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Discover whether love will survive the horrors of the Great War in this two player letter-writing game. 

Through this game you'll create the correspondence between a soldier in World War 1 and their loved one back home. A deck of cards guides the direction of the feelings that you express in the letters as you discover the couple’s lives during the game.

Over the five chapters you will write up to five letters each, guided by prompts in each chapter and the suits of a hand of playing cards. Together discovering these characters and their love for one another — and finding out whether their love survives the war. 


Features

▶ Asynchronous play over email, shared documents or real letters. Play the game at your own pace.

▶ Playing cards inform the emotional content of letters.

▶ Filled with excerpts of real love letters from the Great War, from many nationalities

▶ War poetry to set the scene for each chapter

▶ Background information on being a soldier in the war, and life on the home front in Britain, Russia, France, USA, and India. 

▶ A complete example of game play.


▪ 2-player letter-writing game

▪ 1 hour, or as long as you want

▪ A deck of playing cards, writing material.


Book
Format 6”x9” soft cover, full colour
Type Duet letter writing game
Pages 40
Rule System/Engine Varying prompts across 5 chapters.

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Tags: duet, duo, GMLess, letter writing, World War 1