Ηearth & Quill Press

@comatador.bsky.social

Small press for slow tabletop games. Solo journaling RPGs, NPCs, painterly game backgrounds. Slow growth, quiet mood. comatador.itch.io

The Long Night — a solo journaling RPG of cold hunger and warm doors. A hundred-year-old fire has gone out for the first time. Vesna the Hearthkeeper has sent runners looking for travelers who understand strange things. You have answered her letter.

Book cover: a small stone mountain village in deep winter, seen from a hilltop approach along a snow-covered cart road. Forty stone cottages with moss-covered slate roofs cluster below in a shallow valley. Warm amber candlelight glows from every cottage window except one — a large round stone shrine at the village centre, its chimney dark. Pine forest on the ridges. Full moon behind thin snow clouds. Snow falling. Title 'THE LONG NIGHT' below in serif type on parchment. Subtitle 'a solo journaling roleplaying game' in italic gold. Painted in illuminated manuscript style — sepia, ivory, midnight blue, warm gold palette.

An Almanac of the Small Country — a year-long solo journaling RPG. Fifty-two weeks. One deck of cards. One notebook. One imagined country only you will ever know. At the end you have an almanac. Hand-filled. Yours. Nobody else's.

Book cover: parchment background with ornate double border. Italic title reads 'An Almanac of the Small Country'. Kicker above: 'A Year-Long Solo Journaling Roleplaying Game'. Central Thomas Bewick wood engraving showing a reaper in a summer field with a partridge nest. Below: 'Fifty-two weeks. One deck of cards. One notebook. One country only you will ever know.' Wax seal in bottom right corner. Byline: 'Hearth & Quill Press'.

Five books. One bundle. First time ever. $25.95 → $12.95 for one month. Then it's gone. Everything Hearth & Quill Press has ever made — five complete solo journaling games — for the price of two coffees. 🕯️

Bundle banner: dark parchment background with five solo journaling game covers arranged in a fanned row — The Hearthkeeper, The Forest Keeper, The Lighthouse Keeper, The Vanished Atlas, and KINDRED. Headline reads 'The Ultimate Solo Journaling Collection'. Price shown: $25.95 struck through, $12.95 highlighted in gold, with a red '50% OFF' badge. Kicker at top: 'First-Ever Bundle'. From Hearth & Quill Press.

a new small thing, made free — A SMALL ATLAS: draw four cards, answer four questions, close the notebook. one place that isn't there anymore. 10 pages. name your own price (including zero). engine of the Vanished Atlas. comatador.itch.io/a-small-atlas-free

Cover of A Small Atlas — dark cream typography on warm brown background. Title reads A SMALL ATLAS. Subtitle: a one-evening solo journaling game, engine of The Vanished Atlas. Tagline: one deck. one page. one place that isn't there anymore. From Hearth & Quill Press.

solo journaling folks — what was the last prompt that made you actually put the pen down for a minute before answering? I keep coming back to 'name someone you would have followed anywhere, and where they went instead.' something about it never resolves.

THE VANISHED ATLAS is 38% off for launch week. $7.99 → $4.95 on itch. a solo journaling rpg about mapping places that aren't there anymore. villages under reservoirs. streets renamed after wars. a town flooded a hundred years ago.

Cover of The Vanished Atlas — parchment map on wooden desk lit by oil lamp

first community copy of THE VANISHED ATLAS goes to whoever replies first. reply 🗺️ or "yes please" and I'll DM the key. if someone beats you to it and you can't afford $7.99 right now, DM me anyway — I have a few set aside for anyone who wants to play but can't pay.

new solo journaling rpg out: THE VANISHED ATLAS — you play a cartographer for a guild that maps places which are no longer there. villages under reservoirs. streets renamed after wars. a town flooded a hundred years ago. thirteen commissions. one deck of cards. one notebook.

Cover of The Vanished Atlas — parchment map on wooden desk lit by oil lamp