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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.

Independent Journalism 📜 6+ Year Archive 🔍 Primary Sourced

Rowan Rook And Decard Reports

Continuing the archive of independent Rowan Rook And Decard reporting (Archive Page 3).

ORC BORG announced by Rowan, Rook and Decard

January 26, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

In ORC BORG, players are orcs trapped on a spaceship flying towards a crash landing on some unfortunate planet.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: mork borg, rollinkunz, rowan rook and decard

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #123

October 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A bullet-point summary of RPG news in the week of D&D reviews, Paizo freelancers forcing a halt to Pathfinder and Star Wars RPG’s future confirmed.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: apotheosis, arc, astral tabletop, Atlas Games, battleground games, brw games, Chaosium, Cowboy Bebop, cubicle 7, czrpg, deadlands, degenesis, diego pisa artworks, Dungeons & Dragons, earthdawn, edge, fasa, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, game wizards, Green Ronin Publishing, hyper light drifter, iron kingdoms, kobold press, Labyrinth, Mana Project Studio, masks, Metal Weave Games, Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy, modern age, Modiphius Entertainment, Mongoose Publishing, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Privateer Press, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, star trek adventures, the red opera, traveller, warhammer

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #120

October 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re getting 50th-anniversary games, and that’s new paper to buy, but we’re not yet sure whether we will get more D&D 5.0, 5.5 or even 6.0.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Achtung! Cthulhu, Arcadia, blackbirds, bloat games, bounty hunter, cmon, cubicle 7, cyberpunk red, Diana Jones Award, everway, HARP, Into The Odd, Iron Crown Enterprises, iron kingdoms, jackals, Modiphius Entertainment, Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse, osprey games, Privateer Press, R. Talsorian Games, rackham vale, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shotguns & Sorcery, Son of Oak Game Studio, Steve Jackson Games, the gaia complex, the oracle, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight: A Feywild Adventure, Tiamat, Torment: Tides of Numenera, two little mice, Victoriana, wizards of the coast

Kieron Gillen’s “Goth Jumanji” comic book series Die will get an RPG from Honey Heist creator

September 29, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A group of broken, desperate people are sucked into a magical fantasy kingdom after playing a roleplaying game and we get to watch them work through their emotional and physical trauma.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, Kieron Gillen, rowan rook and decard

The winners of the 2021 ENnies Awards include a silent RPG

September 18, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

The ENnies have revealed their 2021 winners. The event was streamed on YouTube even though GenCon was running with an in-person convention this year.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: acheron books, alice is missing, alien rpg, brancalonia, ENnies, Free League Publishing, Renegade Game Studios, rowan rook and decard

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #116

September 3, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

As it’s Friday, it means RPG news in summary form. Routinely Itemised doesn’t just summarise Geek Native’s own content.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: All Rolled Up, Arcadia, blades in the dark, bloat games, brancalonia, Call of Cthulhu, Chaosium, character sheets, Chris McDowall, city of mist, dead channel studios, exalted, Freddie Taylor-Bell, Free League Publishing, gen con, horrible guild, Into The Odd, James Introcaso, jay dragon, kobold press, leyline press, long tail games, Massif Press, mcdm, mothership, Paizo Publishing, Paradox Interactive, pendragon, possum creek games, R. Talsorian Games, role, roll for combat, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sine nomine publishing, Stars without Number, survive this!!, the dee sanction, the oracle, wizards of the coast, Wyrmworks Publishing, zweihander

Himbo Treasure Hunt: RPG a well-meaning muscled hunk

September 2, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Himbo Treasure Hunt is the latest “Name Your Own Price” RPG from Rowan, Rook and Decard. Specifically, it’s from Sasha Sienna and Grant Howitt.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: free to download, grant howitt, reviews, rowan rook and decard

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #95

April 9, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

In the latest routinely itemised RPG news round-up, we have the release of the Dune 2d20 RPG, Goodman Games buying Dark Tower and an impressive video platform for your tabletop gaming group.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Accessible Games, agon, Brittannia Game Designs, candlekeep mysteries, Cepheus Engine, Chivalry & Sorcery, cubicle 7, dragons, dune, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, edge, en publishing, Evil Hat Productions, Free League Publishing, gallant knight games, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, goodman games, handiwork games, jay dragon, kobold press, micro rpg, Modiphius, moonmares games, onyx path publishing, Paizo Publishing, pathfinder, possum creek games, powered by the apocalypse, realmwarp media, routinely itemised, rowan rook and decard, sidequest, soulbound, star frontiers, tabletops & tentacles, The Esoterrorists, trokia!, twilight imperium, UltraPro, vaesen, vaesen: mythic britain, wanderhome, warhammer 40k, wrath & glory

UFO Press merges into Rowan, Rook and Decard

April 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

UFO Press may be best known for the post-apocalyptic Legacy game, the second edition of which was published three years ago, but there is a string of successes since then.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, rowan rook and decard

SIN: A sourcebook for the Spire RPG about uncaring gods and corruption in a cursed city

April 1, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Sin is the second sourcebook for the roleplaying game, and it digs into crime, order and religion.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, rowan rook and decard

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