ENCLAVE: Aspirant — The Diceless TTRPG with Infinite Depth
Created by Robby Howell
A roleplay-first TTRPG where players are agents of a multiverse-spanning organization, tasked on missions across the infinities.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
FEBRUARY UPDATE — Advent PDF Fulfillment & some bad news
10 days ago
– Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 09:09:15 AM
Good to see you everyone,
I've got good news and bad news for you today, so let's start with the good.
Advent PDF Ready
It's done, and it's about to be sent your way. Over the next couple days, keep an eye on your emails for your BackerKit Surveys, which must be completed in order for you to download your copy of ENCLAVE: Advent (including an optional small file size version for those of you who need to save hard drive space).
You can also add additional items to your orders if you'd like!
Once you get the game, if you're looking for people to play with, be sure to join our Discord and make a post over in the #looking-for-game channel!
Here's what's next for the project:
What's Been Done:
Advent is 100% finalized
Pledge Manager has been set up and surveys are being sent
Thanks to BackerKit, ENCLAVE now has a polished eCommerce storefront! If you or anyone you know wants to support the game now that the campaign is over, point them towards our Pre-Order Store! Anything ordered here will be fulfilled alongside the Kickstarter Pledges once they are ready, and any items that are already done can be purchased normally!
The Bad
If you are on our Discord Server you will already have seen this, but it needs to be shared here too: over the last month, my family has been dealing with a substantial emergency. Given that we also have a new baby due in just under three weeks from now, this could not be more poorly timed.
I wanted to make absolutely sure that Advent was fulfilled before March, but this emergency is going to mean a substantial delay for the rest of the project. My guess is 2-3 months, though I do not know for sure and will be trying my utmost to keep the process rolling as best I can.
I apologize for these delays. I hate missing deadlines.
Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding. I really hope you enjoy Advent, and I can't wait to show you the rest of the final products.
Ciao for now,
Robby
JANUARY UPDATE — Advent Nearly Ready!
about 2 months ago
– Sat, Jan 17, 2026 at 10:57:35 AM
Good to see you everyone!
Happy New Year to you all. I hope you've been able to dodge the various sicknesses that have been going around! My family and I have, unfortunately, not been so lucky, but the show must go on!
Let's jump right into the news — what's been up with ENCLAVE?
What's Been Done:
Advent's text is 100% finalized and proofread
Advent's major art pieces are finished
What's Being Worked On:
Layouts and secondary art for Advent (just starting)
Aspirant's text (about 66% done)
Here's an action shot of what the first page of Advent is shaping up to look like:
The big blocks of grey and white are placeholders for background graphics, and the pink represents how an existing art piece will be updated.
Based on this progress, it's now looking like the PDFs for ENCLAVE: Advent will be fulfilled in early February, with Aspirant still slated for March.
In other news...
Late Pledges are OVER!
If you're hoping to pick up ENCLAVE, please hang tight until February — the Advent PDFs will be listed for sale once they have been fulfilled to backers!
The PDF for Aspirant will also be made publicly available after the backers get them.
Videos to Watch
The ADHDM
ENCLAVE got featured in this absolute masterpiece of a video by The ADHDM, one of the smartest and most creative TTRPG content creators out these. You owe it to yourself to check out this video and the channel overall, it's such good content. I was even lucky enough to do a long-form interview with The ADHDM, which also got published!
"A Black So Black It's Red"
Meekable, veteran player and mainstay over on our Discord Server, played a lot of ENCLAVE in 2025. This was her 100th mission of the year, recorded as a special celebration of this massive commitment to the game. And hot damn was it good. One of the longest recorded missions we've ever published on the Enclave YouTube Channel, A Black So Black It's Red features exceptionally high-level play, a seriously dangerous threat, and some cool callbacks to the game's distant past.
If you're up for some long-form viewing, I cannot recommend it enough.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again...
If you haven't already, be sure to join our Discord. This is the place to learn about ENCLAVE, jump in on sessions, and even try the game for free!
That's all for now!
Thanks for your patience, everyone. Keep an eye on your inboxes over the coming weeks for the Pledge Manager link, which you'll need to acquire your PDFs! I'll put out a reminder update once that's been sent. See you in February with more news!
