Grant Howitt

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RRD NEWSLETTER JUNE?

Okay; it’s a week late. Don’t draw attention to it. We’re all ashamed and there’s no need - and no benefit! - to pointing fingers about “whose job” it is to “write” the “newsletter” “once a month.” Everything exists in a context. For example, in my case, that

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WHAT IF TOO MANY PEOPLE PLAYED A GAME ALL AT ONCE?

This month, I have mostly been writing 30-player six-table TTRPG scenarios in advance of GenCon 2026. Let’s talk about what’s fun, and what’s interesting, and what’s unfortunately dull about that...

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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

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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

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ON THE DIFFICULTIES OF PUTTING A CAT IN YOUR GAME

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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

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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

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HONK

It is a goose

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PIG AT A WEDDING & MORE SALT

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KAMPING KITBASH Part Two

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Kamping Kitbash 2025 Part 1

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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Orcball, Nice Marines, and Angels - oh my!

We've got TWO FREE GAMES in here, because we're nice like that JUNE EMAIL That's one thing you can definitely say about this email: it's arriving in June. We've got a bunch of stuff for you, so strap in: SANCTUM

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Things are still weird but one thing remains clear: CONTINUE TO PURCHASE OUR GAMES

New supplements for Spire and Heart (and a free game too) MORE SOURCEBOOKS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A STICK AT Assuming that it's quite a small stick, anyway. May brings with it not one but two new sourcebooks for our main games, as well as the standard fare

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EVERYTHING’S WEIRD NOW, PLEASE CONTINUE TO PLAY OUR GAMES

There are three games in this email and two of them are free Hello! Since we last spoke the world is in the midst of a pandemic, which is - at best - very strange to live through. However, we’re still in the business of making games, and with the fact

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We're going to GENCON, baby

Plus: not one, but TWO free games JANUARY: IT'S HERE You know it. We know it. It's inescapably January, and we can't do anything to change that short of overthrowing the secret cadre of Gregorian Monks who use the calendar to keep us down.