I met Sebastian Yūe at the UK Games Expo in a brief encounter at an indie tabletop games stand. Yes, such things could be found at the giant board games convention.
Rowan, Rook and Decard
Rowan, Rook and Decard is an indie RPG publisher founded by Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor and business director Mary Hamilton. UFO Press, another British indie, was merged into the business in 2021.
The tabletop roleplay gaming studio is known for titles such as Spire where characters are dark elves ruled and captive in a city taken by cruel high elves, Heart, about a nightmarish undercity and the official DIE RPG for the graphic series by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans.
Rowan, Rook and Decard won’t attend GenCon 2025 as the US is not safe
We’re not bringing any staff from the UK to GenCon 2025. Crossing the border into the US simply isn’t safe for us at the moment, and it doesn’t appear to be getting safer.
Dear readers, Punch Nazis! (a today TTRPG deal)
Eat the Reich from Rowan, Rook and Decard, Misspent Youth from Fragging Unicorns and the ‘inspired by’ Star Wars TTRPG Galactic from Riley Rethal and in the anti-Totalitarian bundle Resistance.
Fantasy-punk rebellion double-trouble! Spire and Heart both have bundles
Both games are from Rowan, Rook & Decard. The Heart bundle expires on Tuesday, 17th Dec, and so does Spire.
Rowan, Rook and Decard want you to Eat the Reich and drink the blood of Hitler
EAT THE REICH is a tabletop roleplaying game in which you, a vampire commando, are coffin-dropped into occupied Paris and must cut a bloody swathe through nazi forces en route to your ultimate goal: drinking all of Adolf Hitler’s blood.
Two Rowan, Rook, & Decard bundles with Spire and Heart
In Spire: The City Must Fall, retro-engineers dig up ancient technology from abandoned dungeons, hotwire it, and sell cheap copies.
Rowan, Rook and Decard’s DIE RPG is out
Indie RPG publisher Rowan, Rook and Decard have refined the game and assisted with edits and mechanics.
Routinely Itemised: RPGs #159
Routinely Itemised is an RPG news summary round-up from Geek Native. It’s a chance to catch up with new releases, reviews, events, and discoveries from around the web.
You’re good at killing: Rowan, Rook and Decard seek monster hunters for the Hollows RPG
The publisher of Spire, Heart, Royal Blood and other games like Unbound has been working on another RPG called Hollows, and they’ve worked on it for years.
TTRPGs for Reproductive Rights will put more than $1,000 of gaming goodness in your pocket
There are so many heroes that the total value of downloads in the bundle TTRPGs for Reproductive Rights that there’s about $1,400 worth of games available.
