On a Role

Real life doesn’t come with quest markers.

Audrey has been streaming cozy video games—cutesy, fluffy games without combat or peril—on her Play’N channel for years. But when she decides to do a speedrun of her favourite game for the past decade—the combat-filled and peril-ridden fantasy role-playing game, The Stones of Ayor 3—it soon becomes clear...

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...

Sometimes the main quest is overrated.

Caleb has spent his whole life trying to do what’s expected of him, trying not to let anyone down. But he’s been pushing off his future as long as he can, and now he has to decide what he wants to do with his life: what his parents expect, or something else entirely?

When Caleb gets recruited last-minute to...