R. Rook Studio in April: Dim All the Lights, Games at Twenty Sided Store & StartPlaying, Across the Indieverse, The Recent Reading List


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A Moonlight on Roseville Beach Mystery Book: On Kickstarter July 18

Dim All the Lights

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Crowdfunding July 18, 2023 for April 2024 Release!

Dim All the Lights is the new Moonlight on Roseville Beah Mystery Book, and Dai Shugar's is coming back to design it! I was really lucky when Dai contacted me in 2021 about doing the Roseville Beach cover and now I couldn't imagine the book existing without Dai's art direction and layout.

The book will include:

From Me: character options for origin stories and job; mysteries, including "Night on Odd Island" and "The Bracknless Horror"; and "The Last Halloween at Beverly's Bar," an origin-story one-shot set on the US Gulf Coast.
From Noora Rose of Monkey's Paw Games: A collection of cosmic horrors, terrors, and monsters.
From Bendi Barrett: More flash fiction.
From Ezakur: An alternate queernorm mystery setting.
From Sharang Biswas: More mysteries for your Rose Island adventures.

There will also be stretch goals, including two mysteries from writers I love: Mary Georgescu and Viditya Voleti.

Follow along with the announcements list or on the R-Rook blog for previews and interviews with the team.

Kickstarter | Announcements

Extended through April 30: Dunes & Disco Game Jam

Join the Dunes & Disco Jam!

I've extended the deadline of the Dunes & Disco Jam to April 30! Join this great Itch-based game jam to create new content for Moonlight on Roseville Beach or your hacks of the Roseville Beach system. Create supplements, settings, or scenarios, or create your own game.

Play Games with Me!

In February and March, I got to run a lot of Moonlight on Roseville Beach at Brooklyn's Twenty Sided Store, and beginning this weekend, I'm working with staff GM Mickey to run a two-table, two-GM game of Sherwood. Watch their events page for more outlawry in April and May!

Additionally, I'm going to be running virtual games at StartPlaying. We're kicking off with an old-school trip to Marlinko and The Slumbering Ursine Dunes using my house OSR rules set (aka, My Chivalric Bromance). Keep an eye on the R. Rook GM Page for more Hill Cantons sessions as well as Sherwood, Moonlight on Roseville Beach, Tunnel Goons, and Beyond the Wall.

It Came from the Indie Games World!

R. Rook Studio has been really lucky to work with a wide range of indie creators and designers over the past few years, and I'm proud to be part of the contemporary indie TTRPG scene. Here's some projects that may interest you.

Crowdfunding Now!

Bridgetown

From Technical Grimoire, Odd Johnny, and Furtive Goblin: A sphere-spanning bridge that's also a town.

Pledge!

Jamming Now!

Eco Mofos Jam

David Blandy released Eco Mofos in January. Join the jam to "Make an adventure, creature, faction or map for a weirdhope future world."

Jam!

Funding Now!

Hobby Print Shop Coop

For the past few years, the indie scene has had Shane Thayer as a relentless advocate in Shane Thayer, aka Logar the Barbarian, of the Wobblies & Wizards podcast. Whether you were working on story games, OSR adventures, or anything else game-related, Shane celebrated your work and made space for you to talk about it. Now he's publishing his own work and creating his own coop that prints their work. Help fund this project and support a creator who's always supported the indie games sphere.

Donate!

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Coffee & Chaos

From ENnie-winning design team Ferne Milton and Stephanie Williamson, this storytelling game is releasing soon and still taking preorders from Gamefound.

Preorder!