NOVELS BY ARON PENCE
Dark fantasy, absurd comedy, and detective noir by Aron Pence. Start with Common Folk, Fluid Folk, or Dead Folk, explore the rest of the novels, and discover the illustrated 4d4 tabletop books. Were Folk is coming soon.
FEATURED NOVELS
ILLUSTRATED DETECTIVE NOIR
They take his thumbs Tuesday.
Yuven has until Tuesday to recover the Don’s stolen scepter. Frank Ernest has until Tuesday to help him. Frank is a detective. He’s also a drunk. When an old friend arrives at his office with his thumbs on the line, he agrees to look. The rain keeps falling. Tuesday keeps getting closer.
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RECENT NOVEL
The tests are failing. The camps are filling.
A darkly comic industrial fantasy about identity, bureaucracy, and the stubborn business of staying alive.
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RECENT NOVEL
In the Dead Territories, dying rarely settles anything.
A ghost, an urn, a mummy, and a Hunter make their way to the Great Summoning. Some want another chance. Others want answers.
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COMING SOON / FANTASY WESTERN
A small gunman. A very strange West.
A darkly comic fantasy Western about a wanted gunman hiding as a mouse among the performers of a travelling show. By Aron Pence.
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MORE NOVELS BY ARON PENCE
A comedy by Aron Pence.
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A grim, flesh-ridden novel—and the world that Tall Folk returns to.
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A goblin novel of war, management, and rot.
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Prefer a physical book? These illustrated playtest editions are available as premium-color, 8.5 × 11-inch paperbacks with matte covers. Every playtest PDF is also free to download.
Build characters your way. A library of skills, powers, statuses, and ready-to-play kits.
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Keep the table moving with Scenes, Agents, engines, items, and jobs ready to use.
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Take 4d4 into a dangerous working frontier of mining crews, failing stations, and hard choices.
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A separate experiment in fully AI-generated fiction. SLOP was published without human editorial revision of the story; later volumes are credited to Aron Pence and Astra (Medium).