Rubicon Overdrive is a tabletop role-playing game, where 1-4 Players control Teams of Characters as they build a story together in the Clo Na Croon.

Each game might be as simple as playing out the events of a single Scene, or Players can go on epic adventures by combining Scenes into Episodes, and even Episodes into Seasons.

Over the course of these longer adventures their Characters will acquire Objects and develop their abilities, making them truly unique.

Rubicon Overdrive will be available as a monthly subscription service. Each month you will recieve enough miniatures, hobby supplies, and rules to play out a full Episode in the story of Secis Marcello. Over the course of a 12 month Season, you will unpack her full adventure, as well as collect enough miniatures and rules to create your own Characters and stories in the Clo Na Croon.

What is rubicon overdrive?

Rubicon Overdrive is set among a vast collection of colourful and exciting planets known as the Clo Na Croon (CNC).

Many of these planets fall under the jurisdiction of Dominion, an empire ruled over by the Almighty Lord Dominor, the Magistars of the High Houses, and the Court of Axions.

However there are still many independent planets known collectively as the Fringe. Fringe planets may be at war, peacefully trade, or simply be as yet undiscovered by Dominion. Fringe planets are often wild places where the Elemental spirits still hold sway, and magic has not yet been exiled to fairytales. Some people of the Fringe worlds even speak of the legendary Avatars as if they yet roam free.

Most of the known planets in the CNC are populated by humans (or humanoid) species, but strange animals, plants, and manufactured creatures also abound, and from the outer Fringes come whispers of highly intelligent, ancient, non-human life…

The establishment of Dominion occurred over a surprisingly short period of time, accelerated by the invention of the Rubicon Drive. This device allowed enormous ships to be able to cross the CNC in a fraction of the time and at much lower risk than was previously imagined. How such a powerful device was created is still the source of great secrecy and speculation, but many believe this to be the first great intervention of 42N, and the beginning of its enigmatic rise to power within the bureaucracy of Dominion. But that is a story for another day…

Dominion now wields enormous military, technological and economic power, but its resources have become stretched to their limits. This has led to a state of uneasy peace with most unconquered Fringe planets, and attempts at more diplomatic methods of control.

THe Clo na Croon

Who are we?

Rubicon Overdrive is a Sorbus Games creation by Rowan Forster and Eliza Hilton.

  • Eliza is (much) older than Rowan and lives in Oxford with her partner, her nine-year-old son and some goldfish. She is an ex-primary teacher who wants to create really exciting activities for children that don't involve looking at a screen! 


  • Rowan is 38 and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his partner and his dog Talus and her dog, Calypso. Rowan grew up playing table-top dice games and collecting models, and the hobby has never truly left him. He likes painting, photography, creating, story-telling and playing with his brother and friends.