Ciao for now,
Robby
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DECEMBER UPDATE — Community Events, Free Download, & more!
3 months ago
– Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 09:56:40 AM
Good to see you everyone!
It's been about a month since our campaign ended (can you believe it?), and I'm pleased to report that we are still fully on track for ENCLAVE: Advent to be released as a PDF in Jan, with all other products to follow thereafter.
Late Pledges for ENCLAVE are currently OPEN!
So even if you or someone you know missed the campaign, you can still jump in and back the project until we ring in the new year!
In other news...
ENCLAVE DAY
Enclave Day is a completely free full-day event on our Discord broken into 4-hour blocks. You'll be given a loaner copy of the original rules so you can play right away!
Anyone who backed this campaign will also receive a reward for participating: a playable draft of Advent V2 before its official release! (Note that this reward will be given out AFTER Enclave Day)
If you do sign up, make sure to join the Discord! This is a Discord-only event.
Free Download
With Advent V2 nearing completion, it'll soon be time to retire Advent V1, Enclave's first published ruleset from back in 2023.
As such, you can now download the first 15 pages of Advent V1 for free to read through and try with your friends!
Go to the "Free Download" section of our Story page to pick it up for yourself!
While Advent v1 lacks many of the awesome updates that the new Advent v2 and Aspirant expansion feature, it’s a solid introduction to the game and has entertained hundreds of players across many hundreds of sessions for over two years.
Projects I Love
A friend showed me this project, which is yet to launch, and I wanted to pass it on to all the 5e players out there.
Diablo-style Set Items is something I've actually experimented with in ENCLAVE before, but DnD is definitely a better fit. I'm shocked something like this hasn't been done before, and it looks like a high-quality production. Definitely check it out if you play 5e and want some new tables to pour over!
Videos to Watch
Adventure On
The good folks over at Adventure On interviewed me while the campaign was live, and the full edited video is now live on their channel! Some really great questions there, several of which I've never been asked before.
Mission — "A Vampire's Diary"
A fast, punchy, and utterly hilarious outing, featuring Gabriel & Pinja of The Ugly Goblin as well as Skyler of The ADHDM! I had a really hard time not breaking character to burst out laughing on this one.
Series — "Last Train from Narvul"
Our second ever fully-recorded long-form ENCLAVE Series! Last Train from Narvul is incredibly intense, with blood-pumping action, huge character moments, and a major character death already... and this is just the first two Episodes!
That's all for now!
To everyone who has already supported ENCLAVE, thank you. I hope to see you at Enclave Day, and I look forward to sharing more good news in the months to come!
Ciao for now,
Robby Howell
WE DID IT — Victory Update
4 months ago
– Sun, Nov 16, 2025 at 01:43:37 PM
Good to see you everyone!
After a month on Kickstarter, ENCLAVE: Aspirant has closed with a whopping $40,000+ in funds raised by 500+brilliant backers. To each and every one of you, thank you. This could not have happened without you, and I will forever be grateful.
What Comes Next?
Over the next week or two, Kickstarter will be processing your pledges. Please make sure you have a working credit card so Kickstarter can properly collect your pledge!
If you'd like to hear more about what the coming months hold in store, check out the 8-minute video below!
To briefly summarize:
Digital content will be fulfilled piece by piece as it is finished and should be done by next April
If you want early access to playable drafts of the books, come participate in upcoming events on our Discord!
A link to our pledge manager, allowing you to input your shipping info and similar, should be sent out by Dec/Jan
Late pledges are open — anyone who missed the campaign can STILL contribute!
Big future projects are in the pipeline for ENCLAVE once this campaign is fulfilled
If you'd like to get more involved in ENCLAVE, I cannot recommend our Discord Server enough. We have a wonderful community that plays the game all the time, and we'd love to have you be a part of it.
That's all for now, everyone. I'll be posting more updates over the coming weeks and months, but until we speak next be sure to join the Discord and keep an eye on your emails come Dec/Jan when the pledge manager link is sent out!
