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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.
S.M.A.S.H. Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - Arcane Virtuosos
Newtonium Engine Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - The Lord of the Below
Midgard Viking Legends
Newtonium Engine - Savage Avengers
Eternus Core Rulebook
S.M.A.S.H. - Countdown to Destruction
To End All Wars
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FLEE   - Fantasy Location Exploration
Duty Hare!   - A weird little OSR game of doing odd jobs for strange people.
put the moon in your pocket   - A journaling game for you and the moon.
Desert Moon of Karth   - Space Western Sandbox for Mothership RPG
Mörk Borg NPC Cards   - Printable NPC cards
RATIONS #3: CULTURE SHOCK   - a merchant NPC for FIST
Lake of the Pirat King   - An adventure location compatible with Mausritter.
Moonbase Blues   - A harrowing sci-fi horror TTRPG scenario
Duelist   - A system-neutral combat add-on
The Red Tower   - Adventure location for Mausritter
THE BLOOM   - "What if Twin Peaks had a Last of Us arc?"
The NPC Gallery   - 72 Fun and vibrant npc characters to add to your games!
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The Bonds That Tie Us   - A GMless TTRPG about relationships
Eternal Beginnings   - A storytelling game about the mundane life of an immortal person
Matelotage   - A queer storytelling game where you play as pirates traversing the turbulent seas of romance
Tournament Arc   - The sports anime RPG for everyone
Orbital   - A game of precarious spaces & interstellar war.
Sigils in the Dark   - Solo journaling game and GM supplement.
Hanukkah Goblins   - A lyrical GM-less Jewish game about Hanukkah goblins working together to save Hanukkah!
What Dust Remains   - Build your legacy - but at what cost?
For the Queers   - A Descended from the Queen game that focuses on queer relationship dynamics
going rogue 2e   - a gm-less ttrpg inspired by rogue one, about war, rebellion, and making the ultimate sacrifice
stories around a fire   - a game about oral histories
Perfect Draw!   - A Card Game Anime Roleplaying Game
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The Rot King's Sanctum   - An OSR-style  dungeon module  for levels 1-3
Follow the Bones   - Procedural quests for Cairn
The Eternal Caverns Of Urk   - A Procedural Science Fantasy Underground
Heartseeker   - 2-page OSR adventure game
THE MARTIAL CULT of BLOOD KNIGHT GAIUS   - a gothic horror/martial arts OSR adventure
Big Rock Candy Hexcrawl   - A Hexcrawl Inspired by Leftist Folk Music
Tattered Leaves   - A procedural forest crawl for Fallen RPG
A WIZARD   - A surreal OSR horror adventure.
y2k   - retrofuture hexcrawling rpg//a Cybermetal 2012 Preview
Into The Wyrd and Wild   - Wilderness Horror Setting for D&D and the OSR
Knave   - A streamlined, elegant OSR RPG system
Rogue 2E   - As if OSR & Storygames had a baby.