Open Lore Games started the way most good campaigns do: with a group of friends who kept showing up. For years the five of us met around the same table, rolled the same dice, and built worlds a little too detailed for our own good.

At some point the question stopped being “what do we play next” and became “who else gets to see this?”

The maps got bigger. The house rules turned into rulebooks. The notes for one semester at a magical university grew into a universe with its own history, politics, and star charts. When we caught ourselves commissioning art because the campaign deserved it, we admitted what was happening: we had become a publishing house that just had not filed the paperwork yet.

So we filed the paperwork. Open Lore Games publishes D&D 5e compatible supplements and games, funded on Kickstarter and built to the standard we want on our own shelves: proper bindings, real art direction, and rules that have survived actual play at an actual table.

Our first title is Academy Arcantra, an elite magical university hidden between realms. It began as our home game. It is about to become yours.