I cannot wait to bring the game to you over the coming months. Thank you all so, so much for supporting the game.
Ciao for now,
Robby
THE FINAL PUSH — 3 Days Left!
4 months ago
– Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 07:23:15 PM
Good to see you everyone!
After almost a month on Kickstarter, ENCLAVE: Aspirant will be coming to a close this Friday at 11:59pm PST.
It's been an incredible campaign thus far, with over $37,000 raised thanks to you 430+ wonderful backers, but these last few days still hold great promise for us! Kickstarters often have a big bump in the last couple days, so there's still a strong chance we'll unlock another Stretch Goal or two before the final bell! Speaking of which...
Stretch Goal Unlocked!
Last week saw us finally snagging the long sought-after custom class design rules Stretch Goal!
Thanks to our awesome Discord community pulling off twelve full sessions in 24 hours, this awesome addition will be coming to Aspirant well before it was originally scheduled to!
We're less than $3k away from the next Stretch Goal, so spread the word and help us crack it before Saturday!
Projects I Love
I've met so many awesome creators here on Kickstarter during this campaign, and I'd like to spotlight some more of their great work here during this final live update.
Dimm City is in many ways a kindred spirit to ENCLAVE: an original system with a narrative focus and fast, high-consequence action loaded with stakes. It's an awesome game with an awesome team behind it — they even took time out of their busy campaigning schedules to try out ENCLAVE themselves!
A classic DnD module from the 90's reimagined by a highly talented KS creator for 5e & OSR. While ENCLAVE is pretty far removed from these other games, I have no doubt that many of you play them! So if you're in the market for a fresh dungeon supplement with great challenge and plenty of wit, I cannot recommend this one enough.
A system-agnostic setting book with more detail that you could believe possible. You may have seen your favorite TTRPG YouTubers talking about this, and that's because the team behind this project (Homie & the Dude) went out of their way to collab with content creators on pieces of the storyline and various supplements. One of the coolest projects out there, and it's still accepting Late Pledges, so jump in if you wanna support this absolute work of art. It's compatible with ENCLAVE, to boot!
Fun, flavorful, and heartfelt, Rexfald is a 5e supplement like no other, absolutely dripping with quality and character. The campaign is still accepting Late Pledges, but the company behind it is also cooking up some new projects as well... be sure to check them out!
Recent Events
Some news and tidbits from the past week and a bit — if you want to catch all these as they happen, be sure to join our Discord!
ENCLAVE on the Extra Life Charity Stream!
YouTube channel Game Masters Guide was kind enough to let me run a full session of ENCLAVE for themselves and a couple other great YouTubers during their annual 24hr stream for the charity Extra Life! Check out the above video (timestamp 3:59:10) to see the session!
I stuck around for some Jackbox shenanigans later in the stream alongside almost a dozen awesome TTRPG YouTubers (timestamp 6:25:00) and laughed so hard my face hurt. If you're looking for a laugh, definitely check it out.
DNBTD Giveaway Results
The wheel was spun today at 5pm EST, live on our Discord, and user Shadowsong walked away with the grand prize!
Community Mission Series
At $36,000, I revealed a Secret Stretch Goal as it was unlocked for our Discord community — a 3-Episode Series of Enclave Missions that ANYONE can submit characters for! They then got to VOTE on which of three premises they most wanted to see!
If you'd like to check out an overview of the Series to come, follow along as it happens, or even submit a character, check out the post here on our Discord.
Videos to Watch
I went on a roll this past week, hosting almost half a dozen full-length missions, including several for some awesome content creators that you may be familiar with! If you'd like to see more ENCLAVE in action, definitely check out the following Actual Plays on our YouTube Channel!
Featuring Ryan of The Red Quills Mapmaking and Connor of Cloudkill Clothing. This mission in particular is one of the best I've hosted in the last couple years, and I cannot recommend it enough.
That's all for now!
A tremendous thank you as always to everyone who has supported ENCLAVE. We're so close to the finish line, and anything you all can do to help us end on a high note would be enormously appreciated.
If any of you are interested in joining me on Discord for the Final Countdown later this week, I would love to have your company.
Pre-Order Store
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