Rosewood Abbey

Rosewood Abbey is a roleplaying game by Kalum from The Rolistes about upholding the truth no matter the consequences.

You're one of the Fratres Herodoti. This informal brotherhood of scholars swore an oath to knowledge and truth.

Will you keep to your oath? ...as your brothers and flock are bewitched by the rumors they spin?

This Carved from Brindlewood (PbtA) game is inspired by Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose and the British mystery television series Cadfael.

What do I get?

The rule book features:

• An entertaining and informative Replay transcript of a full session inspired by the tabletalk RPGs (テーブルトークRPG) format common in Japan.
• The Rules and everything needed to play. 
• Links to the print-at-home Character sheet, Basic, Friars, and Providence Moves sheet, Rumor Mill, Rumor Apocrypha, and Collaboration sheet.
• Three mysteries:
  • The Rose in the Garden by Kalum
  • Mocking Grotesquery by Sean F Smith
  • Fugit Inreparabile Tempus by Kalum

The Game

Ideal for 3 to 6 players, Cantor included, the game works well for one-shots but truly shines for short campaigns, thanks to its unique "Rumor Mill" story-building mechanism.

As a "Carved from Brindlewood" game, it is directly adapted from the roleplaying game Brindlewood Bay and build on Jason Cordova's Clue-based emergent whodunnit system.

Rosewood Abbey's system and mysteries offer a high level of replayability with only limited preparation required from the gmae master.

Content Warning

Rosewood Abbey has roots in Walloon, Flemish, and European folklore, which is often irreverent towards religion. This game engages with images of the Catholic Church and God, as well as actions Christians consider to be sinful or virtuous.

These actions can include crimes, blasphemy, intimate and sexual acts, as well as violence or murder.

While in continuation of the tradition paillarde, European bawdy folkloric tales and songs, Rosewood Abbey is not intended as a commentary on contemporary religious beliefs and practices. It is not a statement about divine interventions in our own world (nervous laugh).