Rowan Rook and Decard

STONEGRAVE is an exhibition session zero of Unbound where the creators and their game designer friends (Becky Annison, Keiron Gillen and Sharang Biswas) created characters, a world, and a campaign in a single session of play.

In this final episode we round out the characters and world by choosing fates, twists and scars to make Stonegrave complete.

STONEGRAVE is an exhibition session zero of Unbound where the creators and their game designer friends (Becky Annison, Keiron Gillen and Sharang Biswas) created characters, a world, and a campaign in a single session of play.

In this episode, we start creating characters and pick out their Core, Roles, Traits and Foundations.

STONEGRAVE is an exhibition session zero of Unbound where the creators and their game designer friends (Becky Annison, Keiron Gillen and Sharang Biswas) created characters, a world, and a campaign in a single session of play.

In this episode, we use Touchstones to come up with the core concept of the city of Stonegrave.

Producer and genius Mary Hamilton, the third third of Rowan, Rook and Decard, joins us for an interview about what went into actually making a physical roleplaying rulebook exist in the world. Turns out it's quite complicated.

We enter the appendices, and ask: what's the deal with all the goats? We also interview Adrian Stone, our artist, on his visions for Spire and how he helped to define the setting.

In this episode, we delve into the (understandably long) Religion section, dealing with:

- The creepy and insidious Ministry, who you work for

- Proscribed faiths and the worship of Hallows

- The wind-whipped, bone-strewn towers of New Heaven

- Pilgrim's Row, a multistorey high street for religions

- The Solar Basilica, and the attached anti-Ministry paladins

In this episode, we look into:

- The glittering halls of High Society

- The wet, sweltering mess of Low Society

- The many different areas of the Occult domain, including the grand cursed train network known as the Vermissian

This episode, we examine:

- Combat (all four pages of it)

- The Academic districts, featuring details on demonology, the Infinite Library and the uplinked crystal-brain-surgery-practicing Brazacott Institute

- The North Docks, obviously our favourite district, with the gangster knights and their pub/knightly order-focused organisation structure

- The Blue Docks, an ever-shifting maze of stalls and cloth-covered tunnels, where the merchants worship a god of gold

- Red Row, where Crime goes on holiday

- An unsurprisingly comprehensive section on the drug trade in Spire

We round out the third and final part of the classes section in this episode, looking at the Midwife and Vermissian Sage classes and going over the Extra Advances.

In this episode, we look at the following classes:

- The fearsome Firebrand, who can transform into an idea

- The beautiful Idol, bleeding-edge artist and occultist

- The cocksure Knight, member of one of a hundred sacred orders that just so happen to be run out of pubs

- The mysterious Lajhan, moon-priest of the drow, clinging on to what remains of their culture

- The cunning Masked, who somehow always turn out to be the most brutal and upsetting characters in every campaign