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Hi, I'm Pearse,  a speculative fiction author, game journalist, and tabletop roleplaying game designer based in Chicago. 24, he/him, DMs open for tips/press releases/collaborations! My stories and games focus on twisted myths, cli-fi, and retrofuturism with a heavy emphasis on worldbuilding.
Cosmic Latte
Sunpriests & Moongods: D20 Minor Religions to Expand Your World
Beach Press Conference
Jammy Egg
Can You Invent Enemies
Critters & Companions
Your True Name
Likeness Machines
Recipe on Kmiydish Paper
If you like Last Tea Shop Classic check out...
The Tea Shelf   - A Solo TTRPG about tea and conversations
Sweaters by Hedgehog   - A solo journaling game about a little hedgehog person trying to sell your little sweaters in your little village shop.
The Story of a Story   - A Lost and Found solo journaling game, where you play a story as you journey from inception to transformation.
Sentinel   - A solo journaling game about a place of great power and its lone guardian.
Where the Sky's as Red as Honey   - The Queen is dead; what's next?
OCCULTEAS   - Build your shop, make tea, do witch stuff.
The Small Old Kingdom of Somnaire   - System-free pocket zine setting about a strange, mostly dead country
Guys in chairs   - You play the unremarkable BFFs of a team of superheroes. Work together to help them save the world.
The Cloister   - A two player storytelling game about the last hour of a long journey home
Time To Kill   - You've got time to kill, before it's time to kill.
Into the Glacier   - A Solitary Game of Exploration, Wonder, and Peril
Familiaritea   - gmless game about a witch's familiars making them a cup of tea
If you like Liminal High School check out...
PAPA MUSH: A monstrous king for MORK BORG   - A tiny, terrible ruler and his fungal warband compatible with MÖRK BORG
Elf Genders   - Roll Tables for RPG Worldbuilding
Liminal Horror   - A Modern Horror TTRPG
.dungeon   - An alternate reality table top roleplaying game.
Layers of Unreality   - A liminal crawl
Session Zero   - A deck based character creation game.
Lost To The Starlit Reptiles   - A pamphlet hexcrawl adventure
Tales from the Void: The Chair   - A pamphlet adventure for Liminal Horror that will keep you on the edge of your... chair?
Faces, Places... AND THE WEIRD!!!   - Random tables for weird horror
Fire & Stone - Players' Guide   - Equip your old-school characters for perilous adventures in the Stone Age that never was...
Wandering Merchants Zine   - A system-neutral ttrpg zine of soulsborne-inspired wandering merchants
Blackbirds   - A character creation game and adventure guide.
If you like Map Journal Volume 1 Issue 3 check out...
The Moment You Were Born   - Your Most Personal Journaling Experience
Map Pieces   - maps to get lost by
Swords Under The Sun   - Blades in the Dark meet Dungeon World
The Maker's Call   - A single player journal game about creation!
riding past the end of the world   - a post-apocalyptic journal adventure.
Beach Episode   - leave your grief at the beach
The Lonely Giant   - A solo journal writing game
Ash Island   - Personal Survival Horror
iXe: Solo Journal for a Digital TTRPG   - A digital world where you Journal your Solo TTRPG. Inspired by Ironsworn
Demon Driven to the Maw   - A party-crawl adventure for Cairn.
Imaginary Cartography   - What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?
Restful apocalypse   - a personal ttrpg zine of building new worlds after the apocalypse