About Us
SoulMuppet Publishing develops and publishes a range of roleplaying games by writers and artists from all around the world. We work hard to be a great publisher to work with and for, and we put out games that bring new ideas to the scene from places and voices you might not be familiar with.
Our three main gamelines are BEST LEFT BURIED, ORBITAL BLUES and INEVITABLE:
BEST LEFT BURIED is a rules-light, fantasy horror roleplaying game - where the monsters are scary and you are scared. Written by Zachary Cox & Nick Spence and illustrated by Ben Brown. Players are Cryptdiggers; professional dungeon-divers who venture into monster-infested Crypts seeking riches.
ORBITAL BLUES is a lo-fi space western roleplaying game. Written by Sam Sleney & Zachary Cox and illustrated by Joshua Clark. A roleplaying love-letter to off-beat sci-fi, vintage music, and cooperative old-school styled roleplay, Orbital Blues allows you to play out rules-light tabletop adventures in the style of space westerns.
INEVITABLE is a doomed Arthurian western roleplaying game. Written by Zachary Cox and illustrated by Klur Arts. It is a play-to-lose game of failing to stop the apocalypse, of doomed heroes of legend facing off against their foes in a dusty, dreary world.
PAINT THE TOWN RED is a sad vampire roleplaying game. Created by Zachary Cox (Orbital Blues, Inevitable, Best Left Buried) and with art direction from Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG, CY_BORG, Into The Odd). This is a game about depression, partying and falling in love, and explores themes of trauma, vice and loneliness.
Our third party works focus on queer creators and those with poor access to market, with a particular focus on writers from the Global South who may not have access to printing physical copies in Global North markets.
Via our online store we also strive to stock a range of RPG products that are otherwise hard to find, especially in the UK.
The Team
Zachary Cox is the JellyMuppet (they/them) and serves as the Director of SoulMuppet Publishing. They are the moon-obssessed creator of Paint The Town Red, Inevitable and Best Left Buried, and one of the co-creators of Orbital Blues. Zach is a seasoned RPG creator and producer, who makes ideas into books. They dabble in everything from printing, distribution and product and project management.
Mol Joule (they/she) is SoulMuppet's Events and Marketing Manager so you can often find them in their froggy hoodie hunched over making silly posts on twitter or running our conventions. Outside of SoulMuppet, Mol enjoys making little ttrpg related zines and a wide range of multimedia art. You can find their personal work over their itch.io page.
Eryk Sawicki (he/him) is SoulMuppet's Operations Manager. Eryk is a a pierogi-core Polish grafik dezajner graphic designer obsessed with paper and the old-school internet. He also runs Peregrine Coast Press, a publishing co-operative specialising in TTRPGs, books, and magazines.
Tom Mecredy (he/him) is SoulMuppet's eCommerce Manager, and spends most of his time wrestling with the web store and rounding up all those pesky books. Tom is a writer, game designer and self-admitted "hexfreak" obsessed with swords and making weird historical TTRPGs. You can find his work at his itch.io page.
Miss Meows (she/her/baby) is SoulMuppet's Chief PomPom Officer and Good Luck Charm. This delightful ball of fur has won every SoulMuppet Publishing Employee of the Month award and will continue to win for all of time. She is a champion biscuit maker and keyboard sitter, enjoying nothing more than involving herself in team meetings by watching the mouse cursor closely. You can email baby at meows@soulmuppet.co.uk but she is a cat so expect a response when she learns to read.