Roll Play

All the world’s an RPG, and all the people merely players.

Malcolm has always played the role of the Fun Guy, always good for a laugh. People can count on him to lift their spirits and make dirty jokes; it’s what he does—even when his life is falling apart. Even when he loses his job and his apartment and desperately needs to find a place to work on the costumes for the next season of The Roll Players Show—an unscripted web-series he hosts with some friends, where they act out tabletop role-playing games in full cosplay. The best option he has now is to stay in Evan’s guest house.

But Evan is his ex-girlfriend—and he didn’t even know she had a guest house. There are a lot of things he didn’t know about her—like the fact that she has a preteen daughter, named Cori, that he’s never met. In the two years he’s known her—including the three months they dated—Evan kept a lot of secrets from him, but now she’s his only hope.

The arrangement seems to be working out great, though, and Cori is actually a pretty cool kid, who wants him to teach her how to sew her own costume designs. The only problem is that, as it turns out, Malcolm might be a tiny bit—scratch that; completely—still in love with Evan. But she’s made it very clear that he is not serious relationship material. After all, she’s seven years older than him and has a kid; they aren’t in the same place in their lives.

Is this Fun Guy willing to take on the role of Dad, or is that a game he isn’t ready to play?


Roll Play is a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy with a bit of spice and a lot of heart.