can’t back us right now, remember that telling a friend, or sharing on your social media channels, is a big help too! Thank you for checking out the project and for helping us bring this book to life.