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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.
To End All Wars
Eternus Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine Core Rulebook
Newtonium Engine - The Lord of the Below
Newtonium Engine - Arcane Virtuosos
S.M.A.S.H. Core Rulebook
Midgard Viking Legends
Newtonium Engine - Savage Avengers
S.M.A.S.H. - Countdown to Destruction
If you like Dying of the Light check out...
NIGHTHAWKS   - A TTRPG about loneliness.
Trash Pals   - A Caltrop Core RPG about eating trash and doing crimes
PARTY ANIMALS   - A game about animals
Bleak Spirit   - A tabletop RPG of a lone wanderer in a strange, melancholy place.
SW//NG   - A game about Power, Responsibility, and the Past you can't avoid
Her Odyssey   - A solo journaling RPG about a wanderer trying to return home - or find a new home.
Beloved   - A solo journaling game about playing a beloved childhood toy.
SLEDGEHAMMER   - Rules Light Grim Dark Fantasy RPG
The Lay Of Our Land   - A solo journaling game about the ephemeral things in life and in the world, based on Lost and Found SRD
Whispers in the Walls   - a solo journaling game you play in the dark
Old As The Sky, Old As The Moon   - a game of beauty, melancholy, and mortality inspired by The Last Unicorn
LIGHT: Eclipse   - Season 2 of LIGHT. Push back the dark...
If you like The Hunted check out...
Ritual   - Folk Horror Roleplaying
venture   - a game of introspective heroic fantasy.
Far From Home   - A game about immigrants and outsiders
Venture & Dungeon   - two tabletop roleplaying games with a new perspective on the traditional high fantasy genre.
Village Witch   - A solo journaling game about a witch finding a home.
In the Dark   - Simple FitD roleplaying for any setting
her leylines   - the surreal history of a magical wilderness
Before The Dawn   - A Wretched & Alone folk horror game.
Oathbreakers   - Kill the Conspiracy with your Magic
Runners in the Shadows   - Fantasy-cyberpunk Forged in the Dark
Locus   - Personal Horror Roleplaying game.
Bump in the Dark: Revised Edition   - Monster Hunting, Forged in the Dark
If you like Mörk Borg - Harpies Nest check out...
Forth Comes Fire   - A short supplement about fire for Mörk Borg
Glory Hole Mimic - A MÖRK BORG Monster   - New monster compatible with MÖRK BORG
The Triangular, for MÖRK BORG   - A transfixing, two-dimensional daemon-thief based on a Swedish children's song
Medusa in the Sleeping Garden   - A short dungeon crawl compatible with MÖRK BORG.
Lichoma: Ashcan   - A Meatpunk TTRPG.
TORMENTOUS TRAGEDIES   - Twenty more troubling tales for MÖRK BORG.
Blood Sucker   - A Creature for MÖRK BORG
No Landlubbers Allowed!   - Random buccaneers, boats and booty to spice up any high-seas dice game!
THE ASH PEDDLER   - Bring ash and receive libations.
Grave Matters - Dig Deeper   - Even more uses for dry corpses
The Origin of My Depression - Album Crawl   - An adventure for MÖRK BORG
The Marrow Bees & Osteopiarists   - An encounter compatible with  MÖRK BORG.