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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
Midgard Viking Legends
Newtonium Engine Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - Savage Avengers
To End All Wars
Eternus Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - Arcane Virtuosos
S.M.A.S.H. - Countdown to Destruction
Newtonium Engine - The Lord of the Below
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Los Arboles   - Mini horror RPG about being lost in the woods
Grand Design   - A hack of M.A. GUAX's Fingertips
One White Eye   - Poe Inspired Solo Tabletop RPG
Al-Iksir   - A game of alchemical macabre. 2019 GameChef entry.
Research Arcanaum   - A PbtA tabletop roleplaying game of arcane research.
A Stern Chase Is A Long Chase   - A Breathless Game Of A Fleet On The Run
Pangolin Prom   - A Lasers & Feelings hack about saving your perfect senior prom from total disaster
Big Book of Status Effects   - 60 re-imagined and new status effects for every RPG
Chromatic Sorcerer Archetype (5e)   - Customise your magic identity with this new archetype for Sorcerers.
Eleventh Beast - A Solo Monster Hunting Game   - A solo monster hunting and journaling game
Charge RPG   - The Free, Open and Generic Role-Playing Game to Power Your Storytelling
Disparateum   - A world-hopping, reality-bending tabletop RPG
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Animon Story   - The TTRPG about Kids and their Monster friends!
Open World RPG   - a roadtrip with friends
Ghoulboys   - Find ghosts & screw around with friends
MÖRK BORG BARE BONES EDITION  + ROTBLACK SLUDGE   - The free, plain text version of the world's loudest roleplaying game. A bit more sensible. Just as miserable.
When the Sun Dies: Finding Joy at the End of Everything   - A game about enjoying the end with your friends
It's Going To Be A Long Day   - a game about exploring new worlds with your friends
Semiotician's Gambit   - A 1-player Friends at the Table fan RPG
Gradient Groves   - A micro setting for Troika!
Secret Ingredients   - A game about friends and soup
A Knife to Your Throat   - childhood friends to enemies to...?
The Friends We Made Along The Way   - A Troika Background for your Friends
Fungal Forest   - A short adventure for Cairn
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The God Of Many Faces for MÖRK BORG   - A city crawl pamphlet for MÖRK BORG
Black Skies For Babylon   - The worlds greatest combat tragedy RPG
BEstitchARY   - A bestiary supplement compatible with MÖRK BORG
Sölitary Depths   - A MÖRK BORG & Sölitary Defilement solo supplement
Ex Novo   - A playable city-generator and map-making game.
qvke borg   - An expansion sourcebook for MÖRK BORG
Mörk Borg Solo Rules   - Optional Rules for Mörk Borg
We, the City   - More than anyone else, YOU are the city.
The Dying Lands   - A campaign sheet for sandbox gameplay in the known world of Mork Borg
Bumbling   - A solo RPG about bees
ICHOR-DROWNED   - An unofficial supplement for HEART: The City Beneath
Quill: Letters of the Damned   - MÖRK BORG solo letter-writing supplement for Quill