Cloven Pine Games

NEWS: Physical copies of Back Again from the Broken Land available via Indie Press Revolution.

Cloven Pine Games creates amazing experiences at your gaming table

Cloven Pine Games is an ENNIE award-winning tabletop game design brand, with a focus on traditional tabletop RPGs and an interest in the indie scene.

Alexi, our proprietor and founder, has a number of big games in the works:

• Autumn Triduum is a roleplaying game about nuns confronting the forces of evil. The game is Powered by the Apocalypse and meant for one-shots and two-shots. Learn more about the game here: Bit.ly/AutumnTriduumList
• Checkpoint Midnight is a Powered by the Apocalypse game about supernatural operatives running missions and juggling loyalty in Cold War Vienna. Learn more about this game here: Bit.ly/CheckpointMidnightList
• Plutonian Shards is a Powered by the Apocalypse game about scoundrels skirting the law amidst the frozen fragments of a shattered dwarf planet—and one of the crew just happens to be the Last Hope of the Solar System. Sign up for more information here.
• Vow of the Knight-Aspirants is a Powered by the Apocalypse game about squires on the cusp of knighthood venturing into a dark fairy tale wood to prove their worth and find the elusive Tower Perilous. Sign up for more information here.

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Cloven Pine Games is a winner of the 2019 200 Word RPG Challenge, with our game 002: License to Eavesdrop!

For ZineQuest in February 2020, we Kickstarted an expanded zine version our game The Great Soul Train Robbery. Order the physical zine here via Indie Press Revolution!

For February 2021's ZineQuest, we Kickstarted a revised and expanded zine version of our game Back Again from the Broken Land! Order the physical zine here via Indie Press Revolution!

We have contributed content to major indie games Kickstarters, like authoring playbooks for Magpie Games' Avatar Legends and Urban Shadows 2e and writing Incursions for Gauntlet Publishing's Trophy and Mysteries for Brindlewood Bay.

We have contributed to 9th Level Games' Level 1 anthology of RPGs for Free RPG Day. The 2021 anthology, featuring our game "Once, This Land Was One..." won the Gold ENNIE for Best Free Game/Product.

Alexi has a monthly Substack newsletter, Murmurs from the Cloven Pine, which features reflections on games he's run and played along with discussion of game design. Sign up here!