The Purpose of Modern Stories in Roleplaying

I’m glad you’re here.

When I first started writing modern roleplaying settings, it surprised me how quickly the familiar could feel strange. A sidewalk, a coffee shop, a broken streetlight, things we pass by without thinking, took on weight when players gave them meaning. There was no need for ancient ruins or distant worlds. The city outside the window already held more stories than we could tell in a lifetime.

Lightspress modern books are built to find the tension in the everyday. They offer frameworks that listen closely to what characters choose to notice. Every setting lets players shape what matters. The familiar becomes personal. The personal becomes powerful. Modern roleplaying stories live and breathe by how players move through the spaces they already understand.

At Lightspress, the modern line trusts players to make the present matter. It sees the everyday as something alive, something worth exploring. The world doesn’t need to be hidden to hold mystery. Every book leaves space for memory, meaning, and change. Every story begins with what players already know, and asks what they will dare to find inside it.

If you want stories that live closer to now, the modern collection's waiting here.

I hope you’re doing well today.

Berin