Cloven Pine Games

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, the mind behind Cloven Pine, has a number of big games in the works:

• Autumn Triduum is a roleplaying game about religious sisters 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 : Tales of the Knight-Aspirants is a Powered by the Apocalypse game about aspiring knights questing to prove themselves worthy in an Arthurian-inspired fantasy world. Learn more 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!

Our games The Great Soul Train Robbery and Back Again from the Broken Land have received physical printings. Get in touch if you'd like to order a copy.

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 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!