Delve RPG is a tabletop roleplaying game designed by Stephen Radney-MacFarland.

A life-long lover of RPGs,

Stephen began working on RPGs in 2000, becoming the RPGA editorial assistant at Wizards of the Coast, working on Polyhedron magazine and Living Greyhawk Journal. Over the years, he’s administered the Living Greyhawk campaign, aided in the development of the D&D 3.5 Edition rules, was a developer for D&D 4th Edition and Star Wars Saga Edition, taught numerous game design classes in the Seattle area, and contributed to the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide and Ultimate Magic as a freelance designer. He worked at Paizo for nearly nine years as a designer and then as a senior designer for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. He’s also the guy who designs the Pathfinder Flip-Mats, Flip-Tiles, and Map Packs. His current credits include Southlands for Kobold Press, as well as Hell’s Vengeance: For Queen & Empire, Abomination Vaults: Eyes of Empty Death, Horror Adventures, Villain Codex, Ultimate Intrigue, Ultimate Wilderness, Pathfinder Playtest, and Pathfinder Second Edition, all for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. He was also on the initial design team for the Starfinder Roleplaying Game and wrote Dead Suns: The Thirteenth Gate adventure for that game. He was the senior designer for the Pathfinder Playtest and the Pathfinder Second Edition Roleplaying Game.

For a while, Stephen was a full-time freelance game designer, content writer, and consultant working with various companies when he was not spending time with his family, wrangling casts, and working on Delve RPG.

Then, he was hired by GRIPNR in late 2021 to serve as the Lead Game Designer for that company and the primary author of The Glimmering roleplaying game and its setting, the world of Asuwa. That slowed down the design for Delve, but in late 2023, his involvement in that endeavor ended, and now he is back to designing Delve RPG!

Now he’s back to consulting, freelance, and working on Delve RPG! He unleashed the newest version of the game during Gary Con XVI and will soon update this website and begin the push to finish the Proto version of the game.

Delve RPG is a culmination of Stephen’s ideas about tabletop roleplaying games over the past 22 years. It’s a new look at d20-resolution systems and traditional fantasy roleplaying game design and tropes through the lens of more modern modes of game design. And Stephen sincerely hopes you enjoy playing it because that’s the point.

You can reach Stephen via email or snail mail.

srm@delve-rpg.com

15790 Redmond Way #1098
Redmond, WA 98052
United States

Delve RPG, Delve Roleplaying Game, Vold, and C.S.P.V. are trademarks of Stephen Radney-MacFarland and C.S.P.V. Games. This site and the Delve Roleplaying Game are copyright 2016-2024 by Stephen Radney-MacFarland and C.S.P.V. Games.