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The Black Orifice is the online home of indie RPG designer Ben Redmond. Ben spends the time he isn't mucking around in spreadsheets for  in a high school in Greater Manchester , wasting his time away playing roleplaying games and a few miniatures and card games, like Godtear, Guild Ball, Marvel Champions and Arkham Horror. One of these days he'll pull his finger out and actually write something "proper", but until then you'll just have to make do with his fervent creative mind plopping out the occasional roleplaying game.
Eternus Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - Arcane Virtuosos
Newtonium Engine - Savage Avengers
Newtonium Engine - The Lord of the Below
S.M.A.S.H. - Countdown to Destruction
S.M.A.S.H. Core Rulebook
Midgard Viking Legends
Newtonium Engine Core Rulebook
To End All Wars
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Barrow Keep: Den of Spies   - An old-school fantasy adventure zine of intrigue & romance
Village Witch Post   - A postcard game for a witch writing letters about her new home.
Anamnesis   - A solo tarot game about discovering yourself after memory loss
Damn the Man, Save the Music!   - A roleplaying game about music, growing up, and dreaming big in a world that wants to make you small.
Dungeon Bitches   - wherein disaster lesbians get fucked up in dungeons
Mall Kids   - Kids, capitalism, and crushes.
Teenage Angst   - Solo Scrapbooking TTRPG about being a teenager with a lot of feelings, obsessed with a single song
A Great Miracle Happened Here   - A short Jewish revolutionary TTRPG
Dead Halt   - Ennie Nominated Roleplaying Game about a megalithic Hotel, Clunkhead Robots, and the looming threat of Y2K.
Sapphic Slumber Party   - A game for two to five about a pillow fight at a slumber party.
Our Traveling Home   - A Ghibli-inspired fantasy tabletop RPG about queer romance, found family, and finding healing through belonging.
Castle of Memories   - A solo-TTRPG about exploring a castle and finding lost memories
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Numbskulls   - A TTRPG about Skeletons in Disguise
Places in Verse   - 7 settings for any system
Unreality/Strictness -- The Single-Page Version   - A Six Elements Storytelling Game For 1-2 Players
FATHOM   - Surreal fantasy in an urban hellscape
Alone on a Map   - A solo ttrpg map making game
Bee-on Genesis: An Invertebrate Mech TTRPG   - The world's only game about being a bug and piloting the discarded exoskeleton of another bug! (I think.)
say what you mean   - a two-player letter-writing game about fraught wizards.
it's been a long, long time   - a two-player game about a reunion.
Changelings   - TTRPG about changelings fighting for a cause
.dungeon   - An alternate reality table top roleplaying game.
Runecairn Wardensaga   - Norse fantasy Soulslike tabletop role-playing game
The Blog Witch (Troika Background)   - an urban fantasy digital witchcraft background for Troika!
Neon Nights 1st Edition   - A brand new cyberpunk/dystopian TTRPG with unlimited build freedom!
Troika! Numinous Edition   - The Other world's favourite fantasy RPG
Into the Glacier   - A Solitary Game of Exploration, Wonder, and Peril
BRIGHTHAMMER   - Rules Light High Fantasy Roleplaying
The Scourge   - A rpg about being dead and taking revenge.
In The Sea-Woods   - a forest full of wonder
Ironsworn: Delve   - A massive expansion and toolkit for the Ironsworn tabletop roleplaying game.
SpeedRune   - a rules-lite ancient world fantasy RPG
authority most foul   - a high-fantasy intrigue dialect backdrop
Ryuutama - Natural Fantasy Roleplay   - A Heartwarming Tabletop RPG of Travel, Wonder and Friendship
qvke borg   - An expansion sourcebook for MÖRK BORG
Gnome   - Gnomish wonder and peril