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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
Midgard Viking Legends
Newtonium Engine - Savage Avengers
S.M.A.S.H. - Countdown to Destruction
Newtonium Engine - Arcane Virtuosos
S.M.A.S.H. Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - The Lord of the Below
To End All Wars
Newtonium Engine Core Rulebook
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Adventure Hour!   - The all-terrain adventure game and toolkit for fantasy
Carta SRD   - A Toolkit For Creating Single-player Exploration Games
Uneasy Lies the Head   - A gmless game of intrigue and drama in a royal court
Alone Among the Court   - A solo roleplaying game about navigating the royal court
One Page Solo Engine   - A minimal, all-in-one toolkit to play your favorite tabletop RPGs without a GM.
Lineage: Epoch Edition   - Solo rpg of royal geneaology
Peregrine SRD   - A toolkit for creating card-based solo journaling games.
Enter the Forest   - A Setting and Encounter Generator Pamphlet
Harmony Drive   - An SRD for building TTRPGs full of self-expression, teamwork, and difficult choices.
The Sunless Seasons   - A weather toolkit for Blades in the Dark
Wretched & Alone SRD   - An SRD for creating journaling games.
CBR+PNK [OLD EDITION]   - Cyberpunk pamphlet TTRPG for one-shots
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The perpetual broth   - A short adventure Pop-Up zine for DURF
Campfire | An Elegant Travel System for 5E   - Campfire gives you meaningful travel in 5E without getting in the way of you game.
The Ground Itself   - A world-building game about places over time
Marsmallows & Monsters   - A weird camping microgame
Planar Compass: Issue 1   - A brand new RPG zine to take you brand new places.
Wayfarer's Deck: Depths of the Earth   - 50 illustrated cards for adventurers venturing deep into caves, mines, and dungeons
Lab Rat   - Find the hiding places within yourself.
augur   - one for sorrow, two for mirth
Campfire Memories   - A GMless game about reframing unpleasant camping experiences as treasured memories.
The House Time Forgot   - A Pocket Places Jam Submission
Storyteller   - a campfire narrative game
ALL MUST BOW   - A system-agnostic ttrpg setting of cosmic horror.