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, 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. She won a Gold ENnie for her work on the ConTessa blog, and was the first Metatopia Scholarship winner from the Indie Games Developer Network. 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 have assisted at simulations for the Harvard Business School. Sarah has been a panelist at several conventions including: GenCon, Ringling College’s Anyone’s Game Conference, Metatopia, and Breakout.
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.
Awards include:
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
Sarah was previously published under the names Sarah Richardson and Sarah Doombringer.
Complete body of work:
Savage Garden, Butcherbird Press 2024
Urban Shadows 2, Magpie Games 2023
Les Secrets de Rougeroc, d100fr 2022
Root: Travelers & Outsiders, Magpie Games 2021
Die Geheimnisse von Blutfelsen, 100 Questen Gesellschaft e.V. 2021
A Wanderer's Guide to Limbos and Mirages, Angry Hamster Publishing 2020
Bluebeard's Bride: Tarot Companion, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard’s Bride: Tarot of Servants, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard’s Bride: Deck of Objects, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard's Bride: Booklet of Keepsakes, Magpie Games 2020
Bluebeard’s Bride: Book of Mirrors, Magpie Games 2019
Zombie World, Magpie Games 2019
Con Crash #2, n/a 2019
Kids On Bikes: Strange Adventures Volume 2, Hunters Entertainment 2019
Bluebeard’s Bride: Book of Rooms, Magpie Games 2018
Embers of the Forgotten Kingdom, Metal Weave Games 2018
The Encyclopedia Draconica, Magpie Games 2018
Goatmother, n/a 2018
Fate Horror Toolkit, Evil Hat Productions 2018
KULT: Divinity Lost: Taroticum and Other Tales, Modiphius 2018
Bluebeard’s Bride, Magpie Games 2017
Randomocity #2, ConTessa 2017
Crypts of Indormancy, Melsonian Arts Council 2017
Velvet Glove: Notebook Edition, Magpie Games 2016
The Complete The Oracle, The Hutchingsonian Presents-PlaGMaDA 2016
Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 2, Metal Weave Games 2016
ATLANTIS: Grandmother’s Island, Khepera Publishing 2016
Noirlandia, Turtlebun Games 2016
Con Crash #1, n/a 2016
Mythic Mortals, Technical Grimoire Games 2016
The Fate Codex Anthology: Year Two, Magpie Games 2016
The Last Days of Anglekite, Magpie Games 2016
England Upturn’d, Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2016
Cold Ruins of Lastlife, Magpie Games 2016
Epyllion, Magpie Games 2015
Indie+ Horror Anthology, Indie+ 2015
Savage Insider: V3I1 - Endings and Beginnings, Obatron Productions 2015
Baby Bestiary Handbook Vol 1, Metal Weave Games 2015
The Fate Codex: Volume 2, Issue 6, Magpie Games 2015
Crawljammer various issues, Moon Dice Games 2014-2015
Thulian Echoes, Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2014
The Idea From Space, Lamentations of the Flame Princess 2014
Obscene Serpent Religion, Neoplastic Press 2014
Dyson's Delves II, Dyson Logos 2014
Randomocity #1, ConTessa 2013
Busted Art, Bright Pink 2011
The Shadow Out of Providence, Ezra Claverie 2011
Interbike, Artcrank 2011
Arcadia id est: artists’ books, nature and the landscape, Washington University in St. Louis 2007
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