A Lost Creek Game
The Pack Healer
Solo Journaling RPG · Digital Download (PDF)
$7.95
You are the healer for Lost Creek's Sinclair wolf pack. Create your healer, open your clinic, and spend a season of twelve patient visits caring for your neighbors — then write the story only your journal can tell.
Digital download — three PDFs: the complete game book, the book's journal pages as their own file for easy printing, and a print-at-home booklet edition of the game.
What you get
PDF One
The complete game
The Pack Healer game book — the full 29-page game: Lost Creek, healer creation, and all 52 patient cases.
PDF Two
The Healer's Journal
The journal pages from the book, gathered into their own PDF — patient visit logs, season tracker, and reflection pages — so you can print just those pages and keep a separate journal as you play.
PDF Three
The booklet edition
A booklet-style version of the complete game, laid out to print and fold at home.
Welcome to Lost Creek
Some patients arrive with someone beside them. Others pause at the door, deciding whether their problem is worth mentioning. A young wolf holds one paw carefully off the ground. An older neighbor insists they were only passing by, then sits down with a question they have carried all week. In The Pack Healer, you make room for them all.
Lost Creek is a small city in the Texas Hill Country — limestone hills, oak-covered trails, a courthouse square, and Sinclair Ranch west of town, home to a pack of some 225 wolf shifters living ordinary, modern lives. Most humans have no idea shifters exist. Your healer is one of them: trained in traditional wolf care, working from a small clinic, and trusted with the pack's everyday hurts, worries, and turning points.
This is a solo journaling roleplaying game. There is no game master and no required amount to write: a few lines can hold a visit, and a longer scene can follow when you want one.
What you need
- A standard 52-card deck, jokers removed — cards select patient cases only
- One six-sided die (D6)
- A journal or note-taking app, and something to write with
How a season plays
- Create your healer. Roll one die each for your specialty (Herbal Care, Calm & Comfort, Pups & Young…), your clinic (the Ranch Infirmary, a Treeline Cabin, a Garden Cottage…), and your background — or simply choose the ones that call to you.
- Draw a card. Every card in the deck is one of 52 patient cases — Thorn in the Paw, The Missing Scent, Shift-Lock, a mate-bond ache, a homesick heart. No case repeats within a season.
- Roll the die. One D6 roll selects your treatment path for the visit. Higher rolls mean a more involved visit — never better or worse care.
- Write the visit. Record the care, the exact roll, and what stayed with you, guided by each case's journal cue. Draw a King and you may take the optional King's Challenge for a more demanding visit.
- Close the season. Twelve visits complete a season. Your rolls add up to your Season Challenge Score and one of three closing reflections — a Gentle Season, Turning Points, or a Demanding Season. Then shuffle the deck: your healer's story continues into the next season.
What's inside
- The complete game in one 29-page PDF — a guided tour of Lost Creek and the Sinclair pack
- Healer creation tables: 6 specialties, 6 clinics, 6 backgrounds
- The full casebook: 52 patient cases, each ending with a journal cue
- Quick reference and quick card reference pages
- Printable Patient Visit Log, season tracker, and midseason + end-of-season reflection pages
- Journal extras to cut and paste into your journal: Lost Creek Wolves, Clinic Locations, Healer Specialties, Texas Wildflowers
- A QR code inside the book — scan it to have the journal pages emailed to you as a separate printable PDF