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:
DECEMBER UPDATE — Community Events, Free Download, & more!
8 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
9 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!
9 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.
Ciao for now,
Robby
Week 2 Update — Giveaway, Stretch Goals, & more!
10 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!
10 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.
If you do sign up, make sure to join the Discord! This is a Discord-only event.
