🥳 We're Funded!🥳 We're rocketing towards our first stretch goal at £60k ($80k) which is an original never-before-seen Adrian Tchaikovsky story about Pangolin poets on an alien world! ✍️ 👽️ 🌏️

Children of Time RPG is funded! Next up: you'll all find out how it shapes your culture when your tongue is dextrous, prehensile, and so long it attaches to your hips. (Seriously I've seen what @aptshadow.bsky.social has in mind for these lovely creatures and I'm very excited.)

So excited to back this one! This little guy has been jamming on nature documentaries lately and I go straight to “these penguins are fine, but what if they were uplifted by a virus into a space-faring penguin society?” Now there’s a game for that.

👀🚀⚡IT'S LIVE!⚡🚀👀 Scamper, scuttle and skedaddle there as fast as your many legs can carry you!

📡 Signal Boost! Live on Kickstarter right now, the new TTRPG based on the Clarke Award winning novel CHILDREN OF TIME by Adrian Tchaikovsky / @aptshadow.bsky.social Warning: may contain innovative gameplay, deep time world-building and (very definitely) spiders! 🕷️

SEVEN-PART PACT, my fantastical ornate TTRPG about powerful wizards, asymmetrical board games, and the pressures of masculinity is now launching on kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjg...

oh yeah! A Minærva McJanda @minahoneybat.bsky.social designed game with Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social and Elaine Lithgow @elainelithgow.bsky.social! IIRC Min is how my neighborhood West Ridge/Rogers Park made it into Voidheart Symphony.

Art I made for @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social / @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Children of Time RPG. It's live on Kickstarter now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh...

You are backing this faster than I can refresh

I just backed Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh...

Get yourself a partner who sees this and backs the “insanely over the top” level* because they know how much you love TTRPGs, and dice, and the Children Of series. *not its actual name, sadly

I've been involved with the development of Children of Time since the start and it's been tremendous to watch it take shape. It's a slick, evocative, sci-fi system that feels like being in a writer's room - in the best way. It's brisk and fun and charming and you should take a look!

👀🚀⚡IT'S LIVE!⚡🚀👀 Scamper, scuttle and skedaddle there as fast as your many legs can carry you!

Reeeeeeeally wanna read these books, I'm stoked they're getting a worldbuilding game! Absolutely checking this out >w>

LESS THAN AN HOUR REMAINING!

Cat break. OKAY BACK TO CHILDREN OF TIME

🚀3 HOURS REMAINING🚀

🚨Today's the daaaaaaay!🚨 [4pm UK | 8am PT | 11am ET] bit.ly/3R1XMUu

What's in that Cryopod? Sentient spider telling you🫵 Children of Time goes live TOMORROW!? 👀👀👀 bit.ly/3R1XMUu

Ooh

It's FREE👏SHIT👏FRIDAY👏 Since there's only 😶FOUR DAYS😶 until Children of Time - this weeks free game is the COT Beta Test you can get if you sign up to the backerkit! Easy way to get FREE Children of Time before our beautiful books drop 💖 bit.ly/4gJkg7h

Another good reason to sub to the RRD newsletter is for dumb shit like this:

something from the archives, the time @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social let me make a strange map for THE SPIRE and I went ott making and designing loads of different little views of it. There were loads more but I couldn't fit anymore on the page :-D Here is the Solar Basilica #ttrpg

Can you BELIEVE it's only 👀5 DAYS👀 until Children of Time: The RPG?? (Also is there a pangolin pokemon because I love the little pangolin warrior so much) Follow the campaign here🫵 bit.ly/3R1XMUu

Did you know we have a monthly (ish) newsletter? (Me and Grant are unsupervised in there) mailchi.mp/48d68906171f...

Probably the thing with the bears.

