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Rowan, Rook and Decard

Rowan, Rook and Decard is an indie RPG publisher founded by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor and business director Mary Hamilton. UFO Press, another British indie, was merged into the business in 2021.

The tabletop roleplay gaming studio is known for titles such as Spire where characters are dark elves ruled and captive in a city taken by cruel high elves, Heart, about a nightmarish undercity and the official DIE RPG for the graphic series by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans.

Goth Jumanji: Travel into your RPG with DIE

May 13, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s taken years, but now Kieron Gillen, Rowan, Rook and Decard with Stephanie Hans have the DIE comic on Kickstarter for DIE: The Roleplaying Game.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: grant howitt, kickstarters, Kieron Gillen, rowan rook and decard

RPGs for Reproductive Justice: Save $425 (94%) on RPGs and support human rights

May 9, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hydra have coordinated the RPGs for Reproductive Justice bundle. It takes $452+ worth of DriveThruRPG content and makes it available for $20.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 9th level games, bundles, drivethrurpg, Pelgrane Press, rowan rook and decard, Stygian Fox Publishing

The Orc Borg RPG: Thousands of doomed space orcs Mork Borg-style

February 21, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s about a week left to get involved with Rowan, Rook and Decard’s latest RPG and 8th Kickstarter. Orc Borg is a Mork Borg-powered sci-fi about a spaceship on a doomed collision course with heaven.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, mork borg, rollinkunz, rowan rook and decard

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #139

February 11, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s money flowing in all sorts of directions in this week’s RPG news and shop fronts stepping away from NFTs. All the acronyms, huh? Oh, and Dark Souls news.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: arcknight, battleground games, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, czrpg, dark matter, Dark Souls, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, Dyskami, everyday heroes, evil genius productions, gallant knight games, itch.io, izegrim creations, mage hand press, monad echo, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, nord games, osprey games, parts per million, Pelgrane Press, ravensburger, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, Skeletonkey games, Son of Oak Game Studio, Steamforged Games, Steve Jackson Games, swords of the serpentine, The One Ring, the troubleshooters, the world anvil publishing, viking death squad, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #137

January 28, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Do you think the deadly Dark Souls computer game would work as a 5e RPG on the tabletop? Steamforged will try, and they’re going to do the same with RuneQuest. Paizo make a critical hire, Monte Cook Games make a free preview available and more this week.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: alien rpg, Babies and Broadswords, cubicle 7, Dark Souls, Darklight Interactive, doctor who, dog might games, drivethrurpg, Dungeons & Dragons, ed greenwood, edge, fasa, Free League Publishing, gale force 9, goodman games, lancer, legends of avallen, midnight, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, mork borg, Paizo Publishing, parts per million, pathfinder, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, ravenloft: mist hunters, rick and morty, root, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, runescape, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, sideshow collectibles, star trek into darkness, Steamforged Games, the oracle, warehouse 23

ORC BORG announced by Rowan, Rook and Decard

January 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

In ORC BORG, players are orcs trapped on a spaceship flying towards a crash landing on some unfortunate planet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: mork borg, rollinkunz, rowan rook and decard

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #123

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A bullet-point summary of RPG news in the week of D&D reviews, Paizo freelancers forcing a halt to Pathfinder and Star Wars RPG’s future confirmed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis, arc, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battleground games, brw games, Chaosium, Cowboy Bebop, cubicle 7, czrpg, deadlands, degenesis, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, edge, fasa, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, Green Ronin Publishing, hyper light drifter, iron kingdoms, kobold press, Labyrinth, Mana Project Studio, masks, Metal Weave Games, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Privateer Press, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, star trek adventures, the red opera, traveller, warhammer

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, blackbirds, bloat games, bounty hunter, cmon, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Diana Jones Award, everway, HARP, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, jackals, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, osprey games, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, rackham vale, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shotguns & Sorcery, Son of Oak Game Studio, Steve Jackson Games, the gaia complex, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Tiamat, Torment: Tides of Numenera, two little mice, Victoriana, wizards of the coast

Kieron Gillen’s “Goth Jumanji” comic book series Die will get an RPG from Honey Heist creator

September 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A group of broken, desperate people are sucked into a magical fantasy kingdom after playing a roleplaying game and we get to watch them work through their emotional and physical trauma.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Kieron Gillen, rowan rook and decard

The winners of the 2021 ENnies Awards include a silent RPG

September 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The ENnies have revealed their 2021 winners. The event was streamed on YouTube even though GenCon was running with an in-person convention this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, alice is missing, alien rpg, brancalonia, ENnies, Free League Publishing, Renegade Game Studios, rowan rook and decard

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