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:
MAY UPDATE — Aspirant is right around the corner!
3 months ago
– Sun, May 31, 2026 at 08:49:54 AM
Good to see you everyone!
Another productive month in the books. Aspirant is very close to done.
What's Been Done:
Aspirant layouts are finalized. Final page count is 164pgs.
Internal linking and other logistical tedium.
Advent v2.1 has been finalized, ready for re-release alongside Aspirant!
What's Being Worked On:
Final stage of editing and reviewing.
Art is being finished up.
Based on this progress, I am confident saying that the Aspirant PDF will be out in June. I will be sending an update as soon as it is distributed.
Enclave Day
On Saturday, June 27th, we will be running the fifteenth ever ENCLAVE DAY event on Discord!
Enclave Day is a full-day of missions on Discord broken into 4-hour blocks. The event is completely free. Don't have a copy of ENCLAVE? No issue — you will be given access to a PDF of Advent! Already own the game or back the recent campaign? You'll get free Class PDF from FIFTEEN options!
If you're new to the game, Enclave Day is a perfect entry point! Sign up here and join the server if you'd like to participate!
This will be the first ever Enclave Day where Aspirant is playable!
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Their campaign is ending soon, so be sure to check it out!
That's all for this month! Not a ton of news, since I've mostly been confined to the Dev Cave, but once Aspirant is out there will be plenty more to discuss!
Thank you as always for supporting ENCLAVE. Hope you all are excited for the big release!
Ciao for now,
Robby
APRIL UPDATE — Aspirant Text DONE, Bonus Content, and more!
4 months ago
– Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 11:46:27 AM
Good to see you everyone!
I'm very pleased to say that April has been a productive month.
What's Been Done:
Aspirant text is done. My current estimate is that the book will be about 175pgs long (as opposed to Advent's 81).
Aspirant Classes are finalized.
What's Being Worked On:
Text is being reviewed.
Book layouts are being designed.
Final art is being commissioned
Based on this progress, I believe the Aspirant PDF is on track for distribution by early June.
Bonus Content for Aspirant
While you all have been tremendously kind and understanding about it, the project's delays haven't sat right with me. As such, I have decided to add additional content to ENCLAVE: Aspirant, namely...
Aspiring — "Classless" Characters!
With Aspiring, you can mix and match pieces from all Classes in the game to build a Lv1 character entirely from scratch (at the cost of power level). I think it'll be a really fun addition.
These new rules have already been written and implemented, so this addition will not delay the project in any way.
Logistical FAQs
While it's taken me longer than I would have preferred, I have finally caught up on the support requests that you lovely people have sent me via BackerKit. Based on those, I'd like to share some answers with you all for some of the recurring questions I've received:
If you aren't far from me (Hartford area of Northern CT), you will have the option to locally pick up your physical rewards to save on the shipping costs. This will be figured out once we reach the shipping lock-in step, likely this summer.
When the Aspirant PDF is released, I will also be sending out an updated copy of Advent ("2.01"), which will be fixing typos, swapping some art pieces, and making a handful of minor balance tweaks.
VAT does (annoyingly) need to be charged in advance of shipping. If you believe you have been improperly charged VAT, please message me via BK! I'll check in with BK support and, if they give the go ahead, manually refund you.
It's rare that I click with another designer in the way I have with Gary, a WotC alum and the creator of the West Marches-style standalone TTRPG All Mice Die. His game is coming to Kickstarter soon, and I think it's one of the most creative and refreshing takes on a conventional dice-based system that I've seen in quite some time.
Please do check out AMD if you have any interest in dice, mice, dying, or all of the above. If you'd like to listen in on some of the awesome conversations Gary and I have had, check out the video below from his channel.
Conduiting Workshop
Earlier in April, I was inspired by a conversation with a new player and prospective Conduit to run a Conduiting Workshop, answering questions and addressing topics of all skill levels! At the behest of another player, I also managed to record it.
If you've been at all interested in hosting your own Enclave Missions, give it a watch! It's a pretty long video, but I've included timestamps so you can skip to whichever sections are most useful for you. I had a lot of fun running the workshop, so I may well run more in future if I get more requests to do so!
If you'd like to participate in future workshops or have questions about the game, be sure to join our Discord Server! It's gotten some cool updates recently, including a new Bot that can look up game information on the fly!
That's all for this month. Aspirant is fast approaching, and there'll be plenty more cool stuff after that, so until you hear from me next I hope you continue to enjoy the game!
Thank you as always for supporting ENCLAVE.
Ciao for now,
Robby
MARCH UPDATE — Steady Progress on Aspirant
5 months ago
– Sun, Mar 29, 2026 at 07:10:00 PM
Good to see you everyone,
It's been a quiet month on the Enclave front. Baby #3 was born a few weeks and my family's emergency is still ongoing, but things have stabilized enough at this point that I'm still reasonably confident in the updated timeframe I projected last month.
That said, there's still some news!
What's Been Done:
All Aspirant Classes are fully drafted and in the late stages of the review process!
What's Being Worked On:
The rest of Aspirant's text (about 95% completed, soon to enter the review process)
BackerKit Surveys
Please fill out your BackerKit Surveys! As of now it looks like about 80% of you have already done so, but please be sure to check your emails and spam folders to see if you missed the survey when it was sent out last month!
If you cannot find the survey email, PLEASE LET ME KNOW (by Email, Discord, Kickstarter PM, or whatever else)! I can manually resend the link if requested!
Additionally, I know a couple of you are waiting on me for responses on BackerKit support questions. I apologize that these are taking a while to process, the recent personal struggles have really set me back, so please hang tight and I'll get to you ASAP!
Enclave Day
On Saturday, April 18th, we will be holding our 14th ever Enclave Day event over on the Discord Server!
Enclave Day is a full 16 hours of nonstop missions broken into 4-hour blocks — sign up for as many as you like! It's totally free, we give loaner copies to people who don't own the game, and anyone who does own the game will get a free Reward Class for participating!
Sign up here if you'd like to participate! This is a Discord-only event, but don't worry — if you're not a fan of Discord, there will absolutely be other ways to acquire these cool Reward Classes available in future.
Hope you can make it!
That's all for this month — I hope you all have been enjoying Advent and are getting excited for Aspirant! I reckon we'll have some major progress to share on that front come April.
Thank you all for your patience with me and, as always, for supporting the game.
Ciao for now,
Robby
FEBRUARY UPDATE — Advent PDF Fulfillment & some bad news
6 months 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!
7 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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