Publications

Neurodivergence Fantasy is a tabletop role playing game celebrating neurodiversity, written by Joseph with art and graphic design by Suany. Players work together with a Game Master to create a neurodiverse team of teenagers who escape the ominous "Normalization Camp" and enter the magical Crystalline Dimension, where their neurodivergent traits are amplified to super-heroic levels so they can save the realm. While at it's heart, this is a fun, fantasy RPG, it also has the educational component of teaching some introductory ideas and terminology related to neurodiversity, autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence. Joseph and Suany have run this game for all ages at libraries and colleges.

​What if you could rewrite history… with dice? Epochs Unbound is a time-traveling tabletop RPG where you battle dinosaurs, outsmart rogue AIs, and race to fix the timeline before it collapses. Created in collaboration by Joseph [under the Saves and Sorcery publishing label] and Suany [Dragonden Hollow]. As described in a review by MonarcWriter: "The adventure has characters traveling across time periods to find the tools needed to rescue the Maestro (the GM). Time periods range from Prehistoric, where dinosaurs and wooly mammoths can become both rides and threats; all the way to the Age of Whales, where human society has crumbled and the massive sea creatures are the dominant species. Its a neat foundation for a TTRPG trying to capture the feel of a video game RPG like Chrono Trigger."

Have you ever looked at the happy, little Level 1 Slimes you’re cutting down at the start of an RPG and thought, “Those goobers are so cute! What if instead of slicing up this Slime, I was this Slime?” If so, SLIME REWIND RPG! is for you! All you need is a Gooru and 1+ party members to embark on a quest to restore the lost dessert powers of the Slimes. Created by Joseph and Suany. 

In Dreams in the Underneath, you take on the role of humanoid rat heroes living in a subterranean world. Unravel a mystery that begins with multiple individuals having the same creepy dream. This is a Canis Minor community product created to be compatible with Squeaks in the Deep (Pugmire) published by Onyx Path Publishing.

An absurd tale of an office worker navigating an infinite skyscraper of endless cubicles as he becomes increasingly embroiled in a conspiracy. 

• "Joseph Patrick Pascale creates a satirical inspection of not just workplace politics and pressures, but the odd constrictions, alliances, and challenges of government work as a whole. His story toes the line between a spy novel and a comedic tour de farce. Readers seeking something genre-bustingly different will relish the story's ability to avoid pat categorization in favor of a brand of creative license uncommon in the modern novel format." - Donovan's Bookshelf

• "Joseph has that rare knack to capture the farcical and the absurd in everyday events without looking down on those involved." - Ken S., editor of the literary site Spank the Carp.

• "Twists, laughs, and secret tiny mice fill Pascale's genuinely funny novel about the disquieting world of office work." - Catherine Rankovic, author and editor

• "Hilarious and captivating, How to Get a Promotion When Your Boss is Trying to Kill You is a must read for 2018. You won't want to stop reading about the clerk's quirky quests that he hopes will lead to a promotion." - Casey Tingle, fiction Editor at Folded Word

• "A novel that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf. While especially and unreservedly recommended for community library Contemporary General Fiction collections, it should be noted for personal reading lists." - Midwest Book Review

• "Anxiety inducing and absurd in the best ways possible, How to Get a Promotion When Your Boss Is Trying to Kill You is as if George Orwell and Aldous Huxley met David Lynch. Set in a world familiar to our own, I couldn't wait to find out what happened next to the clerk and am rooting for him to overcome the myriad obstacles that seem to just stack up in his way." - Stephanie Simone, arts and entertainment writer

• "Joseph Patrick Pascale has a rare ability to make us look at the ordinary, mundane world we take for granted and reveal it for what it truly is: awkward, surreal, bizarre. With his fast-paced, punchy writing, he's a showman who takes us for a ride, all the while unearthing truths about ourselves, without ever missing a beat." Scott Waldyn, editor-in-chief of Literary Orphans

The Bookstore Hobos is dubbed a lost novel distilled into 10,000 words. Published online in the Eunoia Review, it tells the story of Zaid. He's too hasty in quitting his job, but finds himself with time to work on his Philosophical Treatise that he hopes will usher in a new age of peace and understanding. He tries to live in a bookstore as he grapples with what he's learning in books, experiencing in life, and struggling with little money. Will he actually find a way to make it into New York City, and does it actually contain the intellectual haven he imagines?   

Zizek's Memory was originally published in Angry Old Man magazine. It is a short story in the form of a Prezi presentation that utilizes graphics, photos, videos, and audio. The software's signature "zoom in and out" element is repurposed to show the disorienting experience of a main character who has uploaded the complete writings, interviews, and lectures of philosopher Slavoj Zizek into their brain in hopes of making an impressive presentation to the board to keep their job. Dealing with themes of future, sci-fi, techno-capitalism clashing against anti-capitalist philosophy, ironically in the form of a software used for corporate presentations, Zizek's Memory is a unique experience.