About

Sarah Doom (she/her) is a tabletop role-playing game designer, writer, layout artist, and visual artist. She creates games and stories that explore ferality, beauty, the gothic, witchcraft, femininity, horror, and folklore with a dark metal sensibility.

The first tabletop role-playing game she worked on, Bluebeard’s Bride, won the Indiecade Grand Jury Award. It also won Game of the Year and Best Art from the Indie Groundbreakers, and is referenced in academic papers. She has done freelance work for several award-winning role-playing games, such as Kids On Bikes, The Baby Bestiary 1 & 2, and Kult: Divinity Lost.

Sarah has been a guest instructor at Washington University in St. Louis, a guest lecturer at Evergreen State College, the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, The University of New Mexico, and DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media, and has helped run team-based disaster simulations for the Harvard Business School. Sarah was the Guest of Honor at UConn, and has been a panelist or presenter at conventions including GenCon, Ringling College’s Anyone’s Game Conference, Breakout, Metatopia, and Play Make Learn.

She has a degree in Visual Communication from Washington University in St. Louis, with work also focused on printmaking and bookbinding. Her artwork has been exhibited in the United States, Australia, and Ireland.

Sarah was previously published under the names Sarah Richardson and Sarah Doombringer.