The DERELICT is a great big beautiful trash rocket smashing through space and it is jam-packed with ORCS, generations upon generations of them, sporing and scrapping, building murderous idols to their mad gods, and praying for DOOM when the Derelict will crash into heaven and disgorge every dead-hard big-toothed bastard in a glorious green tide. […]
Some news: we’re delaying the Kickstarter for DIE until spring 2022. At present, it’s really hard to make informed decisions about the state of the world. Here are the two big challenges facing us today: There’s a worldwide paper shortage. Shipping things from one place to another takes longer, is less reliable, and is up […]
We’ve teamed up with Kieron Gillen, comics author extraordinaire, to publish DIE RPG – the roleplaying game based on the acclaimed indie comic, DIE, in which 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 […]
Yeah, that’s right! Heart: the City Beneath won seven ENnies! That’s loads. We already thought it was quite good but it’s lovely to have that confirmed by a board of judges and the voting public. Here’s the rundown: GOLD AWARDS: Writing, Setting, Layout and DesignSILVER AWARDS: Internal Art, Cover Art, Adversary/Bestiary Design, Game of the […]
Gosh, we’d love to be at GenCon, breathing in and out and all over everyone, shaking hands, sharing swigs from bottles and generally engaging in the sort of behaviour that was perfectly fine before this wretched Coronavirus swept across the world and pinned us indoors for a good year and a half now – but […]
Executions are illegal in Spire thanks to a law instituted over a century ago by a Legislator-Architect who found them unfashionable. However, the influential Mortician sect were able to find a loophole around the ban - declaring a person legally dead and then redressing the balance at swordpoint.
The Gutter Cleric is one of the two new classes in Sin, our upcoming sourcebook for the Spire RPG, which is currently on Kickstarter. You can learn more about Sin – and maybe even secure yourself a copy – by clicking here. THE GUTTER CLERIC “Azur! Charnel! Limyé! Incarne! Merhor! Great Damnou! Uh, Brother Harvest? […]
Since we formed Rowan, Rook and Decard in 2017 we’ve worked hard to produce what we believe are some of the best games on the market – beautiful, clever, interesting books that push the medium in new directions and open up new opportunities for players. We’re proud to have made a successful business out of […]
We’re excited to announce that Spire, our flagship game, is up for sale on The Bundle of Holding until December 21st. If you’ve ever wanted to delve headlong into the strange and dangerous world of Spire, there’s never been a better opportunity. You can pick up Spire, Strata and PDFs of all three of our […]
WHAT IS THIS? Adventure Calendar is a setting and campaign that I’m telling through the medium of random tables – 25 of them, one released each day of December, up until Christmas Day itself. All of them will be available for free as individual articles, and at the end of the month, I’m going to […]