Independent tabletop RPG publisher
There is always another way in.
Side Door Games is an independent tabletop roleplaying imprint creating distinct worlds of grounded science fiction, gothic horror, tiny-folk adventure, and wonder-dark fantasy. Our games follow overlooked lives, unofficial routes, fragile places, and choices that matter after the obvious solution fails.
Publisher imprint
Side Door Games publishes tabletop roleplaying games with strong premises, concrete places, and choices that reach beyond combat. Cross a corporate checkpoint under a borrowed identity. Follow a black lighthouse beneath a broken moon. Protect a settlement hidden in the walls of a barn. Travel through a fractured sky aboard a vessel that is alive and beginning to remember you.
Game lines
Each line has its own genre, voice, and play promise. Borrowed Sky is currently recruiting GMs for review and playtesting. Eclipsa, Small Wilds, and Thaloryn are in active development.
Air, access, and trust are never guaranteed.
Borrowed Sky is a grounded, 5e-compatible science-fiction RPG about competent crews taking dangerous jobs on near-future Earth, around orbital habitats, and through the infrastructure of a space elevator. Cross controlled systems with credentials, contacts, technical access, medicine, stealth, or force, then live with the evidence when the brief falls apart.
Join the Borrowed Sky GM CircleEvery secret casts a shadow.
Beneath the shattered Shardmoon, buried truths bend reality. Eclipsa is a gothic-horror 5e-compatible setting and adventure line, built around haunted investigations, dangerous rituals, tragic antagonists, and climaxes where preparation, compassion, hard choices, and combat all matter.
Follow EclipsaA small door can open onto a very large world.
Small Wilds is tiny-folk fantasy set across the hidden settlements of a vast working farm. Cross hay seas, climb lantern chains, bargain with animals and old spirits, and protect homes built in cracks, rafters, roots, and walls. The world is warm and wondrous, but never safe simply because it is small.
Follow the Hidden RoadsThe world is broken. That does not mean it wants to be healed.
Explore a fractured world aboard a living vessel of root, crystal, memory, and Shadow. Recover what was lost, help strange communities survive, and decide what should be repaired, preserved, released, or left broken, because restoring the old world may erase the people who learned to live after it shattered.
Follow the JourneyShared concerns
The worlds are different. The design concerns recur.
Workers, hidden folk, haunted families, and fractured communities whose lives matter even when larger powers barely notice them.
Checkpoints, airlocks, rafters, lighthouses, archives, roots, cargo systems, and living vessels shape play rather than serving as scenery.
Credentials, sealed histories, hidden roads, unstable currents, bargains, and acts of trust determine who gets through and what passage costs.
Combat may be possible, but preparation, access, mercy, repair, negotiation, refusal, and care can change what success means.
Current work
Borrowed Sky is currently looking for a small circle of GMs to review short drafts, test theCold Transfer starter operation, and report what works at the table. Eclipsa, Small Wilds, and Thaloryn remain in development; mailing-list subscribers will receive their public previews and playtest opportunities as they become ready.
Mailing list
Get release news, playtest invitations, world previews, and practical development notes from across Side Door Games. Occasional updates. No invented launch dates and no inbox-filling schedule.
