#City23 Update: February Week 3
I’ve written about my #City23 projects here and on Tumblr. Check out my last post.I’m working on two #City23 projects: a fantastical version of medieval Nottingham and a contemporary fictional city in...
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#City23: 3rd Week of FebruaryI’ve written about my #City23 projects here and on Tumblr. Check out my last post.I’m working on two #City23 projects: a fantastical version of medieval Nottingham and a...
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#City23: March Update 1
By now you know the #City23 drill: I’m working on two #City23 projects: a fantastical version of medieval Nottingham (for us with Sherwood) and a contemporary fictional city in Maine called Cape...
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Sherwood's Appendix N: Ranking the Big Screen Robin Hoods
And the winners are…So last year when I started work on Sherwood, I set out to watch all the theatrically-released Robin Hood talking pictures in English (there are also theatrically-released Robin...
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Itch Jam Submissions for the DriveThru Exclusive Publishers
Itch Jams and DriveThru ExclusivityThis post is not a stick-it-to-DriveThru post: I sell via DriveThruRPG, and while I’m not exclusive to them, I know people who are. My goal is to allow those folks to...
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Dim All the Lights
If you follow the R. Rook Studio newsletter, you know that I'm announcing the crowdfunding campaign of Dim All the Lights, which will go live on Kickstarter later in 2023. You can sign up there for a...
View ArticleInterview with Shane Thayer
Interviewed Shane Thayer, aka Logar the Barbarian, about his latest project. While the video has 0 editing, there's an edited partial transcript below. Check out Shane's GoFundMe campaign for the print...
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Moonlight on Roseville Beach went Silver, so now it's on sale!
Thanks to everyone who's picked up Moonlight on Roseville Beach PDFs on DriveThruRPG, Itch, and everywhere else! So now there's a sale. Until April 30, pick it up at 25% off, along with Sherwood, My...
View ArticleDim All the Lights Writer Interviews: Sharang Biswas
For the first writer interview for Dim All the Lights, I talked to my friend and colleague Sharang Biswas (portfolio | Itch), who contributed to Barrow Keep and Moonlight on Roseville Beach.We get to...
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Roseville Beach Reading: Thomas Tryon's Harvest Home
Beach Reading: Thomas Tryon’s Harvest HomeThis is a series about beach reads in the summer of 1979: pop fiction and pulp fiction that might show up on the shelves of Sandy Perez’s Paperback Exchange...
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Roseville Beach Reading: Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot
This is a series about beach reads in the summer of 1979: pop fiction and pulp fiction that might show up on the shelves of Sandy Perez’s Paperback Exchange & Newsstand in the back of The Market in...
View ArticleMoonlight on Roseville Beach on Symphony
Last Monday, I got to hang out with the crew at Symphony Entertainment and play Moonlight on Roseville Beach. I had a great time thanks to Bridgett, Rina, Perry, and Chad. Check out our run-through of...
View ArticleRoseville Beach Walkthrough and Review from Zigmenhotep
This great, thoughtful video review from Zigmenhotep (YouTube, Linktree) includes a really great walk-through for the game's character creation and rules of play and does a great job showing how the...
View ArticleDim All the Lights Writer Interview: Noora Rose
For the next writer interview for Dim All the Lights, I talked to Noora Rose (Labyrinth Lesbian | Monkey's Paw | Itch), creator, jam-runner, and Moonlight on Roseville Beach contributor.We get to talk...
View ArticleRoseville Beach in British Columbia for Extra Life!
I spent most of the day on Saturday 6/24 over at Twenty Sided Store, running some Roseville Beach demos, telling people about Dim All the Lights, and leading some panels/workshops on crowdfunding and...
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Roseville Beach Reading: Joseph Hansen's Skinflick
“Respectability.” Dave stepped into the cookhouse. “You remember respectability? No, you’re too young. Everybody lived by it once. It never meant much, it hardly means anything anymore. It didn’t bear...
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Roseville Beach Reading: Octavia Butler's Patternist Series
This is a series about beach reads in the summer of 1979: pop fiction and pulp fiction that might show up on the shelves of Sandy Perez’s Paperback Exchange & Newsstand in the back of The Market in...
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Return to The Bracknell Horror
I like to think of myself as someone who loves and writes scenarios that are inherently sandboxy. My ideal horror investigation scenarios—Goblin Archive’s The Mall and Zzarchov Kowalski’s Price of...
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Press and Actual Play Kits for ENnie-Winning Roseville Beach
Interested in reviewing or writing about the ENnie-winning tabletop RPG? Get in touch for a press kit with a complimentary copy of the game, art assets for your publications, pull quotes, and links to...
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Dim All the Lights, Batch 1 Drafts Off to Editing
Batch 1 of Dim All the Lights content is off to editing!Dim All the Lights, which starts crowdfunding this Fall, is a follow-up to Moonlight on Roseville Beach. It'll include the core rules, new...
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Game Writers and SFWA Applications: Finding Your Itch and DriveThru Earnings
So, along with other SFWA members, I’ve been aggressively promoting independent game writers joining SFWA (the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association). Writing for video games, tabletop...
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Dim All the Lights Heading to Layout, So Here's Some Previews
So over the course of July, I’ve gotten material from me (yay!), Noora Rose, and Bendi Barrett, and forwarded all of that over to Jared Sinclair, the official editor of Roseville Beach (and really, all...
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ENnies and Roseville Beach
I've been at Gen Con for the past week, and it was a great convention. I'll talk more about that other places, but right now I want to post some thank-yous from the ENnies!While indie publishers and...
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Not Your Grandpa's Monster Book: Entities and the Mysteries They Leave Behind
So I said I'd talk about the Noora Rose-authored Entities: A Roseville Beach Zine that I published a couple of weeks ago. So today I'm going to do it!The zine has five entities across about 23 pages of...
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What Is Moonlight on Roseville Beach?
Right now, I'm sitting at The West in Brooklyn. It's where, during a screening of The Birdcage, I compiled the quickstart rules for Moonlight on Roseville Beach and put together the Kickstarter page...
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