{"id":6228,"date":"2019-04-11T10:52:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=6228"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:52:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:52:46","slug":"passport-game","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/portfolio\/passport-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Passport is a game I wrote with Toby Strauss. It&#8217;s a play-by-postal story game. Posting it now because Nick Golding posted his <a href=\"http:\/\/nick.idealworld.org\/loveletters\/\">Love Letters<\/a> and I remembered hey, we made a thing!<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Passport<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2h6jSDy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/71YT8Hy8ipL.jpg\" alt=\"Moleskine cahier notebooks (3) - perfect for the Passport!\" width=\"381\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>You will need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 or more players<\/li>\n<li>1 small notebook (a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2h6jSDy\">moleskin cahier<\/a> is perfect)<\/li>\n<li>Stamps and envelopes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are going on a journey, separately. We know each other very well, perhaps family or lovers, but we are going to be apart for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Who are we? When does our story take place? Where are we going? Why do we\u00c2\u00a0only have letters and mail to communicate? 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