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The Roots of Soledad - A magical realism RPG

Created by NessunDove

A card-based ttrpg by Matthijs Holter and a homage to South American magical realism. Play a whole campaign with zero prep and watch the characters' lives entangle between the mundane and the fantastic, like in A Hundred Years of Solitude.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Welcome to Soledad!
6 months ago – Thu, May 07, 2026 at 10:46:48 PM

Welcome to Soledad!

And thank you for coming along on this journey: nobody can found a new village alone. It's nice to imagine us gathering around the Iglesia de Paraiso, the starting Location of every game, all wearing the same kapok bloom on our lapel. Or the same sticker, at least.

The paths of Soledad hame many stories to tell, but let us start with numbers: 12 hours in, 100 backers, 60% of the goal required to make our most ambitious project real.

Most of all we enjoy this mix of old friends (be they of Matthijs or NessunDove) and new faces. One of our goals with The Roots of Soledad is to use the board game components to make a pure roleplaying experience more accessible, to ensure that mutual listening, improvisation, and reincorporation of other players' ideas sneak up at the heart of the game almost without players even noticing.

Reuniting with aficionados is wonderful, but so is introducing new people to the magic of roleplaying.

Thank you again for your support. The path is still long, time to get back to work!

PS. For those of you who got the Play with Matthijs add-on, we'll get in touch very soon to set up dates via your BackerKit email.