About Us
Underground Oracle Publishing is a small press devoted to delivering high-quality TTRPG worlds and titles packed with lore and art that inspire and delight the tabletop roleplaying community they love.
Meet The Team
Jess Pendley | Co-Owner and Co-Creative Director
Jess Pendley is a writer, editor, game designer, and all-around pretty rad dude.
She's the co-founder of Underground Oracle Publishing, Unplaytested Presents, and the TTRPG Rising Tide community and has written Harrow: The Blighted Plane, No Mercy For Monsters, and myriad other TTRPG titles.
Jess is currently working on the anthro sci-fi TTRPG Foxfire, the high fantasy TTRPG Quaseloth, and several other TTRPG, comic book, and interactive fiction projects yet to be made public.
You can follow Jess on Bluesky, but it might ruin your opinion of her.
Keith Pendley | Co-Owner and Co-Creative Director
Keith Pendley has been submerged in the worlds of TTRPGs and world creation for over twenty years and has no plans to emerge anytime soon.
A consummate storyteller and creator of paracosms, in addition to writing and design, Keith heads the art direction for Underground Oracle and acts as the official in-house GM for the UO production team. Outside of his work on Underground Oracle’s catalog of titles, he creates for Unplaytested Presents and has done writing and design for Dwarven Forge, Crucible Magazine, and various DMsGuild titles.
Kayla Bayens | General Manager
Kayla Bayens has always been a dreamer but found a way to channel that with TTRPGs decades ago. As the General Manager of Underground Oracle, she takes on the duties of writer, designer, project manager, and multi-armed octopus for any needs.
Outside of her work on Underground Oracle’s products she writes, designs, and produces as a freelancer and on her own products; runs a book podcast and community, has started an actual play channel called Paracosm Entertainment, co-led Dark Reflections on the DMs Guild, and runs her own DM Dalliance’s Substack community.