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GAMES FOR CRABS DEBRIEF

This weekend I wrote a game about different bronze-age philosophies put forward by a theoretical civilisation of superintelligent beehives. It involves making uninterrupted eye contact with a stranger until I tell you to stop. WAIT, A BEE ISN’T A CRAB! You’re damned right. Let me explain - Games

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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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PIG AT A WEDDING & MORE SALT

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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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

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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

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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.

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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 all.

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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

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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

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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.