Author: Richard Kelly

Richard Kelly is a writer and designer whose interests run towards weird and gothic fiction. The game lines he has written for include Oubliette Second Edition, Heroines of the First Age, Pathogen: Unclassified, Wicked Pacts, Splinter, and Golden Sky Stories. He has been interested in Japanese-style tabletop ever since discovering that it exists, and his writing is occasionally infested with owls.


Ex Eradicus

  • #eradicus
  • #core
  • #game
  • #featured
  • #sgs

The worlds are dead. We stand on their ashes, gray clay underfoot, gray expanse of stone above. We are those left behind by the cataclysm, the debris of annihilation. Dust.

Firefighter Sharks in Space

  • #game
  • #free

Whooooah, dude! Space is the most dangerous place for fires, and only sharks like you have the skills, guts, and fearsome drive to fight them!

Tales of The Dawnline

  • #tdl
  • #fiction

A mortal masters his fear. A pair of vampires debates their village’s attachment to a mysterious creature. A raider has a change of heart.

The Dawnline

  • #tdl
  • #core
  • #game

To the West is the Dark, swarming with Sirens and their kind.

To the East is the Light, armageddon to all that it touches.

Between them is civilization, scattered and hungry.

The Dawnline is a tabletop roleplaying game about a group of vampires protecting a nomadic village on a world where day and night are places, and where all of society lives in the twilight in between.

The Dawnline: Feral States

  • #tdl
  • #expansion

There are as many monsters in the world as there are dunes in the twilight. Some are simple to deal with.

War of the Prophecy

  • #hfa
  • #fiction

A prequel to Holdfast On the same day, at the same time, the priestesses of the Five Worlds all announce the same news: the Worlds are scheduled to be remade.

Holdfast

  • #hfa
  • #expansion

Requires Heroines of the First Age to play! Enter an epic fantasy tabletop RPG about reincarnated monsters, endangered gods, and mutually assured destruction on the last world in existence.

Oubliette Second Edition

  • #oubliette
  • #core
  • #game
  • #featured

Your immortality is not in question. But what will you do with your new power now that you’re trapped in the World of the Forsaken?

Oubliette. A dungeon with no way out. A place to put things to forget about them. A grand castle filled with destitute immortals. A world that is heaven, hell, or something in between.

Oubliette: First Steps in the Dark

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  • #fiction

Beneath the universe lies a castle steeped in shadow. Called Oubliette by its denizens, it is a vast and labyrinthine, with massive crumbling provinces ringed by a series of walls that stretch up to the heavens.