🥶 WHO'S IN THAT CRYOPOD?📣 (It's not pikachu) It's a character straight from the Children of Time Quickstart! The campaign launches on 14th July - have you signed up? bit.ly/4okQtDw

podcast.darker-days.org/e/306-from-t... @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social @gshowitt.bsky.social

Pyrkon is fast becoming one of my fav conventions. I’d encourage more UK/EU TTRPG folk to attend! Especially if DEEP continues next year. (It’s rare to get the chance to properly talk shop about nuanced design/production topics.)

NEW: Royal Blood is a tabletop roleplaying game about heists, tarot cards, magic, fate and desperation. It uses a deck of tarot cards to build characters, plan a heist, and determine opposition, and to resolve every risky action the players make. From @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social

Fun fact: the @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social website has a d20 on the main page that you can roll. I went to the site looking to buy a pdf of Eat The Reich but I think I got distracted rolling it like ten times LOL

I took a look today at the Children of Time RPG quickstart and holy crap is it intelligently designed, beautifully rendered, and very clever. It’s not a traditional RPG, but I think it would be a really fun storytelling experience with the right group. rowanrookanddecard.com/announcing-c...

It's FREE👏SHIT👏FRIDAY👏 2nd heatwave? Sounds like 👿No More Room In Hell👿 This GMless game pits you against an ever replenishing enemy (think Vampire Survivors) and asks you to pilot the forces of Hate, Fear, Hunger and Love to survive. Get it here: rowanrookanddecard.com/product/no-m...

If you want to pick up Voidheart Symphony – and *you should* – I recommend the Quickstart: rowanrookanddecard.com/product/kill...

Oh, wow – glad to see all my hard work recognized! Thanks for the nomination, @ennie-awards.bsky.social

I came for the silly photo, I stayed for the multi-POV retrospect. Never heard of Pyrkon before, it sounds really cool!

Ooh what's behind this curtain? Something luxurious? dangerous?? 😏 No. It's us. secrets.rowanrookanddecard.com/what-we-did-...

Ugh these are so gorgeous 👇

Back in the Children of Time RPG mines (launching in less than two weeks!) www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... I'm happy with its ability to deliver big sci-fi stories spanning planets and millennia. But it needs more on the human (or rather, Human) angle. So I'm finding inspiration in: Deep Space 9

Happy #FreeRPGDay! QUICK QUICK GET THIS FREE STUFF BEFORE SOMEONE SEES STEAL EVERY QUICKSTART THAT ISNT BOLTED DOWN 🧵

teenage jude, who loved Hackers unironically, is DELIGHTED with this game and can't wait to force people to play it

It's FREE👏SHIT👏FRIDAY👏 It's too hot outside, play 🧑‍💻Hack The Planet🌏 inside instead. You're hackers, like from the film HACKERS (2016), which had the tagline "Boot up or Shut up!" 🤘 Get it here: rowanrookanddecard.com/product/hack...

We also did a nice video recap of what The Wretch got up to www.instagram.com/reel/DZ-tRO_...

This was my second year at Pyrkon and I legit had a stupid amount of fun looking out for the watchers hidden all over the city. It's like a city-wide easter egg hunt.

🚨PYRKON THREAD🚨 We went to Poznań which is most famous for: 🔸two mechanical goats in a clock that headbutt each other 🐐 🔸croissant museum 🥐 🔸a guy they call ‘the watcher’ who Elaine spotted all over 👁️ 🔸and #Pyrkon! 🎲

maybe it's the heat exhaustion but I decided to create a helpful guide

Still too hot? The only thing for it is the FREEZING void of deep space. Fly with EUphoria staff and special guest @elainelithgow.bsky.social for a playtest of @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social's Children of Time TTRPG! Things definitely stayed cool and nothing caught fire. Honest. buff.ly/kahsgfv

Obviously I would say this, but: this is a cracking speculative fiction game, and a cracking *GMless* game, and a cracking adaptation. And it's got pangolins in it. Take a look!

Microscope. In Space. And that's not even the half of it 😏

Finally entering my cryptid era where I l can be spotted lurking in the top left of TTRPG industry group photos.