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Joseph D. Carriker Jr.

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Joseph Carriker is the developer for Green Ronin’s Blue Rose AGE roleplaying game line. He has been writing in the gaming industry for sixteen years now, and has worked on a variety of game lines over those years.

In 2017, he released his first novel, Sacred Band, and his second, Shadowtide, in 2018. He runs a Patreon dedicated to his Sacred Band world with a variety of short stories, world building and commissioned art.

He is an outspoken queer gamer, having helped organize and take part in the annual Queer as a Three-Sided Die panels at GenCon. Joseph lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner A.J., and likes to believe he does his part in Keeping Portland Weird.

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	Sacred Band 4.44 avg rating — 101 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scion Companion by Joseph D. Carriker Jr. (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Heinig 3.66 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadowtide 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mage Tome of the Mysteries *OP by Joseph D. Carriker Jr. (Goodreads Author), Stephen Michael Dipesa, Howard Ingham 3.86 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Night Horrors: Immortal Sinners by Joseph D. Carriker Jr. (Goodreads Author) (Developer), Rose Bailey, Benjamin Baugh 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarred Lands Campaign Setting Ghelspad (D20 Generic System) 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mutants & Masterminds: Book Of Magic by Joseph D. Carriker Jr. (Goodreads Author), Stephen Kenson, D.T. Butchino 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victorian Lost: A Maze of Smoke and Hedge by Joseph D. Carriker Jr. (Goodreads Author), Jess Hartley (Goodreads Author), Andrew Peregrine 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grimoire of Grimoires by Joseph D. Carriker Jr. (Goodreads Author), Jackie Cassada 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Is this what makes people old, then? Not age, or decrepitude, but grief?”
― Joseph D. Carriker Jr., Sacred Band

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“The herbalist nodded, continuing to slowly stir the broth. “You are not the first laevvel I’ve known,” he said. “Laevvel?” She’d never heard the word before. “Yes, from the Old Aldin laevvel bran’maur. It means ‘beyond the loom of Braniel and Maurenna’, in fact.” He smiled and rested a hand on her head. “When the body and the true self do not match, it means. Like a girl born to a boy’s body.”
― Joseph D. Carriker Jr., Sovereigns of the Blue Rose: A Blue Rose Anthology

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Petty by S.A. Sommers

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Sacred Band: Sacred Band Chronicles, Volume 1 by Joseph D. Carriker Jr.

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All The Colors Of Love by Jessica Freely

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