A Year at… — All Four Books

The four books of the A Year at… series in one download. The same rules, four places, four sets of people, and four different things running out. About twenty minutes an evening, one die, one pen.

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🌙 WHAT THIS IS

Four complete solo journaling games. In three of them you keep a place for a year and people come to you; in the fourth you drive a salt cart and meet them on the road. Either way, you write down what happened.

You play one evening at a time:

🎲 Roll for who turns up.

🎲 Roll for what they want.

✒️ Write three or four lines: what you did, what it cost, and what you did not say.

⚖️ You never roll to find out whether you succeed. The die says what happens. You say what you did about it. There is no failure in these games, only what it cost.

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📦 WHAT YOU GET

▪ 4 books: A Year at the Wayside, A Year at the Lending Library, A Year at the Ferry and A Year on the Salt Road

▪ 648 written entries across 100 tables — every one of them rolled on a single d6

▪ 16 seasons, four to each book, each with its own people

▪ 48 writing prompts and 12 ending tables

▪ 32 journal sheets, eight in every book

▪ 80 pages · 16 PDFs

Nothing here is a stub. Every table is written out in full.

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🗺️ THE FOUR YEARS

🛤️ A YEAR AT THE WAYSIDE

You keep an inn on a quiet road. What you are keeping: Stores, Firewood and Goodwill.

The road opens · Everyone is moving · Everything gets counted · The road closes

📚 A YEAR AT THE LENDING LIBRARY

You keep a small lending library in a quiet town. What you are keeping: Shelves, Lamp Oil and Goodwill.

The windows open · Nobody reads in summer · The stock-take · The reading room fills

⛴️ A YEAR AT THE FERRY

You keep a rope ferry on a wide, cold river. What you are keeping: Rope, Tar and Goodwill.

The river comes up · Low water · The drove · The ice comes in

🐴 A YEAR ON THE SALT ROAD

You drive a salt cart down a long road. What you are keeping: Salt, Horse and Goodwill.

Mud season · Dust and long days · The fairs · Salt for the winter

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📖 A FEW LINES FROM INSIDE

"Nobody. Four days of nobody, and you start talking to the horses." — the Wayside

"Somebody sends word ahead. Nobody has ever done that before." — the Wayside

"Somebody returning a book forty-one years overdue. It was their father's. They have brought the fine, in old coins." — the Lending Library

"Only to be warm, and to hold a book as the reason for it." — the Lending Library

"A bottle comes down the river with a letter inside, and it is addressed to the ferry." — the Ferry

"A man coming home from a long way off, who stands at the slip a long time before he pays." — the Ferry

"Two children selling water at the top of the long climb, at a price they have clearly just decided." — the Salt Road

"You buy a sack of your own salt at full price, and feel foolish, and do not mind." — the Salt Road

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✨ THIS IS FOR YOU IF

▪ You have played one of these and would like the others

▪ You want a cozy game that still has structure and consequences

▪ This would be your first solo RPG and you want one that explains itself

▪ You keep a journal and want prompts that build on each other instead of starting over

▪ You want quiet evenings that are not a screen, for a good part of a year

▪ You are tired of combat and stat blocks

▪ You own one six-sided die and nothing else, and would like that to be enough

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🎒 WHAT YOU NEED

▪ These books

▪ A pen

▪ One six-sided die

▪ Somewhere quiet

That is the list. No deck of cards, no second die, no app, and no account.

Every book is made for one player, with a way to share a year with a second: take a season each.

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🚫 WHAT IS NOT IN IT

No combat. No monsters. No magic. No stat blocks and no character sheet.

Nothing here is fought. If something arrives that you cannot solve, you cannot solve it, and you write that down.

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📄 THE FILES

Two zip files, one for each paper size, so you only download the one you print on:

▪ A4 — all four books, colour and ink-saver

▪ US Letter — all four books, colour and ink-saver

The ink-saver builds drop the tint and the cover paintings and keep every word.

⬇️ Instant digital download. Nothing is posted to you.

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🕯️ ONE GOOD EVENING

Games for a table, and for a chair by the fire.