Pilgrim's Passages

Walk in winding paths o’ pilgrim. Keeper of road, helper of folk both corporeal and not, creator of great works. May the path you blaze be long and meandering. Walk until you find your home. Walk.

Pilgrim's a system/setting that is explicitly built for games about travel, crafting, magic, and the things your Pilgrims carry. It is also explicitly built to make prep more game-like for the referee. It is filled with tools and procedures for generating spaces with inherent conflicts.

Your journey begins on the newly revealed lowlands around Elcontra. The greatest mountain on the planet. Spirits race to fill the new niches made available by the Queen's Recession (the event at the end of my module/game "A Rasp of Sand". The plants, fish, crustaceans, birds, and mammals of the worlds are evolved rapidly to fill the ecosystems these Spirits create. The same is true from Elcontra's peaks. Alpine species are modified as rapidly as possible by the Spitits that spread out from the frigid slopes of Elcontra.

Players play as Pilgrims, wandering craftsfolk and mediums. Every Pilgrim follows a Spirit that grants them access to Verses that the Pilgrim can create spells with. Being a craftsperson, each Pilgrim has a trade that they can use to solve problems, make art, and ply in settlements. Your Pilgrim will grow and change with their experience. Gain permanent Skills and work around permanent Scars until your Pilgrim retires to ply their trade in a settlement.

I dearly love this game. It has brought me and my tables so much joy. I hope it does the same for you.

What folks are saying about Pilgrim’s Passages

“As a person who has read it *pretty closely,* I can honestly say I don’t think anyone else out there is doing what this book is doing. And most of the people who might do it couldn't lmao. It's a wild project.” - Jared Sinclair, Editor on Pilgrim’s Passages

"A fascinating fresh release covering the slow, meditative journey of wandering mediums. Comes packed with stunning art and procedures that enable a methodical, weighty style of play that tickles something good in the back of my brain. I adore what I'm seeing on this one and I hope to get it to the table soon!" - Taylor B., carouse.blog

Pilgrim's Passages: Rule Book Includes:

• Rules to create Pilgrims and other characters.
• Feel the weight of your pilgrim's pack in every decision you make.
• Conflict resolution rules that equally addresses physical exertion, crafting, violence, and spirituality.
• Methods for generating 5 mile hexes with elevation, points of interests, and routes for walking on. Creating decisions for pilgrims at every
• A philosophy of making items meaningful and have weight. This includes making +X items have a diegetic explanation and carrying items meaningful.
• Item crafting that doesn't stop at just swords. Your players will want to sew a new coat, or cook a nice meal.

Pilgrim's Passages: Prayer Book Includes

• A unique magic system that allows players, and referees, to program their own prayers via characters' relationships with Spirits.
• Details about 20 distinct Domains of Spirits, and how they interact with the world and each other.
• Guides for creating a flexible Book of Laws that allow your table to dictate what happens when one material, or spiritual effect, interacts with another one.

Weave your lives into your works o’ artisan. Sharer of lives, creator of tools, artisans of history. May the works you craft be beautiful and useful. Create until you find your truth. Create.