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:
Week 2 Update — Giveaway, Stretch Goals, & more!
4 months ago
– Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 09:00:03 PM
Good to see you everyone!
We're officially halfway through the campaign, sitting now at 330+% funding, 380+ backers. The midpoint always brings a bit of a lull, but there's still plenty to share!
Stretch Goal UNLOCKED
Last week we unlocked our SECOND official Stretch Goal: upgrades for all the printed books!
Even better, we're less than $2,000 away from our third Stretch Goal, bumped up by our Discord community's awesome bounty hunting on Week 1.
Have you been covetously eyeing the Do Not Buy This Die Add-On?... No? Probably smart. But what if you could get one for free?
Fill out this 2-question form for a chance to win one of these beautiful, useless dice! ALL are free to enter, but higher pledge tiers will have higher chances to win. If you're one of the maniacs who already pledged to get one, you'll get a $50 Add-On credit instead if you win!
In all its inadvisable glory
The winner will be chosen at random LIVE next Friday, Nov 7th at 5pm ET on our Discord server. Best of luck!
Projects I Love
So many awesome campaigns are ending this week, and I'd like to give some of my personal favorites a well-deserved shoutout.
A session zero toolkit created by a team of three, including a WotC alum, to help with TTRPG prep — worldbuilding, NPCs, and much more. Not only is this a slick and well-made product, but it's a great fit for Enclave! Definitely check it out if you've ever felt shaky coming up with missions!
A 5E supplement created by a highly experienced team, bringing Mesoamerican flavor and cold-blooded new races and monsters to DnD! The big sell here, for me at least, are the minis — these are some incredible sculpts. As someone who played a lot of Warhammer Fantasy growing up, it isn't hard to sell me on Aztec-themed lizard people.
A Shadowdark supplement full of anthropomorphized critters! The art alone blew me away, especially once I learned that most of it is created by the author himself! I'm a sucker for author-illustrators, and I'm sure you are too, so if you have any Shadowdark interest I could not recommend this one more.
I've mentioned this one before, but I'd be remiss not to do so one more time! This project has just ONE DAY TO GO and just cracked its funding goal, so if you have any interest in 5E supplements please go check it out! The Ugly Goblin is a great friend of Enclave and actually just appeared on an Actual Play of Enclave a couple days ago!
Join me on Saturday, November 8th at 2pm ET for a LIVE Enclave Mission with some awesome YouTubers on the Extra Life Charity Stream, hosted by Game Masters Guide!
Videos to Watch
Want to see more ENCLAVE content? I have still more to share from other great creators!
Dungeon Lunch Break
YouTubers Twisted Pint Tavern, Loot Goblin Marketplace, Den of the Drake, and The Bear Bard had me on their podcast to run a FULL-LENGTH MISSION! It was a ton of fun, one of my favorite recorded missions thus far, and I'd highly recommend it if you want to see a full team of newcomers take on the game.
Game Masters Guide
I know almost nothing about anime, so what happens when Game Matsers Guide invites me on to talk about a show I've never heard of in the context of Enclave? A remarkably fun and in-depth conversation about mechanics, build paths, and character analysis, as it happens! Definitely check it out.
What is Tabletop
Frank & Charles from What is Tabletop had a great long-form discussion about all kinds of diceless TTRPGs, featuring Enclave prominently alongside other greats like Amber, Dread, and many more!
That's all for now!
A big thank you as always for your continued support of ENCLAVE. Standing here at the halfway mark feels surreal after all we've done to get here, but there's still some mountain left to climb, so anything you can do to spread the word and share the campaign would be tremendous!
Ciao for now,
Robby
Week 1 Update — Projects We Love, Stretch Goals, Community Bounties, & more!
5 months ago
– Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 09:38:23 PM
Good to see you everyone!
We're ending Week 1 in great shape — 280+% funding, 300+ backers, and we even managed to land the coveted Projects We Love tag from Kickstarter!
What an absolute honor.
In other good news...
Stretch Goals UNLOCKED & BOOSTED
On Day 2, we unlocked our first official Stretch Goal: Aspirant rules for long-form play!
On top of this, our fantastic Discord Community pulled off something incredible this past weekend: over 25 players banded together to run 12 Missions in 24 Hours, a challenge that I didn't expect to be finished until much later in the campaign. To reward this incredible effort, I have boosted a Stretch Goal in our list, shuffling several others forward in the process!
Go check out the new ordering!
We're less than $7,000 away from this new third goal, and not even $2,000 away from the second, so please help spread the word so we can lock in these awesome upgrades!
Community Bounties
Over on our Discord Server, we have issued a couple challenges to members that will run for the duration of the campaign.
Post about our campaign on your social media to get FREE Stickers added to your physical pledge!
Whoever runs the MOST MISSIONS during any given week of the campaign will be guaranteed a spot on a Recorded Mission with Robby!
If 12 Full Missions are hosted within 23 Hours,ALL participants receive a FREE Commemorative Medallion! (I had to make this one a bit harder after you guys so effortlessly smashed it the first time)
These are ONLY available to Discord members, so please do join to participate and get more information!
