Rowan, Rook and Decard—makers of Spire: The City Must Fall, Heart: The City Beneath, Eat the Reich, Goblin Quest, and more—have spent four years perfecting TTRPG boss fights. Hollows is the result.
The Isles are rotting like a spoiled peach, in thrall to cosmic malignancies who prey on and empower the worst of humanity. When a person’s corruption becomes too much to bear, it blossoms into a vile flower, a self-contained world that traps its creator and poisons reality around it—a Hollow. Players take on the roles of Hunters, people who can see the poison and care enough to cure it with blades and bullets.
Hollows: Core Rulebook
Publisher: Rowan, Rook & Decard
Item Code: RRD050001
MSRP: $65
Releases November 30, 2026
Hollows: Core Rulebook, Special Edition
Publisher: Rowan, Rook & Decard
Item Code: RRD050001F
MSRP: $95
Releases November 30, 2026
Hollows is a dark fantasy RPG suitable for fans of Bloodborne, Dark Souls, and other atmospheric tactical combat games. Gameplay moves effortlessly between exploration of extraordinary, horror-themed worlds and intense, tactical combat using its unique tactical grid. A Hunter’s death brings more power, and more corruption, making Hollows perfect for groups who like their TTRPG combat difficult and deadly.
The Hollows core rulebook contains everything you need to play:
- Fully developed setting: the Isles, a world rotting from within
- Flexible character creation system with roguelike advancement, allowing players to experiment with different builds over a character’s lifetime
- Unique ruleset using D20s
- GM advice on running the game
- Collection of monsters to fight and guidance on designing more
- Two ready-to-play scenarios
Quickstart: The Sins of Grisham Priory
Enter the tortured dreams of a cruel Bishop and kill his personal demons in this Hollows Quickstart. Get a taste of the nightmare Victoriana world of Hollows with this standalone quickstart. Play as five deathless Hunters, summoned into a parallel world where massive monstrosities haunt a fallen, rotting abbey. Make your way through its warrens, taking on giant boss fights with tactical, crunchy, exciting gameplay, before striking at the Bishop whose malevolence haunts this place, and cleansing his corruption for good.
Hollows: Quickstart Rules and Scenario- The Sins of Grisham Priory
Publisher: Rowan, Rook & Decard
Item Code: RRD050100
MSRP: $20
Releases November 30, 2026
This stripped-down, short-form version of Hollows provides everything you need to play:
- Compact rules for running Hollows
- Pre-generated characters
- Tear-out game pieces and rules sheets
- A nightmare scenario, “The Sins of Grisham Priory”
Wretched Domains Adventures
Wretched Domains is the next purchase for people who already own the Hollows core book and the component set. This presentation box contains nine Hollows scenarios, each in its own distinctive pamphlet so it’s easy to use at the gaming table. This collection of rotten worlds brings new options to gamers who’ve already played the scenarios in the Hollows book and either aren’t ready or don’t want to create their own. With each scenario lasting two to four sessions, there’s enough material in Wretched Domains to support a full-length Hollows campaign.
Hollows: Wretched Domains
Publisher: Rowan, Rook & Decard
Item Code: RRD050209
MSRP: $65
Releases November 30, 2026
Scenarios cover gothic ghost stories, nightmare battlefields, cruel boarding schools, doomed love stories, and the slow self-destruction of an empire. Each scenario is a collaboration between a single writer and artist, including some of the biggest names in RPGs:
- Kieron Gillen (DIE, The Wicked + The Divine, The Power Fantasy) and Daniel Vega
- Chris Taylor (Heart, Spire, Hollows) and Letty Wilson
- Jay Dragon (Wanderhome, Yazeba’s Bed & Breakfast) and Johan Nohr (Mörk Borg)
- Cassandra Khaw (Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Critical Role – upcoming) and James Fenner
- Minerva McJanda (Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, Voidheart Symphony) and Carly A-F
- Sasha Sienna (Odd Jobs, Pitcrawler) & Helen Gould (Cthulhu Dark, Space Chef) and Valin Mattheis
- David Morrison (Trophy Dark, The Between) and Morgan Robles
- Eleanor Hingley (Doctor Who, Aegean) and Superstarfighter
- Samuel Mui (Capitalites, Horsegirl) and Kolo Komiks
Accessories Pack
Bring Hollows‘s unique combat to life with this beautiful, high-quality component set! Hollows’s combat is a fast-moving, tactical experience—and while players can enjoy it with simple, print-at-home materials this component kit makes the experience even smoother. One kit contains enough resources for a group of up to six players, including the GM.
The sturdy card presentation box is an ominous presence on the game table. The contents are made of wood and board wherever possible for a natural, organic feel that ties in well with the game’s style and setting. Everything inside is designed by Hollows’ lead artist, Sam Lamont and award-winning designer Minerva McJanda.
Hollows: Accessories Pack
Publisher: Rowan, Rook & Decard
Item Code: RRD050800
MSRP: $65
Releases November 30, 2026
Includes:
- Tactical grid screen printed on white cotton (432 × 279mm) with doom tracker pyramid
- 6 20-sided dice
- 6 Dead Knight chess piece player tokens and an Entity token which can be flipped and modified to show when the monster is Broken or Bleeding
- 5 Chunky bullet-shaped firearm capacity tokens
- Specialty status-tracking tokens for the Shotgun and Armor, and a malignant Briar terrain token for the Staff to control
- Sheltered and Elevated terrain and Focus tokens
- White and Black Wooden cubes to track Resolve and Wounds
- Translucent plastic cubes to represent Threat on the grid
