
Cryptid, a TTRPG about Long Distance Relationships
On Quisicosas since 12 April 2026
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12 April 2026 (on Substack)
What it is about
Cryptid is a solo journaling TTRPG about a long distance relationship that’s doomed to end. It’s a game about thinking that you’re the only person putting in effort to the relationship and how that assumption slowly brings it to an end. Cryptid is played with a pack of dominoes, at times you’ll be asked to place them standing up, either in a line or in a shape of your choice. These dominoes are the complications within the relationship, the more there are, the more likely they will fall. The moment the dominoes begin to fall, the relationship has ended. They will fall. You yearn to see them, you go to so much effort to catch the shortest of glimpses just for the image to look like it was filmed in high motion? Sounds like you’re dating a