Projects I Love
I back a fair few Kickstarters and am friends with many talented and deserving creators. Here are some of my recent favorites that I highly recommend you check out!
A fantastic YouTuber who speaks from the heart and does all his own art? Oh hell yes. The Ugly Goblin makes his Kickstarter debut with this charming 5E Supplement oozing with creativity and character — it ends next week, so be sure you jump in soon! Goblin is a friend of ENCLAVE and has promoted our game on his channel, and I am proud to support him in return.
A miniature wargame may seem like a far cry from Enclave, but I personally have a great love of them. Jay Mooers is a longtime friend — his FAE TTRPG is brilliant and actually has an exclusive tie-in with this campaign as well, and I cannot wait to see what this wargame spinoff has in store. Plus, Jay (once again) does all his own art and has dozens of gorgeous customs sculpts for his emotive and quirky minis.
If you're a Savage Worlds fan you should definitely check this one out. Peter Saloom is an officially-sanctioned third party author for the game and has made numerous standout supplements already, but this is his first ever Kickstarter: a stylish throwback to '90s urban fantasy.
Videos to Watch
Want to see more ENCLAVE content? There are still so many great videos from creators yet to be shared:
Not DnD
Jess of EN Publishing sat down with me last week to talk ENCLAVE, resulting in a concise, well-focused interview that touches on diceless design and the TTRPG industry as a whole!
ItsWarlockJemma
A wildly underrated YouTuber, Jemma does a brilliant job tying her experiences with ENCLAVE into one of the most daunting tasks a prospective host can take on: actually starting the game. Also, Jemma does all her own art, and it is phenomenal.
Arlentric
He's funny, he's sharp, and this short dedicated solely to ENCLAVE puts all of Arlentric's classic strengths on full display.
That's all for now!
Thank you all for your fantastic support of ENCLAVE. We're only a quarter of the way through, so anything you can do to spread the word and share the campaign would be tremendous.
Ciao for now,
Robby
160% Funded In Just 12 HOURS! Stretch Goals Announced!
5 months ago
– Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 07:39:38 PM
THANK YOU ALL!
What an incredible way to kick off this campaign. I'm floored by the outpouring of support and so wildly grateful I can hardly find the words for it.
In fact, this first day went so well that I decided to release our Stretch Goals a whole half day earlier than planned, debuting them over on our Discord! Even better, we are super close to the first one already!
To give a quick teaser of what's in store...
FULL STRETCH GOAL LIST is LIVE NOW on the campaign page! Go check it out!
On top of all this great news, we had half a dozen awesome influencers put out Enclave-related content TODAY, right after we went live! Even better, ALL of the creators who have created sponsored content actually played Enclave beforehand, meaning that they all are speaking entirely in their own words with no heavy-handed script or forced talking points!
There have been so many good videos released already, and I'll share all of them eventually, but for starters here are the very first ones that went live today:
The Ugly Goblin
A lovely video in which Goblin talks about his personal story with TTRPGs... with Enclave playing a major role in the second half! He said some truly wonderful things about the game, woven in beautifully with his own poignant experiences.
The Old Warlock
A fantastic full review of Enclave. Jim & Alexander always do great work, and this vid is no exception. Jim in particular has played Enclave over half a dozen times at this point and is very good at it, so this is a rare example of a pretty involved player giving a very comprehensive summary of the game.
Bob World Builder
You love Bob, I love Bob, we all love Bob, and this vid is no exception. Amidst a thought-provoking discussion of a topical subject, Bob slides in a wonderful plug for Enclave. He even favorably compared yours truly to Matt Mercer, what a compliment!
That's all for now!
What a truly incredible day it has been. But there's still much more to come! Spread the word about Enclave, and let's get those Stretch Goals! Thank you all so much for your support.
Ciao for now,
Robby
ENCLAVE Goes LIVE on Next Week — Tuesday, October 14th!
5 months ago
– Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 09:03:47 AM
The Day Fast Approaches
Our Campaign Page is nearing perfection, all rewards are locked in, we have dozens of awesome influencers in our corner, and best of all we have hundreds of people like yourselves ready and waiting for the launch.
The nerves are building, but we've done everything we can to make this campaign a smash hit, and I'm confident it will be.
Some Pre-Launch Notes
If you have pre-paid $1 for extra rewards during the campaign, please use the referral link that will be sent to your email when we launch. If you'd like to pre-pay $1 for extra rewards, you may do so here.
If you already own Advent v1 (physical or PDF), Xela will be sharing a separate referral link over our Discord server that'll get you some cool perks. If you aren't sent this link, please DM Xela or an Attendant! If you aren't on Discord, please email Robby (robbylavagames (at) gmail (dot) com).
If you BOTH pre-paid $1 AND already own v1, please notify Xela over Discord or Robby over email (as above).
Stretch Goals will be posted DAY 2 of the Campaign.
Campaign Updates will be limited while we're live, though they will become more common once the Kickstarter concludes. I will make consistent announcements on our Discord, so head over there if you want Enclave news!
Thank You!
I am so grateful for all the support you all have given this game. Let's knock this campaign out of the park.
Some Pre-Launch Notes