Conventions What We Did At Pyrkon Hello, Producer Chant here, because we all went away to Europe and Grant is still sleeping it off. Editor: GRANT’S HERE. Grant’s here. Hello! I’m late to the party and I’m editing this piece now. Or rather: leaving it entirely intact and commenting on it because
UKGE UKGE 2026: Post Con Deconstruction With one more UKGE under our belt - the sixth, I think? Covid made it hard to count - it seems like a good moment to share some of our stats and talk about how we run the convention. There’s a growing tradition of post-UKGE roundups from small TTRPG creators,
From The Patreon A COURT OF SPARKS AND ASHES It's time for beautiful fey lads at the end of the world. A Court of Sparks and Ashes was made as part of the Romantasy TTRPG Jam, organised by Fistful of Crits. Romantasy is very much not my usual genre. In fact, it's pretty much not
The Monthly Email GRANT ON HOLIDAY I’m supposed to be on my holidays, you know. Booked a week off and everything. But I forgot to tell anyone else to write the newsletter, and - honestly - you’d miss me if wasn’t here. No-one else has the weird mix of arm’s-reach disinterest, desperate
Game jam Havoc Jam WINNERS We ran the Havoc Engine Jam last month. I’ll be fully honest with you: I wasn’t expecting to see 52 entries, given that the task was to design an entire, fully-fledged roleplaying game (and probably a bunch of pre-gen characters and a scenario). The general standard
Warm and fuzzy Featured Hello, world, again If you're reading this, then it's likely you've found the soft launch of Secrets. Welcome. It's not finished yet. Here at RR&D we've worked with subscription approaches for a really long time. Before we were even a real
The Monthly Email September 2025 Newsletter I’ve got a good excuse for why the email’s late this time. Maz said I couldn’t send it out yesterday because we were migrating servers, or something, and our emails weren’t working. I won’t pretend to understand what’s happening; I am lucky enough to
The Monthly Email Five Christmas games for your seasonal delectation Jingle Jingle - it's the 2021 festive email On the Fifth Day of Christmas RRD gave to me: FIVE! FREE! GAAAAMES! It’s Christmas! And Hanukkah! And Kwanzaa! Yule, too, probably! If we’ve missed your preferred December celebration, feel free to let us know in the comments. Or
The Monthly Email Destroy your paperbacks for fun and profit Destroy your paperbacks for fun and profit It’s the November email Imagine the HUBRIS of sending out the November newsletter while November was still ongoing. Luckily for you, we here at Rowan Rook & Decard are diligent enough to make sure that we leave no stone unturned in our
The Monthly Email Spooky forests and slapstick heists - it's the October email Two new games this month! Not that we forgot to send an email last month, no. Absolutely not. Strap in, it’s the October email What happened to the September email, we hear you ask - well, don’t ask. Don’t poke your nose around where it doesn’t belong.
The Monthly Email It's still technically August, so: AUGUST EMAIL Bet you thought we'd forgotten again, didn't you? We don't blame you Kept you waiting, huh? We know what it’s like. 1st of the month rolls around and you’re sat there in your pants endlessly refreshing your inbox, impatiently waiting for your
The Monthly Email Reverse Cluedo? In MY inbox? Reverse Cluedo? In MY inbox? IT REMAINS JULY They say I have to write one of these things every month, and you know? Some months I even do that. Turns out this month is one of those months. Now when I say “they” I mean “me and the other owners
The Monthly Email Can you earn enough gas money to escape your pursuers despite the fact that you're a poorly-disguised combat android? yes hello it’s the May 2021 email Eagle-eyed readers will note that it’s no longer May, which you’d think would pose problems for someone writing the May newsletter. But this isn’t my first rodeo; I’m a veteran when it comes to this sort of
The Monthly Email FETCH is probably Grant's least approachable game to date, which says something please enjoy the April edition of this, our monthly newsletter It contains all the updates and news you could ever hope to read in this, the month of April 2021 SIN Kickstarter enters its final days SIN is our upcoming sourcebook for Spire (we pick single-name titles for everything
The Monthly Email New Kickstarter! Minerva McJanda! Administrative carnage! it’s the March 2021 email We’ve got a free game, an upcoming Kickstarter and a brand shiny new team member, so please do read on. MINERVA MCJANDA JOINS THE PARTY We have an actual, honest-to-god employee on the books! Minerva McJanda (Mina to her friends) is
The Monthly Email How many magic mirrors and golden slippers can you steal before you're arrested? we have been told that it is February Exhaustingly, despite all efforts to the contrary, it is February 2021. We continue to make games as our government blunders pachinko towards some sort of pandemic resolution; time remains a senseless morass punctuated by brief periods of sunlight and the occasional “weekend,
The Monthly Email Yeah our country decided to jettison itself from the rest of the world and now we can't sell books HOW ABOUT SOME OF THAT GOOD OLD FASHIONED DECEMBER NEWS You got any NEWS, guv'nor? Spare a scrap of news for an impoverished games orphan? Good or bad news grubnor, I don't mind, just slip me a sliver of news and I'll be on
The Monthly Email Can you kiss and/or stab your way through 17th Century France? It's the November email! I'M A LOVER, NOT A FIGHTER In Grant's first ever Honey Heist hack, you take on the roles of dashing old-timey swordfighters and embark on a crucial mission to rescue someone from the clutches of The Baron. You have
The Monthly Email Kaiju Girl, She's Been Living In Her Kaiju World I bet she's never been crushed to death / I bet her monster form has fire breath It's the RR&D September email! Hey, what's up? Things are still weird but we're still making games, so there's that. Want to
The Monthly Email Free games, expensive games, all the kinds of games there are THERE'S NO TIME TO EXPLAIN, JUST READ IT THIS is the August email and at time of writing it's still August so you haven't got a leg to stand on if you think we're late, pal. Some cheek you've got
