Jan 25, Why is a Raven like a writing desk?
Each month I’ll share the goings-on of various members of my Tabletop Roleplaying Game Discord, The Raspy Raven.
The majority of these folks are solo RPG designers, writers and artists, passionate about the games and cons they put together, largely only able to do this part-time. So if you do have a few pennies to spare please buy or back their games and attend their cons.
Active Campaigns
Honorbound
Jerod Leupold and Will Lentz, also known as Gamenomicon, have a new Kickstarter out, Honorbound, a game of swashbuckling adventures, finding purpose, and the bonds that form between adventurers in the vastness of space. It runs until Sat February 22nd 2025.
The Words They Leave Behind
Craig Duffy from Lunar Shadow Designs has a Kickstarter out at the moment, called The Words They Leave Behind and it’s looking like it could become his most successful yet! The game is a duet time travel RPG about the butterfly effect and the impact of small changes inspired by the novella This is how you lose the time war. It runs until Tue February 18th 2025.
Release Highlights
Casket of Fays Issue 14
Simon Barns has developed a first print on demand of the Casket of Fays) from the Dragon Warriors community. Some wonderful art from Chris Lawson on the front and packed full of fantastic DW articles within.
Deluxe TURMOILS & TRIALS
Sean F Smith unleashed Deluxe TURMOILS & TRIALS a hyper-lite game based on the second RPG ever. It draws from FKR play culture and the seminal OSR game Searchers of the Uknown, dare you part with as little as zero £, $ or pence?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Trebormills has opened up The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, a Cthulhu Dark scenario that was part of The Raspy Raven Seven Wonders season, seven wonderful games of Cthulhu/Cosmic Dark, the brainchild of Graham Walmsley, loosely based on the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World. In this offering, players have been invited to a speech by a maverick professor who claims to have found not only the Gardens but its secrets. Your curiosity drives you to attend, what could possibly go wrong?
Christmas Crime
Contained within Christmas Crime are three festive mysteries for Matrons of Mystery by Sue Savage. Matrons is a very English take on the Powered by Brindlewood style of investigative RPG, as Sue says, what could be cosier than Christmas? A cosy Christmas murder! Every good cosy mystery TV show should have a Christmas special. So swap your nice cup of tea for a hot chocolate, and prepare to reminisce about Christmases past, in these three festive-themed cases that only a Matron can solve.
Wild Hunted
Tim Gray of Silver Branch Games put forward another of the growing number of Paul Baldowski’s Sanction RPG genre setups, a modern fantasy. You're connected to the otherworld, and it wants to hunt you down. With others like yourself and a smattering of special abilities, maybe you can fight back.
Conventions
January reviews
In January we saw Raspy Raven folk attend several conventions, two of the biggest were Grogmeet and Contingency.
Here Sue reviews her experience of Contingency, a week in the wilds of East Anglia.
And Dirk from The Grognard Files opens up his Grogmeet 2025 scrapbooking industrial Manchester!
Lastly, GrogTen, a private con up in Tenby, but Neil writes with such enthusiasm, I couldn’t leave this one out.
Coming up next
GrogLove, 15/Feb, London (Invite only)
Revelation, 22-23/Feb, Sheffield
Dahn Sarf II, 8/Mar, London
Raspy Raven OSRish II, 9-14/Mar, Online
Concrete Cow, 15/Mar, Milton Keynes
Until next month, happy gaming and perhaps ponder the question, why is a raven like a writing desk?