Peregrine SRD

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Peregrine: traveler; a tendency to wander

Peregrine is a game system for card-based solo journaling games about wandering, traveling, and looking for a place of home and belonging. This toolkit helps you create your own games built on that framework. If you would like to read a game built on this system, there are free community copies available of my game Village Witch. This SRD will walk you through creating your own Peregrine game.

Peregrine was created using the structure of the game Village Witch, a cozy narrative of a character traveling from village to village looking for the place where they will settle. A core part of the game is the sense of searching for home, for a place of belonging, meeting people and finding yourself along the way. Feel free to push the boundaries of what the game can be, whether through adding a twist on the meaning or by finding ways to add more players while still keeping to the heart of the game. If it feels to you like it’s a Peregrine game, then it is.

Peregrine is a System Reference Document (SRD) for card-based solo journaling games. It is a toolkit with a framework to help you write your own games, which you may then distribute for free or for profit under the Creative Commons attribution license, as long as you give proper credit. You may not imply Eliot Crow is endorsing or sponsoring you unless specific arrangement has been made. If you use this document to help create your own game, please include the following text somewhere in the game’s information:

This work is based on the Peregrine system (found at http://eliotcrow.itch.io/peregrine-srd) from Eliot Crow, and licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.