About
Sarah Doom (she/her)
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.
- Indiecade Grand Jury Award for Bluebeard's Bride
- Indie Groundbreakers Game of the Year for Bluebeard's Bride
- Indie Groundbreakers Best Art for Bluebeard's Bride
- First Metatopia scholarship from the Indie Games Developer Network
- Gold ENnie for her work on the ConTessa blog
- Silver ENnie for her work on Root the RPG: Core Rulebook
- Silver ENnie for her work on Root the RPG: Travelers & Outsiders
Muses of Play, co-host, Diceology 2026
The Maiden and The Rake, Lead Developer, Writer, and Layout Artist, Butcherbird Press 2026
Ex Tenebris, Writer, Black Armada Games, Forthcoming
Savage Garden, Lead Developer, Writer, and Layout Artist, Butcherbird Press 2024
Urban Shadows 2, Writer, Magpie Games 2023
Les Secrets de Rougeroc, illustrator, d100fr 2022
Root: Travelers & Outsiders, Writer, Magpie Games 2021
Die Geheimnisse von Blutfelsen, illustrator, 100 Questen Gesellschaft e.V. 2021
A Wanderer's Guide to Limbos and Mirages, Writer, Angry Hamster Publishing 2020
Urban Shadows 2 Quickstart, Writer, Magpie Games 2023
Bluebeard's Bride: Tarot Companion, Lead Developer, Writer, and Dev Editor, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard’s Bride: Tarot of Servants, Lead Developer, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard’s Bride: Deck of Objects, Lead Developer, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard's Bride: Booklet of Keepsakes, Lead Developer, Writer, Dev Editor, and assistant Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard’s Bride: Book of Mirrors, Writer, Magpie Games 2019
Con Crash volume 2, n/a Workshop Presenter, 2019
Kids On Bikes: Strange Adventures Volume 2, Writer, Hunters Entertainment 2019
Crossroads Carnival, Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2018
Bluebeard’s Bride: Book of Lore, Lead Developer and Dev Editor, Magpie Games 2018
Bluebeard’s Bride: Book of Rooms, Lead Developer, Writer, and Dev Editor, Magpie Games 2018
Embers of the Forgotten Kingdom, Writer, Metal Weave Games 2018
Cartel Quickstart, Writer, Magpie Games 2018
The Encyclopedia Draconica, Dev Editor and Playbook Designer, Magpie Games 2018
Goatmother, n/a Developer and Layout Artist, 2018
Fate Horror Toolkit, Writer, Evil Hat Productions 2018
KULT: Divinity Lost: Taroticum and Other Tales, Writer, Modiphius 2018
Bluebeard’s Bride, Lead Developer, Writer, Dev Editor, and assistant Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2017
Randomocity volume 2, Layout Artist, ConTessa 2017
Crypts of Indormancy, Layout Artist, Melsonian Arts Council 2017
Velvet Glove: Notebook Edition, Lead Developer and Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2016
The Complete The Oracle, Writer, The Hutchingsonian Presents-PlaGMaDA 2016
Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 2, Writer, Metal Weave Games 2016
ATLANTIS: Grandmother’s Island, Illustrator, Khepera Publishing 2016
Noirlandia, Writer, Turtlebun Games 2016
Con Crash volume 1, n/a Workshop Presenter, 2016
The Fate Codex Anthology: Year Two, Writer, Magpie Games 2016
The Last Days of Anglekite, Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2016
England Upturn’d, Layout Artist and Interior Artist, Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2016
Cold Ruins of Lastlife, Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2016
Epyllion, Layout Artist, Magpie Games 2015
Indie+ Horror Anthology, Writer, Indie+ 2015
Savage Insider: V3I1 - Endings and Beginnings, Illustrator, Obatron Productions 2015
Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 1, Writer, Metal Weave Games 2015
The Fate Codex: Volume 2, Issue 6, Writer, Magpie Games 2015
Crawljammer various issues, Illustrator, Moon Dice Games 2014-2015
Thulian Echoes, Layout Artist, Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2014
The Idea From Space, Layout Artist, Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2014
Obscene Serpent Religion, Illustrator, Neoplastic Press 2014
Dyson's Delves II, Illustrator, Dyson Logos 2014
Randomocity volume 1, Layout Artist and Cover Artist, ConTessa 2013
Busted Art, Contributor, Bright Pink 2011
The Shadow Out of Providence, Layout Artist and Cover Artist, Ezra Claverie 2011
Interbike, Contributor, Artcrank 2011
Arcadia id est: artists’ books, nature and the landscape, Contributor, Washington University in St. Louis 2007