The Monthly Email 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.
The Monthly Email Two free games, Heart RPG pre-orders open, Dragonmeet and more Yes: we missed a month. Maybe two. But we're here now, aren't we? It's November! Yes: we missed the September email. We also missed the October email. It's been a busy time for us - we had our big yearly Kickstarter, after
The Monthly Email Heart, The Witch House and TTGL, oh my! It's the September email! We know what you're thinking: they didn't have an August email! Well: yes. But in other news, we've been busy. BUSY WITH: The Heart Kickstarter! You can back our game of body horror, exploration, madness, predatory libraries and
The Monthly Email This Is Not A Place Of Honour Go on a sacred quest to unearth the secrets of the ancients, and realise why that's a terrible idea MAY NEWSLETTER We are required by etiquette to write an introduction to these newsletters; it is functionally useless, but here we are. Know this: the newsletter will contain one
The Monthly Email BEAUTIFUL SPACE PIRATES in THE GALAXY'S MOST DANGEROUS FUNERAL! Also, some other news, but you're really here for the pirates. It's the April email. It’s here. We got it in just under the wire. Six more hours and it wouldn’t be April any more. Don’t say we’re not good to you.
The Monthly Email 🐉You're a useless kobold on a mission for a capricious dragon. 🐉 Quick, make a distraction! EVERYONE, make a distraction! It's the March Email! What’s better than dragons? SMALLER dragons, that walk on two legs, and steal things! If you agree with the previous statement, you’re going to love March’s free one-page RPG: Kobold Endeavour. KOBOLD ENDEAVOUR
The Monthly Email Wake up or die trying. The sleepers are gunning for you. The ghosts are ravenous. Keep your head down and be prepared to do whatever it takes to get out of here alive. It's the February Newsletter Pretty dramatic subject line, eh? Anyway, scroll down for the monthly free game and the news
The Monthly Email Goats! Crimes! Lies! It's all here, and it's definitely still January It's the January email! (Look: you know it’s February. We know it’s February. It’s definitely February. Except: we missed sending the January email, so we’re going to pretend. Okay? Okay. Let’s just keep this between us.) GOAT CRASHERS. It started with a pun,
The Monthly Email It's like Neon Genesis Evangelion, but post-Brexit DECEMBER. We forgot to send this email before Christmas, so now the only possible subject for an intro is the festive perineum that resides between December 25th and December 30th; a festive wasteland where our bodies struggle to handle the raw volume of cheese we ate the week previously and
The Monthly Email Remember, remember: it's the newsletter (of November) Memory-wiping! Deluxe maps! London Living Wage! And many more The year's nearly over. God, it's hard to come up with intros for these newsletters. Does anyone even read them? Anyway, scroll down for some free stuff, don't let us keep you. RETROGRADE You just
The Monthly Email Strata, The Five, and more Strata is live! Strata is the first full-length hard-cover sourcebook for Spire, offering new abilities, new scenarios, two new character classes and eight (or more!) scenarios from a mix of fresh blood and experienced authors. The campaign funded in just over four hours, but we're well on the
The Monthly Email Skyfarer, More Giant Robots, Talking Skeletons, Etc SEPTEMBER: IT HAPPENED, WE WERE THERE SKYFARER Have you played Sunless Skies? It’s by Failbetter Games, who did Fallen London and Sunless Sea, and it’s a grim Victoriana romp with a dark sense of humour and a loose grip on reality. We’re proud to announce that we
The Monthly Email AUGUST NEWSLETTER: Crash Pandas! Welcome to the August newsletter! YOU'RE A BUNCH OF RACCOONS IN A CAR. In a dramatic break from character, Grant wrote a game about animals doing crimes. This time it’s CRASH PANDAS, a game in which you all play a raccoon, and all of you have to
The Monthly Email Hot days, hot nights, HOT GAMES You want games? We got 'em. It’s warm! The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and there’s no better time to hide indoors and play roleplaying games. Luckily we can help you with that: (Readers in alternative hemispheres where it is not summer: please modify this
The Monthly Email Black Magic, Spire launch party, and a rulebook that fits in your pocket Lots going on this month! We’ve released a load of stuff since we last wrote, so let’s get on with it, shall we? Black Magic Black Magic, the first occult magic supplement for Spire, has rules for: catching a magical disease and becoming a Blood-Witch, replacing your organs
The Monthly Email Technically February Email Update Yes, it's March. But this is actually the February newsletter. This is because of reasons. Reasons such as: SPIRE is out now in digital form We released Spire as a PDF! Spire is our biggest, fanciest game to date, coming in at 220 pages jam-packed with rules and
Free game Giant goddamn robots Hello! 2017 has been ground to dust under the relentless march of progress, and we stare longingly at the flanks of 2018 as they glimmer ahead of us. What's new for Rowan, Rook and Decard in this bright and terrifying future? FREE GAME: Giant Goddamn Robots January'
The Monthly Email Dead Channel and Dragonmeet Welcome, brave adventurer... ...to the Rowan, Rook and Decard mostly-monthly update. We're sorry it's been more than a month since we last wrote to you, but on the good side we do have some interesting things to tell you about. Such as... Dead Channel October'
The Monthly Email Rollerblades and pre-orders Happy September Last month saw us finish the Kickstarter for Spire, so we've been doing our best to handle the aftermath of that and dial down from full-on promotion mode into quietly making the thing happen. We're nearly finished with the final unproofed draft of the
The Monthly Email Spire, Nine Worlds, and a 1960s post office Spire is funded! Plus we ran a live podcast at Nine Worlds, and this month's game is GENIUS LOCI, an RPG of small gods in rural 1960s England in a village under threat. SPIRE has just over a week left on Kickstarter! We're launching a new
The Monthly Email Business! Anxiety! Oryx! Hello lovely people! Welcome to the inaugural Rowan, Rook & Decard email! Thanks for subscribing. Here’s what’s happened with us this month... NOTED INDIE LUMINARY GRANT HOWITT WINS 200-WORD RPG CONTEST The tremendously handsome Grant Howitt (who may or may not be writing this email) was one of
